Here is a round-up previewing some of the most exciting local releases for the second half of 2019!

FICTION

• The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman (August)

• Pillars by Peter Polites (August)

• Mother of Pearl by Angela Savage (August)

• The Collaborator by Diane Armstrong (August)

• The Returns by Philip Salom (August)

• The Burnt Country by Joy Rhoades (August)

• Out of Time by Steve Hawke (August)

• The Trespassers by Meg Mundell (August)

• Wild by Nathan Besser (September)

• The Operators by Barry Heard (September)

• The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker by Joanna Nell (September)

• Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui (September)

• Here Until August by Josephine Rowe (September)

• The Heart of the Ritz by Luke Devenish (September)

• Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar (September)

• The Hollow Earth by John Kinsella (September)

• The Writing on the Wall by Juliet Rieden (September)

• There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett (October)

• Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman (October)

• The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee (October)

• The Weekend by Charlotte Wood (October)

• Khaki Town by Judy Nunn (October)

• Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson (October)

• Bruny by Heather Rose (October)

• Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris (October)

• The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley (November)

• Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas (late 2019)

• Red Can Origami by Madelaine Dickie (late 2019)

• The Strangers We Know by Pip Drysdale (December)

• The Drover’s Wife by Leah Purcell (December)

DEBUT FICTION

• Lapse by Sarah Thornton (August)

• From Here On, Monsters by Elizabeth Bryer (August)

• Taking Tom Murray Home by Tim Slee (August)

• Dolores by Lauren Aimee Curtis (August)

• Going Under by Sonia Henry (September)

• Being Black n Chicken, & Chips by Matt Okine (September)

• Act of Grace by Anna Krien (September)

• The Breeding Season by Amanda Niehaus (September)

CRIME FICTION

• Where the Dead Go by Sarah Bailey (August)

• Snake Island by Ben Hobson (August)

• See You at the Toxteth: The Best of Cliff Hardy, and Corris on Crime by Peter Corris (August)

• The Day the Lies Began by Kylie Kaden (August)

• State of Fear by Tim Ayliffe (August)

• The Rich Man’s House by Andrew McGahan (September)

• Meet Me at Lennon’s by Melanie Myers (September)

• The Wife and the Widow by Christian White (October)

• You Don’t Know Me by Sara Foster (October)

• Silver by Chris Hammer (October)

• Peace by Garry Disher (November)

• Dead Man Switch by Tara Moss (November)

NON-FICTION

• Salt: Selected essays and short stories by Bruce Pascoe (August)

• Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing by David Leser (August)

• Songspirals: Sharing women’s wisdom of country through songlines by Laklak Burarrwana, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr and Sarah Wright (August)

• The Near and the Far Vol. II by David Carlin and Francesca Rendle-Short (August)

• On the Chin: A Boxing Education by Alex McCLintock (August)

• James Hardy Vaux’s 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite Terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard (August)

• The Art of Growing Up by John Marsden (August)

• Banking Bad: How corporate greed and broken governance failed Australia by Adele Ferguson (August)

• Church of the Open Sky by Nat Young (August)

• The Crow Eaters: A journey through South Australia by Ben Stubbs (August)

• The Father Hood: Inspiration for the New Dad Generation by Luke Benedictus, Andrew McUtchena nd Jeremy Macvean (August)

• Night Fishing by Vicki Hastrich (September)

• Fallen by Lucie Morris-Marr (September)

• Fixed It by Jane Gilmore (September)

• Sex in the Brain: How your brain controls your sex life by Amee Biard (September)

• When You’re Not OK: A Toolkit for Tough Times by Jill Stark (September)

• How Powerful We Are by Sally Rugg (September)

• On a Wing and a Prayer: The Race That Stopped The World by Di Websdale-Morrisey (September)

• Smashed Avocado: How I Cracked the Property Market and You Can Too by Nicole Haddow (September)

• Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia by Samia Khatun (September)

• Beyond the Bump by Sally Shepherd (September)

• Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tsyon Yunkaporta (September)

• Pain and Prejudice by Gabrielle Jackson (September)

• Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs by Antony Loewenstein (September)

• Queer Icons from Gay to Z: Activists, Artists & Trailblazers by Patrick Boyle, illustrated by Antoine Corbineau (October)

• The Innocent Reader by Debra Adelaide (October)

