There’s nothing better than a new book to keep you company during lockdown (or semi lockdown!) and there’s none better than one that’s only just hit the shelf!

Our authors and illustrators are constantly releasing new works that take our breath away, and this week we are excited to shine a spotlight on the following talented creators.

These authors and many others can be booked to speak to your students or library patrons – to contact us, email bookings@bookedout.com.au, or call 03 9824 0177.

Maxine Beneba Clarke – When We Say Black Lives Matter

A vital and timely picture book from the prize-winning and bestselling Australian author Maxine Beneba Clarke

Little one, when we say Black Lives Matter,
we’re saying black people are wonderful-strong.
That we deserve to be treated with basic respect,
and that history’s done us wrong.

From birth to the end of school, in joy and in sorrow, on the trumpet and the djembe, at home and in the community, a black child’s parents remind him why Black Lives Matter.

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Kate Mildenhall – The Mother Fault

You will not recognise me, she thinks, when I find you . . .

Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him – especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them ‘safe’.

But suddenly Ben can’t be tracked. And Mim is questioned, made to surrender her passport and threatened with the unthinkable – her two children being taken into care at the notorious BestLife.

Cornered, Mim risks everything to go on the run to find her husband – and a part of herself, long gone, that is brave enough to tackle the journey ahead.

From the stark backroads of the Australian outback to a terrifying sea voyage, Mim is forced to shuck off who she was – mother, daughter, wife, sister – and become the woman she needs to be to save her family and herself.

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