Australian Fiction

Welcome to the new edition of the Apples Never Fall She is Haunted Booksellers’ Choice Your Reading Guide! Liane Moriarty Paige Clark Macmillan Australia Allen & Unwin | TPB $29.99 We are excited to share a selection of TPB $32.99 the best new books for the season chosen for you by Australia’s leading booksellers. A mother cuts her daughter’s There is something to suit everyone— September release hair when her own starts falling out; a woman leaves new Australian and international fiction, Ted and Joy Delaney have just biographies, history and science books, her boyfriend because he sold their successful tennis reminds her of a corpse; a along with a great selection of new school and are a bit lost. Their children’s and YA titles. widow physically transforms into her husband four adult children are successful enough, though so that she need not grieve. Clark’s debut of Support your local bookshop! Visit us Joy would like them to return her calls or make the interconnected stories is full of wit and humour, instore or online, send us an email or give occasional visit. When a young woman, Savannah, examining trauma, female relationships, and the us a call! We are here to help you find the knocks on their door one night asking for help, the love of a good dog. All in search of recognition, right book for you. Delanys oblige. But from there things turn awry, connection, and empathy. Sophisticated short and their seemingly perfect family is cast in a very fiction with panoramic vision. Happy reading! different light. Another brilliant page-turner from the author of Big Little Lies.

Once There Catch Us the Foxes The Rabbits Were Wolves Nicola West Sophie Overett Charlotte McConaghy Simon & Schuster Vintage Australia TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 Hamish Hamilton Australia TPB $32.99 Marlowe (Lo) Robertson How do you make sense is a young journalist in of the loss of those you Aggi follows her twin, Inti, the small coastal town of love most? Delia Rabbit is a biologist, to the remote Kiama where she discovers crippled by grief after the Scottish Highlands to return the body of her former best friend with disappearance of her sister and estranged fourteen wolves to the wilderness. Aggi and Inti strange markings on her back. Lo seizes the from her mother. From the winner of the have a disturbing past, and trauma and cruelty opportunity to track down a killer and make a Penguin Literary Prize, The Rabbits is a has left them damaged. The locals are not name for herself. With a delicious Twin Peaks multigenerational family story with a dose of happy about the wolves, but the animals begin feel this is a novel of mysteries and secrets in magical realism. It is about family secrets, art, to adapt, and Inti begins to relax. Then a farmer small-town Australia. very mild superpowers, loneliness and the disappears, and Inti cannot accept it is the strange connections we make in the places wolves. But if not the wolves, then who? we least expect.

Small Joys The Other Side Empires of Real Life of Beautiful Nick Earls Alee Richards Kim Lock Vintage Australia TPB $32.99 Hachette Australia Harlequin Australia TPB $32.99 TPB $29.99 Empires is a masterful fictional narrative from Small Joys of Real Life Meet Mercy Blain, whose Nick Earls. Set in five is a brilliant Australian house has just burnt parts, it spans centuries debut novel about the down. Unfortunately for and crosses continents, tracking history from vagaries of life. In their late 20s, Eva and Pat Mercy, she hasn’t been outside the house 2018 to 1809 and back again to the present. have something special but when Pat dies for two years. Flung into the world she’s Through the eyes of five male protagonists suddenly, Eva is pregnant and bereft, and left been ignoring, Mercy goes on an unwilling Earls explores the empires we build, the way with a huge choice to make. A poignant and journey after the chance purchase of a cult we see ourselves, the narratives we construct nuanced story of loss and desire and finding classic campervan, with the company of and the interconnectedness of all things. For those true friendships that can either break her sausage dog and a mysterious box of fans of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, this is a your heart or make it soar. cremated remains. compelling and inventive novel.

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02 YOUR READING GUIDE After Story The Shut Ins When Things Are Larissa Behrendt Katherine Brabon Alive They Hum UQP | TPB $32.99 Allen & Unwin | TPB $29.99 Hannah Bent Ultimo Press | TPB $32.99 Indigenous lawyer, Mai Takeda is newly Jasmine, invites her married and uncertain Marlowe and Harper’s mother along on a literary about becoming a mother, bond is unbreakable, forged tour of England in the hope an expectation she fears through the early loss of that it will restore their she must ultimately fulfil. their mother. Harper is relationship. But when a child goes missing on A chance encounter reconnects her with happy in her relationship with boyfriend Louis Hampstead Heath, it brings up dark memories old school friend Hikaru, who has become and lives with what she calls the Up syndrome of Jasmine’s own sister who disappeared 25 a hikikomori, a recluse unable to leave his alongside a congenital heart disease. Marlowe years before. This warm, hopeful novel about bedroom. Mai agrees to become a rental sister is abroad studying rare butterflies but rushes reconciliation and the power of words will to Hikaru, while her husband regularly visits home to Hong Kong when she hears that Harper make a great book club read. Sadako, an unhappy Tokyo hostess, and each urgently needs a heart transplant. A luminescent of the characters experiences profound social debut novel about grief, love and wonder. and physical isolation. A beautiful meditation on solitude and connection.

Dark as Last Night Modern Marriage The Attack Tony Birch Filip Vukašin Catherine Jinks UQP | TPB $29.99 Affirm Press | TPB $32.99 Text | TPB $32.99

Tony Birch returns to September release September release the form that started his writing career with this new Klara has the most perfect Robyn Ayres is the camp collection of short stories, life. She is gorgeous, caretaker of Finch Island. Dark as Last Night. In her husband Dante is When an outdoor program Bobby Moses a chance encounter between a gorgeous, and they will no doubt, have run by ex-military for troubled young men small-town cop and an Aboriginal man returning gorgeous babies. But her world is thrown into returns, she knows it can be a hard week. But to country reveals an unexpected kindness. chaos when Dante is found unconscious in a her past has arrived too in the form of Aaron, a After Life tells of a brother and sister cleaning gay sauna, and she realises there are many child she once taught and was forced to leave their deceased brother’s filthy council flat. These secrets between them. From an exciting new her job and her home over. Only his name is are stories of our brutal truths, moral ambiguities Australian author, this is an exploration of the now Darren and he seems not to know her. and small victories. Exceptional writing, harsh, way appearances can be deceptive. A slow and absorbing mystery. beautiful and brimming with truth.

The Bride of Corporal In Moonland Almond Tree Hitler’s Pistol Miles Allinson Robert Hillman Tom Keneally Scribe | TPB $29.99 Text | TPB $32.99 Vintage Australia Trade Paperback | $32.99 September release A warm, big hearted When Joe is 17, his father novel about the enduring September release kills himself. Years later, power of love. In 1950s when his own daughter From one of Australia’s country Australia a young is born, he decides to track down his father’s Quaker, Wes, falls in love with firebrand Beth greatest writers, Corporal Hitler’s Pistol old friends and find out why. Spanning seventy who thinks communism will save the world. brings together interesting characters from years and three generations in Australia and He is steadfast as she pursues her politics an intersection of life in 1930s regional New India, Allinson examines the complexity of and suffers because of it. A love story that South Wales. There is a murdered Irish family bonds, and reverberations of the things crosses religion, wars, politics and unionism. farmhand, a quiet piano player implicated in they choose to share with each other. A thoroughly life affirming story. the death, and relations between black and white Australians in melting pot communities after the First World War.

The Unusual Abduction Empire of the Vampire of Avery Conifer Jay Kristoff Ilsa Evans Voyager | TPB $32.99 Harlequin Australia | TPB $29.99 September release

September release Gabriel De Leon, half-man, half-monster, is the last of the silversaints. A 27-year war against vampires Grandmothers Beth and Shirley may not like each has crushed humanity, and as daylight seeps away other but when it comes to their granddaughter Gabriel is imprisoned and rendered powerless by the coldbloods. Avery they will stop at nothing to protect her. Suspecting that Avery He expects torture, execution, but instead is visited by the Marquis is being harmed by her father, Shirley’s son, the two abduct their own Jean-Francois, a vampire historian with a very different proposition granddaughter and find themselves on the run across country Victoria. —he wants Gabriel’s story, and he will get it. The first in a much- An original and heart-felt novel. anticipated trilogy from a master storyteller.

