The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People by Emma Farrarons

The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna

Enchanted Forest by Johanna Basford

Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book by Johanna Basford

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Millie Marotta’s Animal Kingdom by Millie Marotta

Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders

Enchanted Forest: 20 Postcards by Johanna Basford

The Strays by Emily Bitto

Secret Japan…

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Every month, we do a spotlight feature on an Australian author and Eliza Henry-Jones is our chosen author for July. Her debut novel, In the Quiet, is a moving story about the heartache of letting go.

What’s the book about?

Cate Carlton has recently died, yet she is able to linger on, watching her three young children and her husband as they come to terms with their life without her on their rural horse property. As the months pass…

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Eliza Henry-Jones is the author of In the Quiet. Here she talks about the role horses and grief play in her novel.

I think many of us have gone through phases of pony obsession – bedrooms filled with the silhouettes of little plastic ponies (My Little Ponies or Barbie’s Pegasus if you were really lucky) and stacks of yellowing school library books with horses on the cover. Who hasn’t been misty eyed at The Saddle Club and begged for…

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In the Quiet is the debut novel from Australian author Eliza Henry-Jones. Here is an extract from the book.

I don’t know how I died. That’s strange, isn’t it? To be dead and know that but to not know how it happened. To not know my last memory.

It’s not something that I ever considered when I was alive.

I can see and I can hear. And when I remember back to other times and other places, I see and…

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We will miss Martin Shaw when we wave him and his family on their way to their new adventure in Germany, but as oceans are no barrier to flurries of emails about new book discoveries, we will be saying bon voyage to Martin, not goodbye. We are excited to welcome Alison Huber to the role of head book buyer – we’re already in the habit of exchanging book recommendations with Alison as she…

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Sometimes you want to begin reading an author but you’re not sure where to start. We’re here to help. We’ve written six beginner guides, covering the work of five of our favourite authors and an entire genre of cookbooks.

Emily Gale is the ‘ultimate fanwoman’ for Liane Moriarty. She writes: “…Moriarty feels like my incredibly funny, sharply observant and quietly clever friend. She’s no show-off. She can be warm and perceptive, artful and surprising.”

Read our beginner’s guide to Liane…

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Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.

Stella Charls is listening to the podcasts from this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival

Who needs to travel interstate for the Sydney Writers’ Festival (or even leave your house) when you can listen to the incredible range of festival session now available as podcasts. I am completely addicted!

The festival are releasing two…

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Curtis Sittenfeld is one of my all-time favourite authors. I love her books passionately. There’s a quality to her writing I find addictive, in a way I can’t quite explain. I like the way she puts her sentences together, I like her (often times infuriating) characters, I like the way she captures little details about people or places that bring them to life.

If you’ve never read Sittenfeld before, I’m here to guide you through the process. Here’s the order…

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Antonia Hayes talks with Elke Power about relative truth and her debut novel, Relativity.

EP: Your debut novel, Relativity, has been likened to A Beautiful Mind and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. However, it seems likely that another comparison will be hard to avoid, and that is between Relativity and Christos Tsiolkas’ award-winning, bestselling novel The Slap. Without wanting to reveal one of the compelling central questions at the heart of Relativity…

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I adore Rainbow Rowell. Her work is funny, smart and deeply interesting, plus she writes maybe the best first kiss scenes of anyone, ever. If you’re a Rowell newbie and you’re considering reading her books, first ask yourself if you are open to books that may include a combination of these three things: teenage protagonists, pop culture references and romantic entanglements. Did you answer yes? Excellent, come right this way.

Here’s my recommended reading order for Rowell’s books:

1. Eleanor…

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