Here is our literary calendar of books by Australian authors due for release in the first half of 2015!

We’ve included a wide range of books we’re already excited about, but we’ve also overlooked quite a few, so to that end, we’ll be updating the calendar on an ongoing basis.

FEBRUARY

• Before I Sleep: My Life Fighting Crime and Corruption by Ray Whitrod
• Clade by James Bradley
• Earth Dances: Music in Search of the Primitive by Andrew Ford
• Everything You Need To Know About the Referendum To Recognise Indigenous Australians by Megan Davis & George Williams
• The Flywheel by Erin Gough (young adult fiction)
• For the Forest of a Bird by Sue Saliba (young adult fiction)
• Fury: Women Write About Sex, Power and Violence edited by Samantha Trenoweth
• King of the Road by Nigel Bartlett
• Medea’s Curse: Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist by Anne Buist
• Open House by David Brooks
• A Small Madness by Dianne Touchell (young adult fiction)
• The Social Diary by Ros Reines
• The Story of A Prime Minister: Paul Keating by David Day
• The Torch by Peter Twohig
• Trio by Geraldine Wooller
• Useful by Debra Oswald
• With Every Step: A Son’s Quest and a Father’s Promise by Neil Cadigan

MARCH

• Anchor Point by Alice Robinson
• The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
• The Ash Burner by Kári Gíslason
• Bad Behaviour by Rebecca Starford
• Cocky’s Joy by Michael Farrell
• The Country Wife by Anne Gorman
• Crime and Punishment: Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System by Russell Marks
• Down to the River by SJ Finn
• Every Move by Ellie Marney (young adult fiction)
• The Guardians by Lucy Dougan
• Havoc by Jane Higgins (young adult fiction)
• Hello, Beautiful!: Scenes from a Life by Hannie Rayson
• His Other House by Sarah Armstrong
• Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman
• The Hush by Skye Melki-Wegner (young adult fiction)
• A Man Made Entirely of Bats by Patrick Lenton
• The Port Fairy Murders by Robert Gott
• She’s Having Her Baby by Lauren Sams
• A Short History of Richard Kline by Amanda Lohrey
• Skin by Ilka Tampke

APRIL

• The Bird’s Child by Sandra Leigh Price
• Black Rock White City by A.S. Patric
• Daughter of the Territory by Jacqueline Hammar
• The Good Greek Girl by Maria Katsonis
• Goodbye Sweetheart by Marion Halligan
• The Guy, The Girl, The Artist and His Ex by Gabrielle Williams (young adult fiction)
• Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
• First Things First: Selected Letters of Kate Llewellyn 1977-2004 edited by Ruth Bacchus and Barbara Hill
• The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton
• Lifespan of Starlight by Thalia Kalkipsakis (young adult fiction)
• Mannix by Brenda Niall
• Morwell Coal Mine Fires: Penguin Special by Tom Doig
• The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically Peter Singer
• Mothermorphosis by Monica Dux
• Murphy’s Lore: Tales from the West by Bob Murphy
• Once Upon a Distant Journey by Hendrik Gout
• One Life: My Mother’s Story by Kate Grenville
• The Pause by John Larkin (young adult fiction)
• The Profilist: A Novel by Adrian Mitchell
• Ransacking Paris by Patti Miller
• Quicksand by Steve Toltz
• Settling Day by Kate Howarth
• Silver Lies, Golden Truths: Broken Hill, a Gentle German and Two World Wars by Christine Ellis
• Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
• We’re All Going to Die (Especially Me) by Joel Meares

MAY

• The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine by Krissy Kneen
• Bloodhound: Searching for My Father by Ramona Koval
• Confessions of a Once Fashionable Mum by Georgia Madden
• Crow’s Breath by John Kinsella
• A Descant for Gossips by Thea Astley
• The Dragon’s Voice: How Modern Media Found Bhutan by Bunty Avieson
• The Floating Garden by Emma Ashmere
• Footy Dreaming by Michael Hyde (young adult fiction)
• Just A Queen by Jane Caro (young adult fiction)
• Lion Attack! by Oliver Mol
• Net Needle by Robert Adamson
• One True Thing by Nicole Hayes (young adult fiction)
• Pandora Jones: Reckoning by Barry Jonsberg (young adult fiction)
• A Single Stone by Meg McKinlay (young adult fiction)
• Stay with Me by Maureen McCarthy (young adult fiction)
• Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather by Karen Lamb
• The Wonder Lover by Malcolm Knox
• You’re The Kind Of Girl I Write Songs About by Daniel Herborn (young adult fiction)

JUNE

• The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt
• The Mothers by Rod Jones
• No Small Change: The Road to Recognition for Indigenous Australia by Frank Brennan

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