YOUR READING GUIDE 03 International Fiction

The Women I Couldn't Love of Troy You More Beautiful Pat Barker Esther Freud World, Where Hamish Hamilton Bloomsbury | TPB $29.99 Are You TPB $32.99 Sally Rooney Ester Freud’s I Couldn’t September release Love You More is a Faber | TPB $29.99 masterfully crafted tale Continuing the tale of of three generations of women, inspired by September release The Silence of the Girls, we follow the silenced Freud’s own family story. This is the tale of women after the fall of Troy and the Greeks Rosaleen in 1960s London; Kate, an artist 30 Beautiful World, have won. The beautiful Briseis, now a war years later; and Aoife, recounting to her dying Where Are You is prize of the victorious Achilles, is barely noticed husband the story of their long marriage. the eagerly anticipated new novel from by her squabbling captors. She forges alliances Captivating and gorgeously written, I Couldn’t Sally Rooney, the bestselling author where she can—with young, dangerously Love Your More is an unforgettable novel about of Normal People. Focusing on four young naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with love, motherhood, secrets and betrayal—and friends and their preoccupations with Calchus, the disgraced priest—and begins to how only the truth can set us free. desire, delusion, connection and break- see the path to a kind of revenge. ups. They worry about sex and friendships and the world they live in, and wonder if they are standing in the last lighted room before the darkness? Will they find a way The View Was Songbirds to believe in a beautiful world? Exhausting Christy Lefteri Bonnier | TPB $29.99 Also available: Mikaella Clements A special gift and Onjuli Datta Nisha, an immigrant maid hardback edition, Headline Review in Cyprus, goes missing RRP $34.99 TPB $32.99 walking late one night and *While stocks last her absence tears into the A cuttingly funny book lives of those who love her. about being a woman of Trapped in an uncaring system, her employer colour where most of the other people in the and her lover uncover unknown layers to room are male and white. A pretend romance the woman they are searching for. A deeply between an A-list actor and a playboy for the moving, empathetic story of boundaries, sake of PR goes well until some secrets are migration, and the impossible choices migrants blown. Glamourous locations and photos can be face in search of freedom. misleading in this rom-com with a difference.

Tenderness Damnation Spring The Good Wife Alison Macleod Ash Davidson of Bath Bloomsbury | TPB $32.99 Tinder Press | TPB $32.99 Karen Brooks Harlequin | TPB $32.99 September release An immersive and suspense filled debut set Life for women in medieval D. H. Lawrence is dying and within a Californian logging England was harsh, with the is desperate to finish his community in the 1970s, plague, no sanitation, and last novel, Lady Chatterley’s and a family coming to men controlling all means Lover. He knows it will be censored but still grips with an industry losing its relevance. The of power. Eleanor Cornfed will have none of that, goes ahead. Thirty years later Jackie Kennedy red wood forests have been Rich’s livelihood, despite her first of five marriages at the age of takes up the cause for a new uncensored as they were for his father, but now something 12 to a farmer in his sixties, and the shortcomings publication of the book in the USA and UK after seems amiss as birth defects begin to occur of the rest. Her resourcefulness makes the most she hears her government is taking the book within the community and his wife Colleen is of her ever-fluctuating circumstances. Karen to trial. A novel about love, censorship and growing concerned for their family’s health. sensual pleasures. Brooks expands on Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, giving voice to Eleanor in this superb historical fiction.

Widespread Panic Once Upon a Time in Hollywood James Ellroy Quentin Tarantino William Heinemann | TPB $32.99 Weidenfeld & Nicolson | PB $22.99

Hollywood, Los Angeles. The early 1950s. In this brutal, surprising, and wildly entertaining Notorious cop Freddy Otash has a story to tell novelisation of Tarantino’s alternative reality nostalgia, about the goings on in Tinseltown, and his moral the director turns author to further explore the failings are on full display. His depravities land him characters first brought to life in the Academy at celebrity rag Confidential, where Otash dishes Award-winning film. Tarantino grew up reading film up the corruption, paranoia and degradation he novelisations, and his addition to the genre is a story of male friendship specialised in as a cop. Ellroy delivers what he is best at: immersive and fragility, an ode to a bygone era, and a study of the violence at the vernacular and lurid historical semblance written in machine-gun prose. heart of identity and celebrity obsession.

04 YOUR READING GUIDE The Magician Snow Country Colm Toibin Sebastian Faulks Harlem Shuffle Picador | TPB $32.99 Hutchinson | TPB $32.99 Colson Whitehead Little, Brown September release September release TPB $32.99 A literary imagining of ‘None of us is spared the life of writer Thomas history. That’s what September release Mann, the most successful history is. A great leveller.’ German author of his time. Covering his Covering 1914 to 1933 in the aftermath of WWI Colson Whitehead childhood, his repressed homosexuality, his and Hitler’s increasing power, Anton, an Austrian returns with a novel successful marriage to protective Katia and journalist returns from war with a damaged of 1960s Harlem, their six children, his underestimation of Hitler lung and troubled mind. Commissioned to where Ray Carney is and eventual exile in the USA. This is a deep write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick struggling to keep his furniture business afloat. exploration of both the rich inner life and Sanatorium, Anton meets Lena in a place where His father was a crook, and his brother-in-law complicated daily life of a complex, flawed, the depths of human suffering and the chances is deeply problematic, and as Ray’s struggles exasperating man, and the unforgettable of redemption are explored. with legitimacy intensify he is drawn deeper literature he produced. into nefarious activity. The scene setting is brilliant, depicting Black America striving to navigate Jim Crow America as the civil rights movement grows. A wonderful family drama and historical epic. The Echo Chamber Mrs March WIN a set of Pulitzer Prize winning books John Boyne Virginia Feito from Hachette, valued at over $183. Doubleday | TPB $32.99 4th Estate | PB $27.99 For your chance to win, purchase any book from this guide from your local The Cleverley family are a Mrs March spends her bookshop and enter the competition at dysfunctional lot though hold time as an Upper East Side www.booksellerschoice.com.au/ themselves in great esteem, wife living anxiously under competitions. until George, the patriarch, the weight of expectations throws them all into an placed on her by society and The competition closes 30 September 2021. unwanted spotlight via one misguided tweet. herself. When she is compared to the grotesque *Terms and conditions apply. A darkly satirical, clever novel exposing our main character of her husband’s new novel, her obsession with social media and a not-so-subtle tidy world begins to fall apart and a descent into reminder that living life through an app may not suspicion, obsession with a murdered girl, and be the greatest choice. conflicting memories follow.

Meet Me in Songs in Ursa Major Another Life Emma Brodie Catriona Silvey HarperCollins | TPB $29.99 Hell of a Book Voyager | TPB $29.99 From the moment Jane Jason Mott Quinn steps barefoot onto Santi and Thora are Trapeze | TPB $32.99 the main stage at Island Folk strangers when they meet festival in the summer of travelling through Cologne We join an unnamed author 1969, a star is born and so and their fates become on a whirlwind book tour is a passionate love story. Set against the heady entwined. Trapped like satellites in orbit, Thora in the USA promoting his haze of the 70s, and alive with music, sex and and Santi are destined to meet again: as a new novel a Hell of a Book. sun-soaked hedonism, Songs in Ursa Major teacher and prodigy student; a caretaker and He keeps seeing a boy, is an unforgettable debut and the soundtrack dying patient; a cynic and a believer. A unique but is he real or not? Is he the black child who to a love story like no other. For fans of Taylor novel exploring mystery, magic, love, and the was shot by police? Or is it the author as a Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & the Six. quantum theory of reincarnation. child? Maybe, maybe not. Race and Black Lives Matter are to the fore in this powerful and timely novel, and it is a hell of a read.

