Australian books to get excited about in the second half of 2017
Here’s a preview of some of the most exciting local releases for the second half of 2017!
FICTION
- Deeper Than the Sea by Nelika McDonald (July)
- Pulse Points by Jennifer Down (August)
- Taboo by Kim Scott (August)
- A New England Affair by Steven Carroll (August)
- Colombiano by Rusty Young (August)
- Whipbird by Robert Drewe (August)
- On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong (August)
- The Lone Child by Anna George (August)
- City of Crows by Chris Womersley (September)
- The Choke by Sofie Laguna (September)
- Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser (September)
- The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc by Ali Alizadeh (September)
- Atlantic Black by A.S Patrić (October)
- First Person by Richard Flanagan (October)
- Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist (October)
- Long Way from Home by Peter Carey (November)
- Stories by Helen Garner (November)
- The Passage of Love by Alex Miller (November)
DEBUT FICTION
- Australia Day by Melanie Cheng (July)
- Half Wild by Pip Smith (July)
- The Pacific Room by Michael Fitzgerald (July)
- The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover (July)
- Wimmera by Mark Brandi (July)
- The Town by Shaun Prescott (August)
- The Twentieth Man by Tony Jones (August)
- Terra Nullius by Claire Coleman (September)
- Bird Country by Claire Aman (September)
- The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser (September)
- Rain Birds by Harriet McKnight (September)
CRIME FICTION
- The Student by Iain Ryan (July)
- The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham (July)
- Crossing the Lines by Sulari Gentill (August)
- And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic (August)
- Too Easy by J.M. Green (August)
- Force of Nature by Jane Harper (October)
- Under the Cold Bright Lights by Garry Disher (November)
NON-FICTION
- Unbreakable edited by Jane Caro (July)
- Women Leading by Christine Nixon (July)
- No Way! Okay, Fine by Brodie Lancaster (July)
- Selected Writings by Donald Horne (July)
- Watching Out by Julian Burnside (August)
- Sunlight and Seaweed by Tim Flannery (August)
- The Library by Stuart Kells (September)
- Please Explain by Anna Broinowski (September)
- Tracker Tilmouth by Alexis Wright (October)
- Pentridge by Rupert Mann (November)
- Dissent by Sally Percival Wood (November)
- True Stories by Helen Garner (November)
- The Best Film I Never Made by Bruce Beresford (November)
- Saga Land by Kári Gíslason and Richard Fidler (November)
- The Woman Who Fooled the World by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano (December)
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
- The Memory of Music by Andrew Ford (July)
- Miracles Do Happen by Fela and Feliz Rosenbloom (August)
- The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett (August)
- Detours by Tim Rogers (September)
- The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain (September)
- Danger Music by Eddie Ayres (September)
- Can You Hear The Sea? by Brenda Niall (November)
- An essay collection by Kerry O’Brien (late 2017)
POETRY
- Lunar Inheritance by Lachlan Brown (July)
- The Honeymoon Stage by Oscar Schwartz (July)
- These Things are Real by Alan Wearne (July)
- Passage by Kate Middleton (August)
- The Art of Navigation by Rose Michael (August)
PICTURE BOOKS
- The Sloth who Came to Stay by Margaret Wild and Vivienne To (July)
- The Very Sleepy Bear by Nick Bland (July)
- The Perfect Thing by Sally Morgan and Ambelin Kaymullina (July)
- Guff by Aaron Blabey (August)
- At the Beach I See by Kamsani Bin Salleh (August)
- Gaolbird by Simon Barnard (September)
- The Very Noisy Baby by Alison Lester (October)
- That Christmas Feeling by Lili Wilkinson and Amanda Francey (October)
JUNIOR & MIDDLE FICTION
- Marsh and Me by Martine Murray (July)
- Blossom by Tasmin Janu (July)
- The 91-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton (August)
- Swimming on the Lawn by Yasmin Hamid (August)
- Lintang and the Pirate Queen by Tamara Moss (August)
- Pip and Houdini by J.C. Jones (August)
- The Fighting Stingrays by Simon Mitchell (August)
- Grover McBane, Rescue Dog Book 5 and Book 6 by Claire Garth and Johannes Leak (August)
- Patty Hits the Courts Book 1 and Book 2 by Patty Mills and Jared Thomas (August)
- Vet Cadets Book 3 and Book 4 by Rebecca Johnson (August)
- The Shop at Hoopers Bend by Emily Rodda (August)
- Free Diving by Lorrae Coffin and Bronwyn Houston (September)
- Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (October)
YOUNG ADULT
- The Ones That Disappeared by Zana Fraillon (July)
- Wreck by Fleur Ferris (July)
- My Lovely Frankie by Judith Clark (July)
- In The Dark Spaces by Cally Black (August)
- Sparrow by Scot Gardner (August)
- Gap Year in Ghost Town by Michael Pryor (August)
- Exchange of Heart by Darren Groth (August)
- The Build-up Season by Megan Jacobson (August)
- Because of You by Pip Harry (August)
- Take Three Girls by Simmone Howell, Fiona Wood and Cath Crowley (September)
- A semi-definitive list of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland (September)
- Beautiful Mess by Claire Christian (September)
- Wilder Country by Mark Smith (September)
- Untidy Towns by Kate O'Donnell (October)
- Unearthed (Unearthed Book 1) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
- Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough (late 2017)