Something Wonderful (Raewyn Caisley & Karen Blair, Viking)
Raewyn Caisley’s first book with illustrator Karen Blair, Hello from Nowhere, took readers to the Australian Nullarbor to reveal the benefits of living in the middle of a desert. In...
Balancing at the precipice: Antonia Hayes on ‘Relativity’
Author Antonia Hayes has been a bookseller, book publicist and co-director of the National Young Writers’ Festival. Her debut novel Relativity (Viking) is a family drama interwoven with cosmology and quantum...
Cuckoo! (Fiona Roberton, Viking)
Cuckoo is a little bird who doesn’t quite fit in or, more particularly, no matter how many ways he tries saying ‘cuckoo’, he cannot find anyone to understand him. So...
On Warne (Gideon Haigh, Viking)
This book reveals two of life’s certainties: one, that Gideon Haigh is an outstanding writer, and two, that Shane Warne’s tabloid-fodder life is utterly compelling. Bring the two together and...
After (Morris Gleitzman, Viking)
Continuing the story of Felix from Once, Then and Now, After follows the events of Then. The war is still going on and for the past two years Felix has...