ANZ LitLovers LitBlog

Fiction

• There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett (Hachette Australia), see my review and Theresa’s at Theresa Smith Writes
• Bruny by Heather Rose (Allen and Unwin), see my review
• The Wife and the Widow by Christian White (Affirm Press)
• The Weekend by Charlotte Wood (Allen and Unwin), see my review and Theresa’s at Theresa Smith Writes

Nonfiction

• Your Own Kind of Girl (Clare Bowditch, A&U), see Theresa’s review at Theresa Smith Writes
• 488 Rules for Life: The thankless art of being correct (Kitty Flanagan, A&U)
• Tell Me Why (Archie Roach, S&S)
• Sand Talk: How Indigenous thinking can save the world (Tyson Yunkaporta, Text)

Debut fiction

• Wearing Paper Dresses (Anne Brinsden, Macmillan)
• Allegra in Three Parts (Suzanne Daniel, Macmillan), see Theresa’s review at Theresa Smith Writes
• The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone (Felicity McLean, Fourth Estate)
• Heart of the Grass Tree (Molly Murn, Vintage)

Illustrated nonfiction

• The Lost Boys (Paul Byrnes, Affirm)
• Finding the Heart of the Nation (Thomas Mayor, Hardie Grant)
• The Whole Fish Cookbook (Josh Niland, Hardie Grant)
• In an Australian Light (ed by Jo Turner, Thames & Hudson)

Young adult 

• The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling (Wai Chim, A&U)
• Aurora Rising: The Aurora Cycle 1 (Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, A&U)
• It Sounded Better in My Head (Nina Kenwood, Text)
• Monuments (Will Kostakis, Lothian)

Children’s

• The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals (Sami Bayly, Lothian)
• Into the Wild: Wolf Girl Book 1 (Anh Do, illus by Jeremy Ley, A&U)
• The Tiny Star (Mem Fox, illus by Freya Blackwood, Puffin)
• Young Dark Emu: A truer history (Bruce Pascoe, Magabala).  Update: I’ve read the adult version of this and am pleased to see a junior edition of it.

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