When Elephants Fight (Majok Tulba, Hamish Hamilton)
Friday, 27 April 2018
When Elephants Fight is a novel that really packs a punch. Majok Tulba has previously written about the realities of the Sudanese civil war in his 2012 novel, Beneath the...
The Knowledge Solution: Politics (ed by Michelle Grattan, MUP)
Friday, 27 April 2018
In The Knowledge Solution: Politics, editor Michelle Grattan presents a range of views dissecting today's most pressing political problems. A heavy artillery of top-brass contributors such as Paul Kelly, Peter...
Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate)
Friday, 27 April 2018
The debut novel from award-winning journalist Trent Dalton is a harrowing coming-of-age tale set against the street-level drug trade in 1980s Brisbane. Boy Swallows Universe follows Eli Bell from ages...
The Nowhere Child (Christian White, Affirm Press)
Friday, 27 April 2018
Sammy Went was a toddler when she disappeared from her home in Kentucky 28 years ago. Kim Leamy is an Australian photography teacher living a fairly unremarkable life until a...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Patrizia di Biase-Dyson
Friday, 27 April 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards' (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner's announcement...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars: Ali Hammond
Thursday, 26 April 2018
In recognition of the Australian Book Industry Awards' (ABIA) inaugural Rising Star of the Year Award, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees ahead of the winner's announcement...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 23 April 2018
Last week's highest new entry, King of Ashes by Raymond E Feist (HarperCollins) has entered the overall bestsellers chart in tenth position this week, as well as topping the fastest movers chart....
Introducing Quirky Kid Publishing
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Quirky Kid Publishing—the publishing arm of Sydney- and Wollongong-based child psychology clinic The Quirky Kid Clinic—has won the Educational Initiatives Award at the 2018 London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence...
Meet new Australian voices at the Intersection
Thursday, 19 April 2018
‘Commentators have been pointing out for decades how the children’s and young adult literary landscape has largely reflected one dominant, homogeneous story of privilege and power that rarely admits “outsider”...
Walker Books acquires world rights to Croggon’s first middle-grade fantasy title
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Alison Croggon, author of the ‘Pellinor’ series for young adults, will publish her first middle-grade fantasy adventure title, The Threads of Magic, with Walker Books after the publisher acquired world rights in...
Townsend’s ‘Nevermoor’ wins locally and in the UK
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) has been named Book of the Year at the 2018 Indie Book Awards. Nevermoor, which also took out the children’s category of the awards,...
Anh Do’s new ‘Ninja Kid’ tops children’s fiction bestsellers
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Comedian, and author of the bestselling memoir The Happiest Refugee, Anh Do occupies four of the top 10 places on the children’s fiction bestsellers chart for March, with the first...
Australian bestsellers in March: Winton tops fiction, Hamilton number two in nonfiction
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Tim Winton's first novel in five years, The Shepherd's Hut, was the bestselling fiction title in March, after debuting in 11th spot in early March and remaining in the overall...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 16 April 2018
Last week's third-highest new entry, CSIRO Low-Carb Every Day (Grant Brinkworth & Dr Pennie Taylor, Macmillan) has claimed the number two spot in this week's top 10 bestseller chart, as well...
Memory trick: Margot McGovern on ‘Neverland’
Friday, 13 April 2018
Debut author Margot McGovern was inspired by her favourite childhood reads to create Neverland (Random House, April), ‘a dark and compelling examination of memory, self-determination and the dangers of romanticising...
The Orchard Underground (Mat Larkin, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Friday, 13 April 2018
The Orchard Underground is a funny and intriguing debut that’s mercifully free of a ‘tween’ sensibility but never patronising to its upper-primary readers. The story is fresh and strange: the...
Bab Sharkey and the Animal Mummies: The Weird Beard (Andrew Hansen & Jessica Roberts, Walker Books)
Friday, 13 April 2018
Parents will likely be familiar with The Chaser’s Andrew Hansen, but this wacky new series is a departure from his satirical brand of humour. The book opens with the Unpharaoh:...
Red House, Blue House, Green House, Tree House! (Jane Godwin, illus by Jane Reiseger, Affirm Press)
Friday, 13 April 2018
Young children love listening to rhyming text. Even though they may not understand rhyming, they enjoy the sounds of the rhymes and the rhythm of the words. These kinds of...
Whisper (Lynette Noni, Pantera Press)
Friday, 13 April 2018
Subject Six-Eight-Four (aka Jane Doe) has been locked up in an underground facility and experimented on for over two and a half years as part of a mysterious ‘program’. In...
Benny Bungarra’s Big Bush Clean-up (Sally Morgan, illus by Ambelin Kwaymullina, Magabala Books)
Friday, 13 April 2018
Benny Bungarra’s Big Bush Clean-up is an animal tale with a strong environmental message. When Benny Bungarra investigates some strange noises in the bush, he comes across different animals that...
Under My Bed (John Dickson, illus by Guridi, Berbay)
Friday, 13 April 2018
Most people will remember the spine-tingling feeling of lying in bed at night and imagining there are monsters in their bedroom—and the comfort of realising that they’re safely snuggled up...
Lifel1k3 (Jay Kristoff, A&U)
Friday, 13 April 2018
Set in a savage post-apocalyptic California (or Kalifornya as it’s remembered now), Lifel1k3 (Lifelike) follows 15-year-old Eve, who makes a living building robots out of scraps and using them to...
Bonesland (Brendan Lawley, Text)
Friday, 13 April 2018
Sixteen-year-old Bones Carter has a lot going on. With his obsessive-compulsive tendencies, anxiety, germ-phobia, separated parents and regular harassment at the hands of his older brother Trav and school bully...
The Singing Seal (Merv Lamington, illus by Allison Langton, Affirm Press)
Friday, 13 April 2018
The first book in Affirm Press’ new ‘True Animal Tales’ series is an amiable and accessible glimpse into the cheeky imagined world of the real-life New Zealand fur seal who...
It’s Hard to Love a Tiger (Anna Pignataro, Scholastic)
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Kittens and cats are so passé; how much more fun would it be to have a pet tiger instead? The cover—with its smiley little blonde girl trying to affix a...
The Peacock Detectives (Carly Nugent, Text)
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Eleven-year-old Cassie Anderson, Peacock Detective, like all great detectives, is good at noticing things. She notices the scratches in the corner of the cage when the peacocks William Shakespeare and...
The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge (Clare Strahan, A&U)
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Vanessa Partridge is a clever, talented and awkward teen facing her final year of high school in the midst of hormonal adolescence. She’s full of thoughts about kissing and sex...
Stone Girl (Eleni Hale, Penguin)
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Sophie grows up saddled with a missing dad and an unreliable alcoholic mother. At the tender age of 12, she finds her mother dead and blames herself. As there is...
Australian delegation to visit the US
Thursday, 12 April 2018
If you’ll be in New York City in early June this year, look out for a group of eight Australian publishers, rights managers and literary agents, who will travel there...
‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: March Last month we reported that The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by debut author Holly Ringland (HarperCollins) had sold into 19 territories. This month the book,...
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