The Real Middle-Earth by Brian Bates
2 February, 2007
If you’ve read Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and have seen the movies than maybe you wondered if any of these tales were based on a time that really existed or was it just pure fantasy?

Rascal the Dragon by Paul Jennings
2 February, 2007
Rascal is a cute and clever dragon and Ben is the lucky boy who has him as a pet. Rascal can start a barbecue by breathing on it, unlock a door with his tail, scare a ‘big bad cat’ away and best of all-he can fly.

My Sixteenth Summer by Chris Wenke
2 February, 2007
The title may seem a bit formulaic but this coming-of-age novel is an excellent one.

Myrren's Gift by Fiona McIntosh
2 February, 2007
Wyl Thrisk was meant to be a general and the right-hand man of a king.

Desert Kingdom by Koolmees Jill
2 February, 2007
No, My  Desert Kingdom is not Almost French in Saudi Arabia. This tale of an Australian woman’s sojourn in Saudi pre-September 11 is well-written and researched, illuminating and relevant to the post-September 11 world, but is unlikely to inspire readers to don an abayah and head for the desert sands.

Queen of Flowers by Kerry Greenwood
2 February, 2007
 Few writers could successfully sustain the convention of a heroine trapped in a particular moment in time over 14 novels.

Monturiol's Dream by Matthew Stewart
2 February, 2007
In Barcelona, if you go to the end of Las Ramblas, cross the road by the statue of Christopher Columbus and walk along to the new harbour, you will come to a strange wooden structure. 

Pudding and Chips by Penny Mathews
2 February, 2007
Life can be a challenge, even for fat comfortable geese on an idyllic farm, when ‘wild and lean’ foxes come prowling in the night.

Wild Life by John Dale
2 February, 2007
John Dale pushed the true-crime tale well toward the literary with Huckstepp in 2000. His latest book straddles even more genres: it starts out in true-crime territory with a suspicious death; becomes a family memoir-because the suspicious death was that of Dale’s grandfather; turns into, almost, fiction as Dale re-imagines the missing pieces of the puzzle; and has a long central core of transcripts from Harvey Malcolm’s diaries, which may or may not have been broadcast as a series of radio lectures on the ABC in Tasmania in the late 1930s.

The Wreck at Sharpnose Point by Jeremy Seal
2 February, 2007
It was not long after my arrival at my new abode that I was plunged into the midst of a fearful scene of the terrors of the sea.

Wonderful by Andrew Humphreys
2 February, 2007
It's the early 1930s. America is in the grip of the Depression but Hollywood is thriving.

The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull by Barry Jonsberg
2 February, 2007
Calma and Kiffo are an unlikely pair. She is clever and (mostly) well behaved at school, Kiffo is, frankly, the exact opposite, but the two are devoted friends for reasons that are explained throughout this debut novel from English teacher Barry Jonsberg.

A Woman of Independence by Kirsty Sword Gusmao
2 February, 2007
In A Woman of Independence - a story of love and the birth of a new nation - Kirsty Sword Gusmao tracks the tumultuous struggle for East Timor's independence and her own fraught quest for love.

Who Did That? 2 by Jill B. Bruce
2 February, 2007
Some think toilet humour appeals to children’s baser instincts; others argue that almost anything that makes kids pick up a book and start reading is completely justified.

Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur by Margaret Somerville
2 February, 2007
Wildflowering is a passionate biography of the Australian artist Kathleen McArthur (1915-2001).

The White Earth by Andrew McGahan
2 February, 2007
After his Vogel-winning, sex, sweat and scratching debut Praise and its prequel/sequel 1988, McGahan left his grungy youth behind with  Last Drinks, an epic of crime and corruption in the bad old Bjelke-Petersen days.

Monsoon Diary by Shoba Narayan
2 February, 2007
For one who eats so little, my father had an unquenchable fascination with food.

Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox and Julie Horacek
2 February, 2007
This picture book’s purpose is to engage very small children and I can imagine much interaction between reader and child happening with this book. The peskily elusive green sheep is nowhere to be found (except on the last page), but we meet all kinds of other sheep: blue sheep, bed sheep, bath sheep, near sheep, far sheep and more throughout the book’s pages.

Mister Monday by Garth Nix
2 February, 2007
With the popularity of his 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, it's not surprising that the latest book by Garth Nix is worthy of praise.

Minnie and the Superguys by Jane Godwin
2 February, 2007
Jane Godwin has written a string of award-winning books including Sebby, Stee, the Garbos and Me and Dreaming of Antarctica.

Military Stress and Performance by Mark Creamer, Ric Marshall & others George Kearney
2 February, 2007
Of the 52 000 Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel who served in Vietnam between 1962 and 1972, approximately 3000 were either killed or wounded in action.

Mickey's Little Book of Letters by Jeri Kroll
2 February, 2007
Mickey’s Little Book of Letters gives the reader a glimpse into the sometimes funny, occasionally difficult pre-teen world of Mildred ‘Mickey’ Opie.

MI6 by Stephen Dorril
2 February, 2007
This is an historian's book and is, literally, a heavy book. 

Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham
2 February, 2007
Ten years on from He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, his seminal exposé of the grotty group-house reality that is the stuff of every landlord’s worst nightmares, John Birmingham has given us yet more evidence that he’s not stuck in any rut and has a number of strings to his bow.

Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
2 February, 2007