Here is a round-up previewing some of the most exciting local releases for the first half of 2019!

FICTION

• A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane (February)
• Small Blessings by Emily Brewin (February)
• The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion (February)
• The Year of the Beast by Steven Carroll (February)
• Zebra: And Other Stories by Debra Adelaide (February)

• After the Party by Cassie Hamer (February)

• Islands by Peggy Frew (March)

• Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany (March)

• The War Artist by Simon Cleary (March)

• The Time is Now, Monica Sparrow by Matt Howard (March)

• Star-crossed by Minnie Darke (March)

• Hare’s Fur by Trevor Shearston (March)

• The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson (March)

• The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky (March)

• Simpson Returns by Wayne Macauley (April)

• The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta (April)

• Invented Lives by Andrea Goldsmith (April)

• The Aunts’ House by Elizabeth Stead, (April)

• Gravity is the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty (April)

• The Lions’ Torment by Blanche d’Alupuget (April)

• Fled by Meg Keneally (April)

• A Universe of Sufficient Size by Miriam Sved (April)

• Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng (May)

• A Lovely and Terrible Thing by Chris Womersley (May)

• The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith (June)

• Strange Blasphemy by Anson Cameron (June)

• The White Girl by Tony Birch (June)

• The Yield by Tara June Winch (July)

• Minotaur by Peter Goldsworthy (July)

• Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy (July)

• The Blue Rose by Kate Forsyth (July)

• While You Were Reading by Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus (July)

• The Pillars by Peter Polites (July)

DEBUT FICTION

• Fusion by Kate Richards (February)
• Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn (February)

• Driving into the Sun by Marcella Polain (February)

• The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean (April)

• The Shining Wall by Melissa Ferguson (April)

• The Artist’s Portrait by Julie Keys (April)

• Master of My Fate by Sienna Brown (May)

• Crossings by Alex Landragin (June)

• This Taste for Silence by Amanda O'Callaghan (June)

• Little Stones by Elizabeth Kuiper (June)

• Hitch by Kathryn Hind (June)

• Real Differences by S.L. Lim (June)

• The Subjects by Sarah Hopkins

• A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop (July)

CRIME FICTION

• Call Me Evie by J.P. Pomare (January)
• Half Moon Lake by Kirsten Alexander (January)
• The Promised Land by Barry Maitland (January)

• Gone By Midnight by Candice Fox (January)

• The Rip by Mark Brandi (March)

• The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan (March)

• Painting in the Shadows by Katherine Kovacic (March)

• River of Salt by David Warner (April)

• Eight Lives by Susan Hurley (April)

• Hush Hush by James Patterson & Candice Fox (May)

• Daughter of Bad Times by Rohan Wilson (May)

NON-FICTION

• Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro (February)
• The Revolution of Man: Rethinking What It Means to Be a Man by Phil Barker (February)
• Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and Its Human Fallout by Ginger Gorman (February)

• Black Is the New White by Nakkiah Lui (February)

• Witches: What Women Do Together by Sam George-Allen (March)

• Choice Words edited by Louise Swinn (March)

• Blackout by Matthew Warren (March)

• Growing up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Magan Magan & Ahmed Yussuf (April)

• City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest by Sophie Cunningham (April)

• Raising Readers: How to Nurture a Child’s Love of Books by Megan Daley (April)

• No Apologies edited by Joanne Brookfield (April)

• Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Stupidity by Kitty Flanagan (April)

• Stop Being Reasonable by Eleanor Gordon-Smith (May)

• Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About It by Jamil Jivani (May)

• #MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement edited by Natalie Kon-Yu, Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott & Miriam Sved (May)

• The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexual Abuse and Agency edited by Catharine Lumby & Kate Gleeson (June)

• See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill (June)

• Webtopia: The World Wide Wreck of Tech and How to Make the Net Work by Peter Lewis (June)

• White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad (July)

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

• I Built No Schools in Kenya by Kirsten Drysdale (January)
• Say Hello by Carly Findlay (February)
• Imperfect by Lee Kofman (February)
• When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over by Mandy Ord (February)
• Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook by Jacqueline Kent (February)

• Friday with My Folks by Amal Awad (February)

• Talking Sideways by Reg Dodd & Malcolm McKinnon (March)

• Unlike the Heart by Nicola Redhouse (March)

• Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn (March)

• Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story by Kate Legge (March)

• Unconditional Love: A Memoir of Filmmaking and Motherhood by Jocelyn Moorehouse (April)

• A Novel Idea by Fiona McGregor (April)

• Nora Heysen: A Portrait by Anne-Louise Willoughby (April)

• An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorrell Arnold by Mary Hoban (April)

• Belonging: A Daughter’s Story by Kumi Taguchi (May)

• Diary of a Crap Housewife by Jessica Rowe (April)

• Things Nobody Knows but Me by Amra Pajalic (May)

• We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know by Sophie McNeill (May)

• Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby (June)

• The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White (June)

• Something to Believe In by Andrew Stafford (July)

• Unrequited Love: A Political Memoir by Dennis Altman (July)

TRUE CRIME

• The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife by Rebecca Hazel (February)

• Murder on Easey Street by Helen Thomas (March)

• The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon (March)

• The Lost Girls by Ava Benny-Morrison (May)

• Dead Man Walking by Kate McClymont (June)

• Bowraville by Dan Box (July)

HISTORY AND POLITICS

• Breaking Point: The Future of Australian Cities by Peter Seamer (February)

• From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting by Judith Brett (March)

• The Seventies by Michelle Arrow (March)

• _Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia_by Dominic Kelly (March)

• The People vs The Banks by Michael Roddan (April)

• The Colonial Fantasy by Sarah Maddison (April)

• Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics by Troy Bramston (April)

• Australia Day by Stan Grant (May)

• The Catalpa Rescue by Peter FitzSimons (May)

• Dr Space Junk vs. the Universe: Archaeology and the Future by Alice Gorman (May)

• Australia’s First Naturalists: Indigenous Peoples’ Contribution to Early Zoology by Penny Olson & Lynette Russell (May)

• The Fairness Agenda by Van Badham (June)

• Highway to Hell by Niki Savva (July)

• Banking Bad by Adele Ferguson (July)

• A Wunch of Bankers: A Year in the Hayne Royal Commission by Dan Ziffer (July)

• How to Defend Australia by Hugh White (July)

POETRY

• Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane (February)
• Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn (February)
• Crow College by Emma Lew (March)
• Apparently by Joanne Burns (April)
• The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr (May)
• Sergius Seeks Bacchus by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (May)
• Kindred by Kirli Saunders (May)
• Empirical by Lisa Gorton (June)
• God is Waiting in the World’s Yard by MTC Cronin (June)
• Fish Song by Caitlin Maling (June)
• The Future Keepers by Nandi Chinna (June)

COOKBOOKS

• Whole by Harriet Birrell (February)
• Weekend BBQ by Ross Dobson (March)
• Margaret Fulton’s Baking Classics by Margaret Fulton (April)

PICTURE BOOKS

• Bird on a Wire by Kate Gordon (February)
• Wrestle! by Maya Newell (February)
• Through the Smoke by Phil Cummings (February)

• The House on the Mountain by Ella Holcombe (February)

• Baz & Benz by Heidi McKinnon (March)

• Ivanhoe Swift Left Home at Six by Jane Godwin & A.Yi (March)

• Yahoo Creek by Tohby Riddle (March)

• Rodney by Kelly Canby (March)

• Wilam: A Birrarung Story by Aunty Joy Murphy, Lisa Kennedy & Andrew Kelly (April)

• Little Bird’s Day by Sally Morgan & Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr (April)

• Our Little Inventor by Sher Rill Ng (April)

• A Quiet Girl by Peter Carnavas (April)

• Let Me Sleep, Sheep! by Meg McKinlay & Leila Rudge (April)

• There’s Only One Mum Like You by Jess Racklyeft (April)

• Doodle Cat Wears a Cape by Kat Patrick & Lauren Marriott (May)

• Arthur and the Tiger by Sophie Beer (May)

• My Culture and Me by Gregg Dreise (May)

• Violet & Nothing by Fiona Burrows (May)

• Fashionista by Maxine Beneba Clarke (June)

• Heads and Tails: Underwater by John Canty (June)

• I Would Dangle the Moon by Amber Moffat (June)

• Claris: Fashion Show Fiasco by Megan Hess (June)

• The Very Noisy Baby Sound Book by Alison Lester (June)

