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BOOKSELLERS’ CHOICE YOUR READING GUIDE to the best books this season as chosen by Australia’s leading booksellers
AUSTRALIAN FICTION Welcome to the new edition of the The Mother Fault A Room Made A Lonely Girl is a The Last Migration The Sandpit Booksellers' Choice Your Reading Guide. of Leaves Kate Mildenhall Dangerous Thing Charlotte Nicholas On the pages of this guide you will find S&S Australia Kate Grenville Jessie Tu McConaghy Shakespeare the latest and the best in Australian TPB $32.99 Text Publishing Allen & Unwin Hamish Hamilton Harvill Secker and international fiction, compelling HB $39.99 TPB $29.99 Australia TPB $32.99 and thought provoking biographies, September Release TPB $32.99 history, nature and science books, and Kate Grenville’s new novel Jena plays the violin. Ex-foreign Mim’s husband is missing a wonderful selection of children's and and she needs to find him tells the story of Elizabeth Once a child prodigy, Set in a world correspondent John young adult writing–all handpicked for before The Department MacArthur’s account of her Jena is struggling to disquietingly similar to Dyer has returned to you by Australia's leading booksellers. does. Shedding the tracking device implanted life in the nascent penal colony of NSW. Dragged find her purpose, all the while trying to make our own, Franny Stone Oxford with his son, in her by the ‘benevolent’ government, Mim across the world, Elizabeth arrives pregnant sense of the needs and demands of her family follows the last of the Arctic terns on what may Leandro, to research a new book. Dyer finds Support your local bookshop! Visit us in and alone in an unhappy marriage. Australia is and friends. She turns to sex and questionable be their final migration. Amidst mass extinctions establishing his identity amidst the wealthy goes in search of Ben and by doing so uncovers store or online, send us an email or give more than one truth. Set in Australia in the very a harsh land, the convicts are exploited and the choices to fill the void in her life. This fierce and and a volatile political landscape, Franny’s parents at Leandro’s school to be the least of us a call. We are here to help you find near future this is a timely, fast-paced literary dispossession of Aboriginal land owners is brutal. dazzling debut explores female desire and the journey across the seas is inextricably linked to his problems when he is drawn into a world of the right book for you or the best gift for thriller that will have you turning pages late into Outstanding in historical detail, this is ultimately a awkwardness and pain of being human in an her own murky past. This compulsive literary geopolitical intrigue after a nuclear physicist family and friends. the night. story of power and survival, and the wrongs men increasingly dislocated world. debut will appeal to fans of Station Eleven and confides in him then abruptly disappears. perpetrate in defence of their privilege. The Animals in That Country. Bluebird The Labyrinth Kokomo Ordinary Matter The Burning Island Revenge Malcolm Knox Amanda Lohrey Victoria Hannan Laura Elvery Jock Serong S. L. Lim Allen & Unwin Text Publishing Hachette Australia UQP Text Publishing Transit Lounge TPB $32.99 TPB $29.99 TPB $32.99 TPB $29.99 TPB $32.99 TPB $29.99 Gordon Grimes has Erica Marsden’s son, an When her mother leaves September Release September Release September Release become the accidental artist, has been imprisoned the house for the first time keeper of The Lodge–a for homicidal negligence. in twelve years, Mina drops Laura Elvery’s intriguing Following on from Yannie grew up poor, house perched on a cliff In a state of grief, Erica cuts everything to fly home to short story collection Preservation, Joshua overworked and overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a Melbourne. However her mother will not talk derives inspiration Grayling is a reclusive overlooked, while her Like those who live in it, the house is falling apart. quiet hamlet near the prison where he is serving about her return to the world, nor why she has from the small number of women in science wreck. But a chance for a reckoning with his violent, smarmy older brother was given the But Gordon has no money and is running out of his sentence. When she becomes compelled to spent so much time hiding from it, leaving Mina who have been awarded a Nobel Prize. nemesis leads Grayling to a sea voyage his age opportunities she dreamed of. In her 40s, she time to conserve his homeland. His love for this build a labyrinth in her backyard, the construction to rake through their painful past to find the Elvery’s imagination takes us to unexpected and health do not recommend. His daughter, decides that she is going to kill him – to take away way of life will drive him, and everyone around necessitates engagement with the local truth. Tender and fierce, Kokomo shows how places as she explores and portrays the Eliza, is aghast, but comes to realise that she not his life the way that he has taken hers. This acerbic him, to increasingly desperate risks. In the end, community and in turn the need to confront her secrets and love have the power to bring us challenges and triumphs of womanhood, only cannot stop her father, but that she must and gripping novel rages against the injustices of what will it cost them to hang onto their past? past. A hypnotic story from one of Australia’s together and tear us apart. discovery, dedication and sacrifice with daring accompany him on this mad quest. sexism, heteronormativity and capitalism. most acclaimed authors. creativity and elegant style. The Tolstoy Estate The Morbids State Highway One I Give My Sorrow and Bliss Loner Steven Conte Ewa Ramsey Sam Coley Marriage A Year Meg Mason Georgina Young 4th Estate Allen & Unwin Hachette Australia Holly Wainwright 4th Estate Text Publishing Australia TPB $29.99 TPB $32.99 Australia TPB $24.99 Macmillan TPB $32.99 Australia TPB $32.99 September Release It has been years since TPB $32.99 Lona has dropped September Release Alex was in New Zealand, September Release out of art school and A story of friendship, love and and years since he spent what it means to truly live when, sometimes, it Lou and Josh have been she doesn’t know why. German military doctor Paul Bauer is assigned to any one-on-one time with his twin sister, Martha knows that may seem easier not to. Caitlin’s life changed after together for 14 years. They share two kids, a Nothing makes sense establish a field hospital at Yasnaya Polyana–the Amy. When they lose their parents in a there is something a car crash that left her convinced she was only mortgage, careers and plenty of history. Now, anymore, her parents former estate of Count Leo Tolstoy–during the shock accident it seems the perfect time to wrong with her, but she alive by mistake. Throwing herself into work and after a particularly fraught Christmas, Lou is ready are confused, her best WWII invasion of Russia. A hostile aristocratic reconnect as siblings and with this country they doesn’t know what it is. Her husband Patrick a support group for similarly minded people, the to ask herself: is this marriage worth hanging on friend is drifting away and her relationship with Russian woman, Katerina Trusbetzkaya, is in call ‘home’. As they journey the length of State thinks she is fine, but by the time Martha Morbids, Caitlin must overcome her fear of death to? A sharply accurate, often hilarious picture of a perfect musician and med-student doesn’t charge of the estate, and a tentative friendship Highway One they scratch at wounds that finds out what is wrong, it doesn’t really and learn to start living again. This story of hidden a modern Australian marriage that will resonate fix her problems. Lona’s ‘quarter life’ existential develops