Here is a calendar of adult books by Australian authors due for release in the first half of 2016. There’s new fiction from Fiona McFarlane, Josephine Rowe, and Patrick Holland; new non-fiction form Helen Garner, Stan Grant and Annabel Crabb; and, new poetry from Aden Rolfe and Ellen van Neerven – phew!

We’ve tried to include as many titles as we can, and will be updating the list throughout the year.

FEBRUARY

• Comfort Zone by Lindsay Tanner
• That Devil’s Madness by Dominique Wilson
• The High Places by Fiona McFarlane
• Leaving Elvis and Other Stories by Michelle Michau-Crawford
• Fear is the Rider by Kenneth Cook
• The Politics of Identity by Bronwyn Carlson
• A Murder Without Motive by Martin McKenzie-Murray
• Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat
• Desert Writing by Terri-ann White
• The Shock of Recognition by Barry Jones
• Credlin & Co by Aaron Patrick
• Finding Eliza by Larissa Behrendt
• Napoleon’s Roads by David Brooks

MARCH

• A Loving, Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe
• The Midnight Watch by David Dyer
• Sing Fox To Me by Sarah Kanake
• All These Perfect Strangers by Aoife Clifford
• Wildlight by Robyn Mundy
• Our Magic Hour by Jennifer Down
• The Light on the Water by Olga Lorenzo
• Running Against the Tide by Amanda Ortlepp
• Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
• That Sugar Guide by Damon Gameau
• Road Series by Hugo Race
• Quarterly Essay 61 by George Megalogenis
• The Road to Ruin by Niki Savva
• The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
• Hold by Kirsten Tranter
• Yassmin’s Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
• Blood Year by David Kilcullen
• Stop at Nothing by Annabel Crabb
• Ghost Girls by Cath Ferla
• Ink in Her Veins by Sylvia Martin
• Unexpected Clearing by Rose Lucas

APRIL

• Our Man Elsewhere by Thornton McCamish
• Precious Things by Kelly Doust
• What the Light Hides by Mette Jakobsen
• Dangerous to Know by Anne Buist
• Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
• The Art of Reading by Damon Young
• An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
• One by Patrick Holland
• Where the Trees Were by Inga Simpson
• Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain
• Georgiana Molloy: The Mind That Shines by Bernice Barry
• Things My Mother Taught Me by Claire Halliday
• Like I Can Love by Kim Lock

MAY

• It’s Our Country edited by Megan Davis and Marcia Langton
• Dying in the First Person by Nike Sulway
• False Nostalgia by Aden Rolfe
• The Fighter by Arnold Zable
• Our Tiny Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan
• Treading Air by Ariella Van Luyn

JUNE

• Comfort Food by Ellen van Neerven
• Faction Man: Bill Shorten’s Path to Power by David Marr
• Wasted by Elspeth Muir
• Dead Men Don’t Order Flake by Sue Williams
• The Dry by Jane Harper
• Wood Green by Sean Rabin
• Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
• Exiles by Sarah Drummond

Even more books to look our for in 2016, part 2

• Grant & I by Robert Forster
• A Perfect Square by Isobel Blackthorn
• The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
• Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
• Atlantic Black by A.S. Patrić
• The Twisted Knot by J.M. Peace
• A new book from Hannah Kent
• A new book from Steven Amsterdam
• A new book from Jacinta Halloran
• A new book from Henry Reyonlds

If you’d like to let us know about a book we’ve missed, email [email protected].