Great news: Robbie Arnott’s debut novel Flames is on the Guardian Not the Booker Prize 2019 shortlist! 

We have an august selection of August new releases – fiction and non-fiction, YA, crime, natural history, sport, biography...you name it.

Welcome to MS Confidential: by Friday would be amazing, our brand-new blog series that explores the unique relationship between a writer and their most trusted confidant. Our first instalment features  Alice Bishop, author of A Constant Hum, and her dad, Leon Bishop.

This month’s featured classic is Myself When Young, the unfinished autobiography of one of the great Australian novelists, Henry Handel Richardson – a lively and revealing self-portrait of the artist as a young woman.

 
‘A gorgeous coming-of-age story that is both charming and deeply moving.’ Guardian on The Getting of Wisdom