Full Disclosure - Another Aussie Authors Advent
Updated: Jan 2, 2020
If you're doing that last minute dash, don't forget - books make great presents - they're easy to wrap, they don't melt, their shelf life is infinite!
I received a heap of suggestions for the Aussie Authors Advent and it was incredibly difficult restricting myself to only 24 books, so much so that I felt I needed to do Another Aussie Authors Advent! The creative talent in Australia is fabulous and we really should celebrate, laud and promote this. There are many wonderful books that I regret I couldn't include, even on this second AAA. Here is a complete list of all the suggestions made on social media by friends and family, and also as a result of talking to the total gurus on books at my local bookshop, Farrells in Mornington. There will still be some I've omitted for which I can only apologise and encourage you to shout out your favourite Aussie authors.
Anthologies and shorts
A Constant Hum - Alice Bishop @bishopalice
Underdog - YA Anthology
The Penguin Book of the Ocean - James Bradley @cityoftongues
Growing up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke @slamup
Australia Day - Melanie Cheng - @mslcheng
Growing up Queer in Australia
Growing up Asian in Australia
New Australian Short Stories
Christmas on Hope Street - Stella Quinn, Megan Mayfair, Jayne Kingsley and Marianne Bayliss
Rainbow Cove Christmas - Nora James, Susanne Bellamy, Shirley Wine, Renee Dahlia
Children's
Curtis Creed and the Lore of the Oceans (kids 10+) - Rebecca Fraser @becksmuse
The Fire Watcher Chronicles (for kids 8+ years)- Kelly Gardiner @kmjgardiner
The Endsister (for kids 10- 14 years) - Penni Russon
Lenny's Book of Everything (for kids 10- 14 years) - Karen Foxlee - @karenfoxlee
The Australian Survival Guide (for kids 9+ years)- George Ivanoff @George_Ivanoff
Detention (for kids 10 + years) - Tristan Bancks @tristanbancks
The Bone Sparrow/The Ones that Disappeared (for 8+ years) - Zana Fraillon
How to make a movie in 12 days (middle grade/teenage) - Fiona Hardy
Crime/thriller/mystery
Darkness for Light - Emma Viskic @emmaviskic
The Nancys - RW McDonald @rwrmcdonald
Peace - Gary Disher
The Wife and the Widow - Christian White @CWhiteAuthor
Good Girl Bad Gilr - Michael Robotham - @michaelrobotham
Hiding to Nothing (described as beach noir) - Andy Muir @pandymedia
The Ruin - Derval McTiernan @DervlaMcTiernan
The Rip - Mark Brandi - @mb_randi
Painting in the Shadows - Katherine Kovacic
Call Me Evie - J P Pomare @JPPomare
Snake Island - Ben Leigh Hobson @BenLeighHobson
River of Salt - Dave Warner
Where the Dead Go - Sarah Bailey @sarahbailey1982
Hades - Candice Fox @candicefoxbooks
Fantasy and Sci-fi
Aurora Rising - Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Harlequin's Riddle - Rachel Nightingale
Historical
Skylarking - Kate Mildenhall
The Book fo Colours - Robyn Cadwallader @robyncad
The Hollow Bones - Leah Kaminsky @leahkam
The Lace Weaver - Lauren Chater
The Summer Bride - Anne Gracie @annegracie
The Secret River - Kate Grenville - @kategrenville
The Blue Rose - Kate Forsyth @KateForsyth
Preservation - Jock Serong @JockSerong
Fled - Meg Keneally @KeneallyMeg
Half Moon Lake - Kirsten Alexander @kirstenalex
The Secrets at Ocean's Edge - Kali Napier @KaliNapier
The Girl in the Painting - Tea Cooper @TeaCooper1
The Shepherd - Catherine Jinks @CatherineJinks6
Songwoman - Ilka Tamke @ilkatampke
Burial Rites - Hannah Kent @HannahFKent