between them. Then the war begins never healed, and Alex must reckon with what matter. It is too late to get the only thing she loneliness and the power of compassion reminds with anyone who has ever asked themselves: is dread will make you feel understood and to turn against the Germans and everything coming home really means. has ever wanted… Spiky, sharp, dark and us that life is an adventure truly worth living. this enough? undaunted all at once. starts to unravel... By the acclaimed and award- tender, this is a dazzling, distinctive novel winning author of The Zookeeper’s War. from a boldly talented writer. COMING SOON Pre-orders welcome Broken Rules and Other Stories The Fogging Barry Lee Thompson Luke Horton Transit Lounge TPB $29.99 Scribe TPB $29.99 Honeybee, Craig Silvey Late September release September Release On-and-off again partners Tom and Clara take a long overdue holiday to Indonesia. Tom Infinite Splendours, Sofie Laguna These interlinked stories vividly capture the experiences a panic attack on the flight, but hides NOVEMBER release small, rarely spoken of moments that reverberate it from Clara. On arrival they find a pesticide with meaning. Thompson writes of growing up spraying called ‘The Fogging’ forces them into All Our Shimmering Skies, Trent Dalton marginalised and living in working-class England the resort grounds with new friends. With irony and Australia with clarity and lucidity, such that you and insight Horton examines the complexities of October release can see every crumb on a tablecloth, every drop of mental health, career pressures, relationships and water on a person’s hair. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan technology with beautiful, devastating honesty. October release 02 YOUR READING GUIDE YOUR READING GUIDE 03
INTERNATIONAL FICTION Piranesi The Lying Life Utopia Avenue The Pull Betty The Midnight Susanna Clarke of Adults David Mitchell of the Stars Tiffany McDaniel Library Elena Ferrante Emma Donoghue Weidenfeld and Matt Haig Bloomsbury Sceptre Publishing Faber PB $32.99 Picador Nicolson Canongate HB $27.99 TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 TPB $29.99 Utopia Avenue, a September Release September Release somewhat famous band In 1918, nurse Julia Power Betty Carpenter, born to September Release in late sixties London, finds herself quarantined a Cherokee father and Piranesi is strange Giovanna’s pretty face are the vehicle for David a white mother, is the Between life and with expectant mothers and wonderful and has changed: it’s turning Mitchell’s vast narrative sixth of eight siblings. death is the Midnight who have come down best read without knowing too much, as into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But about art and creativity in the era of psychedelia. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and Library. When Nora finds herself there, she has with a strange flu, in an understaffed hospital in the whole novel is a delicious mystery to is she seeing things as they really are? Searching A cast of real-life stars appear throughout the violence, both from outside the family and a chance to make things right, undo her regrets Dublin’s city centre. Set over three intense days, slowly unravel. Piranesi lives in The House, for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and three main narratives, as do bridges to other within. When challenged by dark family secrets, and work out her perfect life. But things aren’t new life and death come together in this tiny with thousands of halls and thousands of detest one another: the refined Naples of the parts of the Mitchell universe. Utopia Avenue Betty uses her curiosity about the natural world, what she imagined, and before time runs out, ward. This timely story is written with the wisdom great marble statues. The House provides heights and the Naples of the depths. In this is a treat for Mitchell fans and ideal for first time her love for her family’s stories and the power of she must discover what is the best way to live. A and tenderness that Donoghue is revered for. for him, and he has always been there. Told new novel about the transition from childhood to readers alike. writing to escape. funny and heart-warming novel from the author through diary entries, this novel is a fantastical adolescence to adulthood, Elena Ferrante proves of Reasons to Stay Alive. exploration of reality, knowledge and memory. once again why she is one of the world’s most read and beloved writers. What Are You Why Visit Small Pleasures Mayflies The Book of The Phone Box Going Through America Clare Chambers Andrew O’Hagan Hidden Wonders at the Edge of Sigrid Nunez Matthew Baker Weidenfeld and Faber Polly Crosby the World Virago Bloomsbury Nicolson Laura Imai Messina TPB $29.99 Publishing TPB $32.99 TPB $29.99 Harlequin UK TPB $29.99 TPB $32.99 MANILLA September Release South-east London, September Release TPB $29.99 This fascinating collection 1957. Jean Swinney is a Everyone has a Tully Hidden in this wondrous National Book Award feature writer with a local ranges from worlds Dawson: the friend who and enigmatic book is a When Yui loses her Winner Sigrid Nunez paper, disappointed similar to ours, through defines your life. In the little bit of magic. When mother and daughter in engages your mind and, in love and–on the to altogether more different places. Each story summer of 1986, in a Romilly discovers that the tsunami, she finds by increments and degrees, your heart with brink of forty–living a limited existence with her reflects on aspects of America as we know it, but small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a the children’s books her herself making a pilgrimage to a phone box an her new novel What Are You Going Through. belligerent mother. When a young Swiss woman, warps them slightly. Posing questions around brilliant friendship based on music, films and eccentric artist father has been writing holds a old man has in his yard. It is said to allow those Through spare, incisive prose, Nunez’s unnamed Gretchen Tilbury, claims her daughter is the issues such as gender, politics, raising children the rebel spirit. Thirty years on, half a life away, secret story, she must reckon with a dark and who have lost loved ones to speak with them narrator traverses stories within stories, leading result of a virgin birth, Jean investigates, and her and violence, Baker weaves a narrative around the phone rings. Tully has news. A hugely devastating past in ways she never imagined. and come to terms with their grief. A deeply to one critical decision: to being there, with her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) each with prose that differs slightly with each enjoyable, funny, life-affirming, heartbreaking Charming, enchanting and beguiling, this is moving tale of loss, and redemption and the dying friend, unravelling what matters in life, in intertwined with that of the Tilbury’s… altered state. An utterly unique and deeply novel. Highly recommended. sure to be a classic. unexpected ways we connect with each other. death, in writing, and in friendship today. human collection. Here is the Beehive Meanwhile in Dopamine City The Invention of Sound The Thursday Murder Club Sarah Crossan DBC Pierre Chuck Palahniuk Richard Osman Bloomsbury Publishing TPB $29.99 Faber TPB $29.99 Corsair TPB $29.99 Viking TPB $32.99 September Release In this near-future fiction from the ingenious mind September Release Who said old age has to be dull? In a retirement of DBC Pierre, laid-off sewer worker Lonnie Cush village four unlikely friends meet weekly to Ana and Connor have been having an affair for finds his nine-year old daughter the target of online Foster Gates is searching for his missing daughter, investigate unsolved killings. When a local three years. In hotel rooms and