New books for September-October 2026

fiction

Front cover image for The witches of Cambridge Front cover image for Taipei story Front cover image for the long cloud Front cover image for Enchantment

Front cover image for I want you to be happy Front cover image for The newer world Front cover image for People with money Front cover image for Cul de sac

Front cover image for The second child Front cover image for Under story Front cover image for The extraordinary Florence Stoker Front cover image for Life of M

Front cover image for Switzy Front cover image for The office as a boat : a chronicle 

non fiction

Front cover image for The finest hotel in Kabul : a people's history of Afghanistan Good Witch | Book by Lucianne Tonti | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster AU Deal Maker: The Secret World of AFL Recruiting and Trading by Peter Ryan Front cover image for REMARKABLE GREIG SISTERS : pioneers in medicine and law.

Front cover image for HANDING OVER THE KEYS : indigenous peoples and carceral injustice. Front cover image for NGARN WA'NGAL : art of the gum tree. Front cover image for Living with Freddie : how a dog taught me to be human Front cover image for Asbestos nation : the story of the most dangerous dust in Australia

Front cover image for The fallen : the Magdalene Laundries and Ireland's legacy of silence Front cover image for FOREIGN RETURN : on art and inhabitation. Front cover image for The doubles Front cover image for TRIP REPORTS : stories from an australian psychedelic renaissance.

Front cover image for Plastic budgie Front cover image for Grand ambition : Paul Keating's global vision for Australia Front cover image for Lost worlds : how humans tried, failed, succeeded, and built our world Front cover image for JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE : encountering change, looking for continuity.

Front cover image for John Henry Newman on truth and its counterfeits : a guide for our times Front cover image for Bioethics : a Catholic primer Front cover image for First Nations writing : Meanjin 1977 to today Front cover image for Contaminated country : nuclear colonialism and Aboriginal resistance in Australia

Front cover image for The stars we do not see : Australian Indigenous art Front cover image for Textiles x art : how textiles are shaping contemporary art Front cover image for Convent wisdom : how sixteenth-century nuns could save your twenty-first-century life Front cover image for Duty to warn

Front cover image for Gough Whitlam : the vista of the new Front cover image for Laneways of Melbourne Front cover image for Hooked : inside the murky world of Australia's gambling industry Front cover image for The nuclear age : an epic race for arms, power and survival

Front cover image for Rich kid poor kid : the battle for public education Front cover image for Heresies : occasional pieces Front cover image for The idea of Israel : a history of power and knowledge Front cover image for For the people : fighting authoritarianism, saving democracy

Front cover image for Going on and on : why our longevity threatens the future Front cover image for Herlands : lessons from societies where women make the rules Front cover image for Angertainment : how social media outrage ruined everything Front cover image for Super Nintendo : how one Japanese company helped the world have fun

Front cover image for Mafia : a global history Front cover image for How to end a story : collected diaries 1978-1998