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...
Speaking Up (Gillian Triggs, MUP)
Thursday, 26 July 2018
A self-described ‘conservative lawyer’ of nearly 50 years, Gillian Triggs attracted a barrage of criticism from right-wing politicians and media during her tenure as president of the Australian Human Rights...
Boys Will Be Boys (Clementine Ford, A&U)
Thursday, 26 July 2018
In Boys Will Be Boys, a follow-up to her bestselling debut Fight Like a Girl, Clementine Ford takes a new angle on gender relations. Inspired by the birth of her son, Ford unpacks the...
Misfits & Me (Mandy Sayer, NewSouth)
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Mandy Sayer’s first collection of nonfiction is primarily interested in Australians who have fallen through the cracks in society, whether due to mental illness, poverty, substance abuse, the disempowerment of...
Blakwork (Alison Whittaker, Magabala)
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Alison Whittaker’s second book, Blakwork is a bold mix of poetry, micro-fiction, memoir and critique, and a follow-up to her award-wining debut poetry collection, Lemons in the Chicken Wire. A Gomeroi woman and Fulbright scholar,...
Cedar Valley (Holly Throsby, A&U)
Thursday, 26 July 2018
On the first day of summer in 1993, Benny Miller arrives in Cedar Valley. She’s been invited, following the death of her mother, to stay at a cottage owned by...
The Valley (Steve Hawke, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Steve Hawke’s first foray into adult fiction, The Valley, is a tender and sensitive novel set in the Kimberley, a place the author lived and worked for many years and knows well....
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 23 July 2018
For the first time since since January 2018, Scott Pape's The Barefoot Investor (John Wiley) has dropped to the number two spot in the overall top 10 bestsellers. Dethroning Pape...
Australian publishers heading to Shanghai
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Looking for opportunities to meet Australian publishers face-to-face? A number of Australian publishers and literary agents will attend this year’s China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair in November after receiving...
Introducing Affirm Press kids list
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Affirm Press launched its list of books for children and young adults in early 2017 and has since published books by Australian Children’s Laureate Alison Lester and much-loved author Jane...
‘Totally unique graphic work’ sold to US
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Melbourne-based art-science collaborative and micro-publisher Scale Free Network (SPN) has sold North American rights to the graphic novel The Invisible War (Ailsa Wild, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti et al) to...
Shortlists highlight environment, crime books
Thursday, 19 July 2018
The shortlist for the Environment Award for Children’s Literature has been announced. The award is presented annually to children’s fiction, nonfiction and picture books that ‘foster a love of wild...
‘Hotdog’ book tops children’s fiction bestsellers chart
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Comedian and author Anh Do is once again at the top of the Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart with the latest book in his ‘Hotdog’ series about a sausage dog...
Australian bestsellers in June: Morris reclaims top spot; Pape remains overall bestseller
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Heather Morris’ debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, returns to the top spot for overall fiction bestsellers in June, ending the reign of Tim Winton's The Shepherd's Hut, which had topped...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 16 July 2018
Last week’s highest new entry, Michael Robotham’s thriller The Other Wife (Hachette), climbs to the second spot in this week’s overall top 10 bestsellers, knocking The President Is Missing (Bill Clinton...
HarperCollins announces global deal for ‘Boy Swallows Universe’
Thursday, 12 July 2018
HarperCollins Australia has announced a global deal for Trent Dalton’s debut novel Boy Swallows Universe that will see the book published through HarperCollins companies across major English and translation markets...
Miles Franklin Award shortlist announced
Thursday, 12 July 2018
The shortlist has been announced for the Miles Franklin Literary Award—one of Australia’s most influential literary prizes. The judges have described the shortlist as ‘diverse and intelligent’. Alexis Wright’s biography...
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 12 July 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: June Heather Morris’ novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz—based on the true story of Lale Sokolov, who met his future wife while working as a tattooist at the...
Introducing Transit Lounge
Thursday, 12 July 2018
Transit Lounge was founded ‘with the express purpose of publishing Australian writing that engages with other cultures’, says publisher Barry Scott. The small press’ titles include the 2016 Miles Franklin...
Publishing without borders
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
Australian publisher Hinkler Books and UK publisher Bookoli have announced they are launching a new mass-market publisher based in the UK. Curious Universe UK, a 50-50 joint venture between the...
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