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Awards put poetry in the spotlight

Thursday, 12 April 2018
Poetry has been the focus of several Australian awards and shortlists recently, with poet and performer Candy Royalle being chosen from a shortlist of 11 poets to win the 2018...

Neverland (Margot McGovern, Random House) 

Thursday, 12 April 2018
Like Alice through the looking glass, Dorothy in Oz and Wendy in Neverland, Kit Learmonth’s childhood was full of fantastical adventures: pirates, witches, fairies and battles with terrible monsters. But...

Introducing Alex Adsett

Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Alex Adsett is a literary agent representing authors across all ages and most genres, and also a freelance publishing consultant offering commercial contract advice to authors and publishers. She has 20...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 9 April 2018
Last week's highest new entry, Anh Do's Messy Weird! (Scholastic) has claimed the number two spot in this week's top 10 bestseller chart, as well as being this week's fastest...

Correction

Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Books+Publishing published an article under the title of 'Former Mary Ryan's Byron Bay relaunches as the Book Room at Byron' on 13 February 2018 in which former Mary Ryan’s franchisees...

Waiting for Elijah (Kate Wild, Scribe) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
In Armidale, NSW, in 2009, 24-year-old Elijah Holcombe was shot and killed by a police officer. Elijah was described by all who knew him as a sweet, sensitive and artistic...

Traumata (Meera Atkinson, UQP) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Trauma and the events that provoke it involve a complex web of personal experience, history and society, but most books on the topic seem to sit squarely in either the...

Staying: A Memoir (Jessie Cole, Text) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Jessie Cole’s Staying is a well-written, extremely moving memoir that steers resolutely clear of stereotypes and self-pity. The ‘staying’ of the title refers to how Cole resumes control of her...

Ironbark (Jay Carmichael, Scribe) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Ironbark brings to disturbing life three years in the life of Marcus, a young, gay country man. He has a casually supportive father, platonic girlfriends, an interest in poetry, a...

Small Wrongs (Kate Rossmanith, Hardie Grant) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Part memoir, part cultural study, Small Wrongs is a unique look into the role remorse plays in both public and private spheres. With the observational spirit of Helen Garner and...

The Way Things Should Be (Bridie Jabour, Echo) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Claudia has returned to her hometown to get married. She should be happy, but instead she feels confused and sad, and running the gauntlet of her dysfunctional family in the...

Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Flames opens with a moment of transformation: ‘Our mother returned to us two days after we spread her ashes over Notley Fern Gorge.’ This arresting first line sets the tone...

Miss Ex-Yugoslavia (Sofia Stefanovic, Viking) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia is a coming-of-age memoir that brims with warmth, curiosity and a genuine affection for commonplace family drama. Written by Serbian-Australian writer and filmmaker Sofija Stefanovic, who describes herself...

Into the Night (Sarah Bailey, A&U) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
When a homeless man is stabbed in a Carlton park, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is the first homicide officer there. Walter Miller has no enemies, not many friends and only...

Literary direct action: Meera Atkinson on ‘Traumata’

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Meera Atkinson’s exploration of the effects of trauma, Traumata (UQP, May), is a powerful, personal memoir doubling as a philosophical treatise. ‘This is a humane, thought-provoking and heartbreaking addition to...

The Motherhood (ed by Jamila Rizvi, Viking) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
All new mothers need to read this book—when they have time, of course, and are not insanely tired, which is a long shot. However, it is no exaggeration to say...

The Love That I Have (James Moloney, HarperCollins) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
James Moloney’s latest novel, The Love That I Have, is a heartbreaking, harrowing and deeply hopeful story that delves into the horrifying realities faced by hundreds of thousands of prisoners...

Bestsellers this week 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
The children's illustrated board book Peppa's Easter Egg Hunt from the 'Peppa Pig' series is one of three children's titles in this week's top 10 bestseller chart, climbing to 10th spot...

Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Blending memoir with social commentary, Bri Lee’s Eggshell Skull is a book about trauma, culpability and retribution. Unlike recently published personal narratives that are used as a launchpad to explore...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 26 March 2018
Tim Winton’s The Shepherd’s Hut (Hamish Hamilton) has climbed to second spot in the top 10 bestsellers chart after debuting in 11th spot last week, while Scott Pape’s The Barefoot...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 19 March 2018
Last week’s highest new entry, Terry’s Dumb Dot Story (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) has climbed to second spot in this week’s top 10 chart. The new ‘Treehouse’ story...

Introducing Fremantle Press’ children’s list

Friday, 16 March 2018
Fremantle Press is a not-for-profit publisher of books by new and emerging Western Australian writers and artists. It has been publishing children's books across a range of genres for 26...

Foster Blake tops picture book chart

Friday, 16 March 2018
Surely it’s only a matter of time before Australian comedian Hamish Blake decides it might be a good idea to pen a children’s book. His multi-talented spouse, Zoe Foster Blake,...

 

 

 

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