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May Reading Suggestions

In celebration of Sydney Writers' Festival happening this month, we've pulled together a few of the Australian authors featured this year. Scroll down to find something for children, youth and adults, fiction and non-fiction.

Click on the links below each book cover to reserve via the Library Catalogue, or find eBooks and eAudio on BorrowBox, Indyreads or Libby.

Junior Fiction Authors

Cristy Burne e.g. Beneath the trees	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Guy Edmonds e.g. Zombie diaries	Library Catalogue Libby
Kate Foster e.g. The Bravest word	Library Catalogue BorrowBox
Jane Godwin e.g. As happy as here	Library Catalogue BorrowBox
Jeremy Lachlan e.g. Jane Doe and the Cradle of worlds	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Libby
Maryam Master e.g. Exit through the gift shop	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Amelia Mellor e.g. The grandest bookshop in the world	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Jasmin McGaughey e.g. Little Ash series	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads

Young Adult Fiction Authors

Randa Abdel Fattah e.g. Does my head look big in this	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Felicity Castagna e.g. Girls in boys' cars	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Andrew Daddo e.g. Just breathe	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Lauren Draper e.g. Museum of broken things	Library Catalogue BorrowBox
Mette Jakobsen e.g. The snow laundry	Library Catalogue BorrowBox
Amie Kaufman e.g. Aurora rising	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Nina Kenwood e.g. Unnecessary drama	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Libby
Will Kostakis e.g. Monuments	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Ellie Marney e.g. The killing code	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Lynette Noni e.g. The prison healer	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Lili Wilkinson e.g. The Erasure Initiative	Library Catalogue BorrowBox
Markus Zusak e.g. The book thief	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads

Adult authors - Memoirs and Biographies

Caroline Baum Only	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Libby
Tabitha Carvan This book is not about Benedict Cumberbatch	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Mawunyo Gbogbo Hip hop and hymns	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Amani Haydar Mother wound	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Shane Jenek aka Courtney Act Caught in the act	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Ronni Kahn A repurposed life	Library Catalogue Indyreads Libby
Sarah Krasnostein The trauma cleaner	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Libby
Sarah Malik Desi girl	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Mark Mordue Boy on fire	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Rick Morton My year of living vulnerably	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Sam Neill Did I ever tell you this	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Libby
Grace Tame Ninth life of a diamond miner	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Amy Thunig Tell me again	Library Catalogue Indyreads

Adult authors - Fiction

Grace Chan e.g. Every version of you	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Shankari Chandran e.g. Song of the sun god	Library Catalogue Libby
Sally Colin-James e.g. One illuminated thread	Library Catalogue BorrowBox
George Haddad e.g. Losing face	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Jane Harper e.g. The dry	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Gail Jones e.g. Salonika burning	Library Catalogue Indyreads Libby
Fiona Kelly McGregor e.g. Iris	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Shirley Le e.g. Funny Ethnics	Library Catalogue Libby
Diana Reid e.g. Seeing other people	Library Catalogue Indyreads Libby
Holly Ringland e.g. Lost flowers of Alice Hart	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Omar Sakr e.g. Son of sin	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Saman Shad e.g. The matchmaker	Library Catalogue Indyreads
Benjamin Stevenson e.g. Everyone in my family has killed someone	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Yvonne Weldon e.g. Sixty seven days	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads

Adult authors - Non Fiction Indigenous and environment

Paul Callaghan e.g. The dreaming path	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads
Tim Flannery e.g. The climate cure	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Joelle Gergis e.g. Humanity's moment	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Libby
Stan Grant e.g. Australia Day	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Rebecca Huntley e.g. How to talk about cimate change in way that makes a difference	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Paddy Manning e.g. Body count	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Thomas Mayo e.g. Finding the heart of the nation	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Libby

Adult authors - Non Fiction

Annabel Crabb e.g. Well hello	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Libby
Brigid Delaney e.g. Reasons not to worry	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Richard Fidler e.g. The golden maze	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Clementine Ford e.g. How we love	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Libby
Julia Gillard e.g. Not now, not ever	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Benjamin Law e.g. The family Law	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Bri Lee e.g. Who gets to be smart	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby
Kate Legge e.g. Infidelity and other affairs	Library Catalogue Indyreads
Lawrence Mooney e.g. Embracing your limitations	Library Catalogue Libby
Alison Pennington e.g. Gen F'd?	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Libby
Jess Scully e.g. Glimpses of Utopia	Library Catalogue Indyreads Libby
Yumi Stynes e.g. Ladies, we need to talk	Library Catalogue BorrowBox Indyreads Libby

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