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Leo and Mina Fink: For the greater good (Margaret Taft, Monash Publishing)
Released February 2022
In this biography of the working lives of an impressive 20th-century power couple, the competing forces of hope and catastrophe are clearly at work. Historian Margaret Taft has expertly detailed... Read more
In an Artist’s Garden (Claire Orrell, Thames & Hudson)
Released February 2022
Like all good seek-and-find books, In an Artist’s Garden is a bit addictive regardless of the reader’s age, though is perhaps best suited to a middle/upper primary audience; the objects are simple... Read more
Ouch! Tales of Gravity (Kate Simpson, illus by Andy Hardiman, A&U)
Released February 2022
How do you explain something as complicated as gravity to a young audience (five-year-olds and above)? Well, humour certainly helps. The narrator in Ouch! Tales of Gravity is knowledgeable and... Read more
Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo)
Released February 2022
Cold Enough for Snow is Jessica Au’s second novel and the winner of Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions’ inaugural Novel Prize. The book’s narrator travels with her Hong... Read more
This is Me! (Sally Morgan, Magabala)
Released February 2022
Written and illustrated by well-loved author Sally Morgan, This is Me is a simple and colourful board book for very young children. Morgan’s illustration style features simple shapes and patterns... Read more
Found, Wanting (Natasha Sholl, Ultimo Press)
Released February 2022
Beginning with a sudden death, Natasha Sholl’s memoir sets us up to expect a traditional grief narrative, ending with the author having processed the loss, found new meaning in their... Read more
Tiny Wonders (Sally Soweol Han, UQP)
Released February 2022
This story has been told plenty of times but it’s one that is always worth listening to: the idea that our world has become so busy, so grey, so predictable,... Read more
The Competition (Katherine Collette, Text)
Released February 2022
When 21-year-old Frances’s parents give her the ultimatum to find some direction in her life or find herself a new place to live, she decides to sign up for the... Read more
Delia Akeley and the Monkey (Iain McCalman, Upswell)
Released February 2022
On an African hunting expedition in 1909, an American woman named Delia Akeley captured a baby vervet monkey to settle an argument. It was a casual act that changed both... Read more
The Riddle of Tanglewood Manor (Tracey Hawkins, Storytorch)
Released February 2022
The Riddle of Tanglewood Manor is a new younger readers novel from real-life detective-turned-children’s author Tracey Hawkins. When Sam and Harry’s parents tell them they're moving, it sounds like an... Read more
Twelve Summers (Adam Zwar, Hachette)
Released December 2021
Twelve Summers is a memoir by actor and writer Adam Zwar, structured around the retelling of several memorable performances by the Australian men’s cricket team during the author’s formative years.... Read more
The Beautiful Words (Vanessa McCausland, HarperCollins)
Released December 2021
Sylvie is a lover of words who lives a quiet and solitary life after an accident as a teenager robbed her of her memories. When her best friend from that... Read more
Fancy Meeting You Here (Michelle Kalus & Ali Berg, A&U)
Released December 2021
Fancy Meeting You Here is a breezy, fun escapist novel that any romance lover would surely pick up at the airport. At a time when international travel is unlikely though, this... Read more
Family Tree (Josh Pyke, illus by Ronojoy Ghosh, Scholastic)
Released January 2022
Family Tree shares the beauty of life through the growth of a tree, one that unites families and communities around the world, spreading joy, love and spirit—and it all starts... Read more
Kill Your Brother (Jack Heath, A&U)
Released December 2021
Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath is a taut thriller brimming with suspense and secrets. In regional NSW, a sister’s desperate search for her missing brother becomes a devious game of... Read more
I Really Dig Pizza! (Candy James, HarperCollins)
Released December 2021
Australian husband-and-wife team Candy and James are a creative powerhouse whose designs have been stocked at institutions including MoMA. Writing under the pseudonym Candy James, they have now turned their... Read more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo)
Released January 2022
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens immerses the reader in the microcosm of the Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home. Against the backdrop of the heartbreaking trauma of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the... Read more
Between the Last Oasis and the Next Mirage: Writing on Australia (Guy Rundle, MUP)
Released December 2021
Guy Rundle lives off his wits. Correspondent-at-large for Crikey, a founding editor of the left-wing journal Arena, former sketch comedy show producer and famed writer of lives, Rundle produces writing... Read more
Buying and Selling the Poor: Inside Australia’s privatised welfare-to-work market (Siobhan O’Sullivan, Michael McGann & Mark Considine, SUP)
Released December 2021
When Paul Keating put elements of Australia’s ‘welfare to work’ system out to tender in the mid-1990s, he could scarcely have imagined the system we have in place today: one... Read more
Canticle Creek (Adrian Hyland, Ultimo)
Released December 2021
When Daisy Baker’s body is discovered on her outback property the case appears to be straightforward. Daisy’s boyfriend Adam Lawson, new to the Victorian town of Canticle Creek from the... Read more
