Hinterland (Steven Lang, UQP)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
A small Queensland town is divided. The collapse of local industry in a once-thriving dairy community has seen farmland abandoned, repurposed for suburban sprawl or replanted by conservationists. When a...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 24 April 2017
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo, Particular Books) has shot up the charts to fourth spot in this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart, as well...
RiP Rose Creswell
Monday, 24 April 2017
Former literary agent Rose Creswell has died. The Cameron Creswell Agency writes: ‘It is with much sadness The Cameron Creswell Agency announces the death, on Tuesday 19 April 2017, of...
Book blogger spotlight: Genie in a Book
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Eugenia Alabasinis’ blog Genie in a Book began in 2014 with a sole focus on YA novels, but has since expanded to include a range of adult fiction. Alabasinis spoke...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
This week’s bestsellers charts features a largely unchanged top 10, with the top four overall bestsellers echoing the top four from last week. The eighth book in Anh Do’s ‘Weirdo’ series, Really Weird!...
Book blogger spotlight: Angel Reads
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
Blogger Angel Gouvas has been writing about YA books since 2012, and has a particular interest in #LoveOzYA and discussions about diversity. Gouvas spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘Book blogger...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 10 April 2017
This week’s bestsellers chart has a new number one, with Really Weird! WeirDo (Anh Do, Scholastic) topping both the overall bestsellers and the fastest movers charts. The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) is in...
Get cultured: Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost on ‘Do Not Lick This Book’
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Writer Idan Ben-Barak and illustrator Julian Frost’s guide to microbes is a ‘fun, beautifully designed and repulsive [picture] book’ that will have kids ‘[delighting] in the gross elements’, writes reviewer...
Psynode (Marlee Jane Ward, Seizure)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Marlee Jane Ward impressed with her YA debut Welcome to Orphancorp in 2015, winning Seizure’s Viva La Novella Prize as well as the YA category of the Victorian Premier’s Literary...
Living on Hope Street (Demet Divaroren, A&U)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Demet Divaroren’s YA novel Living on Hope St does not shirk from tackling the big issues that concern society today. Refugees, domestic abuse, racism, grief and bullying all feature in...
Do Not Lick This Book (Idan Ben-Barak, illus by Julian Frost, A&U)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
What a fun, beautifully designed and repulsive book! Its premise is humble: let’s meet some microbes. It sits between educational text and narrative picture book, following Min the microbe on...
Book blogger spotlight: Sam Still Reading
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Blogger Jeanie Misko has been writing about an eclectic mix of books for her blog Sam Still Reading since 2010, with her audience growing to about 2500 people a month. Misko...
Ollie’s Treasure (Lynn Jenkins, illus by Kirrili Lonergan, EK Books)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Here’s a picture book that unpacks mindfulness and the awareness of transient moments in time. Ollie’s grandma knows he loves treasure hunts so she sends him a map. He enthusiastically...
Storm Whale (Sarah Brennan, illus by Jane Tanner, A&U)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Jane Tanner’s rich, textured, gorgeous illustrations work in parallel with Sarah Brennan’s equally complex and affecting language in this verse-narrative of three young girls who find a beached whale. Their...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 3 April 2017
This week’s bestsellers chart remains largely unchanged, with The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) remaining in the top spot, ahead of 16th Seduction: A Women’s Murder Club Thriller (James Patteron &...
Widening the frame: Briohny Doyle on ‘Adult Fantasy’
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Briohny Doyle blends memoir and cultural critique in Adult Fantasy (Scribe, June) to examine what it means to be an adult in a rapidly changing new millennium. Reviewer Jo Case...
Closing Down (Sally Abbott, Hachette)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Sally Abbott’s manuscript was the inaugural winner of the Richell Prize, which was set up by Hachette Australia in honour of former CEO Matt Richell. Closing Down conjures a dystopian...
The Dark Lake (Sarah Bailey, A&U)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Police detective Gemma Woodstock has lived in the regional Australian town of Smithson for her whole life, stuck there by a compounding trail of grief, love, comfort and childbirth. An...
The Good Girl Stripped Bare (Tracey Spicer, ABC Books)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
In the same vein as her viral TEDx talk ‘The Lady Stripped Bare’, journalist Tracey Spicer’s memoir The Good Girl Stripped Bare unearths the indignities of being a woman in...
The Gulf (Anna Spargo-Ryan, Picador)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Just a year after her debut novel The Paper House was released to enthusiastic reviews, Anna Spargo-Ryan returns with another impressive novel that will have readers feeling every emotion experienced...
No More Boats (Felicity Castagna, Giramondo)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
First up should I say that one of the characters in this impressive novel from Felicity Castagna (The Incredible Here and Now, Small Indiscretions) works in a bookshop in Sydney’s...
Some Tests (Wayne Macauley, Text)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
One day, 37-year-old aged-care worker Beth Own, wife and mother of two young daughters, wakes up feeling a bit off-colour. She takes a day off work and is sent for...
This Water (Beverley Farmer, Giramondo)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
This Water features five new short stories from Beverly Farmer, one of Australia’s most underappreciated living writers. In this, her 10th book, Farmer draws heavily on ancient myths, folklores and...
Understory: A Life with Trees (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Many people dream about making a ‘tree change’. When Inga Simpson and her partner fell in love with 10 acres of bush in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, they succumbed to...
Year of the Orphan (Daniel Findlay, Bantam)
Thursday, 30 March 2017
There is a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction being published at the moment, and while we’re probably reaching saturation point, Year of the Orphan is definitely worth reading. In a desolate...
Book blogger spotlight: Happy Indulgence
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Happy Indulgence is run by three YA book bloggers specialising in contemporary, historical, sci-fi and fantasy titles. The site reaches an audience of over 10,000 followers in the US, Australia...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 27 March 2017
The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) has regained the number one spot in this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart, with First, We Make the Beast Beautiful (Sarah Wilson, Macmillan) and...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 20 March 2017
The top 10 bestsellers chart remains largely unchanged this week, with The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet (Grant Brinkworth & Pennie Taylor, Macmillan) holding on to the top spot for a second...
The Great Zoo Hullabaloo! (Mark Carthew, illus by Anil Tortop, New Frontier)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
This is Mark Carthew and Anil Tortop’s first collaboration, though both bring extensive backlists in their respective areas. The Great Zoo Hullabaloo! is an energetic account of missing animals who,...
Ready, Steady, Hatch (Ben Long, illus by David Cornish, Ford Street)
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Ready, Steady, Hatch has to be read aloud. That’s where the magic is, in the rhythm and cadence of this amusing tale. The story of a lost newborn chick unfolds...
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