Here is a calendar of adult books by Australian authors due for release in the first half of 2016. There’s new fiction from Fiona McFarlane, Josephine Rowe, and Patrick Holland; new non-fiction form Helen Garner, Stan Grant and Annabel Crabb; and, new poetry from Aden Rolfe and Ellen van Neerven – phew!
We’ve tried to include as many titles as we can, and will be updating the list throughout the year.
FEBRUARY
- Comfort Zone by Lindsay Tanner
- That Devil’s Madness by Dominique Wilson
- The High Places by Fiona McFarlane
- Leaving Elvis and Other Stories by Michelle Michau-Crawford
- Fear is the Rider by Kenneth Cook
- The Politics of Identity by Bronwyn Carlson
- A Murder Without Motive by Martin McKenzie-Murray
- Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat
- Desert Writing by Terri-ann White
- The Shock of Recognition by Barry Jones
- Credlin & Co by Aaron Patrick
- Finding Eliza by Larissa Behrendt
- Napoleon’s Roads by David Brooks
MARCH
- A Loving, Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe
- The Midnight Watch by David Dyer
- Sing Fox To Me by Sarah Kanake
- All These Perfect Strangers by Aoife Clifford
- Wildlight by Robyn Mundy
- Our Magic Hour by Jennifer Down
- The Light on the Water by Olga Lorenzo
- Running Against the Tide by Amanda Ortlepp
- Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
- That Sugar Guide by Damon Gameau
- Road Series by Hugo Race
- Quarterly Essay 61 by George Megalogenis
- The Road to Ruin by Niki Savva
- The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
- Hold by Kirsten Tranter
- Yassmin’s Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
- Blood Year by David Kilcullen
- Stop at Nothing by Annabel Crabb
- Ghost Girls by Cath Ferla
- Ink in Her Veins by Sylvia Martin
- Unexpected Clearing by Rose Lucas
APRIL
- Our Man Elsewhere by Thornton McCamish
- Precious Things by Kelly Doust
- What the Light Hides by Mette Jakobsen
- Dangerous to Know by Anne Buist
- Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
- The Art of Reading by Damon Young
- An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
- One by Patrick Holland
- Where the Trees Were by Inga Simpson
- Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain
- Georgiana Molloy: The Mind That Shines by Bernice Barry
- Things My Mother Taught Me by Claire Halliday
- Like I Can Love by Kim Lock
MAY
- It’s Our Country edited by Megan Davis and Marcia Langton
- Dying in the First Person by Nike Sulway
- False Nostalgia by Aden Rolfe
- The Fighter by Arnold Zable
- Our Tiny Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan
- Treading Air by Ariella Van Luyn
JUNE
- Comfort Food by Ellen van Neerven
- Faction Man: Bill Shorten’s Path to Power by David Marr
- Wasted by Elspeth Muir
- Dead Men Don’t Order Flake by Sue Williams
- The Dry by Jane Harper
- Wood Green by Sean Rabin
- Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
- Exiles by Sarah Drummond
Even more books to look our for in 2016, part 2
- Grant & I by Robert Forster
- A Perfect Square by Isobel Blackthorn
- The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
- Atlantic Black by A.S. Patrić
- The Twisted Knot by J.M. Peace
- A new book from Hannah Kent
- A new book from Steven Amsterdam
- A new book from Jacinta Halloran
- A new book from Henry Reyonlds
