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Client spotlight: Brooke Davis

Brooke Davis (@thisisbrooked) grew up on Wadawurrung Country in Bellbrae, Victoria. She holds a PhD from Curtin University in creative writing. Her debut novel, LOST & FOUND, was published in 28 countries and received two Australian Book Industry Awards for General Fiction and New Writer of the Year, as well as the WA Premier's Book Award for Emerging Writer. LOST & FOUND was also shortlisted for the Indie Book of the Year Debut Fiction Award and the ABA Booksellers' Choice Award. Brooke has lived in the US, Canada, Canberra and Boorloo/Perth, and now resides in Torquay, Victoria, where she works as a bookseller. NO ONE'S LOOKING is her second novel, out today in Australia & New Zealand. @hachetteaus by @zeitgeistwriters

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Happy publication day to NO ONE'S LOOKING by Brooke Davis (@thisisbrooked), out today with @hachetteaus!

From the internationally bestselling author of LOST & FOUND comes a comedic and uplifting novel that brings home the secret rage of women through a lively suburban family and the brawling love between two middle-aged sisters - who no one is looking at anymore.

'They've seen each other before,' the nurse says, spookily, enigmatically. Vicki and Susan look at each other, they just look and look.

When Susan first meets Vicki, her new baby sister, she puts a hand on her tiny forearm, and Vicki stops screaming. Just like that.

If only it were so easy forty-five years later.

Susan has always been the quiet, nice sister, but her husband's sudden demand for an open marriage - and a rather large purple object she'd forgotten about - provokes a slow-dawning epiphany: being the 'good' girl doesn't always mean it's good for you.

Just down the road, Vicki listens at the door of her seventeen-year-old daughter's room - her only child - and is shocked at what she hears. Her old urge to scream builds. As she listens to a true crime podcast and doom scrolls the news headlines, she can feel a terror building in her bones. She can't help believing something very bad is going to happen.

It's January in suburban Australia - stinking hot, the sound of tennis and cricket on telly, the threat of bushfires in the air. Vicki is right, something is unravelling. Rage, desire, fear, wonder (and the occasional nipple) are unleashed. In the aftermath, will Susan and Vicki ever find out what's possible when no one's looking?

NO ONE'S LOOKING is an original, wise and life-affirming novel that shows it is never too late to change who people expect you to be. by @zeitgeistwriters

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Client spotlight: Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein (@antloewenstein) is an Australian/German independent, award-winning, investigative journalist, bestselling author and filmmaker. He’s the co-founder of Declassified Australia and author of the worldwide bestseller, THE PALESTINE LABORATORY (@scribepub, 2023). He’s written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, The New York Review of Books and many others.

He’s currently writing a new investigative book on Israel/Palestine that will be released in 2027 with leading international publishers.

He has written six books and written, co-produced and co-directed several documentary films, series, and podcasts. He created the documentary film, GERMANY'S ISRAEL OBSESSION, for Al-Jazeera English and adapted his book for the award-winning documentary series, THE PALESTINE LABORATORY, also released on Al-Jazeera English.

In 2025, he launched his weekly show, THE ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN PODCAST, tackling the biggest issues of the day.

THE PALESTINE LABORATORY is released in Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Bengali, Czech, Polish, Indonesian, Italian, Brazilian and South Korean language editions, plus South African and Indian versions, with more translations to come. It won the 2023 Walkley Book Award and the People's Choice Award at the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. by @zeitgeistwriters

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Three years on, THE PALESTINE LABORATORY (@antloewenstein) is as relevant as ever. A global bestseller published in 14 languages and counting, the book won the 2023 Walkley Book Award and the People’s Choice Award at the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. It also received an honourable mention in the 2023 Moore Prize and was a shortlist finalist in the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards for “Social Impact Book of the Year”.

