Book Club – Journal

We hope you love this story about change, old loves, new discoveries, and the power of stories to keep us company no matter what is around the corner. 

Full of mystery, characters that will keep you on your toes, and plenty of bad decisions, we hope you enjoy meeting Nell Jenkins and the town that raised her, for better or worse. 

This month's selection – Sleep by Honor Jones – comes with the check of approval from Ann Patchett. That's how you know it's going to be an extraordinary tale of family relationships and the complexities they bring to our lives. 

Meet Nora. She notices all the things around her, the people in her community, and the feelings she has. Join her on a day out to see the world in a new way! 

Good Girl by Aria Aber is a coming-of-age novel with all the trimmings. Already shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, we've got a feeling you're going to want to add this one to your list. 

In this month’s book, we meet a little girl whose mum is quite different from the other mums at school – almost too different. She’s a bird. It makes lots of things quite tricky and causes some embarrassing moments when parents and carers are invited to join in at school for the day, but it also leads to a surprising turn...

In this month’s book The Colours of Home by Sally Soweol Han, we’re exploring how you can make a new place feel like home, just by looking for the things that you recognise.

Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley is full of musical history and analysis and we found ourselves listening to our favourite tracks a little differently afterwards. 

We thought we should pick up An Ant’s Guide to Being an Ant: to better understand our little six-legged, creepy-crawly friends. This guide tells you everything you need to know about life as an ant and, best of all, our ant friends have a sense of humour!

Prepare yourself for a completely transporting and devastating story from the mind of Charlotte McConaghy. Wild Dark Shore is something else and we guarantee you'll never forget it. 

Over or Under? is a story of bouncing back when things don’t go to plan. We hope you love it as much as we did! 

In this month’s selection we follow Camille on her commute to work as she grapples with how her life has taken shape. It’s funny, self-aware, exasperating, wry, and far too relatable as it puts millennial ennui in focus. 

Cheese! is our new favourite book to flip through to remember the creamy, sharp, and crumbly treats we love to include in our lunchboxes. 

Told through the perspectives of ten different women, the death of Lucy Anderson is the hinge between ‘before’ and ‘after’, the catalyst that sends ripples through the town and beyond.

There’s no one we trust more than Alice Oehr to take us on a journey to the nursery – after all, she’s taken us to the market and shared her favourite foods in alphabetical order … she knows what she’s talking about. 

We’re not too proud to admit that we were drawn in by its gorgeous cover art but once we sat down with it, we were greeted by one of the most compelling Australian debuts we’ve ever encountered. 

We love this time of year, when we can put together some of our favourites of the year for you – the titles that might not have been sent out to our subscribers but hold a special place in our hearts anyway. 

This month, we’re getting all snuggly and discovering what makes a great bedtime in How to Make a Bedtime by Meg Mckinlay and Karen Blair.

You’re going to want to brew your preferred steaming hot beverage, clear the afternoon, and settle in somewhere comfy; once you’ve started Dusk, there is no putting it down until you’re finished.

We live in a big country with a big history and some VERY big creatures. In When Dinosaurs Roamed Australia you’ll get to meet some of the big personalities that were stomping across the land millions of years ago. 

In Rapture, we follow Agnes on a journey of astounding proportions as she navigates political intrigue, desire and the realities of a Church unsteady on its feet.

Fairy Beach has opened up a whole new world for us, one where fairies sleep in conch shells, frolic in sandcastles and get their wings wet in the salty water. 

In Girls, Mattie and Nora navigate the ways they were failed by their mother and the people who should have been looking out or them, they discover the ways they. too, are capable of failing one another. 

As a team full of people who love to buy gifts for our loved ones, we wanted to put together a quick list of our favourite book-related gifts to make it easy to buy gifts for the literature lovers in your life. 

In this month's selection, you'll discover how slimy worms are helping beautiful things to grow in our world.

The Echoes is a story of life, death, grief, secrets and tangled webs of family failings. 

This month’s selection takes us on a journey to explore all the things – big and small – that keep our world interesting and fun.