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So She Did: The Story of May Wirth (Simi Genziuk, illus by Renée Treml, Affirm)
Released June 2019
Born in Bundaberg in 1984, May Wirth showed an unusual knack for acrobatics at an early age. So much so that she was adopted by an equestrienne from the famous... Read more
Cheeky Dogs: To Lake Nash and Back (Dion Beasley & Johanna Bell, A&U)
Released June 2019
Dion Beasley’s illustrated memoir details his early life moving between a couple of remote communities in the Northern Territory before settling at Tennant Creek. Both profoundly deaf and suffering muscular... Read more
My Book (Not Yours) (Ben Sanders, Lothian)
Released June 2019
This is the first in what is slated to be a series of picture books featuring Lento (a sloth) and Fox (a fox). It joins the growing trend of books... Read more
Secrets of a Schoolyard Millionaire (Nat Amoore, Puffin)
Released June 2019
In her first children’s book, Nat Amoore has created such a likeable heroine in Tess Heckleton, entrepreneur and life advice-giver, that her unlikely adventures and somewhat unlikely personality are entirely... Read more
Mindcull (K H Canobi, Ford Street)
Released June 2019
Eila, a rising social media star, is shortlisted to become the new face of Pearl, a virtual reality tech company. She is invited to spend three days in England trying... Read more
Split: True Stories of Leaving, Loss, and New Beginnings (ed by Lee Kofman, Ventura)
Released June 2019
Author and editor Lee Kofman sent a callout for personal essays about breaking up. The essays could be about any kind of separation: with people, objects, whatever. Split: True Stories... Read more
The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP)
Released June 2019
Tony Birch’s latest novel tells the story of Odette Brown and her granddaughter Sissy, who live on the fringe of Deane, a fictional town situated between the mountains and the... Read more
The Nancys (R W R McDonald, A&U)
Released June 2019
In the poky New Zealand town of Riverstone—home of bad interior design, dull news cycles and not much else—11-year-old Tippy Chan’s mother is about to go on holiday. Tippy’s flamboyant... Read more
The Electric Hotel (Dominic Smith, A&U)
Released June 2019
Dominic Smith’s The Electric Hotel is a sensory delight, retelling the life story of a former film director—known as ‘the Frenchman behind the viewfinder’—with the rich vocabulary of cinema. Claude... Read more
Allegra in Three Parts (Suzanne Daniel, Macmillan)
Released June 2019
In this impressive debut novel, 11-year-old Allegra finds herself torn between the three adults in her life: her two grandmothers and her father. They live on adjoining blocks and adore... Read more
Fish Song (Caitlin Maling, Fremantle Press)
Released June 2019
Fish Song is Caitlin Maling’s third full-length collection after her 2015 debut Conversations I've Never Had (shortlisted for the Dame Mary Gilmore Award and in the WA Premier's Book Awards)... Read more
Hitch (Kathryn Hind, Hamish Hamilton)
Released June 2019
Kathryn Hind was the recipient of the inaugural Penguin Australia Literary Prize in 2018 for Hitch, a contemporary novel set in Australia. The protagonist, Amelia, is a naive young woman... Read more
My Culture and Me (Gregg Dreise, Puffin)
Released May 2019
This beautiful picture book presents the voice of an Indigenous child relating the importance of knowing and living your culture. Beginning with an expression of love for Country and family,... Read more
Arthur and the Tiger (Sophie Beer, Puffin)
Released May 2019
Sophie Beer has a knack for creating books that simultaneously feel contemporary and vintage, which is sure to make them modern classics. In Arthur and the Tiger, Arthur is the son of... Read more
Sophia and the Corner Park Clubhouse (Davina Bell, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Released May 2019
Davina Bell is one of Australia’s most highly regarded authors for young people, and the first book in her new series for middle-grade readers cements her reputation as one of... Read more
Devil’s Ballast (Meg Caddy, Text)
Released May 2019
After escaping her violently abusive husband, Anne Bonny disguises herself as a boy and joins her lover, pirate captain Calico Jack Rackham, on his ship the Ranger. Anne fits in... Read more
How it Feels to Float (Helena Fox, Pan)
Released May 2019
How do you find the will to live when you can’t even feel the ground anymore? Elizabeth Martin Grey—Biz—doesn’t know. All she knows is that she’s got one foot in... Read more
Shauna’s Great Expectations (Kathleen Loughnan, A&U)
Released May 2019
Seventeen-year-old Shauna is the recipient of an Indigenous scholarship to an elite Sydney girls’ school. The expectations placed on her could be no higher than those she places on herself,... Read more
My Real Friend (David Hunt, illus by Lucinda Masciullo, ABC Books)
Released April 2019
David Hunt returns with his second offering for children following 2016’s The Nose Pixies. Taking the story of an imaginary friend and telling it from the other side, we hear... Read more
Alex and the Alpacas Save the World (Kathryn Lefroy, Fremantle Press)
Released May 2019
Alex and the Alpacas Save the World is Kathryn Lefroy’s first novel. Part fantasy, part adventure, it reinvigorates the familiar good-versus-evil narrative with an original (if somewhat offbeat) setting and... Read more
