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2025 has been an amazing year for book releases, and the final Tuesday in September saw booksellers dealing with a perfect storm of huge releases (including new releases from Trent Dalton, Richard Osman, Philippa Gregory, Benjamin Stevenson and Craig Silvey) all arriving and needing to be unpacked for eager readers in one day. To all…

As we barrell on into yet another quickly-moving year, the books team at AU Review have pulled together a hotly anticipated list of dramas, mysteries, romances and fresh horrors to keep you riveted to your reading seat. Between the grissly mysteries and untimely deaths are touching stories of friendship, love and recognising our own strength…

As the new year is set to roll around, our team have already got their sights set on a bumper year of awesome releases! The beginning of the year has our readers frothing over occult and ghostly horrors, journeys of self-discovery, tormented artists, time travelling detectives, and even a moon made of cheese. Witchcraft and…

King Richard the Third is dead, but his soul is not at peace. Guided by a quixotic raven, he makes his way through the space in between life and dead, searching for the angel who will lead him to what is next, whatever that may be. Meanwhile, at an Abbey in Oxenbridge, a monk named…

It’s a new year and The AU book team are already eyeing up the release charts and penning in their most anticipated releases for the year. The beginning of 2024 brings in a host of exciting books. With everything from mythical sea creatures, 1800’s apothecaries, America as seen through the eyes of its First Peoples,…

With Christmas less than a week away, at the AU we’ve got to the task of agonising and arguing over our end of year lists – best albums, best films, best games, and of course best books. The Books team have taken a look over the year’s releases and compiled a list of some of…

In The Heart is a Star, debut novelist Megan Rogers explores one woman’s struggles to balance the demands of her career and family against her own needs as a person. As the book opens, we meet Layla Byrnes, an anaesthetist who is just ending a period of enforced leave when she receives a disturbing phone…

Orphia and Eurydicius by Elyse John is a beautiful and poetic new retelling of the original Greek myth, Orpheus and Eurydice. In the original myth, Orpheus is known to be a dominating male lead, with Eurydice as his submissive lover. In John’s retelling,  the gender roles of the two characters are switched, making Orphia a…

2023 is flying by and somehow it’s the other side of Easter already. So we in the AU Books Team are back with some more of our most anticipated books of the year; this time for April through to June.  With so many books published each month it would be impossible to cover them all….

2021 is coming into the final stretch, the final quarter, and with that comes more books – all vying for the Christmas market. It’s 81days to go, if you were curious.  So we’re back for our final instalment of our AU’s Most Anticipated Reads feature for this year. Though we’ll be back just before Christmas…

As any self-respecting You Am I fan knows, Tim Rogers can spin a yarn or ten. What they may not realise is that this legendary songwriter, artist, and musician has also achieved this in a book format, without the need for a guitar, mic-stand or a drink. Okay, maybe he did need the latter. His debut…