The Light in the Labyrinth - Wendy Dunn @wendyjdunn
The French Photographer - Natasha Lester @Natasha_Lester
Horror
The Grief Hole - Kaaron Warren
Shadows on the Wall - Steven Paulsen
Perfect Little Stitches - Deborah Sheldon
Literary Fiction
The Fragments - Toni Jordan
The Shepherd's Hut - Tim Winton
The Good Weekend - Charlotte Wood
Wolfe Island - Lucy Treloar @LucyTreloar
Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton @trentdalton
Crossing the lines - Sulari Gentill @SulariGentill
Mother of Pearl - Angela Savage @angsavage
Small Blessings - Emily Brewin @EmilyKBrewin
Body of Men - Niigel Feathers @NGFeathers
Room for a Stranger - Melanie Cheng
A lIfetime of Impossible Days - Tabitha Bird @tabithabird
The Erratics - Vikki Laveau Harvie
The Lebs - Michael Mohammed Ahmed
The Breeding Season - Amanda Niehaus
Speculative - A Superior Spectre - Angela Meyer @LiteraryMinded
There Was Still Love - Favel Parrett @FavelParrett
Maybe the Horse Will Talk - Elliot Perlman
The Glad Shout - Alice Robinson @critrature
Bruny - Heather Rose @Rose_HMD
The Breeding Season - Amanda Niehaus
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Non-Fic
Dark Emu - Dr Brice Pascoe
Imperfect - Lee Kofman @LeeKofman
Say Hello - Carly Findlay
The Arsonist - Chloe Hooper
Night Fishing - Vikki Hastrich
Yellow Notebook - Helen Garner
Hearing Maud - Jessica White
Memoir
Your Kind of Girl - Clare Bowditch
Things Nobody Knows About Me - Amra Pajalic
Tell Me Why - Archie Roach
Butterfly on a Pin - Alannah Hill
Picture Books
Tilly - Jane Godwin and Anna Walker (illustrator)
Top Koala - Jackie French illustrated by Matt Shanks @jackie_french_
The Art garden - Penny Harrison and Penelope Partly
The Tiny Star - Mem Fox and Freya Blackwood (illustrator)
Romance
Wildflower Ridge - Maya Linnell
Star-crossed - Minnie Darke @MinnieDarke
Long Way Home - Nicola Marsh
Glass Clouds - Suzanne Cass
More than a Promise - Lauren K McKellar @LaurenKMcKellar
The One - Kaneana May
Up on Horseshoe Hill - Penelope Janu
Christmas on Hope Street - Stella Quinn, Megan Mayfair, Jayne Kingsley and Marianne Bayliss
Capture - Sandra Carmel
The Memories of Us - Vanessa Carnevale
YA
The Winter/WIlder Trilogy - Mark Smith @marksmith0257
It Sounded Better in My Head - Nina Kenwood @ninakenwood
Invisible Boys - Holden Sheppard
Because of You - Pip Harry
My Fathers Shadow - Jannali Jones @magabalabooks
Monuments - Will Kostakis
Hive/Rogue - A J Betts
This is how we change the ending - Vikki Wakefield
Promise Me Happy - Rob Newton
Womens Fiction
Just One Wish - Rachel Johns
Place on Dalhousie - Melina Marchetta
House of Wishes - Jenn MacLeod
The Helpline - Katherine Collette @kecollette
The Girl on the Page - John Purcell @Bookeboy
Apologies again to all those awesome authors and brilliant books that I've not managed to squeeze onto my Aussie Authors Advent, or Another Aussie Authors Advent!
I'm always on the look out for great recommendations. Hope to catch you in 2020!
@bishopalice
@emmaviskic
@leahkam
@robyncad
@rwrmcdonald
@marksmith0257
@katemildenhall
@CWhiteAuthor
@becksmuse
@annegracie
@ninakenwood
@trentdalton
@kategrenville
@slamup
@karenfoxlee
@SulariGentill
@EmilyKBrewin
@cityoftongues
@kmjgardiner
@pandymedia
@KateForsyth
@ilkatampke
@KaliNapier
@kirstenalex
@KeneallyMeg
@LucyTreloar
@mslcheng
@critrature
@LiteraryMinded
@FavelParrett
@MinnieDarke
@LeeKofman
@DervlaMcTiernan
@Rose_HMD
@kecollette
@mb_randi
@Bookeboy
@jackie_french_
@michaelrobotham