11/08/2026
📚✨ NEW BOOKS HAVE LANDED! ✨📚
Our latest arrivals cover everything from Australian history and powerful First Nations stories to swoony romance, memoir and native Australian cooking. Here’s a little more about what’s just hit the shelves:
O’Leary of the Underworld — Kate Auty
A powerful work of Australian history investigating the 1926 Forrest River Massacre in the Kimberley, the people involved and the systems that allowed the truth to be buried. A confronting and meticulously researched account of frontier violence and injustice.
You’ll like this if: you’re interested in Australian history, truth-telling, investigative non-fiction and stories that uncover the darker chapters of our past.
🌊 Daughters of the Tide — Arianne James
A haunting, atmospheric novel where family secrets, memory, myth and the sea intertwine. As Isla, her mother and her aunt confront the ghosts of the past, the line between reality and imagination begins to blur.
You’ll like this if: you love atmospheric historical fiction, family secrets, folklore, strong women and a touch of magical realism.
💜 Better Than Revenge — Bea Fitzgerald
A sharp and addictive sapphic thriller about two ambitious actresses whose rivalry becomes increasingly obsessive — with jealousy, fame and attraction blurring the lines between enemies and something more.
You’ll like this if: you’re a fan of enemies-to-lovers, sapphic romance, celebrity drama, rivalries and a dark, twisty thriller.
🌿 Native Ingredients Every Day — Nornie Bero
A celebration of Australian native produce with more than 80 recipes showing how ingredients like wattleseed, pepperberry, warrigal greens and strawberry gum can be brought into everyday cooking.
You’ll like this if: you love Australian food, discovering new ingredients, beautiful cookbooks and recipes with a strong connection to culture and Country.
🐉 Maiden — Georgia Leighton
A feminist fantasy inspired by the legend of St George and the Dragon, where every year a young woman is chosen to be sacrificed to the Great Dragon. Told through the perspectives of three women caught in the heart of the ritual, it’s a story of forbidden magic, rebellion and female rage.
You’ll like this if: you love feminist fantasy, mythology retellings, dragons, forbidden magic, court politics and women who refuse to accept their fate.
📺 Over to You — Georgie Tunny
A funny, emotional contemporary novel following three women trying to make it in the cut-throat world of television news, while juggling friendship, ambition, relationships and the pressure to compromise who they are to get ahead.
You’ll like this if: you enjoy workplace dramas, female friendships, ambitious women, behind-the-scenes media stories and a healthy dose of newsroom chaos.
📖 Six new books. Six very different stories. And plenty of reasons to add to your TBR.
Which one are you most excited to pick up? 👀✨
