The Cage (Lloyd Jones, Text)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Two strangers appear in a generic town, both claiming to have survived a catastrophe. They are unable to explain what happened, where it happened or even who they are. They...
Cake at Midnight (Jessie L Star, S&S)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Gio (the baker), Declan (the brains) and Zoe (the beauty) have always been a trio, but a few thoughtless words from Declan force Gio to face the truth: he’ll never...
Dyschronia (Jennifer Mills, Picador)
Monday, 23 October 2017
In a remote, single-industry Australian town, a young girl, Sam, starts to suffer from migraines. The sharp pain is accompanied by visions of the future, which her sceptical mother warns...
The Earth Does Not Get Fat (Julia Prendergast, UWA Publishing)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Julia Prendergast’s first novel, The Earth Does Not Get Fat, is an almost verse-like narrative filled with poignantly described intimate thoughts and emotions. Teenager Chelsea has her hands full caring...
The Everlasting Sunday (Robert Lukins, UQP)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Coming-of-age boarding school stories have a special place in the literary world; the teenage experiences of angst, confusion and ambition, combined with the greater potential for violence in an all-male...
Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-time Husband (Barbara Toner, Bantam)
Monday, 23 October 2017
It’s 1919, the Great War is over and the Spanish Flu has ended. In rural New South Wales, four women find themselves beset with problems and with no men in...
Hangman (Jack Heath, A&U)
Monday, 23 October 2017
In the age of the anti-hero, morally ambiguous characters compel readers to empathise with and root for them, despite their troubled natures and character flaws. Enter Timothy Blake, the Hangman,...
The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Punchbowl Boys High, often dubbed ‘NSW’s most troubled school’, was the subject of a 2016 autobiographical essay by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Now, that reminiscence of his alma mater has become...
The Lucky Galah (Tracy Sorensen, Picador)
Monday, 23 October 2017
It is testament to debut author Tracy Sorensen’s talent that, against all odds, choosing to have a galah narrate her novel never becomes gimmicky. Somehow the reader suspends disbelief and...
The Naturalist’s Daughter (Tea Cooper, HQ)
Monday, 23 October 2017
At the heart of Tea Cooper’s The Naturalist’s Daughter are the stories of two bold, inspirational women connected across history by a great scientific controversy—the classification of the platypus. This...
Spinifex and Sunflowers (Avan Judd Stallard, Fremantle Press)
Monday, 23 October 2017
This disturbing novel is based on the experiences of its author, who spent three months working at Curtin Immigration Detention Centre in Western Australia. His protagonist, a university dropout and...
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris, Echo)
Monday, 23 October 2017
This novel is based on an incredible true story of resilience, loss and survival—the result of years of interviews between Heather Morris and Holocaust survivor Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov. The Tattooist...
A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century (Ann-Marie Priest, UWA Publishing)
Monday, 23 October 2017
This book traces the creative vocations of four notable Australian women writers of the mid-20th century, hinging on the notion of writing as an urgent, privately held imperative. Ann-Marie Priest’s...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 23 October 2017
Three new releases have shot into the top 10 chart this week, led by John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down (Penguin), which debuted in fourth place. It is Green’s...
Introducing New Frontier
Thursday, 19 October 2017
Established in Australia in 2002, New Frontier Publishing specialises in children’s books for the trade and the educational market. In 2017 the publisher opened a UK office and in 2018...
Pug picture book tops bestsellers chart
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The Australian picture book bestsellers chart for September is dominated by Aaron Blabey and Mem Fox, with the exception of Nick Bland’s The Very Sleepy Bear—a follow-up to Bland’s 2008...
Multiple awards for ‘Words in Deep Blue’
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Cath Crowley’s YA novel Words in Deep Blue (Pan Macmillan)—a love story between estranged best friends set in a Melbourne secondhand bookshop—has picked up multiple awards in the past few...
Australian children’s books selected for international catalogues
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Several Australian children’s and YA books will soon be getting greater international exposure after being included in the prestigious IBBY Honour List and White Ravens catalogue. Two refugee stories—the YA...
A&U acquires feminist picture book ‘Our Little Inventor’
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Australian illustrator and designer Sher Rill Ng’s debut picture book Our Little Inventor via Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase Management, to...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 16 October 2017
Dan Brown’s new novel Origin (Bantam) has unseated The 91-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) to take top spot in the overall bestsellers chart this week. Griffiths and Denton’s...
Arnold Zable wins literature fellowship for ‘outstanding, established artists’
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Arnold Zable has been awarded the prestigious Australia Council Fellowship for literature, which is presented to ‘outstanding, established artists’ to support creative activity and professional development. Zable is the author...
Introducing Spinifex Press
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Founded in 1991, Melbourne-based Spinifex Press publishes innovative and controversial feminist books and ebooks with an optimistic edge. Spinifex Press was also one of the first small publishers in Australia...
‘Force of Nature’, ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top the Australian charts
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Australian fiction bestsellers: September Force of Nature, the follow-up to Jane Harper’s bestselling crime-fiction debut The Dry, is at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for September. Its...
Frankfurt underway; the unpublished manuscript award that has launched multiple bestsellers
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
The Frankfurt Book Fair is now well underway, and if you’re at the fair you should have received a copy of our print magazine Think Australian in the Wednesday edition...
‘Page-turning small-town mystery’ sold into nine territories
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Affirm Press has sold the rights to Christian White’s ‘page-turning small-town mystery’ The Nowhere Child, previously called Decay Theory, into nine overseas territories. White’s novel won this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 9 October 2017
Jane Harper’s second novel, Force of Nature (Macmillan), is showing all signs of living up to her bestselling debut The Dry, landing in second spot on this week’s overall bestseller...
A Tangled Tale of Tagliatelle (Yves Stening, illus by Nigel Buchanan, PublishCreative Books)
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
A Tangled Tale of Tagliatelle is the second instalment in Yves Stening and Nigel Buchanan’s self-published ‘Dinner Detectives’ series, which takes children on the hunt for the origins of specific...
Unearthed (Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner, A&U)
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Unearthed is an explosive action-adventure with a touch of romance set on an alien planet. Earth is a devastated planet where resources are scarce and humans are desperate. When an...
Me Too (Erika Geraerts & Charls Laubscher, illus by Gatsby, Walker Books)
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
In this debut picture book, two children dream aloud about the best friend they hope to meet one day. As they describe the many admirable traits of this mysterious someone,...
Initiate: Palace of Fires Book One (Bill Bennett, Penguin)
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Sixteen-year-old Lily lives a pretty normal life with her mum, Angela, on a farm in Northern California—until Angela vanishes. Lily discovers that her mum has been abducted by a secretive...
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