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1 y separately published work icon The Last Light Horse Dianne Wolfer , Brian Simmonds (illustrator), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 23419802 2022 single work picture book children's

'There were 136,000 Australian horses sent to fight during the First World War. Just one came home. From the high country of Victoria to the desert sand of Egypt, from the waters off Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, this is the extraordinary story of Sandy, the only returning warhorse.

'The fourth and final book in the Light series, which began with Lighthouse Girl and includes the CBCA shortlisted Light Horse Boy.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 y separately published work icon The Sawdust House David Whish-Wilson , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 23419740 2022 single work novel historical fiction crime

'San Francisco, 1856. Irish-born James ‘Yankee’ Sullivan is being held in jail by the Committee of Vigilance, which aims to rout the Australian criminals from the town. As Sullivan’s mistress, seeks his release and as his fellow prisoners are taken away to be hanged, the convict tells a story of triumph and tragedy: of his daring escape from penal servitude in Australia; how he became America’s most celebrated boxer; and how he met the true love of his life.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 y separately published work icon Only Birds Above Portland Jones , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 23419677 2022 single work novel historical fiction

'This is the story of Arthur Watkins, blacksmith, who leaves his beloved young wife Helen to serve with the 10th Light Horse Battalion in the Middle East in World War I. He returns without his horse, a man forever changed by what he has seen and suffered. Years later, Arthur’s children Ruth and Tom are still feeling the effects of the first war when Tom is sent by his father to work in Sumatra. Tom Watkins is there in 1942 when the Japanese invade and is taken prisoner. This is the story of two wars that divide and unite a father and son, and all the years that lie in between.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 y separately published work icon Backyard Beasties Helen Milroy , Helen Milroy (illustrator), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 23419548 2022 single work picture book children's

'From the author of Backyard Birds and Backyard Bugs, Helen Milroy’s latest picture book, Backyard Beasties, is designed to teach us all about the croaking, barking, screeching, mewling creatures that share our homes. From beastie besties, like the Pomeranian and the pussycat, to clucking chickens and licking lizards, the jewel-like illustrations will make this book a joy to share.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 y separately published work icon Unlimited Futures Unlimited Futures : Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction Rafeif Ismail (editor), Ellen van Neerven (editor), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 23419495 2022 anthology short story

'Unlimited Futures is an anthology of Own Voice speculative fiction from 21 emerging and established First Nations writers and Black writers, reflecting visionary pasts, hopeful futures and the invisible ties between First Nations people and People of Colour.

'With works by Tuesday Atzinger, Flora Chol, Claire Coleman, Zena Cumpston, Lisa Fuller, Meleika Gasa-Fatafehi, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Chemutai Glasheen, Genevieve Grieves, Rafeif Ismail, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Laniyuk, Maree McCathy Yoelu, Jasmin McGaughey, SJ Minniecon, Sisonke Msimang, Merryana Salem, Mykaela Saunders, Aïsha Trambas, Alison Whittaker and Jasper Wyld, this is an anthology of the tales they wish had existed when they were growing up in Australia.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 y separately published work icon Lion Is That You? Moira Court , Moira Court (illustrator), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 23162647 2022 single work picture book children's

'‘Come on, let’s take a good look aorund. Are there really lions to be found?’ Rumours abound of ex-circus cats roaming wild in the hills. But are the stories true? Join in the search, and discover lots of different animals in the Australian bush along the way.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 y separately published work icon The Gallerist Michael Levitt , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2022 23162585 2022 single work novel

'Mark Lewis, a former surgeon, has found solace in running a small art gallery. When Jan, a local woman, brings him a painting for valuing, it looks uncannily like a painting by the enigmatic artist James Devlin. Yet Jan claims it was done by a seventeen-year-old boy called Charlie.