coffee shops, hatred. Lonnie goes online and finds a perverse believed kidnapped a decade ago. Foley artist property developer shows up dead, ‘The swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched and murky world. Layered over this is a narrative Mitzi Ives, sought after in Hollywood for the realism Thursday Murder Club’ find themselves in the weekends, they have built a world for just the two of billionaires orchestrating digital manipulation of of her screams, provides a promising lead, and middle of a live case. Can this motley gang of of them. But then the unimaginable happens, our neurochemistry in pursuit of world domination. their narratives draw inexorably closer until they octogenarians catch the killer, before it’s too late? and Ana finds herself alone, trapped inside her Surreal and razor-sharp satire. clash, as Mitzi’s techniques harbour a dark secret. A dark, disturbing This joyful, page-turning murder mystery is a classic in the making. secret. A totally addictive read, this verse novel is a exploration of our relationship with movies, this is quintessential Palahniuk. devastating excavation of risk, obsession and loss. This Tender Land Monogamy Win a set of Penguin Random House William Kent Krueger Sue Miller literary award winners Atria TPB $29.99 Bloomsbury Publishing TPB $29.99 To celebrate this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award win for The Yield by Tara June Winch, Penguin Random House Orphans Odie and Albert O’Banion and their September release friends Moses and Emmy run away from the Lincoln is giving away a set of 12 award winning Australian and School, a Residential school for Native American A novel of great insight into marriage, family, international novels–valued at over $260. children. It is 1932, and the children must find the ageing, friendships, and how deeply we really know someone, even after thirty years of marriage. For your chance to win, purchase any book from this guide wherewithal to survive as they navigate the Gilead River toward the Mississippi, with help from other Graham is an extroverted bookseller, a man of from your local bookshop and answer the following question: lost souls they meet along the way. large appetites, married to Annie, a reserved What makes a great literary novel? and introspective photographer. An unexpected tragedy exposes a transgression, as grief and painful discoveries threaten To enter the competition and view full terms & conditions, go to the to alter the landscape of Annie’s memory. competition page at www.booksellerschoice.com.au/competitions. Competition closes 30 September. 04 YOUR READING GUIDE 05
CRIME & THRILLERS AUSTRALIAN stories Troubled Blood When She The Hunted Landscapes of Enid The Last Robert Galbraith Was Good Gabriel Bergmoser Our Hearts Robert Wainwright Lighthouse Sphere Michael Robotham HarperCollins Matthew Colloff Allen & Unwin Keeper TPB $32.99 Hachette Australia Thames & Hudson TPB $32.99 John Cook with Australia TPB $29.99 Australia Jon Bauer September Release TPB $32.99 PB $34.99 In early twentieth century Allen & Unwin Frank has a roadside society, Enid was the Private Detective girl from Strathfield in TPB $32.99 Six years ago, Evie diner in the outback. His A compelling exploration Cormoran Strike is Sydney, who lived life her Cormac was found hiding errant granddaughter of our relationship with visiting his family when own way. She captivated For over 25 years, in a secret room in the Allie is staying with him this country, Landscapes he is approached by a men with her beauty, outlived four husbands, John Cook tended the aftermath of a brutal murder. Her true identity over summer and they aren’t talking much. When of Our Hearts takes us from the Great Barrier woman asking for help finding her mother who spent two great fortunes and earned the kerosene lights at Tasman Island, Maatsuyker has never been discovered, because anyone a woman stumbles in, injured and bloodied, Reef to the Central Desert, the High Country to went missing in mysterious circumstances in nickname Lady Killmore. From Sydney to New Island and Bruny Island. ‘The Keeper of the who tries ends up dead. Forensic psychologist everyone in Frank’s diner becomes the hunted. Canberra’s Limestone Plains. If we look afresh at 1974. Despite the slim chance of success, Strike York, London to Paris and Cairo to Kenya, this Flame’, as Cook is known, recounts stories Cyrus Haven believes the truth will set Evie free, Bergmoser builds tension and menace expertly our history through the land we live on, might is intrigued and takes on the case. Troubled is the incredible story of a life lived large on the from his time as a lighthouse keeper. This is but it may get both of them killed instead. A through multiple points of view and merging Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find Blood is the fifth Strike and Robin novel in the world stage. a nostalgic ode to Tasmania’s rugged beauty consummate psychological thriller. timelines in a horrifically violent thriller that is a path to a shared future? It will change the way bestselling series. and a lifestyle that is now sadly rendered impossible to put down. you see this land. obsolete by technological advances. The Girl The Abstainer The Safe Place in the Mirror Ian McGuire Anna Downes Under the Rainbow Vida Rose Carlyle Richard Broinowski Jacqueline Kent Scribner UK Affirm Press Allen & Unwin TPB$ 32.99 TPB $32.99 Melbourne University Press HB $44.99 Viking Australia TPB $34.99 TPB $29.99 September Release When struggling September Release September Release Summer has a charmed actress Emily A suspense filled noir Under the Rainbow is the story of E.W. Cole, a Vida Goldstein was an advocate for women’s rights, life until a medical Proudman is fired set in 1860’s Britain and colourful figure in 19th century Melbourne. Best a campaigner for peace, fought for the distribution emergency in Thailand from her temp job, a America, The Abstainer remembered for his series Funny Picture Books, of wealth, and in 1903, she was the first woman causes her to call in a chance encounter with tells the story of two men haunted by their pasts his arcade was Melbourne’s first ‘department store,’ replete with a live in the Western world to stand for a national Parliament. Her battles for favour from her identical twin Iris. Embarking her ex-boss Scott results in a job offer to au and driven by their need for justice. Stephen Doyle orchestra, an aviary and monkeys alongside books, ornaments, art, curios equality in politics illuminated issues that persist to this day, and in this on a treacherous passage to Sri Lanka on their pair for his family at their mansion in France. is a member of the Fenians, a secret society intent and tearooms. His life proves to be as fascinating as his memorable biography, Jacqueline Kent shines a light on one of Australia’s foremost deceased father’s yacht sets a new course for It seems a dream arrangement, but as Emily on ending British rule in Ireland. Head Constable Melbourne establishment. women of courage and principle. their lives. Which twin’s story will be believed? begins to piece together the strangeness of James O’Connor is tasked with the mission to the circumstances she has landed in, far more A darkly twisted psychological thriller with a discover and thwart the Fenian’s plans. blockbuster ending. sinister motivations emerge. Bush School Golden Daze Peter O’Brien Sean Doherty Allen & Unwin TPB $29.99 Hachette Australia HB $45.00 The Inheritors The Night The Bluffs Cayre Hannelore Whistler Kyle Perry Peter O’Brien tells the engaging story of working Golden Daze tells the story of Australian surfing Black Inc Greg Woodland Michael Joseph as a teacher in the remote town of Weabonga in through the lives of our greatest surfers, taking a TPB $29.99 Australia the 