• This is What a Feminist Looks Like by Emily Maguire (October)

• Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules For Life by Kitty Flanagan (October)

• We Are Here: Stories of home, place and belonging, edited by Meg Mundell (November)

• Beauty by Bri Lee (late 2019)

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

• On Drugs by Chris Fleming (August)

• Paris and Other Disappointments by Adam Rozenbachs (August)

• The Wooleen Way by David Pollock (August)

• Lot With a Little by Tim Costello (August)

• Tough Customer: Chasing a Better Deal for Battlers by Allan Fels (August)

• Growing Up Queer in Australia edited by Benjamin Law (August)

• Poster Boy: A Memoir of Art and Politics by Peter Drew (August)

• The Joy of High Places by Patti Miller (August)

• Storytime by Jane Sullivan (August)

• Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity, edited by Randa Abdel-Fattah and Sara Saleh (August)

• Valerie Taylor: An Adventurous Life by Valerie Taylor (September)

• The Girls by Chloe Higgins (September)

• About a Girl: A Mother’s Powerful Story of Raising her Transgender Child by Rebekah Roberston (September)

• White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad (September)

• Gulpilil by Derek Rielly (October)

• Penny Wong: Passion and Principle by Margaret Simons (October)

• The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Claire Weekes by Judith Hoare (October)

• James Cook by Peter Fitzsimons (October)

• On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers by Michelle de Kretser (October)

• Ian Fairweather: A Life in Letters, edited by Claire Roberts and John Thompson (October)

• The Accidental Tour Guide by Mary Moody (October)

• Beneath the Surface by Libby Trickett (October)

• Heart and Soul: My Story by Paul Gallen and David Riccio (October)

• Olive Cotton by Helen Enniss (November)

• Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach (November)

• Against All Odds by Craig Challen, Richard Harris and Ellis Henican (November)

• Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume 1 1978–1986 by Helen Garner (November)

• Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery (November)

• Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch (late 2019)

• Frank Moorhouse: A Discontinuous Life by Matthew Lamb (late 2019)

• Untitled by Neale Daniher (late 2019)

TRUE CRIME

• Life Sentence: My Last Eighteen Months by Carl Williams (August)

• The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne (August)

• Devil’s Grip by Neal Drinnan (September)

HISTORY & POLITICS

• The Enchantment of the Long-Haired Rat by Tim Bonyhady (August)

• Inside the Greens: The true story of the party, the politics and the people by Paddy Manning (August)

• Don Dunstan by Angela Woollacott (August)

• The Golden Country: Australia’s Changing Identity by Tim Watts (September)

• Quarterly Essay 75: Annabel Crabb on Politics, Work and Gender by Annabel Crabb (September)

• Project Rainfall by Tom Gilling (September)

• Secret: The Making of Australia’s Security State by Brian Toohey (September)

• Untitled by Scott Ludlam (September)

• Buckley’s Chance by Garry Linnell (October)

• Politics Now by David Rowe (October)

• Best Australian Political Cartoons 2019 by Russ Radcliffe (November)

• 1956: The Year Australia Welcomed the World by Nick Richardson (November)

• Person X and the Fascists Among Us by Jeff Sparrow (November)

• Reprehensible: Polite histories of bad behaviour by Mikey Robins (November)

• Nothing New: A history of second-hand by Robyn Annear (November)

• Bob Hawke: The complete biography by Blanche d'Alpuget (November)

COOKBOOKS

• The Halliday Wine Companion 2020 by James Halliday (August)

• Marriage of Flavours by Scott Pickett (August)

• The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland (September)

• The Shared Table: Vegetarian and vegan feasts to cook for your crowd by Clare Scrine (September)

• Just George: Recipes, stories and a whole lot of love by George Calombaris (September)

• Week Light: Super-Fast Meals to Make You Feel Good by Donna Hay (October)

• The Atlas Cookbook: A Food Adventure by Charlie Carrington (November)

• Just Desserts by Charlotte Ree (November)

• Don Tillman’s Standardised Meal System by Graeme Simsion (December)

POETRY

• Heide by Pi. O (August)

• Amnesia Findings by Anna Jacobson (September)

• Love is Strong as Death by Paul Kelly (November)

For a list of our most anticipated kids and YA books for the second half of 2019, check out Leanne Hall’s round-up here.