Yesterday The Guardian (Australian edition) published an article about Australian books to be published in 2024. But it was written as a feature that arranged the books by theme, which made it hard work to figure out what was...
Yesterday The Guardian (Australian edition) published an article about Australian books to be published in 2024. But it was written as a feature that arranged the books by theme, which made it hard work to figure out what was being published when.
So, I’ve taken the time to arrange the books in a way that makes sense to me: by month of publication.
Please note that all books are fiction unless stated otherwise.
JANUARY
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown (Scribner) The Pulling by Adele Dumont (Scribe; non-fiction) Politica by Yumna Kassab (Ultimo)FEBRUARY
The Great Undoing by Sharlene Allsopp (Ultimo) One Another by Gail Jones (Text) Gawimarra by Jeanine Leane (UQP; poetry)MARCH
Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn (Hachette) The Cancer Finishing School by Peter Goldsworthy (PRH; non-fiction) Like Fire Hearted Suns by Melanie Joosten (Ultimo) Lead Us Not by Abbey Lay (PRH) 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le (Scribner; poetry) The Work by Bri Lee (Allen & Unwin) Breath by Carly-Jay Metcalfe (UQP; non-fiction) Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan (Allen & Unwin) Appreciation by Liam Pieper (PRH)APRIL
Deep Water by James Bradley (PRH; non-fiction) Thunderhead by Miranda Darling (Scribe) No Church in the Wild by Murray Middleton (Macmillan). The Gorgon Flower by John Richards (UQP; short stories)MAY
Because I’m Not Myself, You See by Ariane Beeston (Black Inc; non-fiction) Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran (Ultimo) The End of the Morning by Charmian Clift (New South) The Story Thief by Kyra Geddes (Affirm) Ordinary Human Love by Melissa Goode (Ultimo) How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson (New South; non-fiction) Ghost Cities by Siang Lu (UQP) Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan (New South; non-fiction) Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower: The Letters by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham (New South; non-fiction)JUNE
First Nations Classics — 8-volume set (UQP) Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland (Allen & Unwin) Everything Is Water by Simon Cleary (UQP; non-fiction), Simon Cleary NF Big Time by Jordan Prosser (UQP) Black Witness by Amy McQuire (UQP; non-fiction)JULY
Slutdom by Hilary Caldwell (UQP; non-fiction) Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey (PRH; short stories) The End and Everything Before It by Finegan Kruckemeyer (Text) The Truth About Nice by Amy Remeikis (Hachette; non-fiction) The Degenerates by Raeden Richardson (Text) Refugia by Elfie Shiosaki (Magabala; poetry) Honeyeater by Jessica Tu (Allen & Unwin)AUGUST
Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Colonised Australia by Santilla Chingaipe (Scribner; non-fiction) Running with Pirates by Kári Gíslason (UQP; non-fiction) Dirrayawadha by Anita Heiss (Simon & Schuster) The Fire Inside by Jazz Money (UQP; poetry)SEPTEMBER
The Burrow by Melanie Cheng (Text)OCTOBER
Vortex by Rodney Hall (Macmillan) Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock by Brenda Niall (Text; non-fiction)NOVEMBER
Weaving With Words by Larissa Behrendt (UQP; non-fiction) Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine (Black Inc; non-fiction)Note. there is a new non-fiction book by Helen Garner in the works, but no date or title was mentioned in the article.
