Mother of Invention (ed by Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts, Twelfth Planet Press)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its physical manifestation, the robot, are science-fiction perennials, and they’re ideas that have always resonated beyond just fiction. In 2016, Microsoft gave its learning chat bot,...
Milk Teeth (Rae White, UQP)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Rae White’s striking debut poetry collection, Milk Teeth, explores gender, identity and the body with an admirably light touch. The manuscript, which won the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, defies...
No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis (Peter Mares, Text)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Why are Australia’s property prices so high? Is it a shortage of supply? The tax system rewarding speculation? In No Place Like Home, writer and journalist Peter Mares gives a...
The bigger picture: Katherine Collette on ‘The Helpline’
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Katherine Collette’s debut novel The Helpline (Text, September) is a witty and heartfelt story about an insurance probability outcomes mathematician who ends up answering a seniors’ helpline for the local...
Man Out of Time (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
In September 2001, Stella Gilman’s father, Leon, wanders the streets of a coastal city, armed with his camera, arbitrarily snapping photographs. His walkabout seems purposeless; his thoughts, fragmented. When the...
The Helpline (Katherine Collette, Text)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Germaine Johnson is an insurance probability outcomes mathematician with a burning passion for Sudoku championships. More comfortable with calculus and polynomials than people, the only job she can get post-retrenchment...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 25 June 2018
Media personality Tanya Hennessy’s humorous autobiography Am I Doing This Right? (A&U) debuts in sixth spot in this week’s overall bestsellers chart, and is also this week’s fastest moving entry. Last...
‘The Bad Guys’ feature film in development with DreamWorks
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Scholastic Australia has recently sold Italian rights at auction to the first four books in ‘The Bad Guys’ series by Aaron Blabey, and now DreamWorks Animation has begun development on...
Introducing Hardie Grant Egmont
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont rights manager Joanna Anderson is part of a small Melbourne team doing big things. She reveals to Think Australian that almost all of the publisher’s fiction and...
‘Where is the Green Sheep?’ tops bestsellers chart
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Australian children’s book author Mem Fox consistently tops the earnings chart for Public Lending Rights and Educational Lending Rights in Australia—the system under which authors are renumerated for the borrowing...
‘Nevermoor’ scores industry hat-trick
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor (Lothian) has won yet another award—this time the Australian Booksellers Association Booksellers Choice Award, announced on 17 June. The children’s book has previously taken out Book of...
Masters of the middle grade
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Several years ago Hilary Rogers, then a publisher at Australian children’s imprint Hardie Grant Egmont, commissioned author Sally Rippin to write the ‘Billie B Brown’ series. It turned out to...
Australian bestsellers in May: Winton and Pape haven’t budged
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Tim Winton’s latest, The Shepherd’s Hut, was the bestselling Australian fiction book in May, making this the third month in a row Winton has topped the monthly Australian fiction bestseller...
The ‘B+P’ guide to the Miles Franklin 2018 shortlist
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Six titles are vying for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. Two of these are from multinational publishers (one each from HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan), three are from small, independent...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 18 June 2018
Political thriller The President is Missing (Century), coauthored by former US president Bill Clinton and James Patterson, sits at the number two spot in this week's overall bestsellers chart, and is also...
Introducing MidnightSun Publishing
Friday, 15 June 2018
MidnightSun publisher Anna Solding tells Think Australian about her small South Australian press and her 'amazing' six-figure deal. What makes your press unique? We only publish books that we love....
PRH acquires ‘No Spin’ by Shane Warne
Friday, 15 June 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) will publish Australian cricketer Shane Warne’s memoir No Spin in Australia and the UK. The publisher said the memoir will cover the bowler’s ‘extraordinary cricketing career and...
‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top charts
Friday, 15 June 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: May Much-loved Australian novelist Tim Winton tops the fiction charts this month with The Shepherd’s Hut, but his 2008 novel Breath is back in the top 10...
Aussie crime wave
Friday, 15 June 2018
No doubt you’ve heard of Jane Harper’s debut bestselling crime novel The Dry (Pan). It has added the accolade of crime and thriller ‘book of the year’ at the recent British Book...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Kate Frawley from the Sun Bookshop
Friday, 15 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Annie Waters from Mostly Books
Friday, 15 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
What do you think of when you ‘Think Australian’?
Friday, 15 June 2018
Penguin Random House Australia’s rights manager Nerrilee Weir said recently of Australian publishing: ‘It does feel like we have a strength in that area at the moment.’ She was talking...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Dani Solomon from Readings Kids
Thursday, 14 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Tim Jarvis from Fullers Bookshop
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
A new part-thriller, part-romance novel from Nora Roberts (Shelter in Place, Hachette) has climbed into second spot in this week's top 10, while another romance novelist, Danielle Steel, debuts in...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Stephanie Beck from Better Read Than Dead
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
In the week leading up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2018 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for Young Bookseller of the Year ahead of...
Leaf Stone Beetle (Ursula Dubosarsky, illus by Gaye Chapman, Dirt Lane Press)
Thursday, 7 June 2018
This gentle fable presents a delicate perspective on the cyclical patterns of life in the natural world, where seasons and the weather can both offer adventure and prompt quiet philosophical...
Off the Track (Cristy Burne, illus by Amanda Burnett, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 7 June 2018
Cristy Burne’s latest work of adventure fiction takes us off the beaten track and deep into the Australian bush. Harry isn’t thrilled about spending a weekend hiking with his mum,...
The Dog with Seven Names (Dianne Wolfer, Penguin)
Thursday, 7 June 2018
This book for middle readers uses the experiences of a dog with many owners to tell stories of Australia during wartime. While her family watches the running of the 1939...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 4 June 2018
Stephen King’s new mystery-horror hybrid The Outsider (Hachette) has shot up the charts, debuting in second spot in this week’s top 10 in its first week of release, as well...
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