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Collage of colourful book covers, including Brave Like Bunji, Good Young Men, The Australian Wars, and Come Home, Bigibila, on a teal background.

Collage of colourful book covers, including Brave Like Bunji, Good Young Men, The Australian Wars, and Come Home, Bigibila, on a teal background.

Sharing Stories this NAIDOC Week

Check out these fantastic First Nations stories this NAIDOC Week.

Allen & Unwin

3 min read

Book titled Every Time She Wakes by Petronella McGovern on a green pedestal. Cover features woman’s face and dramatic text highlights.

Book titled Every Time She Wakes by Petronella McGovern on a green pedestal. Cover features woman’s face and dramatic text highlights.

Petronella McGovern talks Every Time She Wakes

What if one decision changed the course of your whole life? Petronella McGovern shares the inspiration for her twisty new thriller.

Petronella McGovern

2 min read

Book cover Life After Weight-Loss Medication by Dr. Linia Patel, with a salad bowl and text about nourishing body and meal plans.

Book cover Life After Weight-Loss Medication by Dr. Linia Patel, with a salad bowl and text about nourishing body and meal plans.

Life After Weight-Loss Medication

Learn about Life After Weight-Loss Medication, an accessible and reassuring book by internationally renowned dietitian Dr Linia Patel.

Murdoch Books

5 min read

Book cover on a blue background, showing a woman in a checkered shirt on a farm at sunrise. Title: "Sunrise at Sunny Cross Farm".

Book cover on a blue background, showing a woman in a checkered shirt on a farm at sunrise. Title: "Sunrise at Sunny Cross Farm".

Q&A with Maya Linnell author of Sunrise at Sunny Cross Farm

We talk to Maya Linnell, author of Sunrise at Sunny Cross Farm.

Allen & Unwin

3 min read

Book cover for Over to You by Georgie Tunny, with stylized women, microphones, and bold pink, yellow, and teal panels.

Book cover for Over to You by Georgie Tunny, with stylized women, microphones, and bold pink, yellow, and teal panels.

Start reading Over to You by Georgie Tunny

Read an extract from Over to You by Georgie Tunny.

Allen & Unwin

5 min read

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Pink book cover titled The Followers by Maree Spratt on a teal surface, showing a person taking a selfie with a phone.

Pink book cover titled The Followers by Maree Spratt on a teal surface, showing a person taking a selfie with a phone.

Read a free chapter from The Followers

Reinvention is easy when it's online.... Beautiful, manipulative Lacey is a lifestyle influencer turned bestselling author who preaches self-love and body confidence to her million followers. But one of those followers is Teresa. She remembers Lacey as a prepubescent mean girl who kept the loyal members of her gang—Teresa included—on a short leash. Twenty years later, she watches Lacey from afar with the ghost of her younger self and a copy of Lacey's new self-help book for c

Allen & Unwin

8 min read

Book cover of Every Time She Wakes by Petronella McGovern, with a woman’s face behind slats on a dark teal background.

Book cover of Every Time She Wakes by Petronella McGovern, with a woman’s face behind slats on a dark teal background.

Read the first chapter of Every Time She Wakes by Petronella McGovern

Read an extract from Every Time She Wakes by Petronella McGovern.

Allen & Unwin

5 min read

Collage of colourful book covers, including Brave Like Bunji, Good Young Men, The Australian Wars, and Come Home, Bigibila, on a teal background.

Collage of colourful book covers, including Brave Like Bunji, Good Young Men, The Australian Wars, and Come Home, Bigibila, on a teal background.

Sharing Stories this NAIDOC Week

Check out these fantastic First Nations stories this NAIDOC Week.

Allen & Unwin

3 min read

Book cover of Léonie Kelsall’s The Windmill in the Silver Gums on a yellow background, with a smiling woman in a rural scene.

Book cover of Léonie Kelsall’s The Windmill in the Silver Gums on a yellow background, with a smiling woman in a rural scene.

Start reading The Windmill in the Silver Gums by Léonie Kelsall

Read an extract from the latest Léonie Kelsall novel.

Allen & Unwin

6 min read

Book cover titled Being, with a hamster and herring illustration, on teal background; subtitle about being human.

Book cover titled Being, with a hamster and herring illustration, on teal background; subtitle about being human.

Start reading Being, the new book from the award-winning authors of Mortals

Read an extract from Being by Rachel E. Menzies and Ross G. Menzies.

Allen & Unwin

4 min read

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