Driving into the Sun (Marcella Polain, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 29 November 2018
At the centre of Marcella Polain’s second novel is 11-year-old Orla, whose flawed-yet-beloved father, a man with his own thwarted hopes and dreams, is a figure with whom she is...
Fridays with My Folks (Amal Awad, Vintage)
Thursday, 29 November 2018
In her fifth nonfiction book, journalist Amal Awad investigates ageing in Australia from her perspective as an adult daughter grappling with a parent’s decline. Woven into her analysis is the...
Rapture’s Roadway (Virginia Jealous, Peter Bishop)
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Author Virginia Jealous is a travel writer for Lonely Planet and a published poet in her own right, but in Rapture's Roadway, she pursues her late father’s lifelong obsession with...
Accidental Feminists (Jane Caro, MUP)
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Jane Caro grew up in Australia in the 1960s and 1970s—the heyday of second-wave feminism. In her latest work of nonfiction, she paints a picture of the everyday women and...
Invented Lives (Andrea Goldsmith, Scribe)
Thursday, 29 November 2018
On the streets of St Petersburg in 1985, Galina bumps into Andrew, an irrevocably shy Australian artist. Soon, she is on a plane to Melbourne in search of freedom. As...
Bestsellers this week: Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ debuts at number eight
Monday, 26 November 2018
Book 13 in Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series, The Meltdown (Puffin), remains at number one on this week's bestseller chart, with Lee Child's Past Tense (Bantam) sitting at number two,...
Christmas predictions: James Redden from Harry Hartog in Canberra
Friday, 23 November 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers. In the this week's...
Self-published picture book series wins global pitching competition
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Australian children’s book creators Yves Stening and Nigel Buchanan have won a pitching competition at the world’s biggest children’s entertainment industry event MIPJunior for their self-published picture book series ‘Dinner...
Introducing the picture book ‘Little Bird’s Day’
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Little Bird’s Day is the first picture book to be published through Magabala Books’ Kestin Indigenous Illustrator Award, teaming artist Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr with renowned author and illustrator Sally Morgan....
‘I Had Such Friends’ tops Australian YA bestsellers chart
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Australian YA bestsellers: October Debut author and high school teacher Meg Gatland-Veness is at the top of the Australian YA bestsellers chart for October with her novel I Had Such...
Introducing children’s book creator Aaron Blabey
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Aaron Blabey is the creator of the bestselling children’s book series ‘Pig the Pug’ and ‘The Bad Guys’ (Scholastic Australia), which have been sold into numerous territories around the world....
Lester wins Melbourne Prize for Literature
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Children’s author and illustrator Alison Lester has won the Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented every three years to a Victorian author ‘whose body of published work has made an outstanding...
Australian fashion designer to create two picture books for Berbay
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Berbay Publishing has acquired world rights to two picture books by one of Australia’s most celebrated fashion designers Collette Dinnigan. Berbay publishing director Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke said Dinnigan’s ‘fashion collections have...
Motorbike-riding librarians visit Bega on annual library tour
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Motorbike library-tour group Biblio Turismo has visited Bega library as part of its annual tour of New South Wales libraries, reports Bega District News. Between 8-11 November the group visited libraries...
Australian bestsellers in October: Moriarty debuts at number one; Pape breaks record for nonfiction sales
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Liane Moriarty’s latest novel Nine Perfect Strangers has debuted at number one in the Australian fiction bestsellers chart, while three of her previous titles—The Husband’s Secret, Big Little Lies and Truly...
Bestsellers this week: ‘The Meltdown: Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ takes out top spot
Monday, 19 November 2018
Number one on this week's bestsellers chart is The Meltdown (Puffin), book 13 in Jeff Kinney's ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series, which has moved up from number two. Lee Child's...
Christmas predictions: Megan O’Brien from Brunswick Bound in Melbourne
Friday, 16 November 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In the this...
‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor for Families’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 15 November 2018
Liane Moriarty’s latest novel Nine Perfect Strangers has debuted at number one in the Australian fiction bestsellers chart, while three of her previous titles—The Husband’s Secret, Big Little Lies and...
Rising stars
Thursday, 15 November 2018
Australian debut novelists Kirsten Alexander and Holly Ringland may not be familiar names in international publishing circles yet, but they soon will be. Alexander’s Half Moon Lake has just sold...
Debut novel ‘Half Moon Lake’ sold to US, Canada
Thursday, 15 November 2018
US and Canadian rights to Kirsten Alexander’s debut novel Half Moon Lake (Penguin Random House Australia, January 2019) have been sold to Hachette Book Group’s Grand Central imprint. The novel...
Samuel Wagan Watson wins Patrick White Literary Award
Thursday, 15 November 2018
Poet, essayist, scriptwriter and performer Samuel Wagan Watson has won the Patrick White Literary Award, which is traditionally presented to authors who ‘have made a significant but inadequately recognised contribution...
Book-to-screen
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Australian producer Bruna Papandrea’s company Made Up Stories—best known for co-producing the TV adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies—has acquired screen rights to Holly Ringland’s bestselling debut novel The...
Introducing Madeleine St John’s ‘The Women in Black’
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Madeleine St John’s The Women in Black was in hot demand at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year after Text Publishing recently acquired translation rights. The coming-of-age story set in...
When the wind changes: Justin D’Ath on ‘47 Degrees’
Monday, 12 November 2018
Justin D'Ath's 47 Degrees (Puffin, January) follows 12-year-old Zeelie whose life is forever changed when temperatures soar one summer's day in 2009. Described as 'an extraordinarily fast-paced and visceral story that...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 12 November 2018
This week's bestseller chart sees the fifth book in Matthew Reilly's Jack West Jr series The Three Secret Cities (Macmillan) in the top spot, debuting at number one. Meanwhile, book 13...
Stella the Unstoppable: The Talent Show Fiasco (Richard Newsome, Affirm)
Friday, 9 November 2018
Richard Newsome is known for action-packed adventure tales like his Text Prize-winning ‘Billionaire’ series, but his newest series, ‘Stella the Unstoppable’, is a little bit of a departure. Aimed at...
Fish Kid and the Lizard Ninja (Kylie Howarth, Walker Books)
Friday, 9 November 2018
Bodhi is a boy who travels the world with his parents (a scientist and a photographer) as they study marine environments, in this case the Galapagos Islands. He would much...
Gorski’s Bitemare (Robert Favretto, illus by Danny Willis, Ford St)
Friday, 9 November 2018
Gorski Dragonovski lives with his mum and dad and his sister Drusella. Their home is a castle outside of town and they sleep all day, in coffins. Gorski and his...
Christmas predictions: Annie Waters from Mostly Books in Adelaide
Friday, 9 November 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In the second...
Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess (Emma Grey, HarperCollins)
Friday, 9 November 2018
Author Emma Grey declares this gloriously soapy book an ‘unapologetic fairytale’. Grey has fun with classic fairytale elements as well as modern pop culture: indeed, the book features run-ins with...
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