THE PALESTINE LABORATORY has been adapted into an award-winning documentary series for Al Jazeera English, bringing Antony’s investigation to audiences across multiple languages and territories. It won a major prize at the prestigious Telly Awards in 2025 and 2026 and was shortlisted for the 2025 Walkleys Documentary Award, Australia’s leading journalism prize. by @zeitgeistwriters

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Client spotlight: Ariane Beeston

Ariane Beeston (@arianejbeeston) is a writer, psychologist, dancer and choreographer. A former child protection caseworker and psychologist with NSW’s Department of Communities and Justice, she now works as Communications and Content Manager at Australia's peak body in perinatal mental health, the Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE).

Her freelance writing has been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Life, Babyology and Mamamia. Her debut memoir, Because I’m Not Myself, You See (@blackincbooks) was shortlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year in 2025.

Ariane trained to a pre-professional level in ballet and contemporary dance, performing with Sydney City Youth Ballet and in the English National Ballet’s Australian performances of Swan Lake. Don’t Forget to Smile, published by @blackincbooks in July 2026, is her first book for young adults. She still wants to be a ballerina when she grows up. by @zeitgeistwriters

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Because I'm Not Myself, You See by @arianejbeeston, published by @blackincbooks, 2024.
'Blistering, beautiful, true' —Susan Johnson

'Ariane Beeston's honesty, poetry and wisdom will save lives.' ––Anna Spargo-Ryan, author of A Kind of Magic

'Both riveting and informative, this is an unflinching look at what it is like from inside postpartum psychosis.' ––Anne Buist, Professor of Women's Mental Health, University of Melbourne, and co-author with Graeme Simsion of The Glass House

'A memoir like no other ... sing[s] with mordant humour on the page' —Geordie Williamson

'A beautifully written, raw and important memoir for anyone who has had a baby' —Daisy Turnbull

'This book . . . stands on the cliff and dives off with one brave breath. Ariane Beeston gives voice to what many women experience at varying levels and in doing so will make others feel less alone.' Megan Rogers, author of The Heart Is a Star

📖 A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recovery. 'I do not know who I am anymore or where I have gone ...'

Ariane Beeston is a child protection worker and newly registered psychologist when she gives birth to her first child – and very quickly begins to experience scary breaks with reality. Out of fear and shame, she keeps her delusions and hallucinations secret, but as the months pass Ariane gets worse. Much worse. Finally admitted to a mother and baby psychiatric unit, the psychologist is forced to learn how to be the patient.

With medication, the support of her husband, psychotherapy and, ultimately, time, Ariane rebuilds herself. And she also begins a new chapter working in perinatal mental health, developing resources to support other new mothers.

Because I'm Not Myself, You See is a candid, often humorous memoir of motherhood and madness, interwoven with research and expert commentary. It's the story of the impossible pressures placed on new mothers and how quickly things can go wrong during 'the happiest time of your life'. It's also about life on the other side of serious illness, trying to make sense of what doesn't make sense, and finding humour, beauty and joy when things don't go according to plan. by @zeitgeistwriters

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Client spotlight: Pip Harry

Pip Harry (@piphaz) is an award-winning Australian children’s and YA author whose books span verse novels, middle grade, junior fiction and picture books.

Her acclaimed middle grade novel The Little Wave won the 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers, while August & Jones was shortlisted for the 2023 CBCA Book of the Year and won the CBCA Shadow Judging Book of the Year. Her YA verse novel Drift has now won the 2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Literature.

Pip’s recent books also include Over or Under?, The Inside Dog, Camp Spooky: Attack of the Aliants with Kate Foster, and the picture books Spare Kisses, The Fast Lane and The Goodbye Tree. by @zeitgeistwriters

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So thrilled that Drift by Pip Harry (@piphaz) has won the 2026 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Literature!! Congratulations @piphaz!

A beautifully written verse novel that will resonate with younger teen readers who are beginning to understand themselves and the changing world they live in.

Fourteen-year-old Nate has just moved back to Australia and is finding it hard to navigate a new city, school and changed home life. His next-door neighbour, Luna, is dealing with her own issues: a viral video, friends who have dropped her, and a subsequent anxiety disorder.

