Keri Smith, creator of the mega-bestselling Wreck This Journal, now brings her imagination and inspiration to children with this picture book that explores the very active experience of reading.
Some were our monthly selections, some were very close to being, and others we read after they'd published and wished they had been. All are excellent!
A tender and funny, heartbreaking and life-affirming, witty and wise novel by Scottish author and London Review of Books Editor-at-Large Andrew O’Hagan.
A sweeping family saga from a refreshing new voice in Australian literature, Lucky's is the story of a Greek migrant trying to make it in postwar Sydney. It's about fate, secrets, tragedy, redemption and, ultimately, love.
This month’s kid's book is about a man called Benedict Stanley, his cat Audrey Mae, the biscuits that they make and, most importantly, the power of kindness.