The Country of Others The Man Who Died Twice Leïla Slimani Richard Osman Faber | Demy $29.99 Viking | TPB $32.99

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Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in It’s the following Thursday and Elizabeth has just love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan soldier fighting had a visit from a man she thought was dead. It’s for the French. After the Liberation, Mathilde follows (one of) her ex-husbands, and he’s being hunted. Amine to Morocco but life here is unrecognizable to this brave and His story involves some diamonds, some spies and passionate young woman. Where she once danced, her life is now that a very angry mobster. Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the of a farmer’s wife—with all the sacrifices and vexations that brings. hunt for the killer. Can they find him before the killer finds them? The The Country of Others is the first volume in a trilogy telling the saga of hilarious new instalment by the author of The Thursday Murder Club. one French family.

YOUR READING GUIDE 05 Australian Crime & Thrillers

The Others The Last Guests The Tribute Mark Brandi J.P. Pomare John Byron Hachette Australia Hachette Australia Affirm Press | TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 A serial killer is stalking From the author of You may never stay in an through Sydney, hell-bent Wimmera and The Rip AirBnB again after reading on recreating scenes comes an unforgettable this suspenseful and thrilling from the Fabrica, the 16th and confronting novel novel. It tells a completely century foundation text of about the power of a father over his son. Told believable story of husband and wife, Cain and modern European anatomy. The spate of cold, through the diary of 11-year-old Jacob living Lina, who rent out their holiday home on Lake methodical attacks has the city on edge, but on an isolated farm with his father who has Tarawera to make some extra cash. But both the serial killer may not even be the darkest to ‘keep him safe’ from ‘the others’ and the have been keeping secrets and somebody is player in the story. Dark and unpredictable, plague’ after the death of his mother. But watching and knows something they shouldn’t. this book is one of the most outstanding debut the father’s motives are opaque, and Brandi Surveillance, it seems, is everywhere. crime novels of 2021. ratchets up the tension in this brilliant thriller.

I Shot the Devil When You Are Mine The Housemate Ruth McIver Michael Robotham Sarah Bailey Hachette Australia Hachette Australia Allen & Unwin | TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 September release September release Philomena McCarthy, a young officer with the Sarah Bailey’s fourth Satanism, drugs and London Metropolitan novel will keep you up all murder amongst a group of Police, arrests a man night. Olive Groves is a teenagers are the backdrop to this atmospheric when attending a brutal domestic violence. crime journalist. Ten years ago, she covered thriller. Journalist Erin Sloane is sent back to Unbeknownst to her he is decorated Detective the Housemate Murders where one girl was her hometown on the 15th anniversary of a Superintendent Darren Goodall, who calls murdered, one of her housemates charged night in Southport where five teens went into in many favours owed and has the charges and another disappeared. Nicole Horrowitz, the the woods and only three came back. Creepy dropped. Philomena’s career is in tatters as her housemate who disappeared, has resurfaced and menacing in the best possible way, from colleagues will not back her, and she strikes and Olive is partnered with Cooper Ng, a young the Richell Prize-winning debut author. a friendship with Tempe, the victim of the upstart podcaster to investigate. They are soon assault. But Tempe is not who she seems... entangled in a web of deceit.

The Inheritance A Voice in The Deep Gabriel Bergmoser the Night Kyle Perry HarperCollins Sarah Hawthorn Michael Joseph Australia TPB $32.99 TPB $29.99 Transit Lounge TPB $29.99 Following the success of A Tasmanian gothic thriller full of modern-day pirates The Hunted, Bergmoser Lucie moved overseas to and family betrayals from brings us another high- escape an acrimonious the author of The Bluffs. octane Australian thriller. divorce and start afresh at The drug smuggling Dempsey family thought Fleeing a drug cartel in North Queensland, a new law firm. When a strange note appears their secrets were long buried at sea. When Maggie makes her way to Melbourne in search under her door, supposedly from an old flame 13-year-old Forest Dempsey reappears from of answers about her past. The bikies are who was never found after 9/11, Lucie goes the ocean after being thought dead for seven following in her wake, the police are tracking into a tailspin. Set between Sydney, London years it sets off a chain of events that will her and a bent cop is her only dubious ally— and New York, this nail-biting thriller is for fans test the lengths the family will go to protect is Maggie in over her head? of Girl on the Train or The Nowhere Child. what is theirs.

The Newcomer The 22 Murders of Madison May Laura Elizabeth Woollett Max Barry Scribe | TPB $32.99 Hachette Australia | TPB $32.99

Judy arrives at Fairfolk Island from Sydney Real estate agent Madison May is in trouble. A determined to get the police to investigate her man is obsessed with her and tracks her down to daughter’s death. Paulina was a difficult young a home inspection that ends violently. But Madison woman who moved to the beautiful and remote May does many things and is many people, as Pacific Island where it seems every man on the young journalist Felicity Staples discovers when island is a suspect, but none are as scrutinised as Paulina and her hard reporting on her murder. Felicity finds there is a lot more going on than drinking ways. A disturbing crime thriller about the harm people visit a single violent crime, and she begins to question her own sanity as a on each other. multiverse of realities is revealed. A complex and whip-smart thriller from Max Barry.

06 YOUR READING GUIDE Biographies & Memoirs

Muddy People Too Migrant‚ Too The Mother Wound Sara El Sayed Muslim‚ Too Loud Amani Haydar Black Inc. | TPB $29.99 Mehreen Faruqi Macmillan Australia TPB $34.99 Allen & Unwin | TPB $32.99 A warm-hearted and hilarious memoir about Lawyer, artist and mother Too Migrant, Too Muslim, negotiating family and Amani Haydar was Too Loud is a no-holds- cultural expectations. devastated by her mother’s barred memoir and When Egyptian born murder at the hands of manifesto from outspoken El Sayed migrates to Australia with her her father in 2015. Addressing the effects of senator, and multicultural icon Mehreen Faruqi. family as a young girl, she is faced with domestic violence and intergenerational trauma As the first Muslim woman in any Australian the desire for freedom but also doing right from both a legal and personal standpoint, parliament, Mehreen has a unique and crucial by her family. A wonderfully drawn cast of Haydar attempts to unravel the political, social perspective on our politics and democracy. It is characters written with charm, wit and love, and personal history that led to this terrible a tale of a political outsider fighting for her right by a new literary talent. event. A profound memoir of resilience and and the rights of others like her to be let inside strength in the face of family violence. on their terms.

Blessed Daring to Fly The Brilliant Boy John Doyle Lisa Millar Gideon Haigh Hachette Australia Hachette Australia Scribner Australia TPB $32.99 TPB $32.99 TPB $39.99

From one of Australia’s September release Herbert Vere (Doc) Evatt best-loved comedians and had the misfortune to writers comes Blessed, Growing up in country be leader of the Labor a year in the life of Queensland, Lisa Millar Party during the years Rampaging Roy Slaven. A hilarious biography dreamed of having a big life, and her years as Robert Menzies was Prime Minister, so he telling the extraordinary tale of Roy’s humble an ABC foreign correspondent gave her that in has been almost forgotten. A man of huge beginnings in Lithgow, from trying to avoid spades—from moments of joy to reporting on intellect, ambition and competence, he Brother Connor’s strap to garnering Susan grief and tragedy. During that time, she also was the youngest ever High Court Judge, Morgan’s attention from the local Catholic girls’ went into battle with near-debilitating fear of a writer, historian and leading barrister, and school. John Doyle, the man who knows him flying. But it was only when she was finally only Australian president of the UN General best, delves into the early years of the master grounded, when all of our worlds shrank in the Assembly. The robust politics makes this an of midfield mayhem. shadow of a pandemic, that she had the time entertaining and eye-opening read. to reflect on what she had learned and how what she’d witnessed had changed her.

