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Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette)
Released June 2022
Four decades after covering horse racing as a cadet reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, award-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks has returned to the track. Her latest book is based on... Read more
A Feather on a Wing (Maria Speyer, UQP)
Released June 2022
The darkness of night is a common fear for many children trying to get to sleep after lights-out. The dark can make you feel alone and separated from everyone, even... Read more
When Only One (Meg Gatland-Veness, Pantera)
Released June 2022
Everything changes when Sam’s one-time best friend Emily appears outside his window for the first time in five years. He knows why she’s back and it isn’t good. The story... Read more
The Comedienne’s Guide To Pride (Hayli Thomson, HarperCollins)
Released June 2022
The only phrase you’ll need to get this debut into the hands of avid YA readers will be ‘Sapphic rom-com’—but there’s a lot more to this novel that will capture... Read more
Black River (Matthew Spencer, A&U)
Released June 2022
He’s been dubbed the Blue Moon Killer: someone who has been killing young women along Sydney’s Parramatta River whenever the moon is full. Sydney is on edge, and the cops,... Read more
The Making of Her (Bernadette Jiwa, Bantam)
Released June 2022
The Making of Her is a historical family drama that immediately conjures the sense of a time not so long ago. Spanning the 1960s to the 1990s, this cross between... Read more
Hard Joy: Life and writing (Susan Varga, Upswell)
Released June 2022
Susan Varga spent the first half of her life having affairs with inappropriate men, including some of the older leading lights of the libertarian Sydney Push. At the same time,... Read more
Open Your Heart to Country (Jasmine Seymour, Magabala)
Released June 2022
Open Your Heart to Country is the stunning fourth picture book from Dharug woman and award-winning author/illustrator Jasmine Seymour. It’s a story of welcome and belonging told in two languages,... Read more
How to Be Between (Bastian Fox Phelan, Giramondo)
Released May 2022
How to Be Between is a memoir that takes the reader on a tour of Australian counterculture at the beginning of the 21st century, through queer spaces, art festivals, DIY... Read more
The Way of Dog (Zana Fraillon, UQP)
Released May 2022
The Way of Dog is the latest work from internationally acclaimed author Zana Fraillon. A beautifully written verse novel told through an animal voice, this is an ambitious and absorbing... Read more
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia (Elizabeth Tynan, NewSouth)
Released May 2022
While the atomic atrocities of Maralinga are now a well-known story in Australia, the events of nearby Emu Field have comparatively flown under the radar. Elizabeth Tynan, former science journalist... Read more
Abomination (Ashley Goldberg, Vintage)
Released May 2022
Best friends Ezra and Yonatan are students at an ultra-Orthodox Melbourne Jewish school when a teacher is accused of sexual molestation and is quickly squirreled away to Israel, beyond the... Read more
Homesickness (Janine Mikosza, Ultimo Press)
Released May 2022
‘I can’t escape myself or my past. There’s no way out,’ a character named Janine (‘Jin’) muses to an unknown interviewer near the beginning of artist and writer Janine Mikosza’s... Read more
Sunbathing (Isobel Beech, A&U)
Released May 2022
After her father dies of suicide, the unnamed narrator of Sunbathing travels from her hometown of Melbourne to the Italian countryside. There, she stays with friends Fabrizio and Giulia in... Read more
All the Little Tricky Things (Karys McEwen, Text)
Released May 2022
This debut middle-grade novel is a gentle and empathetic story about navigating the period between primary and high school, as well as the complex ways in which adolescent female friendships... Read more
Dirt Town (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan)
Released May 2022
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor is a complex and multi-layered whodunnit, peppered with red-herrings and shocking revelations. In the rural New South Wales town of Durton, a young girl, Esther,... Read more
The Greatest Thing (Sarah Winifred Searle, A&U Children’s)
Released May 2022
The Greatest Thing is a graphic novel about friendship and self-actualisation, with a dash of queer romance. Semi-autobiographical in nature, it’s set in America in 2002 where Winifred (Searle) meets... Read more
The Callers (Kiah Thomas, HarperCollins)
Released May 2022
Publishing simultaneously in Australia and the US, The Callers—Kiah Thomas’s first foray into middle-grade fiction—is a thoughtful, nuanced fantasy adventure in which two young people fight back against a colonising... Read more
Daisy & Woolf (Michelle Cahill, Hachette)
Released May 2022
Michelle Cahill’s debut novel tells the story of a struggling writer, Mina, as she expands upon the often disregarded character Daisy Simmons from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Daisy & Woolf... Read more
The Red Witch: A biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard (Nathan Hobby, MUP)
Released May 2022
Fifty years after the writer Katharine Susannah Prichard’s death, Nathan Hobby has produced this highly detailed, meticulously researched biography, both a revealing account of Prichard’s thrilling life and a sensitive... Read more