JUNIOR & MIDDLE FICTION

• Show Stopper! the Susie K Diaries by Shamini Flint (January)
• The Peski Kids 2: Bear in the Woods by R.A. Spratt (January)

• 47 Degrees by Justin D’Ath (January)

• Ginger Green + Cousins = TOTAL CHAOS! by Kim Kane (February)

• The Big Chicken Mystery (Olivia’s Secret Scribbles, Book 5) by Meredith Costain (February)

• Stella the Unstoppable: The Talent Show Fiasco by Richard Newsome (February)

• The Dog Runner by Bren MacDibble (February)

• Twin Spin by Adam Cece (February)

• Zelda Stitch Term Two: Too Much Witch by Nicki Greenberg (February)

• George and the Great Bum Stampede by Cal Wilson (February)

• Girl vs. the World: I Heart You by Archie de Souza (February)

• Girls vs the World: Girls, Guys and Choc-cherry Pies by Meredith Badger (February)

• Lily.D, V.A.P. : Sweet Juliet by Madeleine West (February)

• Melody Trumpet by Gabrielle Tozer (February)

• Australian Backyard Earth Scientist by Peter Macinnis (February)

• 52 Mondays by Anna Ciddor (March)

• Ninja Switch (Ninja Kid, Book 3) by Anh Do (March)

• The Super Secret Club (Ella Diaries, Book 15) by Meredith Costain & Danielle McDonald (March)

• You Must Be Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied (March)

• A Great Escape by Felice Arena (March)

• Undercover (Kensy and Max, Book 3) by Jacqueline Harvey (March)

• The Utterly Indescribable Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls by Adam Cece (April)

• Hopping Weird! (WeirDo, Book 12) by Anh Do (April)

• Scorch Dragons (Elementals, Book 2) by Amie Kaufman (April)

• Kids Who Did: Real Kids Who Ruled, Rebelled, Survived and Thrived by Kirsty Murray (April)

• Sky by Ondine Sherman (April)

• Sherlock Bones and the Natural History Mystery by Renée Treml (April)

• Ottilie Colter and the Master of Monsters by Rhiannon Williams (April)

• Frankie Fish and the Sister Shemozzle by Peter Helliar (April)

• Squishy Taylor and the Secret Envelope (Book 10) by Ailsa Wild & Ben Wood (May)

• Don’t Follow Vee by Oliver Phommavanh (May)

• The Little Wave by Pip Harry (May)

• Songbird by Ingrid Laguna (May)

• Mr Walker and the Dessert Delight by Jess Black & Sara Acton (May)

• Mr Walker Gets the Inside Scoop by Jess Black & Sara Acton (May)

• Real Pigeons Nest Hard by Andrew McDonald and Ben Wood (May)

• Sophia and the Corner Park Clubhouse by Davina Bell (May)

• Alex and the Alpacas Save the World by Kathryn Lefroy (May)

• Ubby’s Underdogs: Return of the Dragons by Brenton McKenna (May)

• Race for the Red Dragon (Children of the Dragon, Book 2) by Rebecca Lim (May)

• The Search for the Silver Witch (Polly & Buster, Book 3) by Sally Rippin (June)

• So She Did: The Story of May Wirth by Simi Genziuk & Renee Treml (June)

• Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe & Jennet Cole-Adams (June)

YOUNG ADULT

• Vardaesia by Lynette Noni (February)
• Highway Bodies by Alison Evans (February)
• Making Friends with Alice Dyson by Poppy Nwosu (February)

• Misrule by Jodi McAlister (February)

• Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte (March)

• Love Lie Repeat by Catherine Greer (March)

• What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillaume (March)

• The Boy Who Steals Houses by C.G. Drew (April)

• The Honeyman and the Hunter by Neil Grant (April)

• Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle Book 1) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Krisoff (May)

• Promise Me Happy by Robert Newton (May)

• Shauna’s Great Expectations by Kathleen Loughnan (May)

• How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox (May)

• Devil’s Ballast by Meg Caddy (May)

• Songbird by Ingrid Laguna (May)

• Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories edited by Michael Earp (June)

• Sensitive by Allayne Webster (June)

• Sick Bay by Nova Weetman (June)

• Land of Fences by Mark Smith (June)

• Mindcull by K.H. Canobi (June)

Look out for our second-half of 2019 preview of Australian releases on our blog in June.