'As Mark searches for the painting's true provenance, he is joined by the attractive and clever Linda de Vries. But the pair will learn that James Devlin is a man whose past is as blank as an empty canvas, and he is determined to keep it that way.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 y separately published work icon Alex Grant Mysteries Sally Scott , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021- 21920068 2021 series - author novel
1 y separately published work icon Ngangk Waangening : Mothers’ Stories Doreen Nelson (editor), Rhonda Marriott (editor), Tracey Reibel (editor), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 23428544 2021 anthology prose autobiography

'This is a unique book of Noongar and Yamatji mothers' accounts of their birthing experiences, highlighting the importance of developing respectful, thoughtful, woman-centred care for Aboriginal women and their families.

'In Ngangk Waangening, a group of Elder and Senior women generously share their birthing stories as a legacy for their families and communities, and as an educational tool for midwives and young mothers who may not have access to traditional support systems while giving birth to their babies.'(Publication summary) 

1 y separately published work icon Heading South : Far North Queensland to Western Australia by Rail Tim Richards , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 22959657 2021 single work prose travel

'Freelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor Tim Richards decides to shake up his life by taking an epic rail journey across Australia. Jumping aboard iconic trains like the Indian Pacific, Overland and Spirit of Queensland, he covers over 7,000 kilometres, from the tropics to the desert and from big cities to ghost towns. Tim's journey is one of classic travel highs and lows: floods, cancellations, extraordinary landscapes and forays into personal and public histories - as well as the steady joy of random strangers encountered along the way.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Fromage Sally Scott , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 21920101 2021 single work novel crime

'Journalist Alex Grant is enjoying the last days of her summer holiday in Croatia when she is accosted by an old school friend, Marie Puharich, and her odious brother, Brian, both there to attend the funeral of their fearsome grandfather’s two loyal retainers. The only upside of the whole sorry business is meeting Marco, the family’s resident adonis. An incorrigible foodie, Alex is unable to resist Brian’s invitation to visit the family creamery in Australia’s south-west to snoop around for stories and eat her body weight in brie. But trouble has a way of finding Alex, not least because her curiosity is the size of a giant gouda wheel. What begins as a country jaunt in search of a juicy story will end in death, disaster and the destruction of multiple pairs of shoes.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon The River Mouth Karen Herbert , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 21919743 2021 single work novel crime

'Fifteen-year-old Darren Davies is found facedown in the Weymouth River with a gunshot wound to his chest. The killer is never found. Ten years later, his mother receives a visit from the local police. Sandra’s best friend has been found dead on a remote Pilbara road, and Barbara’s DNA matches the DNA found under Darren’s fingernails. When the investigation into her son’s murder is reopened, Sandra begins to question what she knew about her best friend. As she digs, she discovers that there are many secrets in her small town, and that her murdered son had secrets too.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Beneath the Stars Ezekiel Kwaymullina , Sally Morgan (illustrator), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 21919426 2021 selected work picture book
1 y separately published work icon Inseparable Elements : Dame Mary Durack, a Daughter's Perspective Patsy Millett , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 21919315 2021 single work biography

'Dame Mary Durack Miller was born into a pastoral legacy that made her name famous even before she became one of Australia’s most popular literary doyennes of the 20th century. Best known for her history of the Durack family, Kings in Grass Castles, Dame Mary was married to aviation pioneer Horrie Miller and was a sibling to the artist Elizabeth Durack. Among the multifarious threads woven into her life, she became a friend and confident to many celebrated writers, actors and artists. Drawing on a great accumulation of first-hand sources, principally her mother’s diaries and correspondence, Patsy Millett’s book is about a well-known family who saw their prospects as blighted. Written from the unique perspective of someone born into the wash-up of the Durack dynasty, Patsy says her account ‘will be controversial, as the reality behind the generally accepted facts has never been told’. Millet’s story is unflinching. Her sharp, insightful prose and acerbic wit create an intimate portrait of an extraordinary writer whose family life was filled with triumph and tragedy.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Stars in Their Eyes Jessica Walton , Aśka (illustrator), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 21918816 2021 single work graphic novel