Majak Into The Rip Majak Daw and Heath O’Loughlin Damien Cave Viking Australia | TPB $34.99 Scribner Australia | TPB $32.99

Majak Daw was born in Sudan and fled with his family Damien Cave encountered the Australian love of to Egypt at the age of eight, and eventually the family the ocean when he moved his family to Sydney to migrated to Australia. As he became immersed in set up the New York Times’ Bureau. Nippers, that Australian culture his desire to play AFL grew, and quintessential Australian activity, got Cave thinking about Daw finally achieved his ambition when he was risk, and how wrong our approach to danger may have drafted by the North Melbourne football club. Daw’s autobiography is raw become. Surf-lifesaving suggested that a community approach to risk might and emotional, and highlights his ups and downs, his battle with mental better serve us, rather than the American mindset of individual responsibility. health issues and his subsequent comeback to AFL. Instead of avoiding risk perhaps we need to open our minds to embracing it.

Indigenous Voices

Lies‚ Damned Lies Dear Son Claire G. Coleman Thomas Mayor Ultimo Press | TPB $32.99 Hardie Grant Explore | HB $34.99

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Colonisation is an ongoing process. Dear Son shares heartfelt letters written by First In Lies, Damned Lies, acclaimed Noongar author Nations men about life, masculinity, love, culture and Claire G. Coleman outlines the past, present and racism. Along with his own vivid and poignant prose future of the dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and poetry, author and editor Thomas Mayor invites 12 contributors to people. This literary work blends the personal with the political, offering write a letter to their son, father or nephew, bringing together a range readers an insight into the stark reality of the ongoing trauma of of perspectives in celebration of First Nations manhood. Artwork and Australia’s violent colonisation. illustrations complete this beautifully designed anthology.

YOUR READING GUIDE 07 Biographies & Memoirs

Late Bloomer Dissolve Last Shot Clem Bastow Nikki Gemmell Jock Zonfrillo Hardie Grant Books Hachette Australia TPB $34.99 HB $29.99 Simon & Schuster HB $45.00 Diagnosed as Autistic at Iconic Australia writer age thirty-six, the past Nikki Gemmell opens a From running amok for author Clem Bastow conversation with women on the streets of comes slowly into focus finding their personal Glasgow to cooking as she reflects on how this diagnosis brought creative space in a male dominated world. under legendary shape to her formative years. An honest Having lived through a period of failure herself, British chef Marco and witty memoir which challenges ideas she reclaimed her space and now decades Pierre White, Jock around Autism, dispelling misconceptions and later has produced these personal and hopeful Zonfrillo is a controversial figure. Like White, displaying its wider implications particularly for meditations on women’s creative lives and the Zonfrillo is of Italian heritage, and finding women and gender diverse people. male artists that orbit their worlds. cooking (and working under a three-star Michelin chef) saved his life. But passion is no guarantee, and life never easy. Australia The Yes Woman Power Play has made Zonfrillo a celebrated MasterChef Grace Jennings-Edquist Julia Banks judge, but he had to move on from drugs, alcohol, failed marriages and the past. It’s a Affirm Press | TPB $29.99 Hardie Grant Books hell of a story. Paperback $34.99 September release WIN 1 of 3 signed copies of Last Shot Having won the seat that by Jock Zonfrillo. Grace Jennings-Edquist secured the Coalition powerfully explores how For your chance to win, purchase any Government majority gender roles requiring book from this guide from your local in 2016, Julia Banks women to be agreeable and self-sacrificing bookshop and enter the competition at shocked Australia when she announced she still persist and provides practical advice on www.booksellerschoice.com.au/ would stand as an independent MP in 2018. how to reclaim your life. The Yes Woman is competitions. Power Play reveals the realities of any workplace a practical guide to recognising your own ‘Yes where power disparities and gender politics The competition closes 30 September 2021. Woman’ tendencies, measuring their cost on collide: from the unequal opportunities, casual your health, and resisting that need to please. *Terms and conditions apply. sexism and systemic misogyny, to pressures It won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it. around looks, age and family responsibilities, and the consequences of speaking out.

Fox and I This Much Is True Ten Thousand Catherine Raven Miriam Margolyes Aftershocks Scribe | TPB $32.99 John Murray | HB $49.99 Michelle Tom 4th Estate | TPB $34.99 As a biologist author September release Catherine Raven had been taught not to BAFTA-winning actor September release Miriam Margolyes has anthropomorphise Michelle Tom’s family finally decided, at the animals until she survived the deadly 2011 age of 80, to tell her extraordinary life story. meets a fox who weaves his way earthquake in Christchurch, and another 10,000 From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave into her solitary world in the woods of aftershocks before moving to Melbourne. Soon to being told to be quiet by the Queen, rural America. An uplifting tale of an after, she received news her estranged sister this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious unusual friendship, survival in its many was dying, and Michelle was forced to reckon stories. This Much Is True is as warm and definitions and our often-forgotten with her childhood, mental health, violence, and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its interconnectedness with nature. the traumas of family tragedy. Told in fragments, inimitable author. through the five stages of an earthquake, this is an intricate and compelling family drama. Collected Writing

Life in Words The Fran Lebowitz Reader Les Carlyon Fran Lebowitz Allen & Unwin | HB $39.99 Little, Brown | HB $45.00

Les Carlyon was one of Australia’s greatest September release journalists, becoming editor of The Age at 33 and winning multiple Walkley awards and the Graham Style Icon, journalist and great wit Fran Lebowitz Perkin Journalist of the Year Award. Carlyon’s long writes about landlords, children, fantasies and form history was equally as successful, and books her attitude to work with great wit in these such as Gallipoli and The Great War were both popular and critically wisecracking and ascerbic essays. She is not a fan acclaimed. This collection celebrates the reporter and writer with of the cult of self-betterment and thinks nothing of Carlyon’s very best, taken from across his mighty career. getting out of bed at 3.40 pm. A hoot, but also very thought-provoking collection from one of America’s most insightful social commentators.

08 YOUR READING GUIDE History

Men Without The Keeper The Dressmakers Country of Miracles of Auschwitz Harrison Christian Phillip Maisel Lucy Adlington Ultimo Press | TPB $34.99 Macmillan Australia Hodder & Stoughton HB $32.99 TPB $32.99 The mutiny on the Bounty is a story well documented, For more than 30 years, September release and William Bligh’s name Phillip Maisel has worked etched in history. Harrison selflessly to record the Following a group of women recruited within Christian, a direct descendent of mutineer harrowing stories of Holocaust survivors in Auschwitz to sew high fashion for the wives Christian Fletcher, tells the story of the Bounty’s his role volunteering at Melbourne's Jewish of the SS, Adlington’s well-researched and journey and the events that saw the crew Holocaust Centre. Each testimony of survival is fascinating story of friendship, hardship, settle in Tahiti, and others, including Fletcher, a miracle in itself. A Holocaust survivor himself, hope, and resistance delves into the to Pitcairn Island. This is the story of life aboard he, too, has unthinkable stories of triumph and captivating context of the Third Reich and the Bounty, the brutal workload and paucity of tragedy, cruelty and hope. Published as Phillip how this arrangement came to be amongst food, the harshness of the class system and the turns 99, this is a deeply moving, healing and the atrocities of the Holocaust, as well as punishment men visit upon one another. inspiring memoir. the fates of the women involved.

The Countess Ethel Rosenberg: The Art of More from Kirribilli A Cold War Tragedy Michael Brooks Joyce Morgan Anne Sebba Scribe | PB $32.99 Allen & Unwin | TPB $32.99 Weidenfeld & Nicolson TPB $32.99 September release Elizabeth von Armin was an You might remember extraordinary woman who This is the utterly gripping studying geometry, lived during glamorous, true story of Ethel calculus, and algebra at exciting and changing Rosenberg, the first school, but you probably didn’t realise —or times that spanned the innocence of Victorian woman in the US to be executed for a crime weren’t taught—that these are the roots of art, Sydney and finished with the march of Hitler other than murder. The Rosenberg’s case was architecture, government, and almost every through Europe. An international bestselling an international sensation that defined the other aspect of our civilisation. From ancient author and member of the literary, intellectual Cold War, and Ethel, a mother of two, refused Egyptian priests to the Apollo astronauts, join and society salons of London and Europe, von to incriminate her husband. Despite shaky Michael Brooks and his extraordinarily eccentric Arnim’s captivating story is brought to life in evidence she was convicted of conspiracy to cast of characters in discovering how maths this wonderful book. commit espionage, and she and her husband shaped the world. were electrocuted within minutes of each other.

