Patricia Piccinini is an award-winning artist who loves exploring the amazing connections between humans and animals. Published by the National Gallery of Australia, Every Heart Sings is her first children’s book and our April selection for the kids.
Introducing April's selection Auē by Becky Manawatu - an assured debut novel that is both raw and sublime and introduces a compelling new voice in New Zealand fiction.
This month's book asks its readers if they have ever seen a flower. Like 'really' seen a flower. It's a deceptively simple but deeply profound story of one child experiencing a flower with all five senses.
A Great Hope by Jessica Stanley, Free Love by Tessa Hadley, Love Marriage by Monica Ali, Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades, Practising Simplicity by Jodi Wilson and Love and Other Puzzles by Kimberley Allsopp.
Introducing February's book Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim - an expansive and mesmerising story of love, war and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement.
As warmhearted as it is tough-minded, we were totally absorbed by this dazzling debut about a status-driven wedding planner for New York's elite grappling with her absent mother and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria.