April new releases 2025
This April we’re publishing entertaining queer fiction, a surrealist graphic novel, gripping, journalistic nonfiction and enlightening, historical nonfiction.
I Leave it Up to You by New York author Jinwoo Chong is a hilarious, heartwarming rom-com about a Korean sushi chef in New Jersey, that proves that sometimes home is exactly where you belong.
I Ate the Whole World to Find You by local Melbourne author Rachel Ang is an evocative, stunning collection of stories that focus on the protagonist Jenny as she navigates relationships, embodiment, love and trauma.
Forty Days in the Jungle by investigative journalist Mat Youkee is the gripping story of four children lost in the Amazonian Jungle, that also reveals the struggles for social justice of the Indigenous people of Colombia and the Amazon.
Immortal Gestures by philosopher Damon Young is a deep exploration of thirteen universal gestures, that illuminate our varied humanity from prehistory to today.
Australian and NZ readers can go into the running to win a new release via INSTAGRAM GIVEAWAY. Entries close Tuesday 15 April.
I Leave It Up to You
A hilarious, heartwarming rom-com that proves that sometimes home is exactly where you belong.
Jack Jr woke up from a two-year coma with a sore neck, a brand new ex-fiancé, and the distinct feeling he’d missed something big. Like, global pandemic big. Reluctantly returning to New Jersey, and a kitchen job at the sushi restaurant his family runs, he finds himself suddenly dependent on his dysfunctional and very estranged Asian American family: headstrong fishmonger father, Jack Sr; his recovering alcoholic brother, James; and his rebellious teenage nephew, Juno. And then there’s Emil Cuddy, Jack…
I Ate the Whole World to Find You
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Introducing a bold new voice — one of the most exciting short-story writers working in comics today.
A coworker-turned-prospective-lover confesses a hard-to-swallow fetish. A train ride fantastically goes off the rails. Cousins revisit summer holiday bliss — or was it really horror? Exes fumble an attempt to reconnect over a dip in the pool. And an expectant mother slips into uncharted territory as she enters a communion more pure than language can accommodate.
I Ate the Whole World to Find You maps the topography of trauma, treasures, and loss imposed onto the body of…
Forty Days in the Jungle
An extraordinary, gripping survival story that also reveals the struggles for social justice of the Indigenous people of Colombia and the Amazon.
In June 2023, four Indigenous children were found alive in the Colombian Amazon, forty days after the light aircraft they had been travelling in crashed into deep jungle, killing the three adults on board. For weeks the Colombian public had been transfixed by clues of the children’s survival, of Indigenous tales of malign forest spirits, and of the unconventional tactics of the huge search team. But most now despaired of ever finding the…
Immortal Gestures
There is an old Buddhist adage: the teachings are like a finger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, you are not supposed to look at the finger. You are supposed to look to the celestial light.
I am asking you to look at the finger. The finger is also the moon.
A tilted head. A finger to the lips. A wave that could mean emphasis or dismissal. A raised palm of piety and fellowship.
Our gestures do not simply point to our thoughts, they are our thoughts made flesh. They can be instinctive, intuitive, or calculated — or all three. They exist in the briefest moment and through history, in a gently…