Worlds in Shadow Fatal Contact Patrick Nunn Peter Dowling Bloomsbury | TPB $29.99 Monash University Publishing | TPB $34.95

The ocean is still a largely unexplored frontier, so the The history of infectious disease epidemics introduced potential for myth making about what is submerged is to the Indigenous population of Australia by British huge. Using the most up-to-date research to determine colonists after 1788 is a shameful one. Peter Dowling which submerged places may have actually existed goes beyond acknowledgement of the devastation to versus those that probably only existed in myth, detail the impacts of different diseases on the horrific Patrick Nunn looks at the science of what we know to sift out some of the decline of the Indigenous population and reveals the greatest human nonsense. Worlds in Shadow is an accessible look at the wonders below. tragedy in Australian history. Harrowing, essential reading.

Military

A Week in September The Battle of Alpha Peter Rees & Sue Langford the Bismarck Sea David Philipps HarperCollins | TPB $34.99 Michael Veitch Scribe | TPB $35.00 Hachette Australia A Week in September is TPB $32.99 September release a powerful story of love, resilience and survival of a The US Navy SEALs of In 1943, in both the sky and POW on the infamous Burma Alpha platoon returned from sea, near New Guinea and Railway. One ordinary man’s Iraq with their chief, Eddie Australia, Australian and story that came to light when his son found a Gallagher, honoured for his leadership. But behind American pilots attacked Japanese warships. hidden shoe box containing letters Scott Heywood the public face of America’s special forces, some Michael Veitch re-examines the fierce battle had written to his mother. He wrote on scraps of Gallagher’s men were readying to report him known as the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. The of paper and hid them from the guards, and are for war crimes. Meticulous research by New York odds were stacked against them, but these a shining example of how love, optimism and Times correspondent David Philipps uncovers the remarkable pilots helped to ensure that Japan’s determination can get you through the very worst, moral dilemmas placed on trained killers and the final attempt for the Southwest Pacific and an most physical and mentally challenging times. subculture of a code of silence. A brilliant expose invasion of Australia was thwarted. of modern warfare.

YOUR READING GUIDE 09 Science & Nature

Wounded Country Signs and Wonder Why You Should Quentin Beresford Delia Falconer Give a F*ck About NewSouth Books Scribner Australia Farming TPB $34.99 TPB $32.99 Gabrielle Chan September release September release Vintage Australia TPB $34.99 For more than a century, Climate change is not only the Murray-Darling changing our environment September release Basin has faced a but also our culture argues Walkley award- series of environmental winning author Delia Falconer. This collection When Gabrielle Chan met a farmer and moved catastrophes: soil erosion, sand drifts and of beautifully observed essays examines to a farm she began to think about the way dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat how our relationships with other generations, Australia has ignored and continues to ignore to native flora and fauna and the drying out of our emotions and connection with the world the farming practices in this country. This is an internationally recognised wetlands, along with has already changed as the climate changes eye-opening look at farming practises of the steadily worsening droughts. We are now at a around us. A unique perspective on our past and the present, and Chan posits that we point of reckoning. This book explains what we relationship with a rapidly changing world. can change outcomes with an overview and a can do to save the once mighty Murray-Darling. plan for the way we live and work.

Sold Down The Ferals That The Arbornaut the River Ate Australia Meg Lowman Scott Hamilton & Stuart Kells Guy Hull Allen & Unwin TPB $32.99 Text | TPB $34.99 ABC Books | TPB $34.99 Meg Lowman spent her September release Isolation was once the childhood summers in impenetrable barrier that a cottage constructed A deep dive into the protected the unique around a magnificent elm history and issues with fauna of Australia. But a tree, and thus began her water policy and trading little over two hundred obsession with nature. This is the inspirational in Australia. Focusing on the Murray River years ago a foreign power took possession, story about how this young botanist became Basin, Hamilton and Kells use their expertise bringing with it animals that now dominate one of the world’s foremost arbornauts, an and knowledge to dig behind the scenes, our ecosystem and have contributed to the ecologist and conservationist. It’s a fascinating speaking to residents, farmers, traditional decimation of native species. Hull details this journey through the wonders of the eighth owners, and policy makers to uncover history and toll, as well as strategies that seek continent, the treetops of the world. mismanagement and corruption of one to reclaim the country for our native fauna and of our most precious resources. its human population.

An Insider’s Below the Edge We‚ Hominids Plague Year of Darkness Frank Westerman Peter Doherty Edith Widder Black Inc. | PB $32.99 Melbourne University Press Text | TPB $34.99 A compelling mixture of PB $32.99 reportage, travelogue and A fascinating and essay, in We, Hominids, 1996 Nobel Prize winner adventure filled memoir Frank Westerman Peter Doherty gives us an set below the sea and its hunts down answers insight into the scientific luminous world few of us to humanity’s most community’s response will have the privilege to fundamental questions: Who are we? What to the novel coronavirus that has disrupted our experience. Marine biologist and oceanographer makes us different from animals? With an ancient lives since January 2020. Doherty’s easy writing Edith Wilder in her optimism however believes skull as his starting point. Westerman discovers style makes accessible the complications that exploration is key in preserving this precious a plethora of origin hypotheses and shows how and challenges of dealing with the virus and and vast world and bioluminescence she hopes any theory of who we are and where we come provides expert commentary on the role science will ignite wonder in future generations. from is coloured by the zeitgeist. plays in our lives.

Beachcombing Bird Talk Ceridwen Fraser Barbara Ballentine and Jordan Hyman CSIRO Publishing | PB $27.99 CSIRO Publishing | HB $44.99

If you’ve ever walked along a beach and peered, This beautifully photographed book is for the poked or wondered at the things cast upon it experienced twitcher and for those who have had by the waves, this book is for you. Beaches are time since 2020 to stop and listen to those sounds our windows to the ocean, and the objects we from the trees. Birds have incredible eyesight and find on them tell stories about life, death and hearing so of course these are the two senses dynamic processes in the sea. This book will help you to understand they use to communicate with each other. This book illustrates how birds what sorts of organisms and objects you find and the intriguing reasons learn and use the sounds they need to survive in nature. they have come to be there.

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10 YOUR READING GUIDE Better Living

The Comfort Book So You Think You Matt Haig Know What’s Good Canongate | HB $34.99 Recipe for a for You Kinder Life Norman Swan The Comfort Book gathers Annie Smithers consolations and stories Hachette Australia Thames & Hudson that give new ways of TPB $39.99 Australia seeing ourselves and the TPB $32.99 world. Matt Haig’s mix of philosophy, memoir Dr. Norman Swan has and self-reflection builds on the wisdom of been providing straightforward and practical philosophers and survivors through the ages, advice that Australians love for over 30 years, In this generous from Marcus Aurelius to Nellie Bly, Emily and this book is no exception. Happily, the account of life Dickinson to James Baldwin. This is the book questions which he has been repeatedly on the land and to pick up when you need the wisdom of a asked are addressed and medical myths and in the kitchen, friend, the comfort of a hug or just to celebrate misconceptions are replaced with information trailblazing cook Annie Smithers chronicles the messy miracle of being alive. to make well informed decisions—from the her quest for a more sustainable existence, food we eat through to how to provide the best in harmony with the environment and the possible care for your family’s health. self. Part meditation, part memoir, the book offers practical advice and wisdom gleamed from a life dedicated to seasonal food and Soil The Plant Clinic living lightly on the ground. Matthew Evans Erin Lovell Verinder Murdoch Books Thames & Hudson Aust WIN 1 of 5 limited edition prints of the TPB $32.99 Flexi PB $39.99 cover of Recipe for a Kinder Life by Annie Smithers. Commentator, farmer and September release For your chance to win, purchase any the star of SBS TV show book from this guide from your local The Gourmet Farmer, The Plant Clinic is a bookshop and enter the competition at Matthew Evans, shows us revolutionary new guide to reignite your health www.booksellerschoice.com.au/ that what we do in our backyards, on our farms, and transform your life. Expert herbalist Erin Lovell competitions. Verinder decodes healing with plant medicine and what we put on our dinner tables really The competition closes 30 September 2021. matters. If we want our food to nourish us, and to remedy over 150 common health complaints to ensure our planet’s long-term health, we across Vitality; Immunity; Detoxification; The Gut; *Terms and conditions apply need to understand how soil works—how it’s Hormone Health; Mums and Bubs; Hair and Skin; made, how it’s lost, and how it can be repaired. Emotions, Mind and Spirit. Non-Fiction

