Ed Coper

Social media promised a global village; we got a gladiatorial arena. No longer just a tool for connection, social media has spawned an entire outrage industry harvesting and monetising our worst impulses. Welcome to the era of Angertainment. Angertainment shows how our emotions are being hijacked to build political and cultural capital by those who know how to game the outrage economy. How 'rage bait' - the 2025 Word of the Year - can change how you vote, what you buy and who you hate. In this high-stakes, highly entertaining journey through our new reality, Ed Coper unmasks the architects of this new power - from manosphere gurus to political demagogues - who have realised that in the attention economy, your anger is the only currency that matters. Darkly funny and terrifyingly urgent, Angertainment is a groundbreaking manual for dismantling the outrage machine. First, we must understand it. Then we can work to defeat it.

Ryan Martin

Most parenting advice is overthought, overcomplicated bullshit that makes struggling parents feel worse about themselves. The stuff that actually works is simpler than you think, harder than you'd like and has very little to do with perfect technique and everything to do with showing up, staying connected and not completely losing your sh*t when things go sideways. Little F*ckers is written for parents who are tired of feeling like they're failing at the most important job they'll ever do. It's for mums and dads who love their kids fiercely but sometimes want to sell them to the circus. It's packed with practical advice, science-backed strategies and just enough humour to get you through another day of complicated snack negotiations and major screentime catastrophes. You'll learn: How to stay calm when your kid channels a small angry dictator; Why sending them outside actually builds brains (and gives you 5 minutes' peace); When to talk, when to walk and when to just hand them a banana and hope for the best; How to build real connection with kids who push every boundary; Why sleep, food and movement matter more than any parenting philosophy. This isn't about perfect parenting. This is about present parenting. Messy. Imperfect. Brave. Just like real life. Spoiler: You're doing way better than you think

Meg Mason

Sophie Pattison is such a lovely person. Warm, kind, amazingly positive. She works as a freelance sound technician for literary festivals. She is a massive reader and was recently forced to move house. She is bracingly lonely.* So much so, the absence of others feels like a physical weight, if that makes sense. But then Sophie discovers an author through work, and comes to adore her. Her books, interviews and podcasts, her wisdom and brilliance, her beautiful words. It's like solace and company. It's almost like love. And Sophie would love to meet her, although she never will, obviously. The author would never come to her festival. She's too famous for that. Too brilliant, too beautiful. And in a way, thank goodness, because that would change everything. Sophie's entire life. But... what if she did? *although she has a best friend called Emma, and an amazing brother. And a husband. But a number of things happened there.

Stig Abell

When young nurse Claire Davidson goes missing on the riverbank, the only clues left behind are her phone and shoes. People disappear all the time, but this case sparks an online frenzy. Amateur investigators descend on the rural idyll. Is Claire Davidson just the story of a swim that went wrong, or could there be truth to the conspiracies? Then another woman is discovered dead in the river. Jake Jackson, a former detective who came to the countryside searching for peace, must investigate before more lives are lost.

Jaclyn Moriarty

On a bustling road in Sydney, Australia, lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. At once a confounding mystery and a beacon of hope, the Agency attracts those at a crossroads in their life. Single mother Anna is in desperate need of change, and the Agency gives her the chance to begin her career-and life-anew. Teddy is a genius at salvaging businesses but needs saving himself, and he's drawn to the Agency hoping to travel back in time to untangle his troubled childhood and his recently imploded marriage. Jade has no interest in the Agency at all, because there's no way people are literally time traveling, right? Jade's present is challenging enough with her spirited, increasingly bad-tempered daughter and a deeply buried secret too painful for words. As Anna's, Teddy's, and Jade's paths converge, the question of just how legitimate the Agency's ventures into the past are becomes a provocative, tantalizing, and even heart-wrenching one to parse--but there is no denying that the ripple effects through all three of their lives are very, very real

Ralph Jackman

When Ralph Jackman swapped his career as a sports reporter for life as a teacher, he expected yard duty and parent-teacher nights. Instead, he found himself behind the razor wire of Melbourne's Parkville Youth Detention Centre, teaching literacy and numeracy to some of the nation's most vulnerable and damaged boys

