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The Burnished Sun (Mirandi Riwoe, UQP)
Released April 2022
Mirandi Riwoe’s The Burnished Sun comprises a series of short stories sandwiched between two novellas, opening with ‘Annah the Javanese’ and closing with Riwoe’s award-winning ‘The Fish Girl’. Despite the... Read more
The Good Mother (Rae Cairns, HarperCollins)
Released April 2022
Some books come with their own stories, and The Good Mother certainly does: Rae Cairns self-published this book first and gained enough notoriety with reviews and a Ned Kelly Award... Read more
Who Needs the ABC? (Matthew Ricketson & Patrick Mullins, Scribe)
Released April 2022
Governments of all persuasions have had a prickly relationship with the ABC. Some more than others. Labor governments have gritted their teeth and put up with unflattering reporting; Liberal governments... Read more
Auē (Becky Manawatu, Scribe)
Released March 2022
Auē is a heartbreaking yet gripping drama about a family living amid intergenerational domestic violence and gang warfare on New Zealand’s South Island. At its heart, the book is the... Read more
Stardiving (Andrew Plant, Ford St)
Released April 2022
Stardiving is the tale of a young sperm whale challenged to open his eyes on an exciting deep-diving adventure. This heartfelt picture book by the author–illustrator of titles including The... Read more
Assisted: A doctor’s story of assisting death and embracing life (Stefanie Green, A&U)
Released April 2022
There’s something special about reading the story of a person who has found their true vocation—their passion jumps through the page and grabs you. Dr Stefanie Green is a doctor... Read more
Prometheus High: How to make a monster (Stuart Wilson, Puffin)
Released April 2022
Stuart Wilson’s debut middle-grade novel, the first in a series, will appeal to 8–12-year-olds looking for an adventure tale with a macabre edge. Athena Strange, an intelligent yet unruly young... Read more
Dinner with the Schnabels (Toni Jordan, Hachette)
Released April 2022
In this timely new novel, Toni Jordan lends her signature wit to the story of a dysfunctional yet loving family group. Simon Larsen has lost his business and his home... Read more
Uncanny Angles (Sean Williams, Wakefield)
Released March 2022
Since the late 90s Sean Williams has been a prolific contributor to Australian speculative fiction; he’s written award-winning science fiction, post-collapse and young adult books. Part retrospective, part confession, Uncanny... Read more
Unlimited Futures (ed by Rafeif Ismail & Ellen van Neerven, Fremantle Press)
Released March 2022
Unlimited Futures is a YA anthology of sci-fi and speculative fiction edited by Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven. What makes it so different from other collections like it is... Read more
Orphan Rock (Dominique Wilson, Transit Lounge)
Released March 2022
Five-year-old Bessie is removed from an extended stay at the Protestant Orphan School and returned home to her unstable mother: a woman she doesn’t remember and who is anything but... Read more
Australiana (Yumna Kassab, Ultimo)
Released March 2022
The heart of Australiana is an examination of settler Australia, disrupting the conception of town and rural settings so common in the nation's literary imagination. First Nations writers have significantly... Read more
The Imagineer (Christopher Cheng, illus by Lucia Masciullo, NLA Publishing)
Released April 2022
In the vein of Andrea Beaty’s delightful Rosie Revere and friends, Christopher Cheng and Lucia Masciullo’s The Imagineer introduces us to a resourceful, inquisitive and (obviously) imaginative child who is... Read more
Remember Me (Charity Norman, A&U)
Released March 2022
Remember Me begins with a call in the middle of the night, when illustrator Emily is awakened in her London flat. Her father’s health is failing and Emily is the... Read more
The Love That Grew (Sarah Ayoub, illus by Mimi Purnell, HarperCollins)
Released March 2022
In the vein of Sam McBratney’s You’re All My Favourites comes a picture book that captures the idea that a mother’s love is unlimited when it comes to her children,... Read more
Hovering (Rhett Davis, Hachette)
Released March 2022
Alice returns to the fictional Australian city of Fraser after 16 years away. The city itself has changed—and continues to change—beyond recognition. Streets, houses and other buildings literally shift and... Read more
Growing Up in Flames (Zach Jones, Text)
Released March 2022
Zach Jones’s debut novel Growing Up in Flames is as gritty as bushfire ash. Written for a doctorate in creative writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast, the novel’s... Read more
Son of Sin (Omar Sakr, Affirm)
Released March 2022
Son of Sin by Omar Sakr tells the story of growing up queer and Muslim in a constant state of dispossession. The story begins with Jamal as a 14-year-old boy,... Read more
Triple Helix (Lauren Burns, UQP)
Released March 2022
Lauren Burns received a fork inscribed with the word ‘agitator’ as a present from her boyfriend while trekking through the extreme wilderness of Utah. Burns’s journey as a donor-conceived person... Read more
That Cat (Jacqueline Harvey, illus by Kate Isobel Scott, Puffin)
Released March 2022
Cat lovers and nonsense lovers, this is the book for you. Jaqueline Harvey, bestselling author for children, plays on words that rhyme with ‘cat’ in order to make a list... Read more