1960’s. Recently qualified, the 20 year old had deep dive into a significant year of their surfing Text Publishing to overcome loneliness and isolation to teach his lives – grommet years, globe-trotting years, years TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 18 students, aged from 5 to 15 years old. Bush when they made high art, experienced spiritual awakenings or were just September Release School is a heartwarming story of perseverance tubed out of their minds. Part journal, part surf culture memoir, this is a Missing pets meet a Four teenage girls go and the power of education in the face of disadvantage. fascinating insight into what makes Australian surfing tick. When Blanche de brutal end in the small missing in northern Rigny comes into an town of Moorabool Tasmanian wilderness, unexpected fortune, in 1966, and Hal’s the same region five she decides to devote her newfound wealth to righting injustice. Hannelore Cayre, bestselling author of The mum receives late night calls from a man who whistles before hanging up. Recently demoted girls disappeared thirty years prior, giving rise to the legend of the ‘hungry man’ that haunts Indigenous Voices city detective, Mike Goodenough, suspects a the bluffs. Ex-Sydney detective Con Badenhorst Godmother, again delivers a sharp swipe at the killer-in-training, but will the locals believe him investigates and finds the residents of Limestone Establishment in this sprawling family saga. From Creek harbour as many demons as he does. A 19th century Paris to the modern day, Cayre’s and can he protect young Hal and his mother? thriller with a supernatural element that infuses My Tidda, A Question Talkin’ Up to the Woodland brings late 60s rural Australia to life in ‘damaged but memorable’ characters shine in a this evocative debut. the mystery with a deep foreboding. My Sister of Colour White Woman blackly funny tribute to the underdog. Marlee Silva Patricia Lees with Aileen Moreton- Explore Australia Adam C Lees Robinson Final Cut Nothing Can Hurt You HB $29.99 Magabala Books UQP PB $24.99 S. J. Watson Nicola Maye Goldberg PB $22.99 September Release In this new edition of Text Publishing PB $32.99 Raven Books TPB $29.99 The removal of the ground-breaking From the host of the ‘Tiddas 4 Tiddas’ Aboriginal and Torres book, Professor Aileen Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to On a cold day in 1997, Sara Morgan was killed in Strait Islander children Moreton-Robinson podcast, this book is a ordinary people. Once a buzzing English seaside the woods. Her boyfriend Blake confessed, but is from their families remains a dark chapter in undertakes a compelling analysis of the celebration of the Indigenous female experience destination, dwindling tourism and economic acquitted on grounds of temporary insanity. The Australia’s history. Pattie Lees was 10 years old whiteness of Australian feminism and its effects featuring colourful artwork by artist Rachael downturn have turned it into a ghost town—and case haunts those it touched: the young woman when she and her siblings were separated from on Indigenous women. She illustrates the ways in Sarra. Some stories are heart-warming, while the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot who discovered Sara’s body, the junior reporter their mother. A Question of Colour recounts which Indigenous women have been represented others detail the terrible realities for Australian her documentary. But the community is deeply who suspects a convicted serial killer, and Sara’s Pattie’s experiences as a ‘fair-skinned Aboriginal’ in the publications and teachings of white Indigenous women, past and present. What they suspicious of her intentions. A gripping new psychological thriller from the half-sister who pursues her own justice. This during Australia’s assimilationist policy era, and Australian women, revealing that such renderings all share is the ability to inspire and empower, author of the bestselling Before I Go to Sleep. gripping novel is inspired by a true story. her survival after sexual, physical and emotional of Indigenous lives contrast with how Indigenous creating a sisterhood for all Australian women. abuse as a Ward of the State. women re/present and understand themselves. 06 YOUR READING GUIDE YOUR READING GUIDE 07
Biographies & Memoirs History & Politics The Details Paul Kelly Just Ignore Him The Golden Maze Agent Sonya Traitors and Spies Tegan Bennett Stuart Coupe Alan Davies Richard Fidler Ben Macintyre John Fahey Daylight Hachette Little, Brown ABC Adult Viking Allen & Unwin Scribner Australia Australia TPB $32.99 HB $39.99 TPB $35.00 TPB $34.99 PB $26.99 TPB $35.00 September Release Richard Fidler turns his September Release Traitors and Spies tells This collection of essays With access to Paul intellect and curiosity to the story of Australia’s Alan Davies’ deeply Prague, one of Europe’s It is 1944 and the fate intelligence operations reflects on Daylight’s Kelly, his family and moving memoir shifts most beautiful cities, of the world hangs in before ASIO was life as a reader and contemporaries in the between his childhood and uncovers a history stretching back to balance, and a housewife established. Former writer. She ranges music world, Stuart and the present day. medieval times. From the founding of the city from Cotswolds may intelligence officer John Fahey shows that Australia widely, from the joys of Coupe tells the story of one of Australia’s most Davies lost his mother at the age of six, and through to the uncertain present, Fidler is the tip the balance. But Ursula Burton, code name was under sustained attack from external threats reading an author’s entire body of work, to the acclaimed and loved musicians. The sixth of the tenderness of these recollections bring a consummate guide through layers of historic Sonya, was in fact a high-ranking communist as early as 1908. He writes about the first German experience of a loved one’s death. The details nine children, Kelly only took to the guitar in his clarity to the grief of his life. From the traumas of strata. The Golden Maze is a fascinating who leaked details of the atomic bomb to the spy in Australia, a group of respected Jewish are everything, in the way our lives inform our late teens, and the balance between rock and adolescence to starring on the television shows biography of the city from a favourite of ABC USSR. Macintyre delves into the world of Soviet businessmen in Melbourne who were Soviet connection to books, and books inform our lives. roll and real life wasn’t always pretty. Paul Kelly’s QI and Jonathan Creek, Davies’ warmth and listeners and readers worldwide. spies and state secrets to uncover one of the agents, and an Australian woman who worked for For Daylight, books aren’t escapism, they’re story is a must for Australian music fans. intellect shine through the complexity of grief. most influential characters of the Cold War. Soviet military intelligence in the United States. integral to living. When the Ship Hits the Fan Hysteria Second Best The Last Navigator Rob Anderson Katerina Bryant Ben Pobjie Paul Goodwin with Gordon Goodwin Affirm Press TPB $29.99 NewSouth Publishing PB $29.99 Affirm Press TPB $32.99 Allen & Unwin TPB $32.99 Rob Anderson gained command of a foreign- September Release September Release This is the powerful firsthand account of Gordon’s going ship at age 29, one of the youngest in dangerous and brave war experiences as When Katerina Bryant began experiencing chronic Culturally we are disinclined to celebrate those that recalled for his son. He was a decorated airman Australia. His career on the water sent him into an almost finish first. Second place is often a form of unregulated world of piracy and madmen, with the seizures, she was plunged into a world of doctors and an inspired leader, who served flying with and psychiatrists who understood her condition as oblivion in historical terms, as our recollection of the the Pathfinders as they led bombing raids into ultimate responsibility of keeping everything afloat. Second Fleet shows. But what of the almost-firsts? From the Singapore Straits to the Great Barrier little as she did. Reacting the only way she knew, Germany. He undertook 32 Pathfinder missions and she immersed herself in books, reading about her own complicated Those that strove and achieved incredible things 65 missions over enemy territory with Bomber Command. But surviving his Reef and Torres Strait, Anderson has seen it all on but had the spotlight shadowed? Ben Pobjie celebrates these fascinating the ocean. diagnosis and finding other women with similar experiences. A brilliant childhood was perhaps a greater achievement. blend of memoir and literary and historical analysis of women’s health. stories, from the second man on the moon to our second Prime Minister. The Good Germans When America Stopped Being Great The Insider The Happiest Man on Earth Catrine Clay Nick Bryant Christopher Pyne Eddie Jaku Weidenfeld and Nicolson TPB $32.99 Viking Australia TPB $34.99 Hachette Australia TPB $34.99 Macmillan Australia HB $32.99 September Release September Release The ultimate political insider, Christopher Pyne As a Holocaust survivor who lost everything, Eddie saw the Howard, Rudd, Gillard, Abbott, Turnbull Jaku made a vow to smile every day. He pays Award-winning historian Catrine Clay tells the Senior BBC correspondent Nick Bryant assesses the and Morrison governments in action. Now Pyne tribute to those who were lost by telling his story gripping stories of six ordinary Germans who Trump presidency as no anomaly. Rather he sees has penned his memoir of the back-room dealings and living his best possible life. At the age of 100 witnessed the rise of Nazism in Germany from the mistakes of Trump’s predecessors generating and ever-changing loyalties of the powerful and he believes he is the ‘happiest man on earth,’ and within and dared to resist it. Many ordinary conditions that made Trump’s ascent almost aspirational egos in Canberra. Pyne was Minister this powerful, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful Germans found the courage to resist, in the full historically inescapable. Bryant skewers the usual for Defence and Leader of the House, and his vast experience and memoir shows how happiness can be found in the knowledge that they could be sentenced to indefinite incarceration, factors–inequality, a puerile culture, the decline of civil discourse–but he candour are both funny and engaging. darkest of times. torture or execution. This ground-breaking book focuses on six very is not America-bashing. It is his obvious affection for the place that makes different characters: good Germans all. his analysis of the decline even more acute. TRAVEL NARRATIVE From Snow to Ash Eat the Buddha: Stalin’s Wine Cellar Anthony Sharwood Life and Death in John Baker Hachette a Tibetan Town Viking Australia Barbara Demick Australia TPB $32.99 Text Publishing TPB $34.99 PB $34.99 In the fiery Australian In the late 1990s John summer of 2019/20, Baker, a purveyor of Barbara Demick travels journalist Anthony quality rare and old in disguise to the small Sharwood abandoned his wines, was approached town of Ngaba high job at a news website to solo trek the gruelling with a mysterious wine list. The list was on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau. and beautiful Australian Alps Walking Track. discovered to be a comprehensive catalogue Her interviews are weaved together with the It was a profound experience, and Sharwood of the wine collection of Nicholas II, the last history of China’s dominance over Tibet, and her realised that nothing would ever be the same– Tsar of Russia. Stalin’s Wine Cellar is John and subjects all face the same dilemmas: do they for him or for the Australian Alps, a landscape as his partner Kevin’s story of their audacious and resist the Chinese, or join them? Do they adhere imperilled by the changing climate as the Great potentially dangerous journey to Georgia to to Buddhist teachings of compassion and Barrier Reef. attempt to verify and purchase the wine. nonviolence, or do they fight? 08 YOUR READING GUIDE
Non-fiction NATURE & SCIENCE Another Now Women and The Carbon Club The Bird Way Windfall The Number Bias Yanis Varoufakis Leadership Marian Wilkinson Jennifer Ackerman Ketan Joshi Sanne Blauw Bodley Head Julia Gillard and Allen & Unwin Scribe NewSouth Sceptre TPB $29.99 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala TPB $32.99 TPB $35.00 Publishing TPB $29.99 Vintage TPB $29.99 September Release Australia September Release Following the success Our use of data to TPB $34.99 of The Genius of Birds, September Release understand the world Varoufakis draws on the We knew about the Jennifer Ackerman shares is complicated by the great European minds dangers of climate change new research into bird We have had a decade of limitations of our own and his own unshakeable Using academic work decades ago – so why distraction and inaction behaviour that upends subjectivity. But if we confidence to propose an alternative world and testing it in the real world, this book is don’t our national policies on climate change, but previous understanding of the ways that birds knew more about statistics, we wouldn’t for 2025, where democracy, justice and a consistent and comprehensive approach reflect this? Marian Wilkinson’s blistering book what made things go so very wrong in Australia? communicate, forage, breed and survive. be so easily fooled, and econometrician equality shape our economies. Using the three to teasing out what is different for women exposes the Carbon Club, a network of climate In Windfall, renewable energy expert Ketan Ackerman highlights surprising similarities to Sanne Blauw has written an excellent primer. perspectives of an economist, a feminist, and who lead. It provides a lively analysis of the sceptics, politicians and business leaders who Joshi examines how wind power inspired the human behavior, for example, birds are capable Her examples, from big tobacco to the EU a technologist, Varoufakis investigates what it influence of gender on access to positions stymied the Australian response to the climate creation of a weird, fabricated disease, and why of deception, cooperation and play. From referendum, pick apart the abuse of statistics would take to realise such a world, and what of leadership, the perceptions of women as emergency. An engaging look at the powerful the speed with which emissions are rising could Australia to Alaska, The Bird Way demonstrates and urge us to think about the manipulations costs and trade-offs this vision implies. leaders, the trajectory of their leadership and forces that control our government at the have been slowed if not for a flurry of political the diversity of these glorious creatures. being wrought upon us. the circumstances in which it comes to an end. expense of the lives and livelihoods of Australians. and policy disasters. The Museum of How to Talk Body Count The Lonely The Last Lions The Genes Whales You Will About Climate Paddy Manning Century of Africa That Make Us Never See Change in a Way S&S Australia Noreena Hertz Anthony Ham Edwin Kirk A. Kendra Greene That Makes a TPB $32.99 Sceptre Allen & Unwin Scribe Granta Difference TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 HB $32.99 Rebecca Huntley Paddy Manning paints us the big picture about We are more connected Anthony Ham ventures September Release Murdoch Books climate change. He Discover and delight in a than ever, but we are into the African TPB $32.99 tells stories of tragedy also lonelier than ever. wilderness, speaking Whether inherited surprisingly