The Close Up by Pip Drysdale

Zoe moves to LA to become a novelist.

Her future is wide open—until Zach, an aspiring actor ghosts her, and her debut novel bombs. 

Three years pass and Zach’s star rises—he’s on Netflix while she’s calling herself a writer while staring at a blinking cursor every night.

But then she runs into Zach Hamilton and they pick up right where they left off.

Zoe ends up in the press and her novel goes viral.

Except the problem with everyone knowing her name is that everyone knows her name.

Including Zach’s stalker, who is re-enacting everything that happened in her book, step by step, against her…

All the Bees in the Hollows 
by Lauren Keegan

Marytè is a devoted beekeeper who lives by the old work- be a good Christian and a good harvest will follow.

These rules help her grieve when she inherits her husband's tree hollows.

But as harsh conditions threaten the harvest, Marytè starts to question her faith.

There is little help to be had from her eldest daughter.

Austėja is no worker bee. She dreams of escaping the isolated community and finds refuge in beliefs instilled by her defiant grandmother.

When Austėja discovers the mutilated body of the Hollow, she is intent on finding the truth.

The Voice Inside 
by John Farnam

Growing up in London and Melbourne, music was always part of John Farnham's world. But the young John never dreamed of what was to come.

Pop stardom in the 1960s, a decades-long touring career, 21 ARIA awards and Australian of the Year. 

At first glance, the John Farnham story is one filled with remarkable highs.

It is, however, so much more than that. It is the story of the resilience John found as his career stalled and he faced financial ruin.

John has never shown how difficult it was to stay true to himself in a ruthless industry.

Throughout a lifetime filled with highs and lows, John has remained steadfast, never losing his ability to make human connections through music.

After a cancer diagnosis and far too many goodbyes, John is now telling his story.

Rapture by Emily Maguire

The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild girl with a deep love of God.

At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a monk to disguise herself as a man and devote her life to the study she is denied as a woman.

So begins the life of John the Englishman: a scholar and scribe of the revered Fulda monastery, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, eventually, a celebrated teacher in Rome.

There, Agnes (as John) dazzles the Church hierarchy with her knowledge and finds herself at the heart of political intrigue where gossip is a powerful currency.

And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome, she will risk everything to once again feel what it is to be known—and loved.

The Valley
by Chris Hammer

A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley, but this is no ordinary case. Ivan and Nell are soon contending with cowboy lawyers, conmen and grave robbers.

But when Nell discovers the victim is a close blood relative, the past begins to take on a looming significance.

What took place in The Valley all those years ago? Why was Nell's mother there, and what was her connection to police officer Simmons Burnside? Why do the police insist Ivan and Nell stay with the case despite a conflict of interest?

The Valley features a page-turning plot, intriguing characters, and an evocative sense of place—where nothing is quite what it seems. 

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

Lisa Marie Presley tells her story for the first time in this riveting memoir completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.

In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finish her memoir.  A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words.

Riley listened to the tapes her mother had recorded for the book.

Hearing about living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school always in trouble.

About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran towards his body on the floor.

About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson.

Riley knew she had to reveal these memories to the world. 

Tonight by Nagi Maehashi

Australia's favourite home cook, Nagi Maehashi, is back to solve the perennial problem of what's for dinner tonight.

Nagi brings us Tonight with more than 150 brand-new foolproof recipes, 800 variations on those recipes and 3000 possible combinations that match formulas with different ingredients.

Try slow-baked Italian meatballs in a tomato sauce or fall-apart Asian chicken cooked in a sticky-sweet soy glaze.

Some dinners can be cooked in 20 minutes, and others can be made using only pantry staples.

This is a book for every Australian kitchen and every set of taste buds.

Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier

Gen Z's mental health is worse than ever with increased youth suicide rates, antidepressant prescriptions for children, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses.

Investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem isn't the kids — it's the mental health experts.

Mental health care can be lifesaving when properly applied, but that is not what's happening.

Instead, children experiencing the normal pangs of adolescence and their anxious parents are seeking answers from therapists, who are more than happy to explore what might be wrong — and to make money doing so.