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First Name Second Name (Steve MinOn, UQP)
Released March 2025
In Steve MinOn’s debut novel, First Name Second Name, the story spans four generations of the Chinese Australian Bolin family, whose roots in Australia date back to the late 19th... Read more
The Buried Life (Andrea Goldsmith, Transit Lounge)
Released March 2025
In The Buried Life, Andrea Goldsmith – renowned for her sharp insights into contemporary life and relationships – once again delves into the complexities of human connection. Known for The... Read more
Washpool (Lisa Fuller, Lothian)
Released March 2025
Lisa Fuller’s Washpool is a fun, heartwarming and insightful exploration of family and kinship that takes the portal fantasy genre to a new level. When Murri sisters Bella and Cienna... Read more
Misfit: The Unravelling of Samantha X (Amanda Goff, Echo)
Released March 2025
Amanda Goff was a successful journalist in London and Sydney before leaving her corporate career at 38 to become Samantha X, an escort. She later founded her own escort agency... Read more
This Stays Between Us (Margot McGovern, Penguin)
Released March 2025
Margot McGovern’s second young adult novel, This Stays Between Us, may have taken seven years, but it’s worth the wait. This gripping thriller, set in the year 2000, is a... Read more
Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania (Hamish McDonald, Black Inc)
Released March 2025
As a foreign correspondent, Australian journalist Hamish McDonald (Demokrasi) frequently flew in and out of Melanesian hotspots during his career. Fascinated by the region’s complexity, he traversed it slowly by... Read more
The Thrill of It (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette)
Released March 2025
The Thrill of It is the latest crime novel by Mandy Beaumont, author of the Stella Prize–longlisted The Furies. The story follows Emmerson Kerr, whose grandmother was brutally murdered in... Read more
SoXiety (Tamlyn Teow, Riveted Press)
Released March 2025
Tamlyn Teow’s SoXiety offers a thought-provoking, immersive experience that mirrors the anxiety of today’s world. Teow’s graphic novel, the first in a new collection called The Book of Kin, is... Read more
Love Unedited (Caro Llewellyn, Picador)
Released March 2025
Reading Caro Llewellyn’s debut novel, Love Unedited, is like reading someone’s diary entries on life and love, which is fitting for this story within a story. Set predominantly in New York... Read more
Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady (Dianne Wolfer, Fremantle)
Released March 2025
Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady is based on the true story of Robin Miller, who single-handedly flew life-saving vaccines to remote Western Australia in the late 1960s. This new middle-grade novel... Read more
Ariana Treasure: The Missing Book (Jacqueline de Rose-Ahern, illus Karen Erasmus, Wombat)
Released March 2025
Ariana Treasure: The Missing Book is the first in a new series for beginner readers by Jacqueline de Rose-Ahern. Ariana’s family own the Treasure Chest, a local thrift shop filled... Read more
How Australian Democracy Works: And Why We Need It More Than Ever (ed by Amanda Dunn, T&H)
Released March 2025
At a time when democracy seems under threat globally, Australia’s democratic system is often seen as one of the best. Compulsory voting, democracy sausages and electoral boundaries set by a... Read more
Sunny at the End of the World (Steph Bowe, Text)
Released March 2025
Steph Bowe’s Sunny at the End of the World, published posthumously, provides clear evidence of Bowe’s creative skills levelling up. The book is set across dual timelines in 2018 and... Read more
The First Sunrise (Vanessa Stevens, illus Paul Seden, Magabala)
Released March 2025
The First Sunrise is the first Mbabaram creation story to be published and was passed down to Mbabaram, Yidinji, Kaanju and Taribelang Bunda woman Vanessa Stevens from her father, Colin... Read more
Geraldine (Andrea Thompson, Fremantle)
Released March 2025
In this heartwarming debut novel, spanning the 1960s to the early 2000s, music journalist and artist manager Andrea Thompson tells the story of Geraldine, a fierce protagonist who remains true... Read more
The Last Seed Keeper (Paul Russell, EK Books)
Released March 2025
In The Last Seed Keeper, the first in Paul Russell’s cli-fi (climate fiction) trilogy of the same name, not a narrative minute is wasted. Tense action, complex speculative cautionary concepts,... Read more
Best, First and Last (Amy Matthews, S&S)
Released March 2025
Best, First and Last is a fun romance novel that has everything you could ask for: an unexpected, all-expenses-paid holiday, a charming stranger, a nosy family with no concept of... Read more
Signs of Damage (Diana Reid, Ultimo)
Released March 2025
Diana Reid’s third book is an engrossing, meticulously crafted drama that explores memory, trauma, repression and self-preservation, examining how these themes intersect, overlap, are misinterpreted or deliberately distorted to devastating... Read more
Wild Dark Shore (Charlotte McConaghy, Penguin)
Released March 2025
In Charlotte McConaghy’s latest novel, the aptly named Salt family are the last caretakers of a seed vault on an ocean-battered subantarctic island. In the final weeks before the base... Read more
Australian Football’s 100 Year Club: Celebrating Three Great Teams (Andrew Clarke, Gelding Street Press)
Released March 2025
Hawthorn’s Hawks. Footscray’s Bulldogs. North Melbourne’s Kangaroos. Australian Football’s 100 Year Club: Celebrating Three Great Teams celebrates the centenary of these three iconic Aussie Rules clubs in 2025. From the... Read more
