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Wolfred (Nick Bland, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Released October 2020
Toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy the engaging rhymes, quirky illustration and straightforward messaging of this new tale from popular picture book author Nick Bland. When aspiring writer Wolfred McFlea is... Read more
Just Money: Misadventures in the great Australian debt trap (Royce Kurmelovs, UQP)
Released September 2020
Just Money opens with a first-person account of the car crash that left author and journalist Royce Kurmelovs $23,000 in debt. Kurmelovs’ subsequent experience with the opaque mechanisms of debt... Read more
The Tunnel of Dreams (Bernard Beckett, Text)
Released October 2020
The Tunnel of Dreams is a charmingly breezy middle fiction fantasy novel about identical twins Arlo and Stefan, and their adventure in a parallel, magic-filled world. Author Bernard Beckett wastes... Read more
Death Leaves the Station (Alexander Thorpe, Fremantle Press)
Released October 2020
In 1927 at Halfwell Station in regional WA, the station owner’s daughter, Ana, discovers a body in the nearby desert. At around the same time, a nameless friar arrives at... Read more
Indigo Owl (Charlie Archbold, Wakefield)
Released September 2020
Scarlet, Dylan and Rumi are new students at the Arcadia Institute, where they will receive the training required to turn them into good citizens of the corpocratic planet Galbraith. But... Read more
Poly (Paul Dalgarno, Ventura)
Released September 2020
Spouses Chris and Sarah are trying something new—after years without sex, but still in love and keen to remain a family unit, they’ve agreed to see other people. The confident,... Read more
Tricky Nick (Nicholas J Johnson, illus by Russell Jeffery, Pan)
Released September 2020
I’m usually suspicious of books written by performers, celebrities or adult writers turning to children’s fiction, but Tricky Nick won me over in the first 20 pages. Magician-turned-author Nicholas J... Read more
The History of Mischief (Rebecca Higgie, Fremantle Press)
Released September 2020
The History of Mischief is an exploration of family, grief and the power of stories, with a pseudo-historical twist. Nine-year-old Jessie is struggling with the loss of her parents and... Read more
Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with invisible illness (Kylie Maslen, Text)
Released September 2020
Imagine living with an invisible illness. For 20 years, Kylie Maslen has been doing just that: her chronic pain and bipolar II (the latter undiagnosed until she was 35) have... Read more
The Fire Star (A L Tait, Penguin)
Released September 2020
Maven is a servant girl doomed to a life of servitude and forced to hide how sharp-minded she really is. Reeve is a squire with dreams of becoming a knight... Read more
Dreams They Forgot (Emma Ashmere, Wakefield)
Released September 2020
The tagline on the title page of Emma Ashmere’s Dreams They Forgot is ‘stories of illusion, deception and quiet rebellion’. This is an apt description of the 25 stories that... Read more
Windfall: Unlocking a fossil-free future (Ketan Joshi, NewSouth)
Released September 2020
In Windfall: Unlocking a fossil-free future, renewable energy industry insider Ketan Joshi gives a teeth-gnashing account of Australia's interminable climate debates. Working as a data analyst and communicator at Infigen... Read more
Bunnygirl (Holly Jayne, Berbay)
Released September 2020
In this adorable junior graphic novel, the main character Bea loves superhero comics, cute things, bunnies and eating cereal. She really wants to become a superhero so that she can... Read more
None Shall Sleep (Ellie Marney, A&U)
Released September 2020
From mastermind Australian YA writer Ellie Marney comes a gripping new psychological thriller. Although the novel is not set in Australia—Marney opts for the larger criminal playing field of the... Read more
The Lost Library (Jess McGeachin, Puffin)
Released September 2020
This is unashamedly a story for every child (and adult) who loves books and reading—and it reaches out to encourage every reader to fit that description. Little Oliver and his... Read more
Under the Rainbow: The life and times of E W Cole (Richard Broinowski, MUP)
Released September 2020
Edward William Cole (1832—1918), arguably Australia’s most famous bookseller, started his career by accident. Trying to hawk his self-penned pamphlets door-to-door in East Melbourne, a woman told him he should... Read more
Ordinary Matter (Laura Elvery, UQP)
Released September 2020
Award-winning Brisbane author Laura Elvery (Trick of the Light) now brings us Ordinary Matter, a short story collection inspired by the 20 times women have won the Nobel Prize for... Read more
Fly on the Wall (Remy Lai, Walker)
Released September 2020
When Henry Khoo isn’t trolling his school as anonymous cartoonist ‘Fly on the Wall’, he is being babied at home by an overprotective family. To correct this, Henry devises a... Read more
Bluebird (Malcolm Knox, A&U)
Released September 2020
A shaggy array of characters populate Malcolm Knox’s ambitious novel, with 50-year-old Gordon Grimes at the centre. An erstwhile journalist and estranged husband, Gordon is determined to preserve a rundown... Read more
The Wolves of Greycoat Hall (Lucinda Gifford, Walker Books)
Released September 2020
Author and illustrator Lucinda Gifford brings us a refreshing and humorous tale with The Wolves of Greycoat Hall, the first book in a new junior fiction series. Boris and his... Read more