Naomi Ishiguro

Toshiko, Jun and Mei Kawakami are family, bonded through loyalty, if not by blood. They live outside the city's increasingly corrupt law and are seeking revenge on the Lucky Crows for the murder of their beloved Auntie Reiko. Haru is the son of the Emperor, destined to one day rule over the whole Rainshadow Archipelago and uphold his mother's ignoble legacy. Currently, however, he seems more interested in making friends with magical Sun Spirits that only he can see. Theo, forced to leave his homeland, is a reluctant footsoldier for the Lucky Crows. He doesn't want to be a gangster, but as he's an illegal immigrant to the city, his choices are severely limited. When Toshiko steals a dragon pearl from the leader of the Crows, she begins a daring adventure that will put them all on a thrilling path to determine the future of Rainshadow City. Tightly set across two days and peopled with unforgettable characters, The Rainshadow Orphans draws on the charm of anime like Pokémon and the works of Studio Ghibli, as well as on the gripping, fast-paced fantasy plots of series such as The Legend of Korra, to explore what it means to stand up to corruption and take charge of destiny.

Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan

A riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time. From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. Regime Change covers the first year of Trump's second presidency--a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him "no" are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; an imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone. Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration's most closely guarded rooms, Regime Change takes the reader inside the Situation Room and into the secret Oval Office deliberations that have launched a new war in the Middle East and seen Trump seal the border, surge National Guard troops into cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protestors.

Andy McDermott

Pandora's Box has long been thought a myth. But when archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, former SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are summoned to the White House for a secret meeting, it appears the legendary artefact is real, with the potential to bring great benefits to humanity - or unimaginable harm. Mistrustful of the motives of those who want to find it, Nina sets out with Eddie on a mission that is the opposite of her usual goal: to ensure the ancient treasure remains undiscovered for ever. But as more groups join the hunt - including one led by her own daughter Macy - Nina finds herself trapped in an ever more deadly race which, if she loses, could destroy the world as we know it - and if she wins will tear her family apart...

Joan Lindsay

Joan Lindsay's classic novel Picnic At Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister social life drawn with loving nostalgia. The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the solution. The missing chapter reveals what did happen to the schoolgirls who vanished from Hanging Rock after a St Valentines Day picnic in 1900.

Colson Whitehead

1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month. When the banks won't give his beloved wife Elizabeth a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind. 

Kris Kneen

In the hope of salvaging their relationship, Miranda and Richard become caretakers of a remote island lighthouse off the coast of Tasmania. Richard wants to shake up the malaise that had him falling into an affair, Miranda wants to understand what has changed and to recover from a diving accident that almost took her life. Both are excited about the renewal and adventure that the mysterious lighthouse promises. But what begins as a reuniting, quickly turns for Miranda in to an untamed journey back to the ocean that swirls at the core of her being.

Sophie Green

On Sydney's lower north shore, in the harbourside suburb of Mosman, there is a charity frock shop. For decades, it has clothed the women of this suburb, through good times and bad, for richer, for poorer. Local resident Daphne has always worked at the frock shop. And she knows better than most how clothes are used by women as talismans, as armour, as beauty. Clothes are essential parts of women's stories, and those stories are now part of Daphne's life. Daphne has her own stories, too. Some involve her old friend Adelaide, who still bears the devastating secret that caused her to flee Australia in her youth. Some involve a new friend, Christina, who has been forced to leave her glamorous Los Angeles life to rebuild in her childhood city. Then there is Margot, living a life that is far from what she had dreamed it would be, and Lucy, desperate for escape and the promise of tomorrow. As their stories intertwine, the women will discover the beauty of the second-hand, the power of second chances and the strength to become who they were always meant to be (with a little help from their friends).

Francesca Albanese

Francesca Albanese, the first woman to serve as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, conveys the soul of a people through ten unforgettable stories of resilience and humanity. The spirit of a place lies in the people who inhabit it, in the stories that intertwine through its streets. And this is especially true of a land like Palestine, the witness to defining historic transitions to one of the most painful chapters in contemporary history. With a voice both authoritative and deeply human, Francesca Albanese (who lived in Palestine for many years while following the legal battles of numerous Palestinian families) takes on the role of narrator and elegantly composes a gallery of stories, characters and places, starting with the stories of the people she met. When the World Sleeps is a deeply personal and politically urgent account of bearing witness to the Palestinian struggle. Beyond the headlines and statistics, Albanese illuminates the people themselves, offering a powerful new lens on the global failures that have led us to here -- and the fragile possibilities that still exist for a shared future for Israelis and Palestinians alike.