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Kay Kerr on “Might Cry Later” 

Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Queensland-based author Kay Kerr made her debut with Please Don’t Hug Me (Text, 2020), followed by Social Queue (Text, 2021). Her latest release, Might Cry Later (Macmillan, November), marks her...

Sarah Brill on ‘Catch’ 

Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Sydney-based author Sarah Brill's Catch (A&U Children’s, October) is a ‘heartfelt and quietly thrilling coming-of-age novel’ about a 16-year-old who discovers she can catch people falling from the sky. Brill...

Zoë Rankin on ‘The Vanishing Place’ 

Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Zoë Rankin’s ‘near-flawless’ debut, The Vanishing Place (Moa Press, September), is described by Books+Publishing reviewer Tara Lee as ‘a sad girl novel wrapped in a family saga and delivered as...

Amelia Mellor on ‘The Wicked Ship’ 

Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Melbourne-based author Amelia Mellor’s new middle-grade adventure series, Oceanforged, launches with The Wicked Ship (Affirm, August), a 'rollicking mix of Treasure Island and The Sword in the Stone with a...

Olivia De Zilva on ‘Plastic Budgie’ 

Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Tarndanya/Adelaide-based writer Olivia De Zilva’s debut, Plastic Budgie (Pink Shorts Press, August), is described as a ‘sharply funny, sad and sentimental reflection on the people, places and cultural forces that...

Emma Pei Yin on ‘When Sleeping Women Wake’ 

Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Canberra-based, British-born Hong Kong-Chinese writer and editor Emma Pei Yin’s debut novel, When Sleeping Women Wake (Hachette, July), is set in 1940s Hong Kong and follows three women whose lives...

Jasmin McGaughey on ‘Moonlight and Dust’ 

a portrait of Jasmin McGaughey Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Jasmin McGaughey is a Torres Strait Islander and African American author and editor, and the writer behind Ash Barty’s Little Ash series. Her new young adult novel, Moonlight and Dust...

Marija Peričić on ‘Foreign Country’ 

Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Marija Peričić’s first novel, The Lost Pages (A&U), won the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award in 2017. Her ‘lyrical and haunting’ third novel, Foreign Country (Ultimo, July) is a work ‘vivid and...

Thomas Vowles on ‘Our New Gods’ 

Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Melbourne-based screenwriter and author Thomas Vowles makes his novel debut with Our New Gods (UQP, June), a ‘twisty and menacing’ psychological literary thriller set in Melbourne’s queer scene that is...

Laura Elvery on ‘Nightingale’ 

Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Brisbane-based writer Laura Elvery (Ordinary Matter) makes her novel debut with Nightingale (UQP, May), a fictional reimagining of the life of Florence Nightingale. Books+Publishing reviewer Kate Dunphy describes it as...

Jessica Stanley on ‘Consider Yourself Kissed’ 

Tuesday, 18 February 2025
London-based Australian writer Jessica Stanley (A Great Hope) returns with Consider Yourself Kissed (Text, April), a compelling novel about love, identity and modern motherhood. Books+Publishing reviewer Emily Westmoreland calls it...

Fiona Hardy on ‘Unbury the Dead’ 

Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Melbourne writer, bookseller, and reviewer Fiona Hardy is known for her children’s books, including the CBCA Notable How to Make a Movie in 12 Days. Now, she makes her adult...