Brainstorm

The image of the book cover for Brainstorm by Richard Scolyer with Garry Maddox includes the tagline ' A dedicated doctor. A devastating diagnosis. A chance for a medical revolution '. The image is a photo of Richard Scolyer, smiling, against a blue background, he's wearing a plain dark t-shirt.

Revealing his fight against a diagnosis of 'incurable' brain cancer, this is the remarkable story of 2024 co–Australian of the Year Richard Scolyer.

A dedicated doctor. A devastating diagnosis. A chance for a medical revolution.

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The Men Who Killed the News

The image of the book cover for The Men Who Killed the News by Eric Beecher includes the tagline ' The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy'.  The image is white, with the author's name at the top, and the book title in large letters down the page (black - The Men Who / switching to red for Killed for News). There are images of various men around the edges, Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch being two of the most instantly recognisable. The others are possibly Robert Maxwell, William Randolph Hurst and I think it could be Elon Musk.

Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls – from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk – and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs.  

What’s...Read more

Australian Gospel

The image of the book cover for Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine includes the tagline ' A Family Saga' and the quote 'One of the best writers of his generation' Benjamin Law. The image is a blurred, shiny background with two children, one in a blue t-shirt and shorts at the top, the other just in shorts. The one at the top has longish brown hair, the bottom, his mouth wide open. Both images are on a sideways angle, it looks like they are happy.

From one of Australia's most brilliant writers, a dark comedy about the tangled fates of two couples and the children trapped between them

Michael and Mary Shelley are Christian fanatics who loathe their fellow Australians – especially their 'foul language, reckless indulgence...Read more

The Forever War

The image of the book cover for The Forever War by Nick Bryant includes the tagline 'America's Unending Conflict with Itself'.

The image is of a roughly drawn version of the stripes on the American flag at the top, and a shot of the Capital Building with rioters in front of it.

The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarization is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found in its troubled past.

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American...Read more

The Campers

The image of the book cover for The Campers by Maryrose Cuskelly includes the tagline 'You can't choose your neighbours' and the note 'Bestselling author of The Cane'.

The image is looking upwards along the end of a house with a couple of lit windows and the hint of a face standing at one. There's a large gum tree behind it, and a bright blue sky with a few clouds and flying birds across it.

An engrossing and provocative exploration of privilege, hypocrisy and justice by the bestselling author of The Cane.

Leah has a good life. She lives on The Drove, an inner-city cul-de-sac, with her husband Moses and their two children. She and her neighbours - the...Read more

Opus

The image of the book cover for Opus by Gareth Gore includes the tagline 'Dark Money, A Secretive Cult, and its missing to remake our world'.

The image is of a hand drawn black cassock with white buttons, and the dog collar portion normally at the top in the middle of the neck band is a banknote.

A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks.

For over half a...Read more

The Cryptic Clue

The book cover for The Cryptic Clue by Amanda Hampson includes the tagline 'Look who's back in hot water' highlighted by a magnifying glass which is making the look and in hot larger in size. The image is a white background with an orange border. To the left there's a dressmaker's dummy with a geometric shift dress on it. Out of a low down pocket on the front of the dress there's a light stick of explosive.

Look who's back in hot water! The highly anticipated new novel in The Tea Ladies cosy crime series, a runaway bestseller of the year. Available for pre-order now!

Welcome back to Zig Zag Lane in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty...Read more

The Hitchhiker

The book cover of The Hitchhiker by Gabriel Bergmoser has a yellow "sticker" on the front that says Bestselling Author, Must-Read Suspense, with part of the book cover and the title of The Caretaker in the middle. There's also a quote at the bottom 'I haven't found a cat-and-mouse game this captivating since Misery.' Jack Heath, author of Kill Your Husbands.

The image is of a long, rough country road with electricity poles running alongside it, and a rail crossing right in front. There are fields off to the side, and a car barely visible through the dust it is kicking up. Overhead, a cloudy, grey and white vast sky.

The Driver:

Ahead he could see only the stretch of unending road, on either side brown-scorched plains of dirt and scrub, above it all a soaring blue sky and blinding sun. Desolation that looked, to him, a hell of a lot like freedom. He wasn’t playing by anyone’s rules anymore....Read more

Cutler

The book cover for Cutler by David Whish-Wilson includes the quotes 'Sharp and insightful' Sara Foster and 'A ripping page-turner' Tim Winton. 

The image is of a fishing net dragging through the ocean, some of visible above a rough sea. The sky above is grey and cloudy, and filled with gulls hovering over the net. The sea is dark grey and choppy.

Paul Cutler is a former undercover operative, now working off the books for his handler, Malik Khalil. When Cutler is tasked with investigating the disappearance of an Australian marine scientist on a Taiwanese distant water fishing vessel, Cutler realises that the apparent murder he' s...Read more

Cherrywood

The book cover for Cherrywood by Jock Serong has two quotes on it 'Sublime and haunting' Toni Jordan and 'Beautiful' Tim Rogers.

The background of the image is beautifully fitted together, rounded off pieces of wood (like an edging of a frame or box). They are glowing slightly red with deep grain throughout. There's part of a barometer showing at the top with the needle just below change, on the way to fair.

In the centre there's another dial (? nautical image - might be a compass / doesn't look like one), with part of a watch face peaking out on the right. At the bottom there's a perpetual calendar dial with a red painted image that overlays the surrounding wood.

'One rainy Friday evening in the winter of 1993, a taxi swept through the streets of East Melbourne, on its way from the city to Richmond. That year was one of the few remaining when a great deal was known of the world, but not yet so much that the world had become over-known. Small gaps...Read more

Safe Haven

The book cover for Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran includes the taglines 'A Novel' and 'From the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens'

The image is a beautiful montage of layers of blue wavy water upwards on the image until the top which has a night, starry sky with a full moon in the centre. The outside edges have images of red, orange seaweed with various things hanging from pieces - handcuffs, swimming goggles. There's strands of barbed wire woven through that. In the centre, below the title which has the waves of the layers blended over the top of large white lettering, there is a small boat, with a bow wave around it. There are fish, flowers and a sea bed at the bottom.

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. 

It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees,...Read more