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Slick: Australia’s toxic relationship with Big Oil (Royce Kurmelovs, UQP)
Released August 2024
As citizens of the global West, we are learning that sitting with discomfort is necessary to create change. Slick, by journalist Royce Kurmelovs (Just Money, The Death of Holden), is... Read more
The Youngest Son (John Byrnes, Macmillan)
Released August 2024
John Byrnes’s The Youngest Son follows the fortunes of three siblings from a working-class Sydney family in the 1930s and 40s. Bob, the titular youngest, naturally gets the largest share... Read more
Hi from Outer Space (Fiona Katauskas, A&U Children’s)
Released August 2024
Cartoonist and illustrator Fiona Katauskas’s debut middle-grade novel, Hi from Outer Space, is a wonderfully wacky sci-fi/comedy that will appeal to readers of Nat Amoore, Morris Gleitzman and Eve L... Read more
Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars (Catherine Norton, HarperCollins)
Released August 2024
The year is 1866, and 11-year-old Hester’s life looks like something out of A Series of Unfortunate Events: her father is lost at sea, her mother dies giving birth to... Read more
Woo Woo (Ella Baxter, A&U)
Released August 2024
In Woo Woo, Ella Baxter’s raucous second novel after New Animal, art is terrible, a living spell, a parasite, a trick, and all there is. ‘Art is life,’ writes protagonist... Read more
Six Figures While You Sleep (Kate Toon, Major Street)
Released August 2024
Following the success of her first book, Six Figures in School Hours, copywriter, podcaster and self-made millionaire Kate Toon returns with Six Figures While You Sleep, a practical, no-nonsense guide to creating... Read more
Shades of Me (Mel Brown, Rockpool)
Released July 2024
Melinda Brown’s Shades of Me challenges the saying ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ by taking us through Brown’s ‘many lives through many Dreamings’, including her careers as a... Read more
Djinang Bonar: Seeing Seasons (Ebony Froome, illus by Leanne Zilm, Fremantle)
Released August 2024
Written by Wardandi Noongar woman Ebony Froome, Djinang Bonar: Seeing Seasons is a lyrical picture book describing the six seasons on Noongar country in Western Australia. It cleverly incorporates Noongar... Read more
Catherine Wheel (Liz Evans, Ultimo)
Released August 2024
Kate is starting over in the small town of Bridgewell after a bad break-up with Max. She works as a yoga instructor and volunteers at the local library, living in... Read more
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (and some things you didn’t) (Briony Stewart, Lothian)
Released August 2024
If you know a young person who has questions about the tooth fairy, then Briony Stewart’s latest picture book might just be perfect for you. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know... Read more
Adventures Unlimited: The Land of Lost Things (Andy Griffiths, illus Bill Hope, Pan Australia)
Released August 2024
Adventures Unlimited is the latest series from middle-fiction superstar Andy Griffiths, with the first instalment, The Land of Lost Things, full of the wacky, exuberant, imaginative shenanigans fans have come... Read more
Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel (Sophie Green, Hachette)
Released August 2024
Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel introduces four women who find themselves at the glamorous Duchess Hotel on the picturesque Mornington Peninsula in Victoria in 1999. We first meet Joan,... Read more
Oscar vs the Grand Old Dude Named York (Ross Curnow, Walker)
Released August 2024
A fresh and hilarious new voice in children’s literature springs forth from the page with delightful force in Oscar vs the Grand Old Dude Named York by debut novelist Ross... Read more
Our Familiars: The meaning of animals in our lives (Anne Coombs, Upswell)
Released August 2024
How do we become more attuned to the animals in our lives and challenge ourselves to recognise that their lives are as meaningful as our own? This is the project... Read more
Pancakes for Plum (Rae Tan, Lothian)
Released July 2024
Pancakes for Plum is a charming story about discovering what we love and following our hearts to find things that make us happy. Plum’s brothers are good at climbing and... Read more
The Dragon’s Treasure (Mark Greenwood, Fremantle)
Released July 2024
Buried treasure? Check. Old shipwrecks? Check. Mark Greenwood’s latest nonfiction book, The Dragon’s Treasure, begins his new History Hunter series and pulls together historical evidence to tell the story of... Read more
The Honeyeater (Jessie Tu, A&U)
Released July 2024
The Honeyeater is the second novel by Jessie Tu, acclaimed author of A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing. The story centres around Fay, an academic and emerging translator who works on... Read more
Murder in Punch Lane (Jane Sullivan, Echo)
Released July 2024
Jane Sullivan’s third novel, Murder in Punch Lane, transports readers to the grizzly underbelly of 1860s Melbourne. Actress Lola Sanchez doesn’t believe her best friend, theatre star Marie, died by... Read more
The Riding Gallery (Sally Murphy, illus Martina Heiduczek, Walker)
Released July 2024
Prominent children’s verse novelist Sally Murphy (Queen Narelle) returns with The Riding Gallery. With charming illustrations by Martina Heiduczek (Spies in the Sky), this middle-grade verse novel is a beautiful... Read more
Together We Fall Apart (Sophie Matthiesson, Pantera)
Released July 2024
Together We Fall Apart is the debut novel from Sophie Matthiesson, who has woven elements of her own career trajectory into the story of her fictional protagonist, Clare. We follow... Read more
