Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Clare Atkins follows up her award-winning debut novel Nona & Me with this moving tale of two young people in Darwin who make a connection, though one of them lives...
Children of invention: Catherine Pelosi on ‘Quark’s Academy’
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
In Quark’s Academy (Hachette, February), debut author Catherine Pelosi brings together three junior science geniuses in an elite and mysterious science academy. Reviewer Lian Hingee spoke to the author. (Read...
Quark’s Academy (Catherine Pelosi, Lothian)
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Once a year the prestigious and mysterious Quark’s Academy admits 15 exceptional young scientists for a week’s study that will culminate in the Best Invention Competition. This year’s batch of...
Book blogger spotlight: The Bookish Manicurist
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Amanda Salles creates ‘bookish nail art’ inspired by the covers of her favourite books. Pictures of her nail art and tutorial videos accompany reviews of YA fiction on her blog,...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 2 October 2017
The 91-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) has held the top spot in this week’s overall bestsellers chart for a seventh consecutive week, while Scott Pape and David...
Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo)
Thursday, 28 September 2017
In Border Districts, which is conceived as Gerald Murnane’s last work of fiction, the narrator has moved to a remote town, near the border of a neighbouring state, so that he...
Dissent (Sally Percival Wood, Scribe)
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Sally Percival Wood’s Dissent is a lively and accessible slice of Australian cultural history. Percival Wood revisits the tumultuous 1960s and reveals the extent to which an unlikely and often-forgotten...
A Timeline of Australian Food (Jan O’Connell, NewSouth)
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Jan O’Connell’s A Timeline of Australian Food is a worthy and useful addition to the small but growing canon of Australian food history writing. Spanning 1860 to 2010, the book...
The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con (Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano, Scribe)
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
The now infamous story of how Belle Gibson gave false hope to cancer patients in a global health and wellness scam is a treasure trove of lies and complicit enabling....
My Life and Other Fictions (Michael Giacometti, Spineless Wonders)
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Bringing together 20 very different stories, My Life and Other Fictions is a bold debut from Michael Giacometti and a unique exercise in experimentation with form and voice. Initially it...
Into the World (Stephanie Parkyn, A&U)
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Inspired by true events in the 18th century, Into the World is the story of Marie-Louise Girardin, an unwed woman who must escape revolutionary France to save the life of...
Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation (Renate Klein, Spinifex)
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Renate Klein’s book on surrogacy is intended to be a feminist work focusing on the rights of the surrogate, donor and child. Klein sets out her oppositions to the practice by...
Tracker (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
A biography can be written in a standard form: subject born, raised, educated, worked and died. And that will be fine for most people. But not Tracker Tilmouth. He was a polarising, intelligent, charismatic...
Book blogger spotlight: Trish Talks Texts
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Trish Buckley is a teacher-librarian who brings a critical perspective to YA literature. ‘I have been reading YA novels since I was a teenager, so that’s 30-odd years of context,...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 25 September 2017
The 91-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) maintains its position as the overall bestseller in a familiar-looking top 10 bestsellers chart, while new books by Marian Keyes (The Break,...
Introducing #LoveOzYA
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Several years ago a group of Australian YA authors and supporters launched the grassroots campaign #LoveOzYA to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles. Think Australian...
‘The Silent Invasion’ tops YA bestsellers chart
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The Silent Invasion—the first book in a new YA dystopian trilogy from novelist James Bradley—is at the top of the Australian YA bestsellers chart for August. It’s followed by In the...
Oz YA under the spotlight
Thursday, 21 September 2017
In this newsletter, we shine a spotlight on Australian young adult (YA) fiction. In our profile, we speak to literary agent, editor and YA advocate Danielle Binks about the state...
CBCA Book of the Year Awards announced
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The winners of the prestigious Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. They include: One Would Think the Deep (Claire Zorn, University of Queensland...
Era Publications launches children’s reader series in China
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Era Publications, a family owned educational publisher with a focus on English-language teaching, has partnered with Chinese publisher New Century Publishing to publish 1.7 million copies of its ‘WINGS’ children’s...
Book blogger spotlight: The Unlikely Bookworm
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Londoner-turned-Sydneysider Lucy Pearson blogs about books and travel at The Unlikely Bookworm. Pearson reviews and recommends a range of fiction and nonfiction, and will soon be launching a series of...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 18 September 2017
New books by Sarah J Maas, David Lagercrantz and J D Robb have all entered the top 10 bestsellers this week. Maas’ latest instalment in the ‘Throne of Glass’ series,...
Australian publishers prepare for Frankfurt
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Each year, Australian publishers big and small travel to the Frankfurt Book Fair to meet face to face with their international counterparts. To find out which Australian publishers will be...
Introducing Henry Rosenbloom
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Henry Rosenbloom is the founder and publisher of Melbourne’s Scribe Publications, which specialises in ‘narrative and literary nonfiction on important topics, and the best of local, international and translated fiction’....
‘Extinctions’ wins prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Josephine Wilson has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for her novel Extinctions, published by Western Australia–based small press UWA Publishing. The judging panel described...
‘Colombiano’, ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top the Australian charts
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Australian fiction bestsellers: August Topping the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for August is the novel Colombiano—‘a heart-thumping journey into the violent and unpredictable world of post-Escobar Colombia’—from the author of...
S&S Australia selects ‘sweeping literary novel’ to launch Scribner Australia imprint
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Simon & Schuster Australia will launch the literary imprint Scribner in Australia and New Zealand in 2018 with a new novel by Kristina Olsson (pictured), author of the award-winning Boy,...
Book blogger spotlight: Libretto Reviews
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Italian expat Erica Puggioni now lives in Brisbane, where she blogs about crime, literary fiction and fantasy at Libretto Reviews. ‘I am bilingual and so is my blog,’ says Puggioni....
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 11 September 2017
Two sports memoirs have climbed into the top 10 bestsellers this week, with Billy Slater’s Autobiography (Ebury) reaching fifth spot and AFL player and coach Paul Roos’ Here It Is...
Out of the ordinary: Jaclyn Moriarty on ‘The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone’
Thursday, 7 September 2017
Bound by her parents’ magical will, 10-year-old Bronte Mettlestone must journey to 10 different kingdoms to visit each of her 10 aunts. So goes the premise of Jaclyn Moriarty’s new...
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