large number or modified by our and loss, heroism and Economist Noreena to local tribespeople, of (mostly) very small environment, genes Social researcher Rebecca Huntley has written resilience in a book that is both a monument Hertz travels the world to explore the epidemic activists, rangers, scientists and conservationists museums scattered across Iceland. Founded in control or significantly influence almost every a timely book which will ensure we are better and a warning. In each case, he has interviewed first hand. Tackling loneliness from a global about why lions are close to extinction and what the backyards of houses, begun as jokes or bets aspect of our lives. For most, the first time equipped to talk about the climate with those scientists, survivors and families of victims to perspective, Noreena Hertz shows how can be done to save them. Weaving together or memorials to lost friends, these museums tell genetics truly matters to them is the moment around us. The key to progress on climate explore specific well documented and lesser modern advances have conspired to sever our natural history, ancient lore and multidisciplinary the story of an enchanted island where bridges they learn about a condition that may affect change is in the psychology of human attitudes known incidents and asks how we can better connection to the world and each other, and science, Ham brings Africa, its people and arrived only at the beginning of the 20th century, them or their family. Professor Edwin Kirk offers and our ability to change. This book is about prepare ourselves in the future. why, if we do not intervene soon, it is going to its endangered lions to life and shows the and waterproof shoes only with the second expert guidance through topics from genetic understanding why people feel the way they do get much worse. surprising ways those last lions might be saved. world war. screening to the possibilities of same-sex and learning to talk effectively to engage the disengaged and persuade the cautious of the couples having biological children. need for action. Play by the Rules The Storm Before the Calm Michael Pembroke George Friedman NATURE & SCIENCE JUNIOR EDITION Hardie Grant Books PB $29.99 Black Inc PB $29.99 The USA has long claimed to be the leader of George Friedman considers the forging of the ‘free world’, however for the last seventy-five an American identity and its evolution to the years, it has routinely acted to transform other present day in assembling a case for two distinct countries in its own liberal democratic, capitalist cycles in the nation’s progress. There is an The Bushfire Australia's Kookaburra image, with disastrous consequences. Play by the 80-year institutional cycle, and a 50-year socio- Book Deadly Claire Saxby Rules questions where the USA has led its allies, economic cycle, that Friedman asserts will define Polly Marsden Animals Walker Books including Australia, and what the future might hold as Asian nations the 21st century. Though a white-male historical perspective, the book begin to flex their power. offers a window into the drivers of America’s future. Lothian Bingo Australia Children's Chris Humfrey HB $26.99 Books Laurence King Women Don’t Owe You Pretty Plastic Free HC $19.99 Boxed set In the crinkled shadows night- Florence Given Rebecca Prince-Ruiz & $35.00 dwellers yawn, Perfectly pitched to help little people Cassell HC $24.99 Joanna Atherfold Finn understand some of the facts about bushfires. day-creatures A fact-filled version of a family favourite stretch and Kookaburra laughs. Kook-kook- NewSouth Publishing PB $32.99 In exploring the different roles that people packed with weird, wonderful and terrifying kook. Kak-kak-kak. The kookaburra, perhaps The debut book from Instagram artist and have during a bushfire, it guides the reader creatures for hours of bingo fun. Mark each Australia's best-loved bird, is shown in all her feminist, Florence Given, Women Don’t Owe on the importance of developing a family fire Plastic Free July is a movement that builds with species off on your card as it’s called and be glory in a stunning and vivid landscape. Follow You Pretty is a beautiful hardback with full colour, plan to play their part in keeping the whole momentum every year. Plastic Free explores the the first to shout BINGO! Part of the wildly along as Kookaburra finds food for her young 70’s inspired illustrations and text throughout. community safe. beginnings of the Plastic Free July campaign and popular Laurence King Bingo series. and goes searching for a nest with her mate. Covering everything from ghosting to consent, highlights the stories of people who have taken and everything in between, this is a one-stop the challenge on and succeeded in limiting and introduction to modern feminism, without all the sugarcoating. ‘... eliminating their plastic contribution. This book is the first step for anyone you owe men nothing,’ she writes, ‘least of all pretty.’ wanting to create change amidst disillusion with government inaction. 10 YOUR READING GUIDE YOUR READING GUIDE 11
PICTURE BOOKS MIDDLE FICTION Welcome, Found What Do You My Place for Across the The Heartsong Baby, To Bruce Pascoe Call Your Younger Readers Risen Sea of Wonder Quinn This World and Christine Grandpa? Sally Morgan Bren MacDibble Kate Gordon Jess Racklyeft Ledden-Lewis Ashleigh Barton Fremantle Press A&U Children’s UQP PB $14.99 Affirm Press (illus) and Martina PB $17.99 PB $16.99 HB $19.99 Magabala Heiduczek (illus) September Release Books A true Australian classic A thrilling adventure set ABC Kids in the attic of Derileaf September Release HB $24.99 and perhaps the best in a future world that HB $17.99 loved biography of has been devastated School for Girls lives Welcome, baby, to this world. Lashes long and orphan, wonder Quinn. Aboriginal Australia. Sally by climate change. fingers curled. Dreaming stories for our years. From the author of Young Dark Emu come this A gorgeously illustrated picture book that with only her books, and her dreary Crow, wonder Morgan’s rich, zesty and moving story of her Since the rising of the seas, the people of Whispered words to tiny ears. gentle story set in the rugged Australian bush celebrates grandpas and families from round is desperate for a friend. Enter the wild Mabel childhood and growing up in Perth. It tells of how the Ockery islands have learnt to live in a way about a small calf who becomes separated the world. Our grandpas may look different, Clattersham and wonder is truly seen. A magical An absolutely gorgeous book for that will make she gradually came to realise the truth about her that minimizes their impact on the world; until from his family after they are taken away in the wear different clothes and speak different tale of first friendships with a twist! the perfect gift for new parents. Bound to family and their heritage. strangers threaten to disrupt everything. back of a noisy truck. So begins the little calf’s languages and we might call our grandpas by become a classic. journey to find his family. An evocative story different names but we all love them the same. accompanied by stunning illustrations. A Clue for Clara From Stella Street Sunflower Lian Tanner to Amsterdam Ingrid Laguna Shapes and Wild About Family A&U Children’s Elizabeth Honey Text Publishing Colours Dads Aunty Fay Muir PB $16.99 A&U Children’s PB $14.99 John Canty Philip Bunting & Sue Lawson, PB $16.99 Clara wants nothing more Jamila has settled into her Berbay Hardie Grant Jasmine Seymour than to be a famous TV September Release new home in Australia, HB $24.99 Egmont (illus) detective. She has all the happy to be safe and HB $19.99 qualifications, from being When Henni goes to making new friends. Magabala John Canty fluent in Morse code to Amsterdam with her When Jamila learns that