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You Called an Ambulance for What? (Tim Booth, Macmillan)
Released August 2023
In You Called an Ambulance for What?, former Top Gear Australia journalist Tim Booth has penned a series of entertaining stories depicting the craziness and drama of his six years as... Read more
Honey and the Valley of Horses (Wendy Orr, A&U Children’s)
Released August 2023
Wendy Orr, the bestselling author of Nim’s Island, has written a new magical story that reads like a classic in all the best ways. In Honey and the Valley of... Read more
I Am The Mau & Other Stories (Chemutai Glasheen, Fremantle)
Released August 2023
Chemutai Glasheen delivers a powerful and vibrant collection of short stories in I Am the Mau & Other Stories. Inspired by her upbringing in Africa, each brilliant tale is infused... Read more
Sit, Stay, Love (Amy Hutton, S&S)
Released August 2023
As a pet rescue shelter owner, Sera often finds herself in messy situations. However, she didn’t expect her potentially messiest situation to start with a ‘drop-dead, stop-you-in-your-tracks, gorgeous’ actor standing... Read more
Ballet Confidential (David McAllister, T&H)
Released July 2023
Ballet Confidential is not a no-holds-barred expose but rather a joyfully led and personal guide into the world of ballet. David McAllister is the former artistic director of the Australian... Read more
Monet Chases the Light (Jenny Gahan, illus Patricia Ward, Little Pink Dog Books)
Released August 2023
There is a particular aesthetic challenge to nonfiction picture books about artists: they must do more than simply emulate the artist’s style, yet they risk alienating readers if the illustrations... Read more
The Vitals (Tracy Sorensen, Picador)
Released August 2023
The Vitals is unlike any other book you will ever read about cancer. The book straddles the line between fiction and nonfiction and is based on Tracy Sorensen’s own cancer... Read more
Thaw (Dennis Glover, Black Inc)
Released August 2023
Among the breathtaking and perilous wilds of Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, a dozen men prepare to be the first to reach the South Pole. When tragedy strikes the men on... Read more
Two Sides to Every Story (Beck & Robin Feiner, ABC Books)
Released August 2023
This vibrantly illustrated story by the team that brought us If I was Prime Minister is about weighing up the various options when decision making–a process that can be very... Read more
Tamarra: A story of termites on Gurindji Country (Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal & Leah Leaman, Hardie Grant Explore)
Released July 2023
Tamarra is a nonfiction picture book that explains the relationship between the Gurindji people and termites. With gorgeous illustrations, the text not only provides information about termites—explaining their life cycles... Read more
Timefire (Nean McKenzie, MidnightSun)
Released July 2023
Nean McKenzie is the author of two previous middle-grade novels. Her latest, Timefire, interweaves a story about bushfires in Australia with supernatural and time-travel elements. Gilbert Black is drawn to... Read more
Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home (Sam Twyford-Moore, NewSouth)
Released July 2023
Sam Twyford-Moore set out to write a cultural history of Australian cinema in Cast Mates: Stories of Australians in film, but covering 127 years of boom and bust was always... Read more
Mistakes and Other Lovers (Amy Lovat, Macmillan)
Released July 2023
In Amy Lovat’s Mistakes and Other Lovers, El O’Reilly finds herself involved in a circle of Christian friends and their complex, tense social dynamics as she navigates the aftermath of... Read more
One Song (A J Betts, Pan Australia)
Released July 2023
A J Betts’s latest book One Song is a delightful and emotionally intelligent YA novel. Our protagonist Eva is in Year Twelve and is desperate to win Triple J Unearthed... Read more
Young Rupert: The making of the Murdoch empire (Walter Marsh, Scribe)
Released August 2023
Rupert Murdoch’s influence is ubiquitous, yet the man himself remains oddly opaque. Contradictions abound. During his university days, he toyed with left-wing politics but soon moved to the right. He... Read more
Lowbridge (Lucy Campbell, Ultimo)
Released July 2023
In Lowbridge, Lucy Campbell’s debut crime thriller, the people in the sleepy small town of Lowbridge seem to have moved on with their lives after the tragic events of the... Read more
That Bird Has Arms (Kate Temple & Jol Temple, illus Ronojoy Ghosh & Niharika Hukku, Little Hare)
Released July 2023
That Bird Has Arms comes from the creative team behind the successful Bin Chicken books and brings the same brightly coloured joy and hilarious avian humour. Writers Kate and Jol... Read more
The House With All The Lights On (Jessica Kirkness, A&U)
Released July 2023
Jessica Kirkness weaves each page of her memoir The House With All The Lights On with care, offering a deeply personal glimpse into growing up as a hearing child with... Read more
Roseghetto (Kirsty Jagger, UQP)
Released July 2023
Kirsty Jagger’s debut novel Roseghetto is a raw coming-of-age story set in 1990s suburban Sydney. We follow the protagonist Shayla through childhood and adolescence and hold her hand through sexual... Read more
Get Your Act Together, Doris Kozlowski (Jo Dabrowski, Affirm)
Released July 2023
Life doesn’t feel easy for Doris Kozlowski. Her family is Polish, and they’re not like almost all the other families nearby. Her babcia makes all kinds of foods that smell... Read more
