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Lost & Found (Tim Sharp, Pantera)
Released July 2024
Lost & Found is the latest book by author, speaker and leader of Australia’s positive psychology movement, Dr Tim Sharp (aka ‘Dr Happy’). A self-help guide with a difference, it... Read more
Living Hot (Clive Hamilton & George Wilkenfeld, Hardie Grant Books)
Released June 2024
Living Hot by Clive Hamilton (Silent Invasion) and independent energy consultant George Wilkenfeld, provides a stark assessment of Australia’s response to climate change, emphasising that the inertia behind carbon emissions reduction... Read more
Always Was, Always Will Be (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, Magabala)
Released June 2024
Always Was, Always Will Be is set to be an indispensable resource for young people looking to understand First Nations resistance in Australia. Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson, whose collaboration began... Read more
Milk (Matthew Evans, Murdoch)
Released July 2024
Dairy milk is an odd battleground for political polarisation, yet it always seems to be one. Milk is an attempt to make the case for that long-loved standard—cows’ milk—in the face of... Read more
Animal Activism On and Off Screen (ed by Claire Parkinson & Lara Herring, SUP)
Released July 2024
Animal activists have been at the forefront of using the media to get their message out—and in turn, the media has played a role in shaping the direction of activists’... Read more
Blossom: Practical and creative ways to find wonder in the floral world (Adriana Picker, Hardie Grant Books)
Released June 2024
Blossom goes beyond merely showcasing the beauty of flowers, offering wonderful and practical ideas for using flowers through the seasons. In her latest book, botanical illustrator Adriana Picker shares her... Read more
Everything Is Water (Simon Cleary, UQP)
Released June 2024
Like the river at its heart, Everything Is Water takes readers on a meandering journey full of unexpected delights, surprises and challenges at every turn. Novelist and hiker Simon Cleary (The... Read more
Fragile Creatures (Khin Myint, Black Inc.)
Released June 2024
Debut author Khin Myin’s Fragile Creatures is a remarkable memoir in many ways. Myin’s writing is gracious and honest; at its core, his life story is devastatingly sad. The opening chapter reveals... Read more
My Father’s Suitcase (Mary Garden, Justitia Books)
Released June 2024
Mary Garden’s My Father’s Suitcase, with its no-holds-barred tone, embodies the Anne Lamott epigraph, ‘If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better’. Readers of... Read more
My Efficient Electric Home Handbook (Tim Forcey, Murdoch)
Released June 2024
Energy plays a big part in our lives today, especially as the world faces a climate crisis. Electrification emerges as a solution, but managing our home’s energy can feel complicated... Read more
The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union (Gordon Bray, Gelding Street Press)
Released June 2024
The current crop of Wallabies may have lost their lustre, but Gordon Bray’s latest offering, The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union, harks back to a golden age of the sport.... Read more
Dear Mutzi (Tess Scholfield-Peters, NLA)
Released June 2024
Tess Scholfield-Peters’ debut book, Dear Mutzi, is a narrative nonfiction account of her grandfather's experience in Nazi Germany. It powerfully describes how 18-year-old Hermann Pollnow fled Nazi Germany for rural... Read more
Because I Love Him (Ashlee Donohue, Magabala)
Released May 2024
Because I Love Him is an intelligent and insightful reply to the question, ‘Why are you with him?'. As a society, we're beginning to realise that it's the wrong question... Read more
Suddenly Single at Sixty (Jo Peck, Text)
Released May 2024
Not long after Jo Peck’s 60th birthday, her husband drops a bombshell—he’s leaving her for a (much) younger woman. She is shocked and heartbroken that the life she’d worked towards—full... Read more
Love Across Class (Rose Butler & Eve Vincent, MUP)
Released May 2024
In Love Across Class, researchers Rose Butler and Eve Vincent seek to demystify the complex—and often obscured—role class can play in shaping romantic relationships. As class is often overlooked in social and political conversations (unlike... Read more
Because I’m Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black Inc.)
Released May 2024
Ariane Beeston’s debut, Because I’m Not Myself, You See, chronicles her postpartum psychosis, as a mother and clinical psychologist. The memoir weaves personal experiences with scientific evidence, and makes recommendations... Read more
How to Avoid a Happy Life (Julia Lawrinson, Fremantle)
Released May 2024
How to Avoid a Happy Life is a lively memoir by Julia Lawrinson (Losing It), the author of over 15 books for young people. This memoir takes readers through a lifetime of sad and... Read more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging (Cher Tan, NewSouth)
Released May 2024
The nine essays in this collection, Peripathetic by Melbourne-based Cher Tan, use the form’s digressive capacity well. In elastic prose informed by wide reading, Tan heads down wordy, winding rabbit... Read more
Ela! Ela! (Ella Mittas, Murdoch)
Released May 2024
Ela! Ela! means 'Come! Come!', and it’s a wonderfully fitting title for this generous, delicious and personal book of Turkish-Greek recipes, photography and essays, which documents Ella Mittas’s travels to Istanbul, Alaçatı,... Read more
Human? (Ziggy Ramo, Pantera)
Released May 2024
For those familiar with the sounds of Ziggy Ramo, Human?—while his debut book—is but the latest in a collection of revolutionary literary works by the artist. Human? is Ramo’s powerful... Read more