Books elderly Dutch neighbour, she discovers a long- has created an Author/illustrator finding missing feathers. But there’s just one her oldest friend from Iraq is also coming to HB $24.99 held family secret. But this creates a terrible approachable, Philip Bunting has created a gorgeous picture problem–no one takes a scruffy little chicken Australia she can’t wait to see her and introduce accessible book to guide babies into navigating book celebrating the way different animal dads seriously! But when she teams up with the dilemma for Henni–should she tell the Dutch her to her new life. But when Mina arrives, things This beautifully illustrated picture book shows daughter of local policeman, they just might be family what she knows? A wonderful return to do not go as planned. shapes and colours, while also managing to tend to their young. It can be enjoyed and read everyone that ‘family’ can be about heart and able to crack this case. the world of Stella Street by the much-loved create visually stunning spreads that will delight as a story book but has fun animal facts on each home; an endless sky; stories and songs. It author Elizabeth Honey. parents and baby alike. The award-winning page for the inquisitive reader to explore. ‘learns’ us how to be with each other and with author/illustrator of Heads and Tails has again Country. This remarkably simple story teaches created a staple for any child’s bookshelf. us that family can be many things. The Silver Arrow The Secret Library of How to Write the Lev Grossman Hummingbird House Soundtrack to Your Life Julianne Negri Fiona Hardy Ellie’s Dragon This Small Blue Dot Bloomsbury Bob Graham Zeno Sworder Children’s Books Affirm Press Affirm Press PB $14.99 PB $16.99 PB $16.99 Walker BOOKS HB $27.99 THAMES & HUDSON AUSTRALIA HB $24.99 September Release Hummingbird House, a September Release When Ellie is very little, she finds a newborn In this richly illustrated book, a young girl charming but decaying dragon fresh from the egg on a supermarket introduces the newest member of her family For Kate’s eleventh Murphy’s songwriting birthday, her mysterious mansion, is being knocked shelf and calls him Scratch. They do everything to the small wonders, big lessons and other down. Imaginative, dreams seems over before together even though no one else can see important stuff that make being a child so uncle delivers a full-sized they’ve begun when she is wrongly accused of steam train with fifteen carriages. where is the inquisitive and largiloquent Hattie is determined Scratch. A moving story about the wonders of special. This lovely book provides a broader, to save it – but when exploring in the middle of plagiarism. Murphy is desperate to clear her name imagination and the nature of growing up from more inclusive view of who we are, where we train going? who are the passengers? Kate will and her reputation. But the hardest part is yet to make important discoveries about humans, the night she steps into its mysterious past. A the much-loved Bob Graham. come from and where our dreams may take us. clever story of lollies growing on trees, one family come as Murphy navigates unlikely friendships, endangered animals and the balance of life. family and finding her confidence. becoming two, haunted children and lost words. JUNIOR FICTION Pierre The Maze Detective: The Goody Kit and Naughty Dragons The Mummy Gemma Riley and The Curious Case of the Lauren Child Caboodle Make Trouble Smugglers of the Fashion Fiasco Castle in the Sky Crumblin Castle Anna Pignataro Natalie Jane Prior and Jules Van Mil Orchard Books Hiro Kamigaki and HC $24.99 Hardie Grant Simon Howe (illus) Pamela Rushby Macmillan IC4DESIGN Egmont HB $24.99 Hardie Grant Walker Books Australia PB $16.99 September Release Laurence King HB $29.99 Egmont PB $14.99 Australia PB $17.99 September Release Fashion is in Gemma Siblings Chirton and September Release September Release Orphaned Hattie goes to Riley’s DNA. She lives Myrtle are complete Kit is a witch, but not a very good one. live with her great uncle with her grandmother opposites; one has been labelled a “goody” When a bat named Caboodle comes Pierre the Maze Detective invites all detectives When Ava and Jack’s parents agree to foster two and aunt in their crumbling castle where her Cara Bonafete, a famous fashion designer, and and is expected to always be good. The tumbling through her window she tries ages 8+ on an adventure through masquerade balls, young dragons, the siblings can’t believe their aunt hosts flamboyant mummy-unwrapping dreams of creating her own collection. But other is not. So, what happens if the goody is using magic to fix his broken wing, but tree trunk villages and extravagant observatories to luck. But teaching a mischievous pair of dragons parties to save her home from ruin. When there’s big trouble at the House of Bonafete. not-so-good for a day? The Goody is about the results are unexpected. This beautiful find the castle in the sky. With full page, beautifully how to behave isn’t easy, and Jack and Ava will the mummy supply runs out Hattie takes off The release of the Spring Collection is looming, the importance of autonomy and mindful picture book is a mix of magic, humour and illustrated mazes and search-and-find challenges have their work cut out for them. A fabulous on a dangerous search for more, a thousand Cara has had an accident and someone is decision-making. Perfect for perfectly a celebration of true friendship. throughout, this book will provide hours of book for emerging readers packed with rollicking miles up the Nile. A wonderful blend of stealing their Top Secret designs. imperfect children aged 4-8 years. entertainment and joy. adventure, riotous laughs and oodles of mischief. fantasy and history, and plenty of adventure! 12 YOUR READING GUIDE YOUR READING GUIDE 13
Young Adult BETTER LIVING The Other Side The Lost Soul Atlas When Rain Turns Flavour The Ethical Simply of the Sky Zana Fraillon To Snow Yotam Ottolenghi Omnivore Sabrina Ghayour Amie Kaufman and Lothian Children’s Jane Godwin and Ixta Belfrage Laura Dalrymple Mitchell Beazley Meagan Spooner Books Lothian Children’s Ebury Press and Grant Hilliard HB $39.99 A&U Children’s PB $19.99 Books HB $55.00 Murdoch TPB $19.99 PB $16.99 HB $39.99 Easy. Everyday. Simple. Twig is alone now that Flavour-forward, vegetable- Sabrina Ghayour’s new his dad is missing. Flea A compelling read narrated based recipes are at the heart of Yotam collection of unmissable September Release The Ethical Omnivore is a user-friendly recipe is a cheerful pickpocket. by 13 year old Lissa, set in Ottolenghi’s food. Ottolenghi and co-writer Ixta dishes in her signature style, influenced by her and handbook that will open your eyes to a Bestselling author duo Amie Kaufman Together they become inseparable, surviving on Melbourne with much of the story told over just Belfrage break down three factors that create love of fabulous flavours, is full of delicious food better way to buy, cook and eat. This book and Meagan Spooner are back! This is a the streets and using their skills to help others six days. The story revolves around Lissa and flavour–process, pairing and produce–and that can be enjoyed with a minimum of fuss. traces how animals can be raised ethically and mesmerizing tale of magic and logic, and the like them. But once day Twig wakes up in the her brother Harry, mother Fiona and a stranger, offer innovative vegetable dishes that deliver With sections ranging from Effortless Eating to demonstrates ways regenerative farmers care for collision of fate and choice. The story of a Afterlife alone. A key, a raven and a mysterious 13 year old Reed, who arrives on their doorstep brand-new ingredient combinations. Packed Traditions With a Twist, Simply provides over their animals. It offers tried-and-tested recipes