Here’s a preview of some of the most exciting local releases for the second half of 2017!

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FICTION

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• 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)

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DEBUT FICTION

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• 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)

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CRIME FICTION

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• 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)

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NON-FICTION

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• 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)

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

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• 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)

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POETRY

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• 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)

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PICTURE BOOKS

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• 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)

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JUNIOR & MIDDLE FICTION

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• 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 by Jessica Townsend (October)

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YOUNG ADULT

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• 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)