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The Lucky Sisters (Rachael Johns, Penguin)
Released October 2025
Rachael Johns (The Patterson Girls, The Greatest Gift) delivers one of her most heartfelt and emotionally layered novels yet in The Lucky Sisters, a story marking a confident shift beyond... Read more
Here Come the Cousins (Maggie Hutchings, illus Sarah Zweck, T&H)
Released October 2025
In Here Come the Cousins, a young child eagerly awaits the arrival of their seven cousins at Pop’s seaside home. After hellos and measuring who has grown the most over... Read more
Last Chance Joey (Meredith Resce, Rhiza Edge)
Released October 2025
In Meredith Resce’s debut YA novel, Last Chance Joey, 17-year-old Joey Walton – who is struggling with dyslexia, toxic social circles and a troubled home life – is sent to live in the... Read more
Mad Mabel (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan)
Released October 2025
Few people suspect an elderly woman or a little girl of murder, which is what makes Mad Mabel such a deliciously enjoyable read. Sally Hepworth’s latest novel begins with a... Read more
For No Mortal Creature (Keshe Chow, Penguin)
Released October 2025
For No Mortal Creature by Keshe Chow (The Girl with No Reflection) is a romantic fantasy inspired by Inception and Wuthering Heights, but the story it tells is unique and... Read more
Left Behind (Martine Kropkowski, Ultimo)
Released October 2025
Martine Kropkowski’s Left Behind is a stunning depiction of the remote, wild and isolated beauty of K’gari, paired with a taut and insidious suspense that grabs you from the opening lines.... Read more
Naynay and the Mermaid (Tasma Walton, illus Charmaine Ledden-Lewis, Scholastic)
Released October 2025
Naynay and the Mermaid is a beautifully told and visually striking picture book by accomplished actor and author Tasma Walton, a proud Boonwurrung woman from Melbourne. Naynay is asked to keep... Read more
Riots (Fiona Skyring, UWA Publishing)
Released October 2025
Renowned Australian historian Fiona Skyring returns with Riots, a captivating nonfiction book that unearths a chapter of ANZAC history rarely spoken of today. Skyring takes readers back to the turbulent... Read more
Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder (Tim Winton, illus Cindy Lane, Fremantle)
Released October 2025
Ningaloo, written by award-winning author Tim Winton and illustrated by Cindy Lane, is a beautifully designed nonfiction picture book about the Ningaloo Reef off the West Coast of Australia. Called... Read more
Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower (Susan Wyndham, NewSouth)
Released October 2025
In Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower, journalist and author Susan Wyndham offers a sympathetic and illuminating exploration of the life and work of one of post-war Australia’s... Read more
The One Remaining (Paula McLean, Fearless Press)
Released October 2025
Paula McLean’s The One Remaining is a quiet, affecting novel about memory, silence and the long shadow of a sister’s disappearance. When successful novelist Hilary Mason discovers a stack of... Read more
Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish (Spud and Snowball #1) (Judith Rossell, ABC Books)
Released October 2025
Mischief abounds in Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish, Judith Rossell’s new illustrated junior fiction chapter book, which introduces us to the adventures of two charming but chaotic cats. When... Read more
The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done (Clare Stephens, Atlantic)
Released October 2025
The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done is a sharp and unsettling novel that makes you reconsider every online interaction, bad review, snarky comment or quick judgment. Journalist Ruby Williams wants... Read more
I’d Rather Be a Cat (Laura Bunting & Philip Bunting, Scholastic)
Released October 2025
Laura and Philip Bunting’s charming I’d Rather Be a Cat is a fun, rhyming addition to the corpus of picture books about being comfortable in your own skin. With a... Read more
Do We Deserve This? (Eleanor Elliott Thomas, Text)
Released October 2025
Do We Deserve This? by Eleanor Elliott Thomas (The Opposite of Success) follows twenty-something underachiever Bean Halloway, who buys a lottery ticket for her mother, only for it to win... Read more
Boobs (Lisa Portolan & Amanda Goff, Echo)
Released October 2025
Boobs is an exploration of all things breasts. Combining personal insight with research, Amanda Goff (Misfit: The Unravelling of Samantha X) and Lisa Portolan examine the ways that breasts are perceived, augmented... Read more
Arsenic Flower (Dakota Feirer, Hachette)
Released October 2025
Dakota Feirer’s Arsenic Flower carves meaning from masculinity and memory. Tender and intimate, this debut poetry collection finds harmony in two contradictory realities: the harm of the Australian colony and... Read more
Be(wilder): Journeys in Nature (Darryl Jones, NewSouth)
Released October 2025
Ecologist Darryl Jones (Curlews on Vulture Street) travels across Australia and the world to study the lives of wild animals in urban environments and how humans and non-human animals can comfortably... Read more
A Great Act of Love (Heather Rose, A&U)
Released October 2025
Heather Rose's A Great Act of Love follows Caroline, an upper class widow who leaves London in the late 1830s to undertake a long and dangerous journey to Van Diemen’s... Read more
The Legend of Jessie Hickman (Mark Greenwood, illus Frané Lessac, NLA)
Released October 2025
The Legend of Jessie Hickman is a beautifully crafted nonfiction picture book that tells the remarkable true story of a 20th century Australian circus performer turned bushranger. Written by Mark... Read more