forbidden love between North, the prince of a atlas will help him piece together his memories with a 5 month old baby. A story of blended with signature colourful photography, Flavour 100 bold and exciting recipes that can be from the Feather and Bone community, and high-tech city, and Nimh, the goddess incarnate and make it back home. families, long held secrets and the complexities not only inspires us with what to cook, but how enjoyed every day of the week. shows all of us how to live with less impact on of an ancient land, that threatens the destruction of becoming an adult in a modern world. flavour is dialed up and why it works. the animals and environment that support us. of both of their worlds. A must read for fantasy and sci-fi fans! Ikaria Halliday Wine The Sustainable The Erasure None Shall Sleep The History Meni Valle Companion 2021 House Handbook Initiative Ellie Marney of Mischief Hardie Grant James Halliday Josh Byrne Books Hardie Grant Books Lili Wilkinson A&U Children’s Rebecca Higgie PB $39.99 Hardie Grant HB $45.00 Books A&U Children’s TPB $19.99 Fremantle Press PB $39.99 PB $19.99 PB $19.99 September Release For over thirty years James September Release Halliday has been Australia’s In the Aegean Sea lies the most respected wine A comprehensive, illustrated guide to building Cecily wakes up on a Teenagers Emma and September Release Greek island of Ikaria, where the locals seem to critic. A best-selling annual, the Halliday Wine an affordable, eco-friendly, energy and water- speeding driverless Travis are recruited by Researching the origins hold a secret. In Ikaria, Meni collects traditional Companion is the go-to guide for wine ratings, efficient home for the future. Sustainability bus, part of a bizarre the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers of a mysterious book found under their recipes from across the island that encapsulate regions, best varietals, winery reviews and a expert and Gardening Australia presenter Josh psychological experiment, the Erasure Initiative. for information on cold cases. When they are grandmother’s floorboards, brings recently the best of Mediterranean food. But she also curated selection of the best wines in Australia. Byrne creates a family home that is comfortable With no memory of who she is, or why the other drawn into an active case targeting teenagers, orphaned sisters Jessie and Kay a timely tells the stories that make up Ikaria, where life The 2021 edition has been completely revised to year-round without air conditioning or additional passengers seem familiar, it’s a race against time everything starts to unravel. A riveting YA thriller distraction as they discover how uncredited is all about taking time: time to cook, to eat, bring readers up-to-the-minute information, and heating, integrates solar power to cover to save their lives. A dystopian thriller for readers that will keep you on the edge of your seat from mischief-makers have shaped history over the to nap, and to enjoy and appreciate spending is still the perfect gift. household needs, and reduces water usage who question the status quo. 14+ start to finish. 14+ millenniums. A clever and unexpected story of meals with family and friends. by integrating rainwater tanks and greywater magic, grief, history, and mischief. 14+ recycling systems. Tribal Lores Metal Fish, The F Team Dr. Houseplant Step-by-step Veg Patch Archimede Fusillo Falling Snow Rawah Arja W. Davidson and J. Bland, Lucy Chamberlain Cath Moore photos by Janneke Luursema DK Life Australia HB $39.99 Walker Books Giramondo Australia PB $19.99 Text Publishing PB $22.95 Hardie Grant Books HB $29.99 Lucy Chamberlain provides brilliantly simple PB $19.99 Dr. Houseplant is the go-to for any plant enthusiast, instructions on how to grow the most common Frankie Rescio and Lochie September Release whether you’re just starting out or a seasoned green vegetables, fruits and herbs for Australian climates. Marsh are neighbours. But Dylan and her mother live in Meet Tariq, leader thumb. Featuring forty-two of the most popular This fully revised and illustrated edition includes the boys struggle to keep a small Australian town and of ‘The Wolf Pack’ at houseplants, including monsteras, ferns and cacti and with photography clear and helpful yearly planners for vegetables and fruit crops, as well as up with the rules and lore dream of sailing across the Punchbowl High, who that illustrates the beauty and life plants can bring to your home, information on how to plan and prepare your space. A one-stop reference of their families to maintain the perfect image. ocean to Paris until tragedy has been commanded by the new principal to Dr. Houseplant will inspire and help you cultivate your own indoor garden. for anyone wanting to grow and eat their own food. Bubbling beneath the surface of both their lives strikes and Dylan’s life is forever changed. Dylan’s are fractured families and tough decisions to be join a football competition with his mates to unique way of seeing the world, and her struggle rehabilitate the public image of their school. made. A moving book for older readers, Fusillo to find her place in it will stay with you long after paints a very real portrait of what it means to He soon learns there’s a major catch – half of the you’ve finished this moving story. 14+ team is made up of white boys from Cronulla, grow up as a man and create your own rules aka enemy territory. A fresh new voice in This One Wild My Year of Living The Inner Self amid the tensions of tradition. 14+ Australian YA. and Precious Life Mindfully Hugh Mackay Sarah Wilson Shannon Harvey Macmillan Macmillan Hachette Australia Australia Challenger Deep Midnight Sun Australia TPB $32.99 TPB $34.99 Neal Shusterman Stephenie Meyer HB $34.99 September Release Prolific author and social Walker PB $18.99 Atom TPB $32.99 researcher, Hugh Mackay, Using poet Mary Oliver’s Overwhelmed with turns his attention to the famous line, “Tell me, Caden Bosch, a brilliant high school student, When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in insomnia and an incurable ways we hide from the truth what is it you plan to do with your one wild sees himself as being on a ship that’s headed for Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until autoimmune disease, Shannon Harvey started about ourselves and the psychological freedom and precious life?” Sarah Wilson takes us on a the deepest point on Earth, Challenger Deep. now, fans have heard only Bella’s side of the story. meditating daily, and enlisted a team of scientists we can enjoy when we finally face that most three-year odyssey, a series of hikes around the Meanwhile, Caden’s family and friends start to notice Midnight Sun told through Edward’s eyes, takes on to put meditation to the test. Could learning searching question of all; ‘Who am I, really?’ He world, to reconnect with the life she feels we are major changes in his behaviour and state of mind. a new and decidedly dark twist. Stephenie Meyer to quiet our busy minds be the simple solution explores our top 20 hiding places and explains losing. Following the path of artists, poets, and A uniquely moving and powerful story delving into mental illness. 14+ transports us back to a world that has captivated the world so desperately needs? After the first the fear of love’s demands that drive us to that philosophers she makes the case for personal millions of readers and brings us an epic novel about the profound year, Shannon arrived at her own definition of place of hiding. and social transformation – and a better world. pleasures and devastating consequences of immortal love. 14+ mindfulness practice which is “cultivating the skill of learning to hear myself think.” 14 YOUR READING GUIDE YOUR READING GUIDE 15
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