James Islington fans can continue to rejoice: Scion is the first book in a thrilling new sci-fi series that features a contract killer assigned to protect a scientist from assassination who finds himself in the crosshairs. Robyn Dennison’s In Plain Sight is a character-driven crime novel that asks whether we can ever truly know what those closest to us are capable of. Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk’s Primeval and Other Times, translated from the original Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, is a journey through three generations in the life of a mythical Polish village. Ahead of her brand new memoir arriving in October, Magda Szubanski’s bestselling Reckoning is out in a smaller format. And we have an updated edition of Judith Brett’s political favourite From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting.