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Unconditional Love: A Memoir of Filmmaking and Motherhood (Jocelyn Moorhouse, Text)
Released April 2019
When Jocelyn Moorhouse’s film Proof was released in 1991, it created excitement—here was a new Australian writer-director with a startlingly original eye. International success quickly followed, but then she disappeared... Read more
Eight Lives (Susan Hurley, Affirm)
Released April 2019
Former refugee David Tran has invented a wonder-drug that could transform immunology. With the first human trial about to take place, David, the new Golden Boy of Australian medical research,... Read more
The Gift of Life (Josephine Moon, Michael Joseph)
Released April 2019
In her latest novel, Josephine Moon poses the question, ‘How much of the original donor travels with their donated organs?’ The story follows Gabby, the recent recipient of a heart... Read more
The Colonial Fantasy: Why White Australia Can’t Solve Black Problems (Sarah Maddison, A&U)
Released April 2019
Underpinned by denial, myth-making and blame-shifting, the settler rationale is prevalent throughout Australian history, justifying the frontier wars, dispossession and the Stolen Generations. The Colonial Fantasy by Melbourne University professor... Read more
City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest (Sophie Cunningham, Text)
Released April 2019
In this poignant and timely collection of essays, Sophie Cunningham touches on matters private and political, historical and current, beautiful and terrifying—but always coming back to her obvious adoration of... Read more
Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics (Troy Bramston, Scribe)
Released April 2019
Journalist and former political advisor Troy Bramston’s new biography of Robert Menzies, Australia’s longest serving prime minister, aims to refocus the historical lens. Too often Menzies is written off as... Read more
Growing up African in Australia (ed by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Black Inc.)
Released April 2019
Growing up African in Australia is a new anthology edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke with Ahmed Yussef and Magan Magan. The anthology is a mixture of experienced and emerging writers’... Read more
Let Me Sleep, Sheep (Meg McKinlay, illus by Leila Rudge, Walker Books)
Released March 2019
The award-winning duo behind the animal adventure picture books No Bears and Once upon a Small Rhinoceros are back with a new book that tells the story of young sleep-deprived... Read more
Baz & Benz (Heidi McKinnon, A&U)
Released March 2019
The titular Baz and Benz are a pair of owls: a small blue one and a larger green one. At the start of the book, they agree wholeheartedly that they... Read more
52 Mondays (Anna Ciddor, A&U)
Released March 2019
52 Mondays is the latest middle-grade novel from Anna Ciddor, written in the same classic storytelling tradition as her previous work, The Family with Two Front Doors. A fictionalised account... Read more
Ivanhoe Swift Left Home at Six (Jane Godwin, illus by A Yi, A&U)
Released March 2019
Despite his parents’ concerns, Ivanhoe Swift leaves home at the age of six to see the world for himself. And so begins a dreamlike journey of self-discovery and gaining independence.... Read more
Catch a Falling Star (Meg McKinlay, Walker Books)
Released March 2019
It’s the late 1970s in rural Western Australia, and 12-year-old Frankie’s life isn’t always easy. Her mother works all the time, so Frankie looks after her very smart but not... Read more
You Must Be Layla (Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Penguin)
Released March 2019
Thirteen-year-old Layla has landed a scholarship at a prestigious private school where no one looks like her. She’s a creative kid who loves singing and making jewellery, but many of... Read more
Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories (ed by Tobias Madden, Nero)
Released March 2019
Following the success of its predecessor Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, new anthology Underdog celebrates up-and-coming writers of Australian young adult fiction, with submissions received via an open call-out.... Read more
Exploded View (Carrie Tiffany, Text)
Released March 2019
The name of Carrie Tiffany’s third book, Exploded View, refers to the type of diagram found in technical manuals that shows the spaces between each individual part and how they... Read more
Hare’s Fur (Trevor Shearston, Scribe)
Released March 2019
Russell Bass is a professional potter in his seventies, leading a quiet and solitary life in the Blue Mountains following the death of his wife. While gathering basalt for his... Read more
Black is the New White (Nakkiah Lui, A&U)
Released February 2019
Black is the New White is the play script of a contemporary romantic comedy written for the stage by Gamillaroi and Torres Strait Islander woman Nakkiah Lui. Young couple Charlotte... Read more
Stranger Country (Monica Tan, A&U)
Released March 2019
At first it’s hard to know how to interpret Monica Tan’s intention to discover ‘the Australia lying beyond her hometown’ and to ‘learn about Aboriginal Australia’ as she travels on... Read more
Islands (Peggy Frew, A&U)
Released March 2019
Peggy Frew shows her trademark flair for bringing complex domestic lives to the fore in her latest novel Islands. At first the book seems to have more in common with... Read more
Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind (Nicola Redhouse, UQP)
Released March 2019
Unlike the Heart is a quest to understand a mind, from the mind governing it, and offers much to appeal to different interests. Nicola Redhouse relates her troubled pregnancies and... Read more
