Exiles
Jane Harper’s newest mystery takes place in the picturesque wine country of South Australia, where readers are introduced to Harper’s characters with an easy, casual familiarity.
Author : Jane Harper
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Australia
Life Is Tough But So Are You – The Journal
After Briony’s cancer recovery journey went viral, she published her first book to help others face their own hardships. Now, with this journal she is handing her readers a toolbelt of how to deal with the tough times.
Author : Briony Benjamin
Publisher : Murdoch Books
The Cane
The sugar cane fields of the title provide both the setting and much of the atmosphere in this thriller set in North Queensland. A sixteen-year-old starts out through the cane to babysit her mother’s friend’s daughters, and never arrives.
Author : Maryrose Cuskelly
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Young Mungo
Shuggie Bain, Stuart’s first novel, won the Booker Prize. This, his second, has already garnered wide critical acclaim. Stuart unflinchingly lays bare the traumas that were commonplace in 90s Glasgow, stemming from systemic community conflict, base
Author : Douglas Stuart
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Australia
The Jaguar
From first glance, the layered artistry of this poetry collection by NYU Fulbright Scholar and QUT Professor Holland-Batt begins to open to (and in) us. A lithe wild animal bares its teeth arrestingly on the paperback’s cover.
Author : Sarah Holland-Batt
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
