You'll want to add these to your TBR list pronto!
We’re heading into the most exciting time of the year when all the must-read books start hitting the shelves. So, we’ve picked just a few of our favourites that we think you should put at the top of your list right now!
We’re always excited for a new book from Jodi and this one might be her most controversial one yet because if you think Shakespeare wrote his own plays, think again! This is a story of courage, ambition and desire that explores the ways in which two women, centuries apart, are both forced to hide behind another name to make their voices heard.
Coming 20 August.
Fans of The Midnight Library get excited! This is another magical tale filled with heart and life lessons. When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza intending to sell the house and return to her life… but the island has other plans for Grace.
Coming 3 September.
Time to get your heart racing with this thriller set in the pressure-cooker environment of an Antarctic winter. Australian scientist Kit Bitterfeld is on her way to a coveted winter research position at Macpherson Station in Antarctica when they encounter a vessel on fire and with a lone survivor onboard who can't remember who he is or what has happened. What results is a compelling, twisty thriller you won’t be able to put down.
Coming 3 September.
One of the most anticipated releases of the year is the new book from Sally Rooney, the bestselling Irish author of Normal People, Conversations with Friends, and Beautiful World, Where Are You? Her new novel is an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.
Coming 24 September.
Welcome back to the world of fiction Zoë Foster Blake! Her first novel in 10 years plunges us into the world of Kit, a talented hair stylist turned entrepreneur juggling family dramas, workplace near-catastrophes and relationship crises. Part entertainment, part founder insight, this is an entirely new breed of illuminating storytelling that you won't be able to put down.
Coming 1 October.
Another favourite returning this year is bestselling crime writer Chris Hammer. Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic are back – as Nell is thrown into her most emotionally fraught investigation. A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley but when Nell discovers the victim is a close blood relative, the past begins to take on a looming significance.
Coming 1 October.
This is the book every book club will be discussing this year! From the bestselling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident comes an astonishing, transformative and audacious novel that tells the story of the mythical female Pope Joan in stunning literary detail and imagery. If you love literary novels and historical fiction with a feminist bite, this book is for you.
Coming 1 October.
Australia’s number 1 bestselling author Anh Do is back with a new series and it’s a full colour graphic novel! With their incredible kung fu skills, Kai, Harry and Charley already make an unstoppable team. Then their train is hit by a meteor, and they discover they can transform into animals. Mastering their new powers is no easy task, but someone needs to stop the Crocka Gang! It's Kung Fu Roo and his team to the rescue! (For ages 6 to 10+)
Coming 1 October.
The legendary Emily Rodda returns with a brand-new epic 'three parts in one' fantasy quest presented in a stunning embellished giftbox ready for you to binge from start to finish. Derry knows no other life than that of a captive on Cram's Rock, shunned by the other young prisoners for being Cram's poison taster. Until the day everything changes, when a traveller arrives, on the run from the sinister El executioners. She leaves Derry with a magical notebook full of secrets, secrets that might hold the key to Derry's destiny – and his past. For kids aged 9 and up, or really, readers of any age ready for adventure!
Coming 1 October.
Insert a sigh of relief here… Ballard and Bosch are back. In The Waiting, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard finds herself tracking a terrifying serial rapist while also defending her career, with the help of the newest volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter. One of the best crime books of the year, put this right at the top of your list.
Coming 15 October.
If you haven’t jumped onto the super fun and brilliant mind-bendy Murdle trend, are you even a puzzler? If you’re already a fan you’re in for a treat as Deductive Logico returns to Australia taking us back to his postgraduate studies at the University of Deduction in Australia with 50 new mysteries that challenge you to find whodunit, where and why! And if you’re not a Murdle fan, what are you waiting for?
Coming 8 October.
Fans of Before You Knew My Name rejoice! Jacqueline Bublitz is back with another taut suspense thriller overlaid with a moving exploration of the ways in which violent crime ricochets through the lives of those left behind.
Ruth-Ann Baker is still haunted by the murder of her childhood friend. The killer Ethan Oswald was convicted but Ruth has long been convinced there were other victims. Then another young girl goes missing from her home town. With Oswald now deceased, she begins to suspect he had an accomplice, a partner who is still active today. And she can’t rest until she has answers.
Coming 29 October.
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