A masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella PrizeIn this brilliant, wide-ranging novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and...

An evocative YA mash-up that's like Wuthering Heights meets Sherlock Holmes, with Taylor Swift's evermore as the soundtrack. Think Kristen Stewart playing Heathcliff, and Holmes and Watson as teenagers with social anxiety - all set on the beach.Cinnamon...

A collection of fascinating, highly relatable memoir-style essays about coming of age and finding your feet as a second-generation Australian Muslim.As a Pakistani-Australian teenager growing up in western Sydney, Sarah Malik came of age in the shadow of...

A collection of funny, brilliant, boundary-pushing stories from the bestselling author of MammothA grizzly bear goes on the run after eating a teenager. A hotel room participates in an unlikely conception. A genetically altered platypus colony puts on an...

Small Town. Big Secrets. Fleeing problems in her own marriage, child protection worker Dana Gibson leaves Sydney for a job in the Queensland town of Toowoomba. Her first house call is to nearby Crows Nest to assess the children of Sandra Kirby, which...

A defiant, unflinching exploration of gender identity, gender discrimination and gender euphorialet me tell you how to lean gently on one another without rocking sideways.Rae White's much-anticipated second poetry collection, Exactly As I Am, speaks to...

Solomon Macaroni is the sweetest vampire you've ever met. Can he survive one hundred years staying with his naughty prankster cousins?You've never met a vampire like Solomon Macaroni before - he's friendly, polite and makes a mean tofu Bolognese...

Imagine your dad gets the top job but isn't exactly up to it. Then he sneaks off on holiday, leaving the country without a leader. What would you do?When Harper's dad becomes the prime minister of Australia he's terrible at it. He was thrust into the top...

This third novel from acclaimed Queensland author Sally Piper focuses on the repercussions, within one family, of a terrible crime.Even though sixteen years have passed, Billie will never recover from the murder of her daughter, Jess, and clings to her...

A world-first collection of blackfella speculative fiction from well-known and emerging First Nations writers.The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction - written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas,...

A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your futureJoey is young, indifferent. He's drifting around Western Sydney unaware that his passivity is leading him astray. And then one day he is involved in a violent crime, one...

A revealing and powerful memoir about the making and unmaking of friendships.'It's hard to know exactly when the friendship with Gina ended. It could have been when the sudden text message from her arrived, or it could have been a slow slide out of...

A moving story about a shy girl coming out of her shell with a little help from her pet snailLucy and Dad move a lot, so it's hard to make friends. Lucy's glad she has Snail, the perfect pet for a lonely girl. If only she had her own shell to hide in...

The compelling story of one woman's journey to find out the truth about her paternity-and to come to grips with the rewriting of her own history and sense of identity.'Now you're over twenty-one and back from overseas, I've decided it's time to tell you...

From the 2020 QLA Glendower winner comes a timely and insightful collection of stories about how we pursue happiness in a turbulent world.The stories in this impressive, thoughtful collection explore the human heart and its desire and capacity for joy.A...

From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity.These richly allusive poems weigh violence and...

A new edition of Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins' seminal Tiddaist classic, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays.The pieces in this seminal collection represent almost four decades of writing by historian and activist Jackie...

A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people.In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First...

A timeless story of brothers, boats and birds, from an award-winning storyteller.Luke and his big brother Ben spend the summer on the banks of Cabbage Tree Creek. Quiet Luke sketches birds, while Ben leaps off the Jumping Tree. The boys couldn't be more...

A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.the end of the world was marked with beautiful light we should have known Simmering with protest and boundless love, Jazz Money's David Unaipon Award-winning...

From the beloved author of Wombat Warriors, Mister Cassowary and Turtle Trackers comes another thrilling adventure about Australia's endangered animals.Eleven-year-old Killarney thinks school is boring. She'd much rather be exploring the wilderness...

A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics. In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain top airdrop. In a story that is...

A powerful story about a young girl, Mina, and how she copes when her family take in a refugee boy and give away what was meant to be her first very-own bedroom. Mina wants her own bedroom more than anything else in the whole wide world. And it's almost...

A sparkling queer YA romance set in Brisbane, Henry Hamlet's Heart follows one guy and his sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking journey to love.I'm losing it because I kissed you / Because I kissed you I might lose you.Henry Hamlet doesn't know...

As Ingrid Horrocks takes swims in rivers, oceans and pools around the world, she considers her relationship with water and with the world around her. The question didn't seem to be so much why we swim, as where and how we swim, and with whom. Also,...

From award-winning and highly acclaimed author and poet Maria Takolander comes her most impressive and personal poetry collection yet.Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and...

A timely and important collection of poems by the award-winning author of The White Girl and Blood.In this stunning collection Tony Birch invites the reader into a tender conversation with those he loves - and has loved - the most. He also challenges the...

The sequel to Claire Zorn's acclaimed debut The Sky So Heavy. A heart-stopping dystopian YA set in the Australian bush. Instinct has kept us alive so far. It's like a compass and I tune in to the needle often- trust/don't trust, run/stay . . . I can't...

An invaluable guide to understanding and living with dementia, and for maintaining a healthy brain. There are steps you can take to reduce your risk of dementia, to delay its onset, and to ease the journey if the condition does occur. Over 400,000...

Engaging, thought-provoking stories from a young Tasmanian Aboriginal author who addresses universal themes - identity, racism, heritage destruction - from a wholly original perspective.The stories in Born Into This throw light on a world of unique...

Fully updated and featuring a new author's note addressing recent, major progress in regenerative agriculture.Call of the Reed Warbler will change the way we farm, eat and think about food. In this groundbreaking book Charles Massy explores regenerative...

Sofie is a dreamy young artist with her head in the clouds, but when she travels to Paris on exchange, she's awakened to the power of art in inspiring change in the world. Can she reconcile what art means for her?Sixteen-year-old Sofie is a dreamer, an...

This 20th anniversary edition celebrates this important, ground-breaking book, which remains as relevant as ever.In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of the whiteness...

For the first time, the best of ABC presenter Roly Sussex's popular 'Words for Today' program are collected in book form. A must-read for all language nerds. Did you know that the word salary comes from the Latin sal for 'salt', since part of the...

Gabrielle Carey narrates a riveting journey through the life and work of one of last century's most successful - and almost forgotten - women novelists, Elizabeth von Arnim 'When I discovered Elizabeth von Arnim, I found, for the first time, a writer who...

Set in the aftermath of the 2010 floods in Pakistan, this is a sensitive tale of community spirit, kindness and the magic of family.Fozia stiffened when she saw the familiar brick-kiln chimney loom ahead. Black smoke spewed into the sky - so it was...

Eric Bright and his doggy best mate, Ugly, are back and they're facing their biggest challenge yet- cheering up Eric's mean and miserable big sister, Gretchen. A paw-some tale of friendship, compassion and finding happiness.Eric Bright and his doggy best...

A striking and compelling book reclaiming history by a renowned Indigenous visual artist.In this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences, errors and injustices from the...

From the master of free verse Steven Herrick comes this funny and uplifting middle-grade verse novel about a classroom of kids who get on their bikes to ride for change.The sun is shining and today feels like an adventure, only one I can go on whenever I...

The hilarious new picture book in Dave Hackett's Time for . . . series that's perfect for encouraging the whole family to go exploring. 'Come on, Daddy, it's time for an adventure!' 'But I have more jobs to do,' says Daddy.How can a little girl get her...

Inspired by the twenty times women have won Nobel Prizes for science, this short-story collection from award-winning author Laura Elvery is a dazzling, thought-provoking follow-up to Trick of the Light. In 1895 Alfred Nobel rewrote his will and left his...

A compelling investigative account into one of Australia's most secret security sites and the people who infiltrated it.At the closely guarded and secretive military facility, Pine Gap in Australia's Northern Territory, police arrest six nonviolent...

An accomplished story collection that is deeply rooted in the Tasmanian landscape and those moments in people's lives when everything changes.Set in southern Tasmania, the linked stories in Smokehouse bring into focus a small community and capture those...

The much-anticipated third collection from the multi-award-wining and internationally recognised poet Jaya Savige.Tough and alert, Savige's shapeshifting poems reflect the world in violent transformation. Bodies scarred by history collide in the ruckus...

Curated and introduced by Alison Whittaker, Fire Front is a ground-breaking anthology of First Nations poetry showcasing some of the brightest new stars, as well as leading Aboriginal writers and poets including Bruce Pascoe, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Tony...

An outstanding collection of fresh, zesty poems about identity, sexuality, self-perception and relationships, with a futuristic narrative pulse.Full of zest and flair, Jessen's poems map constellations of desire, loss and longing. Riffing on the future...

Set during the gold-rush era in Australia, this remarkable novel is full of unforgettable characters and deals with timeless questions of identity and belonging. Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek...

The topical young adult debut by National Book Award and Newbery Honor-winning author Thanhha Lai.Hang doesn't believe in adventures. There are steps that must be done, and once done, another step awaits. The last step, after six years of minute planning...