Market report: CYA growth outpaces total Australian market
Thursday, 2 April 2026
On the surface, children’s book sales in 2025 have surged in Australia, compared to the previous year. But a look at volume shows much of the increase in value comes...
Publishers’ picks: Australian children’s graphic novels and picture books
Thursday, 2 April 2026
Australian publishers nominate the graphic novels and picture books they have high hopes for at Bologna. Anders and the Mountain Gregory Mackay Allen & Unwin Children’s April 2026 Graphic novel...
Publishers’ picks: Australian middle-grade and YA
Thursday, 2 April 2026
Australian publishers nominate the middle-grade and YA books they have high hopes for at Bologna. Akarnae book 1 Lynette Noni Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing Titles in series: 7 Rights contact:...
Australian authors recommend
Thursday, 2 April 2026
We asked Australian creators to share a recent book they have read and loved – and why. Jasmin McGaughey is a Torres Strait Islander and African American author and editor,...
Recent Australian CYA acquisitions
Thursday, 2 April 2026
Recent Australian acquisitions, as reported by Think Australian’s sister publication Books+Publishing, include: The Everywhere Train by Deborah Frenkel and illustrated by Danny Snell, world rights acquired by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing...
Australian publishers on Bologna Prize shortlist
Thursday, 2 April 2026
Three Australian publishers have been shortlisted for the 2026 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year. Publishers shortlisted in the Oceania category are: Affirm Press (Australia) Hardie Grant...
Australian CYA award winners
Thursday, 2 April 2026
These are the Australian titles that have been making shortlists, longlists and winning awards – both in Australia and overseas. Darren Rix and Craig Cormick’s Warra Warra Wai (Scribner) won the Australian...
The publisher behind a new Australian stand for “this moment now”
Thursday, 2 April 2026
Come visit the Australian stand this year at Bologna and you’ll find that while the high-quality publishing remains the same, the stand itself has a brand-new look. Gone is any...
“Stories of kindness and celebrating diversity and culture”: A BOP-shortlisted publisher on what’s resonating globally
Thursday, 2 April 2026
On the eve of Bologna Book Fair, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing rights manager Evie Green is one of a reduced cohort of Australians still planning to make the trip, and...
Australian children’s bestsellers
Thursday, 2 April 2026
Top 10 Australian picture books (2026 year to date, ranked by volume) Do Not Open This Book It’s Out of This World (Andy Lee, Lake Press) Claris and the Easter...
Market report: Australian publishers on Christmas sales trends and the year ahead
Thursday, 5 March 2026
Each year, Think Australian’s sister publication Books+Publishing surveys publishers to see how Christmas matched up with their expectations and what they expect from the year ahead. This year, while half of publishers reported...
Publishers’ picks: Australian fiction
Thursday, 5 March 2026
Debuts, literary heavyweights and genre standouts: Australian fiction publishers bring a wide-ranging list to LBF. International Anneliz Marie Erese Black Inc. March 2027 Rights contact: Sophy Williams at Black Inc....
Publishers’ picks: Australian nonfiction
Thursday, 5 March 2026
Leadership, loneliness, conservation and resilience: Australian nonfiction publishers are spotlighting big ideas at LBF. Foreign Return: On Art and Inhabitation Neha Kale NewSouth Publishing September 2026 Rights contact: Harriet McInerney...
Award-winning Aussie authors
Thursday, 5 March 2026
Since the previous edition of Think Australian, Australian authors have been making shortlists, longlists and winning awards – both in Australia and overseas – with fiction, poetry and nonfiction for...
‘Why I’ll be at LBF’: Meet the Australians attending in 2026
Thursday, 5 March 2026
Meet the Australian visitors attending LBF this year. University of Queensland Press (UQP) UQP rights and contracts manager Erin Sandiford will be talking with international publishers about a range of...
Australian bestsellers in 2025
Thursday, 5 March 2026
Top 10 Australian adult fiction bestsellers Last One Out (Jane Harper, Pan Macmillan), 112k Gravity Let Me Go (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins), 75k Mad Mabel (Sally Hepworth, Pan Macmillan), 63k The...
Rights sales: Screen
Monday, 22 September 2025
Australia is set to star in a number of screen adaptations as international and local producers tap into talent down under. Brad Pitt is set to star as protagonist Fred...
Latest acquisitions: Children’s and YA
Monday, 22 September 2025
See what Australian publishers have been signing recently in children's and YA. Picture books: First Nations storytelling, a sausage dog, cooking and phonics University of Western Australia Publishing (UWA Publishing)...
Australian CYA at Frankfurt
Monday, 22 September 2025
Even though there are a relatively small number of CYA highlights – compared to other categories – Frankfurt attendees will still find the Australian stand brightened with works for younger...
Australian market news: Mergers, new ventures, and local top-selling authors
Friday, 19 September 2025
After a turbulent 12 months for independent publishing, with three established independent publishers acquired by and integrated into larger publishing houses, 2025 has been an opportunity to walk a new...
‘Greater conversations about what poetry can be in Australia and the wider world’: New translated poetry prize launched
Friday, 19 September 2025
Giramondo Publishing, a small independent Australian publishing house, has partnered with London-based Fitzcarraldo Editions and New York City–based New Directions to launch the Poetry in Translation Prize, following the success...
Latest acquisitions: Fiction and poetry
Friday, 19 September 2025
Among the new Australian fiction and poetry titles signed this year are books from familiar names, debut works, titles signed at competitive auctions, and a range of romcoms. Fiction Familiar...
Australian nonfiction at Frankfurt
Friday, 19 September 2025
Australian publishers are showcasing nonfiction titles on topics ranging from the familiar-yet-crucial (such as the mismanagement of climate change by those in power) to the niche-yet-topical (like the trio of...
Australian fiction and poetry at Frankfurt
Friday, 19 September 2025
Readers of fiction and poetry will be keen to learn what’s been happening here in Australia through a visit to the Australian stand. Threads of romance and humour weave through...
Latest acquisitions: Nonfiction
Friday, 19 September 2025
Moving memoir, politics, cooking, sport and true crime – read all about Australian publishers’ recent nonfiction acquisitions. Memoir Kicking off memoir acquisitions is Allen & Unwin (A&U), which has shared...
Aussie award winners to look out for
Friday, 19 September 2025
Fiction Siang Lu won the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Ghost Cities (UQP), which judges celebrated for ‘shimmering with satire and wisdom, and with an absurdist bravura’, deeming the...
Australian authors recommend
Friday, 19 September 2025
We asked Australian creators to share a recent book they have read and loved – and why. Newly minted Miles Franklin winner Siang Lu is ready to build up your...
Australian market report: 2024 book sales down 3% in value
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Overall, the book market was down in Australia in 2024, by 3% in value and 1.2% in volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookData’s BookScan service. Nielsen’s 2024 snapshot, which covered...
What Australian publishers are looking to acquire at Bologna
Thursday, 20 March 2025
We ask Australians attending Bologna this year what they are looking to acquire – and what they are expecting to talk about with fellow attendees. Miriam Rosenbloom, publisher and art...
Publisher picks: Australian picture books
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers at Bologna name the picture books they have the highest hopes for at the fair. Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke, founder, managing director and publishing director at Berbay Books, will be...