12 Bytes Currowan Puff Piece Jeanette Winterson Bronwyn Adcock John Safran Jonathan Cape Black Inc. | TPB $32.99 Hamish Hamilton Australia TPB $32.99 TPB $34.99 September release By much-loved and September release bestselling author Jeanette Currowan is the gripping Jonathan Safran lends his Winterson come twelve account of the massive provocative insight into the highly researched, fire that engulfed the rapidly changing world of entertaining and thought-provoking essays on south coast of New South cigarettes, where a paradigm shift is underway the increasing presence of Artificial Intelligence Wales in 2019–20. Ignited by a lightning strike to bring back the notion of smoking as a healthy in our everyday lives. Covering everything from near the Currowan state forest and burning activity, with Phillip Morris marketing their IQOS, gender bias to the inner life of children, to for seventy-four days across nearly 500,000 or tobacco heating system. As the IQOS does not vampires and sex dolls, with both humour and hectares, it was among the largest and most burn tobacco—it heats it at lower temperatures clarity, Winterson concludes that ‘Thinking will ferocious infernos of Australia’s Black Summer. to create vapour rather than smoke. Thus, we no longer be what makes humans unique.’ Currowan is about tragedy, survival and the power of community. have vaping, and a whole series of questions that desperately need answering. Parental As Trivial Grievances The Dawn Anything Bridie Jabour of Language Maggie Dent HarperCollins | TPB $34.99 Sverker Johansson ABC Books | PB $34.99 MacLehose Press An oddly optimistic book, TPB $32.99 Trivial Grievances examines In Parental As Anything, the lives of those in Bridie Maggie Dent reflects on Jabour’s generation— September release how much parenting has those much-maligned Drawing on evidence from changed. Dent addresses millennials—and how the painful, protracted many fields, Sverker Johansson weaves disparate the hard questions parents are faced with end of their adolescence is finally hitting home. threads together to show how our human today—screen time, sex education, consent— Forthright, funny, incisive and provocative, this ancestors evolved into language users. It provides and provides a common-sense approach to is a book for our times, and for every 20- or a fascinating survey of how grammar came into real world dilemmas parents and care-givers 30-something-year-old anxious about their place being and the differences or similarities between face today. in the world. languages spoken around the world.

YOUR READING GUIDE 11 Picture Books

The Tiny Maxine There’s a Ghost Explorers Bob Graham in this House Kat Macleod Walker | HB $27.99 Oliver Jeffers Thames & Hudson HarperCollins UK Australia September release HB $29.99 HB $24.99 Max’s superhero family has just got September release September release bigger with a new A young girl in a haunted baby sister, Maxine. house takes us on a Join the Tiny Explorers Max is there for her first words, her first steps tour to find the elusive ghosts, checking on a treasure hunt through the garden! The and her first flight! But as Maxine grows up everywhere—behind the sofa, under the luscious mixed-media artwork explores the and starts school, she doesn’t feel like she stairs, all the way to the attic. Jeffers mixed natural world up close. Seemingly ordinary quite fits in or is comfortable as a superhero. media illustrations are enhanced with elements—grass, leaves, bugs and blooms— Can Maxine convince her family that not all tracing paper pages overlayed on each page, become mighty and magical when seen from superheroes wear capes? their vantage point. And hiding amid this providing an interactive experience for the nature wonderland is a series of special items reader and revealing what is not obvious to all. for the explorers to collect and transform into a fun surprise at the end of the journey.

The River In Your Enough Love? Sally Morgan Cozy Bed Maggie Hutchings & Evie Barrow (Illus) Magabala Books Jo Witek HB $24.99 Affirm Press | HB $24.99 Abrams Appleseed BB $14.99 From the duo behind Can you ever have too Little Bird’s Day, this much love? Doesn’t Bestselling author- is an exploration of the your heart just expand illustrator team of Jo Witek and Christine life of a river, from the sights and sounds of the each time your world Roussey have once again combined for their riverbed to the banks and creatures that inhabit does? When families change shape and grow, ninth title, this one in a board book format. it. Full of beautifully illustrated lush double page when there are new fathers and new siblings, The short sentences describe the ritual of spreads and prompts to discover and remember sometimes there’s a point at which you start getting ready for bed encouraging the mind the life of this unique meeting point of the to feel that you should just be able to say NO to relax and drift off to sleep, making this the Australian landscape. MORE! But as this lovely story says, there’s perfect read before bed. always room for just one more inside your heart.

The Cat and the Rat and the Hat Ella Farmoodle Em Lynas & Matt Hunt (Illus) Jill Noble Nosy Crow | HB $24.99 Barbey | HB $25.99

Em Lynas has written a wonderfully rhyming If you live in the city, you might see oodles of and engaging book about the cat, the rat and poodles, Labradoodles, Spoodles, Cavoodles their adventure with a big hat. The cat and the maybe even Groodles. If you go for a trip to rat have a lot of fun and the bat appears to the countryside, you might be lucky enough join in their fun, but chaotic, adventure. Parents and children will love to meet Ella Farmoodle, a very smart poodle, with her very own farm! reading this hilarious book together. She’s in charge of all the farm animals, and it’s up to her to make sure everyone is fed and kept safe. A joyous celebration of life on the farm.

Non-fiction Picture Books

Backyard The World’s Most We Go Way Back Birdies Pointless Animals Idan Ben-Barak & Philip Bunting (Illus) Andy Geppert Philip Bunting A&U Children’s Lothian Children’s Little Hare | HB $26.99 HB $24.99 Books | HB $19.99 A tongue in cheek Yet another brilliant If you would like guide to some of picture book from two to learn VERY REAL facts about some of the world’s wackiest award-winning children’s authors, We Go Way Australia’s most common backyard birds, this animals, including Back covers the philosophy and science of life is the book for you. I mean, who doesn’t want the Croakus croakus (Golden poison frog) and from the Big Bang to molecular reproduction to know what bok, bok, bok means in chicken? the Pinchiae pinchius (Coconut crab). Philip and evolution. Bunting’s amusing illustrations Or how often a budgerigar poops? A handy Bunting’s trademark illustrations are packed perfectly complement Ben-Barak’s ability to first field guide packed full of fascinating facts with witty and fascinating facts (and a few reduce huge concepts to their most simple. (some of them are even true) about Australia’s made up titbits) about all manner of unusual This colourful and entertaining book is a great most common backyard birds. creatures. For readers from 5 to 95 who want explainer for children 3 and up. to explore their wild side.

