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Stunning new First Nations picture books
Accompanied by illustrations drawing on traditional Kunwinjk…
Beginner’s guide to Neal Shusterman
I will never stop recommending Scythe. The story is so unique and captivating from the very first pa…
Miles Franklin Literary Award Longlist 2022
The 2022 longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced! The Miles Franklin Literary Award was celebrates novels of the highest literary merit that tell stories about Australian life, shining a light on some of the country’s most talented writers.
Below are the twelve longlisted titles:
The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
After Story by Larissa Behrendt
Our children’s and YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Heartstopper: Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
Heartstopper: Volume 3 by Alice Oseman
Heartstopper: Volume 4 by Alice Oseman
Until the End: Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
World’s Worst Pets by David Walliams
Heartstopper: Volume 2 by Alice Oseman
How to Tackle Your Dreams by Fiona Hardy
Real Pigeons Duck Trouble by Andrew McDonald & Ben Wood
Lightfall: Shadow of the Bird by Tim Probert
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan
Sunbathing by Isobel Beech
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
Wake by Shelley Burr
Yiayia Next Door by Daniel Mancuso and Luke Mancuso
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
The Seamstress of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno (translated by Brigid Maher)
Still Alive by Safdar Ahmed
Our best-seller from the past week is Johann …
The 2022 ABIA shortlists
What we’re reading: Stanley, Yee & Black
First of all, reading A Great Hope by Jessica Stanley made me feel old. This novel centres around the Kevin Rudd years of 2007 through to the turbulent years of Gillard and I found mysel…
What the Degrassi Junior High students are reading now
Oh Degrassi, how I loved you growing up. I’d race back from school as a latchkey kid (actually it was just under a blob of cement in an oversized pot plant) grab my microwave pizza and turn the dial on the old tellie to see what the gang were up to on the other side of the world. It was so grown up and I was completely sucked in. Now, I know there have been new series and my old friends ha…
An extract from the anthology This All Come Back Now
‘Wake up! Wake up, everyone! Ocean Bikies are coming!’ The summons ripples throughout the sleeping camp, waking us all up in waves. I shake my two youn…
Australian fiction titles to pick up this month
‘Sunbathing is the stunning debut novel from Melbourne writer Isobel Beech. It follows the story of a young woman who is invited to stay with her friends Giulia and Fab at Fab’s family home in Abruzzo, in the month prior to their wedding. The village is an oasis, untouched by tourism. The narrator spends lazy days with Giulia and Fab, cooking, gardening, and carin…