Обзор новинок: от образовательных проектов в Уганде до детективов и антиутопий

Non Fiction School For Life Annabelle Chauncy. Macmillan. $36.99. Subscribe now for unlimited access. or signup to continue reading In 2008, Annabelle Chauncy, a 21-year-old Australian backpacker, visited a school in Uganda, a country with the highest school dropout rates in the world. She has since devoted her life to executing her vision of delivering quality education to underprivileged children in developing communities globally. Her foundation, School for Life, oversees three schools with a combined student capacity of 1700, employs 150 Ugandans, and has profoundly changed the lives of thousands of students, their parents, and their communities. Her story is a powerful reminder of how the world can change when a determined person with a vision decides it should. Making Picture Books Libby Gleeson. NewSouth Books. $24.99. Written by acclaimed, prize-winning Australian children's author Libby Gleeson, Making Picture Books is a comprehensive instructional guide for aspiring storybook creators. First published in 2003 and now updated, the book explores every stage of crafting a picture book for children. Gleeson draws on decades of personal experience and insights to cover initial ideas, planning, writing, revision, editing, illustration, design and final production. The book's practical utility comes from its dual writer-illustrator perspective and insider advice, integrating real-world examples and insights from prominent industry creators including Pamela Allen, Shaun Tan, Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner and Julie Vivas. Why We Love Footy Martin Blake. Allen & Unwin. $34.99. Right now might not be the easiest time to love footy. But journalist Martin Blake, a 40-year veteran of sports reporting and commentary, has poured his life's work into this exploration of Australian Rules football culture. The book examines 50 iconic moments in AFL and AFLW history, spanning legendary feats like Alex Jesaulenko's famous mark, the launching of the women's league, Nick Riewoldt's courageous play and Nicky Winmar's stand against bigotry. Drawing on his experience as a writer and former player, Blake covers the game's tribalism, speed and drama. He offers fans a detailed and informative homage to the national game. Major Hashida's Notebook Craig Collie. Allen & Unwin. $34.99. Military historian and former ABC and SBS TV producer Craig Collie - author of the 2011 book Nagasaki - recounts the strange but true details of an espionage operation conducted in Australia during World War II. Major Sei Hashida was a Japanese intelligence officer who arrived here in January 1941 under the guise of a trade mission. Shadowed by Australian police, the ostentatiously dressed spy gathered military and industrial intelligence across major cities while shopping at David Jones and granting press interviews. Collie reconstructs Hashida's diaries and police archives to detail his eventual arrest in Batavia and death on Guam. Fiction The Lineup Nicholas Timms. Penguin. $34.99. For his debut novel, Sydney advertising copywriter and lifelong Byron Bay surfer Nicholas Timms weaves mystery and suspense into his intimate knowledge of surf culture - think Point Break meets Rear Window. The plot follows 28-year-old Bo Curren, a disgraced former champion surfer paralysed by trauma and grief. Confined to his apartment, Bo witnesses a murder on a beach via a live beach webcam. Dismissed by police when no body appears, Bo pursues the killer using the suspect's distinctive surfboard as his only clue. There's intrigue as a washed-up protagonist is swept back into a secretive, hostile surf subculture to uncover dangerous truths. Cool Machine Colson Whitehead. Hachette. $34.99. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead closes out his landmark Harlem Trilogy with this heist novel. Set in 1980s New York City - a decade defined by Wall Street greed, gentrification and stark economic divides - the plot follows Ray Carney, a successful furniture salesman turned master fence. Carney reluctantly risks his retirement to pursue a final robbery involving sports memorabilia to finance his wife's business venture. The book blends vibrant crime capers with rich socio-political history, charting Carney's navigation of shifting urban landscapes. Whitehead's detailed portrayal of a changing metropolis explores issues of family, crime and survival. Just Like the Night Michael Caleb Tasker. Allen & Unwin. $34.99. A Canadian-born, now Adelaide-based former ranch-hand with a PhD in noir fiction from Newcastle University, Michael Caleb Tasker's debut crime novel is set in Sydney's underbelly and billed as "suspenseful storytelling with richly drawn characters and a vivid sense of place". Sera Olin is a former con artist out on parole after eight years in prison. She is trying to rebuild her life. Sera seeks to reconnect with her estranged adult daughter, Lena, only to find Lena has become entangled with dangerous criminals. Forced back into crime to protect her child, Sera faces the limits of maternal sacrifice. The Burn Jessica Mansour-Nahra. Hachette. $34.99. Following her successful gothic debut, The Farm, Jessica Mansour-Nahra returns with a dystopian psychological thriller that "asks who and what we cling to when everything starts to burn". Set in 2030 Australia following months of bushfire-induced government lockdowns, the plot follows Carmen, a recluse who reluctantly gives up her solitude to join her best friend and two others on an unplugged week away in a remote wilderness cabin in a national park. Tensions flare and reveal deep secrets just as new fires trap the group. Can these fractured friends and untrustworthy strangers navigate this life-or-death escape amid environmental disaster? Love books? Us too! 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