12 YOUR READING GUIDE Junior Fiction

The Travelling Bella and the The Super Adventures Bookshop: Mim and Voyaging House of Ollie and Bea: The Baffling Bully Meg McKinlay It’s Owl Good/ Katrina Nannestad & Cheryl Fremantle Press The Squeals on Wheels Orsini (Illus) PB $12.99 Renee Treml ABC Kids | PB $14.99 Bella’s house likes to travel, A&U Children’s | PB $12.99 each setting sail across the ocean Mim Cohen roams the while everyone sleeps. A full-colour graphic novel series, world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad Bella’s parents don’t mind as long as the house perfect for early readers who are ready and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy is home by daylight. One night, Bella has a for chapter books. Whilst the stories subtly leads them to places where they are needed wonderful idea for her grandfather’s birthday. explore the idea of difference, demonstrating most, the place where the perfect book will She wants to find a figurine he made of her that large feet or glasses are never an find its way home. An enchanting new series grandmother, which was lost overboard in an obstacle in the forming of friendships, it is for younger readers along with a wisp of accident. Bella and the house go in search of it, essentially a story that celebrates the humour magic, because books are magic. but things don’t quite go according to plan … and playful adventure to be had with friends. Middle Fiction

Pax Journey Home The Song of Shockingly Sara Pennypacker & Jon Lewis Carmichael Good Stories Klassen (Illus) Sofie Laguna & Marc McBride R.A. Spratt HarperCollins UK (Illus) Puffin | PB $19.99 HB $19.99 A&U Children’s | PB $16.99 A collection of twenty short September release September release stories perfect for fans of It’s been a year since Peter Roald Dahl, David Walliams Matthew is a quiet boy, and his pet fox, Pax, have seen each other. Pax and Paul Jennings. Featuring fractured fairytales reads a lot, and finds it difficult to make friends. and his mate, Bristle, have welcomed a litter of told by none other than Nanny Piggins, previously That all changes when Lewis Carmichael, a kits. Meanwhile, Peter leaves his adopted home unpublished Friday Barnes mysteries and a bunch talking crow, convinces him he needs to fly a to join a group determined to heal the land from of other hilarious and highly original tall tales. This hot air balloon to the North Pole. Like walking the scars of the war. When one of Pax’s kits book will delight kids from seven to seventy. through the wardrobe, or even climbing the tree falls ill, he turns to the one human he knows he into topsy turvy land, this is a story that begs to can trust and once again, the boy and fox find be read by your children and their children too! themselves on a journey together.

The What on Earth Poison for Treasure in the Lake Institute of Wonder Breakfast Jason Pamment Lisa Nicol Lemony Snicket A&U Children’s | PB $16.99 Puffin | PB $16.99 Bloomsbury | HB $17.99 September release

Sal has discovered a secret Any new book from Mr In the future, Iris wants talent; she can communicate Snicket is cause for much to be an explorer and with animals. But will it delight, a word here which archaeologist, uncovering be enough to help two means “great happiness lost artefacts and having amazing adventures. endangered animals when they mysteriously and pleasure”, and this is no exception! The But for now, she lives in the tiny town of turn up on her doorstep? With a little help from wordplay is wonderful and the mystery of his Bugden with best mate Sam where not much her unlicensed teenage neighbour and end-of- poisoned breakfast is told with equal amounts happens, until they stumble on a submerged the-world prepping younger brother, it is going to dread, hilarity and philosophical inquiry. But don’t city with a history shrouded in mystery. A story be a crazy ride—another hilariously strange and let the kids have all the fun—there’s plenty here brilliantly told in graphic novel format by this heartfelt novel from Lisa Nicol. for grown-ups too! Australian award-winning author-illustrator.

Sam Kerr: Kicking The Lanternist Danny Chung Does Goals: The Flip Out Stephen Orr Not Do Maths Sam Kerr Midnight Sun Publishing Maisie Chan PB $19.99 Simon & Schuster | PB $14.99 Bonnier | PB $14.99 It’s 1901, and eleven-year- September release Danny is going to have to old Tom Eliot works the enter a Maths competition Sam Kerr loves Aussie Rules Magic Lantern with his dad, and his parents big surprise but when she’s excluded Bert, making stories come for him is his grandmother from her team she needs to find a new sport to alive on the wall. Already missing a mum, one from China. Danny really prefers drawing, and play. Her best friends Dylan and Indi think she day Tom wakes up to find his father missing although grandmothers are fine, it is a bit much should give soccer a try. She likes her coach too. Can Tom rewrite his own story to find his for an 11-year-old to have to share a bunk bed and her new teammates but there are a lot parents and make a new life for himself? of new rules to learn. Will she be able to deal with her, isn’t it? This is a sweet and funny story with the pressure of new rules and Chelsea, of Danny’s troubles. Troubles that a grandmother the school bully? Will Sam give up—or will she like Nai Nai might just be able to help him with. make the flip?

YOUR READING GUIDE 13 Young Adult

Rainfish Always A Weekend Andrew Paterson Morris Gleitzman with Oscar Text | PB $16.99 Viking | PB $19.99 Robyn Bavati Walker Books Australia The 1980s. Aaron and Conor September release PB $19.99 live with their mum in a small town just outside of The much-anticipated final Sixteen-year-old Jamie Cairns. It is the Wet Season journey in the story of Felix, lives with his mum and and the heat and humidity hero of Morris Gleitzman’s his younger brother Oscar, who has Down add to school holiday boredom when tough multi-award-winning series. It’s syndrome. Though Jamie is still grieving the loss new kid Damon invites Aaron on an adventure, fifteen years since readers were first introduced to of his dad, life starts to look up when he meets ending in theft from a church and vandalism at Felix in Once and across six celebrated books, our Zara, the new girl at school. When their mum the school. Conor starts to investigate the crime brave young hero has survived many unforgettable goes away for the weekend, Jamie volunteers to and Aaron is terrified that any minute the police and emotional journeys. Now comes the seventh look after Oscar. But when the weekend is over will arrest him. A lovely story of family, summer and final part of Felix’s story, bringing to a powerful and their mother doesn’t return, Jamie faces the holidays and the need to fit in. 11+ climax a series that countless young readers around the world will remember. 11+ toughest challenge of his life. 12+

Sugar Town Queens The Monster Henry Hamlet’s Malla Nunn of Her Age Heart A&U Children’s | PB 19.99 Danielle Binks Rhiannon Wilde Lothian Children’s Books UQP | PB $19.99 Amandla’s mother has PB $19.99 always been strange. Henry Hamlet doesn’t know For starters, she’s a white Ellie was born into a legendary what he wants after Year 12 woman living in one of acting dynasty and as a child ends. He has an uncanny South Africa’s infamous shared the silver screen with ability to make situations shanty towns. She won’t tell Amandla about her grandmother Lottie in her one-and-only role awkward, but he can always hide behind his her past and she has visions. When Amandla playing the child monster in a cult horror movie. enigmatic best friend, Len. They’ve been friends finds a mysterious address at the bottom of The experience has left her deeply traumatised and since forever and somehow their differences her mother’s purse along with a large amount estranged from people she loved. Now seventeen, have always worked. That is, until Henry falls, of cash, she decides it’s time to get some Ellie has returned home for the first time in years hard, for the last person he imagined. answers. With the help of her best friend she’s to make peace with Lottie before it is too late. ready to confront her family’s secrets. 13+ A coming-of-age story about learning to be brave and to forgive without forgetting. Non-Fiction for Kids

The Story Heroes, Rebels Story Doctors of Australia and Innovators Boori Monty Pryor & Rita Sinclair (Illus) Don Watson Karen Wyld A&U Children’s Black Inc. | HB $32.99 Lothian Children’s HB $24.99 Books | HB $26.99 The Story of Australia weaves Legendary storyteller together the many strands Be inspired and Boori Monty Pryor invites of our nation’s past—ancient amazed by these us to travel with him and indigenous, colonial and contemporary—to incredible Aboriginal from the first footsteps through 80,000+ years of create a fascinating, inclusive history for all readers. and Torres Strait Islander icons! With colourful strength, sickness, and immense possibility. From In clear, succinct language that both children and artwork and evocative writing, this book tells the very first stories and art, to dance, language, adults will appreciate, Watson guides readers from stories every Australian should know. Powerful and connection with the land, Pryor offers a the ancient lands of Gondwana, through human and exciting, here are seven inspiring stories powerful, and deeply rich account of Australia’s settlement, colonisation and waves of migration, about Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait true history. An exquisitely illustrated celebration of to the challenges facing our diverse nation today. Islanders from history. Each colourful spread in the power of storytelling to unite us, how nature Each era is brought to life in a series of beautifully this illustrated book tells a compelling story. connects us, and the wonderful truth that the illustrated spreads. medicine needed for healing lies within us all.

Let’s Eat Weeds! Albert Namatjira Annie Raser-Rowland, Adam Grubb & Evie Barrow (Illus) Vincent Namatjira Scribble | HB $24.99 Magabala Books | HB $24.99

September release Vincent Namatjira, himself an Archibald prize winning artist, writes Ever thought weeds were just pesky plants to pull about his great-grandfather Albert out and throw away? Think again! This informative, who is probably the first aboriginal funny, and beautiful book will show you just how artist many Australians become great edible weeds can taste. Learn to smell your way to an angled onion, aware of. Albert’s many ‘firsts’ include winning the Coronation medal bake weeds ‘n’ cheese pie, and safely harvest the juicy fruits of a prickly and being granted Australian citizenship. A lovely tribute to the trail pear. From salads to main dishes, edible weeds are delicious! Find out how blazing Western Aranda man. to identify them, where and when to find them, and how to cook them.

14 YOUR READING GUIDE Food, Plant & Garden

Every Night All Day Baking Take One Fish of the Week Michael James with Josh Niland Pippa James Lucy Tweed Hardie Grant Books Hardie Grant Books HB $55.00 Murdoch Books HB $45.00 PB $35.00 Josh Niland’s bestselling Sometimes there is and award-winning The Food writer, stylist and nothing better than a Whole Fish Cookbook, Instagram genie Lucy pastry-based savoury revealed the blueprint for Tweed has your weekly treat. All Day Baking is the go-to baking a new and unprecedented kind of fish cookery. dinners sorted with easy delicious recipes for cookbook that delivers comforting and inventive In this latest book, Niland continues to open our Every Night of the Week. From a Wednesday ideas for pies, sausage rolls, pasties, quiches, eyes to the potential of fish in the kitchen. With Frittato with Zucchini to a Sunday Rice Crunch palmiers, galettes and more. This gorgeous book 60 mind-blowing recipes from just 15 global Scramble you will never be left wondering what provides a master class in pastry, from puff to varieties of fish, this cookbook will take you on to put on the dinner table again and the chatty, rye, to vegan and gluten-free, gifting readers a a gustatory journey—from elaborate to easy, no-nonsense recipe instructions will make foundation for their future baking adventures. small to large and—always—scale to tail. cooking a joy.

La Vita è Dolce Egg of the Universe Nature Style Letitia Clark Bryony and Harry Lancaster Alana Langan and Hardie Grant UK Murdoch Books Jacqui Vidal HB $49.99 HB $49.99 Thames & Hudson Australia | HB $34.99 La Vita è Dolce is an September release exciting take on Italian Sharing seasonal, holistic September release baking by food writer and recipes with a focus on From the founders of the trained pastry chef, Letitia Clark. Featuring over gut-friendly ferments, slow cooking and gluten- botanical wares design studio Ivy Muse comes 80 Italian desserts, La Vita è Dolce showcases free eating, Egg of the Universe is the first a practical guide to styling the home for health Clark’s favourite puddings, inspired by her time cookbook from the team behind Sydney’s only and harmony, using nature as a blueprint. With living in Sardinia. Complete with anecdotes and integrated yoga studio and wholefoods cafe. expert advice on houseplants and how to style beautiful location photography throughout, each Featuring over 100 of their most popular recipes, them, Nature Style is for those who seek to recipe is authentic in taste but with a delicious this lovely book also includes a seasonal program restore body and mind in a natural and nurturing contemporary twist. of yoga, meditation and wellness practices to environment with houseplants as the heroes. help you get the best out of every day. Garden Like a Nonno The Good Life Jaclyn Crupi Hannah Moloney Affirm Press | HB $24.99 Affirm Press | PB $39.99

Author of Nonna Knows Best, Jaclyn Crupi is September release back with more Italian wisdom. In Garden Like From growing your own food to fermentation, a Nonno, Crupi uncovers the secrets of the radical ideas for co-housing, with The Good Life green thumbed nonnos—from their no-nonsense you’ll gain the skills, self-reliance and confidence approach to life to their zero-waste gardening. needed to engage meaningfully with your space, your food and your Featuring gardening tips and tricks, recipes for pickling and preserving community. Full of wisdom, hope and inspiration, The Good Life is your your produce, plus classic nonno sayings, Garden Like a Nonno will ultimate guide to improving your wellbeing and the wellbeing of those help you to get in touch with your inner Italian. around you to create a better world for all. More Gift Ideas

Big Panda and Heading South Principles Of Style Tiny Dragon Tim Richards Sarah Andrews James Norbury Fremantle Press Simon & Schuster Australia TPB $29.99 HB $49.99 Michael Joseph HB $29.99 Freelance travel writer Tim October release Richards decides to shake September release up his life by taking an epic In Principles of Style, Sarah Andrews presents her unique take on teaching Inspired by Buddhist rail journey across Australia. design, drawing on her experience of working philosophy and spirituality, this is a beautifully Jumping aboard iconic trains like the Indian in the industry and as a teacher in her school, illustrated story of two beloved friends as they Pacific, Overland and Spirit of Queensland, he which has reached cult status around the journey through the seasons of the year together, covers over 7,000 kilometres, from the tropics world. She does this by examining some of her into the wild, exploring the thoughts and to the desert and from big cities to ghost key projects and favourite rooms, as well as by emotions, hardships and happiness that connect towns. Tim’s journey is one of classic travel focusing on her ten rules of styling, formulated us all. Perfect for fans of The Boy, the Mole, the highs and lows as well as the steady joy of both through hands-on experience and studies. Fox and the Horse. random strangers encountered along the way. Armchair Explorer Through the Brick Dad Lonely Planet Cellar Door Cade Franklin and Henry Pinto Lonely Planet | HB $34.99 Alison Weavers Hachette Australia HB $22.99 Images Publishing Lonely Planet’s Armchair HB $69.99 Explorer is a cultural From the first-ever winners journey to 120 countries of LEGO Masters comes September release via their most popular a hilarious collection of books, movies and music. Architect Alison Weavers takes us on a tour of Dad jokes and everyday adventures illustrated Be introduced to American jazz, French new 40 wineries around Australia that demonstrate with their incredible brick-building talents. What wave cinema, Irish poetry, K-Pop and Belgian a uniqueness of approach and vision to happens when Brick Dad takes over the washing graphic novels—discover a little of each of these the task of bringing wine and architecture and forgets to separate the colours? (Clue: countries’ life and soul via their artistic output— together, where architecture complements nothing good.) Can Brick Dad defeat the Monster all without leaving the comfort of your chair! and serves to enhance the winemaking and in the cupboard once and for all? (The suspense!) wine tasting experience.

Pete Cromer Puzzle: Kookaburra/ Pete Cromer Wrap Pack/ Pete Cromer Puzzle: Koala Florence Broadhurst Wrap Pack Pete Cromer Pete Cromer Five Mile | Boxed Set 24.99 each Five Mile | Boxed Set $24.99 each

Australian artist Pete Cromer’s bold and colourful Mid September release artwork has been transformed into 500 piece jigsaw puzzles. Both of these puzzles represent iconic and Two beautiful wrapping paper packs to keep well-loved Australian animals, the kookaburra and handy for any special occasion. Wrap your koala, and will make the perfect gift for any age, special gifts in Pete Cromer’s bold and beautiful or to send abroad. Australian flora and fauna artwork and make every gift a work of art with this fabulous Florence Broadhurst wrap pack! Each featuring 12 gorgeous, patterned pieces of wrapping paper and over 50 stickers.

The books in this guide have been chosen and reviewed by Australia's leading booksellers, members of the Australian Booksellers Association. DISCLAIMER: Cover and theme inspiration have been taken from the jacket image of Recipe for a Kinder Life by Annie Smithers (Thames & Hudson Australia). Price and information are correct at time of print. Some booksellers may not be able to hold stock of every book in the guide. Speak to your bookseller about special orders.

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