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Down the Rabbit Hole (Shaeden Berry, Echo)
Released November 2024
In Shaeden Berry’s mystery debut, Down the Rabbit Hole, the lives of three women unravel in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 2015, Alice Montgomery goes missing. Seven years later,... Read more
Cats and Dogs in Art and Design (ed by Laurie Benson & Imogen Mallia-Valjan, NGV with T&H)
Released November 2024
Cats and Dogs in Art and Design is a vibrantly illustrated book featuring over 100 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) collection, alongside short essays by NGV curators.... Read more
Vegan Italian Food (Shannon Martinez, Hardie Grant)
Released November 2024
Prolific vegan chef and restauranteur Shannon Martinez’s fourth cookbook, Vegan Italian Food, is anything but conventional, but she promises she’s not out to shock your nonna. Martinez is a Spanish Australian... Read more
Molly (Rosalie Ham, Macmillan)
Released November 2024
Molly is a riveting prequel to The Dressmaker from much-loved Australian author Rosalie Ham, and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel. Set in the inner-city suburbs of Melbourne in... Read more
The Strange and Unlikely Tale of Montgomery, the Mysterious Bird of Mystery (Antony Elworthy, Walker)
Released November 2024
According to his grandson, Gramps has had ‘what they call a Chequered Career’. It has taken him on all sorts of adventures, though by far the most exciting was his... Read more
Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist (ed by Kirsten Krauth & Angela Savage, Fremantle)
Released November 2024
Kylie Minogue’s greatest hits become writing prompts for popular Australian writers in Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist. With contributors such as Alice Pung, Christos Tsiolkas and Lucy Treloar, this ‘playlist’... Read more
Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text)
Released November 2024
Theory & Practice is a quietly experimental new novel from two-time Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser (Scary Monsters). Set mainly in St Kilda in 1986, it captures a snapshot... Read more
Off to the Nursery (Alice Oehr, Scribble)
Released November 2024
Off to the Nursery is the latest from Alice Oehr, the award-winning creator of Off to the Market and Artichoke to Zucchini. With this new picture book, Oehr has focused on gardening and... Read more
My Name Is Gucci: A Dog’s Story (Sun Jung, Transit Lounge)
Released November 2024
Inyeon is a Korean word and Buddhist term meaning ‘destiny’ or ‘karmic relation’, representing the concept that two beings are bound to interact with each other in one way or... Read more
Hazel’s Treehouse (Zanni Louise, illus by Judy Watson, Walker)
Released November 2024
Zanni Louise (Cora Seen and Heard) has written over 40 books for children, two of which have received CBCA commendations. Louise has teamed up with equally lauded illustrator Judy Watson... Read more
Amigo the Capybara (Amy Freund, illus Kooky Chooky, File Mile)
Released November 2024
In Amigo the Capybara, Amy Freund takes a simple story about making friends and compromising, and capitalises on the ‘quirk’ factor by using a capybara and a chinchilla as the... Read more
Pictures of You (Emma Grey, Penguin)
Released November 2024
Emma Grey’s second adult romance, Pictures of You, follows her successful debut, The Last Love Note, and shares similar themes of love, grief and hope, while weaving in mystery and... Read more
Words to Sing the World Alive (ed by Jasmin McGaughey and The Poet’s Voice, UQP)
Released November 2024
Words to Sing the World Alive, edited by Torres Strait Islander and African American author/editor Jasmin McGaughey and organisation The Poet’s Voice, collects stories from 40 First Nations contributors as they... Read more
All the Beautiful Things (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books)
Released November 2024
Approaching her fourth World War II novel, All the Beautiful Things, I feared Katrina Nannestad may have run out of stories to tell, but this book was as compelling and... Read more
The Power of Two (Lisa Messenger & Sarah Megginson, Pantera)
Released November 2024
Co-authoring a book is an intimate venture, but for Lisa Messenger and Sarah Megginson, The Power of Two is just the latest in a series of incredibly personal journeys the... Read more
A Secret Garden in Paris (Sophie Beaumont, Ultimo)
Released November 2024
Sophie Beaumont’s latest novel, A Secret Garden in Paris, follows three women whose lives intertwine in Paris. The women are each at a substantial crossroads in their lives: Emma has... Read more
Meerkat Mayhem (Mem Fox & Judy Horacek, Puffin)
Released November 2024
Mem Fox and Judy Horacek, the dream team behind the popular picture book Where Is the Green Sheep? (now celebrating its 20th anniversary), have a new collaboration that is also... Read more
Epic Salads (Jessica Prescott, Hardie Grant Books)
Released October 2024
If you’re ready to ditch the pre-made salads from your local supermarket, Jessica Prescott’s Epic Salads: For every mood, craving and occasion is a must-have for your cookbook collection. Prescott... Read more
Stepping Sideways (ed by Emily Larkin & Lynne Stringer, Rhiza Edge)
Released October 2024
An Irish water sprite takes on human form with dire consequences, young people without professional prospects are farmed out to sadistic circuses, and a clockwork pneumatic contraption becomes sentient. These... Read more
The Whale’s Last Song (Joanne Fedler, HarperCollins)
Released October 2024
Joanne Fedler’s spellbinding The Whale’s Last Song is set in a time known as ‘The Great Forgetting’, when a plague ravages the medieval hamlet of Villingraz. While the wealthy hide... Read more