'Maisie has always dreamed of meeting her hero, Kara Bufano, an amputee actor who plays a kick-arse amputee character in her favourite show. Fancon is big and exciting and exhausting. Then she meets Ollie, a cute volunteer who she has a lot in common with. Could this be the start of something, or will her mum, who doesn’t seem to know what boundaries are, embarrass her before she and Ollie have a chance?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon The Petticoat Parade : Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels Leigh Straw , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 21861016 2021 single work biography

'The Petticoat Parade, a true crime biography and social history of Josie de Bray's life is the latest book from award-winning author, Leigh Straw.

'Josie de Bray, aka Madam Monnier, aka Marie Louise Monnier, was a brothel madam who owned most of Roe Street, Perth from WWI up to the 1940s. A returned soldier tried to shoot her dead in her brothel in 1917 and her 'bungalow' was at the centre of underworld violence in the 1920s. She returned to France before WWII to visit family and was bombed repeatedly out of homes there and captured by the Germans. She was a prisoner of war and one story has her in a concentration camp. She survived, returned to Perth in 1947 and took up business again in Roe Street, having made a fortune from the rent collected from her brothels while she was a prisoner of war, up until her death in 1953.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Private Prosecution Lisa Ellery , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 21860896 2021 single work novel crime

'Written by lawyer-turned-writer Lisa Ellery, Craig Sisterson calls Private Prosecution 'a superb debut written with personality and pace, from an arresting new voice in Australian crime'.

'Andrew Deacon is young, fit and single, a junior prosecutor at the WA DPP with a bright future and a sense of entitlement to match. That future starts to look darker when he spends the night with an attractive stranger, Lily Constantine, and she is found murdered in her apartment the following day. Based on a conversation with Lil, Andrew believes he knows who killed her - a senior Western Australian criminal law barrister, Sam Godfrey SC, who is also Lil's brother-in-law. Andrew tells the police everything he knows, but his quest to bring Godfrey to justice provokes retaliation and soon Andrew is on the run, with no way forward but to prove Godfrey's guilt. This is a pacy, darkly comic whodunnit with a twist - Andrew knows who did it but the clock is ticking and he has to prove it before he gets himself taken out.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Skimming Stones Maria Papas , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 21845892 2021 single work novel

'Grace first met her lover, Nate, as a teenager, their bond forged in the corridors and waiting rooms where siblings of cancer patients sit on the sidelines. Now an adult, for Grace, nursing is a comforting world of science and certainty. But the paediatric ward is also a place of miracles and heartbreak and, when faced with a dramatic emergency, Grace is confronted with memories of her sister’s illness. Heading south to Lake Clifton and the haunts of her childhood, Grace discovers that a stone cast across a lake sends out ripples long after the stone has gone.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Crocodile Tears Alan Carter , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 21845756 2021 single work novel crime

'Detective Philip ‘Cato’ Kwong is investigating the death of a retiree found hacked to pieces in his suburban Perth home. The trail leads to Timor-Leste, with its recent blood-soaked history. There, he reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Rory Driscoll who, in Cato’s experience, has always occupied a hazy moral terrain.
'Resourceful, multilingual, and hard as nails, Rory has been Canberra’s go-to guy when things get sticky in the Asia-Pacific. Now Rory wants out. But first he’s needed to chaperone a motley group of whistleblowers with a price on their heads. And there’s one on his, too.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Mel and Shell Julia Lawrinson , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2021 21518045 2021 single work novel children's young adult

'Mel and Shell is the latest book for middle readers from award-winning author Julia Lawrinson.

'Shell and Mel are best friends, united by their love of ABBA. But when Scary Sharon decides she wants to be friends with Shell, and Mel begins acting strangely, things start changing fast. Confiding in her pen pal from 1829, Shell discovers she has a lot to learn about loyalty, honesty and roller skating.' (Publication summary)

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