Introducing Dirt Lane Press
Thursday, 23 August 2018
Dirt Lane Press launched its first children’s book—a mash-up of several Norwegian folk tales—in 2017 and has since sold the rights to a UK publisher. Further books include a ‘fable...
Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards announced
Thursday, 23 August 2018
The winners and honour books for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards, one of the most influential awards on the Australian children’s book...
Bunting books sold to China
Thursday, 23 August 2018
Scholastic Australia has sold simplified Chinese rights to several quirky, humorous picture books by Australian husband-and-wife duo Laura and Philip Bunting. They include: Mopoke, Koalas Eat Gum Leaves and Kookaburras...
Southeast Asian storytelling inspires new picture book
Thursday, 23 August 2018
Australian picture books continue to find publishers overseas, with several large (Scholastic) and smaller publishers (Scribe, Fremantle Press) recently selling the rights to their titles to the US and China...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 20 August 2018
For the fifth week running, the weekly bestsellers chart is topped by The 104-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan) at number one and The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape,...
Australian bestsellers in July: crime authors top fiction; Stroud number two in nonfiction
Thursday, 16 August 2018
Two crime-thriller novels topped the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in July, with the number one spot going to crime-writing veteran Michael Robotham's The Other Wife, and second place to debut author Christian...
‘The Other Wife’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 16 August 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: July Mega-selling author Michael Robotham’s latest crime-thriller The Other Wife has debuted at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for July. It’s joined in the...
Introducing Giramondo
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Sydney-based small press Giramondo has won most major literary awards in Australia with its list of ‘diverse, unusual and genre-defying’ fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Commissioning editor Nick Tapper spoke to...
Screenworthy stories
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Each year Australian publishers, literary agents, and film and TV agents meet and mingle at the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Books at MIFF event. As well as attending one-on-one meetings,...
Book-to-screen rights sales
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Nicole Kidman’s production company Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories have purchased film and television rights to Liane Moriarty’s forthcoming novel Nine Perfect Strangers (Macmillan). Kidman will produce...
Viskic wins top crime-fiction award
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Emma Viskic’s And Fire Came Down (Echo Publishing) has been named best adult crime novel at this year’s Davitt Awards, which are presented to the best crime books by Australian...
‘No More Boats’ to publish in the US
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Sydney-based small press Giramondo has sold North American rights to Felicity Castagna’s Miles Franklin-shortlisted novel No More Boats to Europa Editions. Acquiring editor-in-chief Michael Reynolds said the novel—which tells the...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 13 August 2018
The 104-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan) spends its fourth week at the top of the overall top 10 bestseller charts, while the first book in the 'Treehouse'...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 6 August 2018
The 104-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan) spends its third week at the top of the overall top 10 bestseller charts. Another 'Treehouse' book by Griffith and...
Book-to-screen adaptations pitched at 2018 Books at MIFF
Friday, 3 August 2018
The 12th annual Books at MIFF (BaM) event, run by Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market, was held at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on 2 August. Representatives from publishing and...
Under the Southern Cross (Frané Lessac, Walker Books)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
There have been many picture books about the sights of Australia but not many have touched upon its night-time attractions. Frané Lessac corrects this oversight in her gorgeously illustrated new...
Monster Party (Children of Rawa Community School, with Jane Godwin and Alison Lester, Magabala)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Alison Lester and Jane Godwin have proven yet again that collaborating with children can help realise joyous storytelling and delightful illustrations. Monster Party is a picture book made with the...
Scapegoat (Ava Keyes, illus by Aleksandra Schmidt, Little Steps)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
There are plenty of picture books in the market that deal with bullying, but very few address the subject of being bullied at home, as Scapegoat does. Author Ava Keyes...
The Adventures of Catvinkle (Elliot Perlman, Puffin)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
It’s hard to imagine that a book for children by two-time Miles Franklin-shortlisted author Elliot Perlman would be anything less than wonderful. Perlman was apparently inspired by a cat lying...
Girl Running, Boy Falling (Kate Gordon, Rhiza Edge)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Kate Gordon’s Girl Running, Boy Falling deals subtly and sensitively with teen suicide, which is no mean feat. It is heartening to know that it is gradually becoming less of...
What the Woods Keep (Katya de Becerra, A&U Children’s)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Hayden Holland is different from most other teenagers. Her mother disappeared in weird circumstances, and her father moved them to the city, away from the small Colorado town of Promise...
Everything I’ve Never Said (Samantha Wheeler, UQP)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Everything I’ve Never Said is a middle-grade novel that gently explores disability in young people and how it impacts families. Ava has Rett Syndrome and has spent 11 years of...
Top cat: Elliot Perlman on ‘The Adventures of Catvinkle’
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Elliot Perlman’s The Adventures of Catvinkle is ‘a charming and whimsical tale’ writes reviewer Hannah Cartmel. The book follows a friendship between a pampered Amsterdam cat named Catvinkle and a...
Wide Big World (Maxine Beneba Clarke, illus by Isobel Knowles, Lothian)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Wide Big World is a cheerful and direct celebration of difference that uses the natural wonders of the world to highlight the diversity of experiences around us. Written mainly as...
The Girl Who Fell (Violet Grace, Nero)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Written by husband-and-wife team Kasey Edwards and Christopher Scanlon, The Girl Who Fell is the first book in a new urban fantasy trilogy. Misfit, social outcast, and orphan with a mysterious...
Child tops ALIA most-borrowed list in 2018; Pape tops nonfiction
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has partnered with library provider Civica to compile a list of most-borrowed books from Australian libraries from June 2017 to May 2018. Like last...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 30 July 2018
Last week's top overall bestseller, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 104-Storey Treehouse (Pan), continues its reign in the number one spot in the overall top 10 bestsellers. Meanwhile, Scott Pape's The Barefoot...
Demons and delusions: Shirley Barrett on ‘The Bus on Thursday’
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Screenwriter and director Shirley Barrett’s second novel The Bus on Thursday (A&U, October) is a ‘psychological conundrum’ that explores ‘the dark undercurrents of rural Australia, isolation and unfulfilled desires’. Set...
The Bus on Thursday (Shirley Barrett, A&U)
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Eleanor Mellett, a young woman recovering from breast cancer and a relationship break-up, retreats to a small country town in New South Wales to restart her life and career. But...
The Killing of Louisa (Janet Lee, UQP)
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Winner of the Emerging Writer Manuscript Award at the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards, Janet Lee’s novel The Killing of Louisa is a cleverly written fictional retelling of Louisa Collins’ conviction in 1888...
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