The New Wilderness by Diane Cook

A project takes people back to nature and a nomadic lifestyle but is this going to be the idyll they think it will be?

Obesseus the Mighty Muncher by D.T. Tucker

A fun book for middle graders, which is humorous and a little bit bonkers, of an unlikely hero and his fight to save Snackland and dumplings

My Twelve-Year-Old Wife: Erased Memories by Dan Uselton

Time-travelling husband attempts to save wife by going back to their high school years, making for tension-filled story of sinister pursuit

The Spiral Archive by Pieter Hendrik

An unusual novel which speaks of the power of storytelling and mythmaking as a way of sharing the human experience

The Bangle Bombers Blast Banks (3rd book in Cockroach the Superhero series) by Steve Frederick

Meet Cockroach, an unlikely superhero as he combats bank robbing bad guys in a book speckled with humour and in jokes

Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd

The first in a trilogy of books about Gabriel Dax, which charts his progression from orphaned boy to popular writer – but is he really sought for his writing talent?

Time Lines by Guilio Savo

I can’t describe this book in a few characters! Surreal, life-affirming, adventurous, spooky, daring? Savo has written a truly unique book!

The Ballad of Midnight and McRae by Jess Lederman

This is a book as wide and deep as the western landscape in which it’s set, full of imagination, bound together with love and faith

Truth and Transformation (Taking Wonderland) by Martin Baynton

Revisit Wonderland where the curious elements of Carroll are given a twist all of their own by Baynton. Dark, fast-moving and entertaining!

The Lost Color of Namiri by Elisabeth Fowler

Do not mistake this for a fantasy book about big cats: it is much more. A tense tale with a strong message of tribal survival & resilience.