When a swarm of 20,000 bees unexpectedly settle in the walls of Nate's family's house, Nate and Luna come together to save the hive, befriending local beekeeper Tyler. Over the course of one summer, their loyalties will be tested and their lives will be forever changed.

Drift has been Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Notable - CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers and Shortlisted - KOALA Awards, Years 7-9. by @zeitgeistwriters

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Client spotlight: Roanna Gonsalves

Roanna Gonsalves (@roannagonsalves) was born and brought up in Mumbai, India and came to Australia in 1998 as an international student. Her debut novel The Servants is publishing in February 2027 with @summitbooksaus. Her short story collection, The Permanent Resident (@uwapublishing, 2016), was published to critical acclaim and won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award Multicultural Prize. This collection also published in India and South Asia as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney (Speaking Tiger). She works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at UNSW (Sydney). Roanna is the recipient of the inaugural Bridge Awards Varuna–Cove Park (Scotland) writing residency, among other literary grants and awards. She is also the editor of Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal. by @zeitgeistwriters

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The Servants is the electrifying debut novel by @roannagonsalves, publishing in February 2027 with @summitbooksaus! This novel is a meticulously researched reimagining of the true story of George Jarvis, an Indian servant to Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and other Indian servants in the early NSW colony - surfacing the histories of trans-Indian Ocean slavery that colonial Australia has long left untold.

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What could I tell you about George Jarvis except that he was an enslaved black Hindoo servant, born in India, one of many, what do I care ... I will tell you our story in the language of your time ...

The year 1810 in the colony of New South Wales: George Jarvis has just arrived with his master, the newly appointed Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Having been in Macquarie’s service all over the world for more than a decade, George now wants permission to return to India to find his mother.

In Sydney, he is reunited with Shammy, who was bought along with him at the age of five. While George is torn between yearning to see his mother and compulsive loyalty to the Scotsman who has been like a father to him, Shammy is a fierce advocate for freedom. She too is a servant, but she bows and scrapes to no one. A woman of immense intelligence, she has big plans and the determination to carry them out. But there will be unforeseeable consequences of her fiery ambition …

This highly original, audacious novel reimagines a crucial period in Australia’s history from the perspective of the vanquished, and tells a wider tale of the slave trade across the British empire. It repaints a whitewashed era in all the richness of the servants’ heritage and coats it with a wickedly witty takedown of the colonisers and their hypocrisy.

‘Here is early Sydney as you’ve never seen it. Roanna Gonsalves’s vision is original and thrilling. This novel is an astonishment. A firework. A gamechanger.’ - Michelle de Kretser, winner of the Stella Prize and 2 Miles Franklin Awards by @zeitgeistwriters

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Client spotlight: Shara Curlett

Shara Curlett (@sharacurlett) is a children’s author from Aotearoa, New Zealand, where she lives with her husband, two kids, two dogs, and a dragon (bearded, but she’s still claiming it). She writes fast-paced, magical adventures that hook young readers to the page, rather than to a device. Shara’s debut novel Welcome to Miracle was published in 2025 by @scholastic_au. The first book in her middle-grade fantasy 3-book series Protector of Beyond is out now with @penguinkidsaustralia! by @zeitgeistwriters

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Book 1 in the 3-book Protector of Beyond series by Shara Curlett (@sharacurlett) is out now with @penguinkidsaustralia!

Magical creatures, perilous trials, and one unbelievable adventure in this new blockbuster fantasy series.

Twelve-year-old Elder Triss never expected to produce a spark so rare - and so dangerous. But when she is torn from everything she knows and thrown into the mysterious world known as Beyond, she learns there is only one path forward: survive the trials and earn a place at the Academy of Protectors.

To get there, Elder must train for battle, face terrifying magical creatures and outlast friends who are quickly becoming rivals. But Beyond is more dangerous than it seems, and someone is trying to stop Elder from reaching the academy – and making it out alive ... by @zeitgeistwriters

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