Sales assistant, Sydney
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
Walker Books Australia We have an exciting opportunity for an organised, innovative, self-motivated Sales Assistant to join our National Sales team. We are looking for someone who understands the value...
Senior Editor, Sydney
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for an organised and enthusiastic individual to join the HarperCollins Children’s Books division in the role of Senior Editor on a 14-month...
Sales & business development manager HGG, Victoria
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
Hardie Grant Hardie Grant Gift (HGG) is a division of Hardie Grant Publishing, a leading Australian-owned independent publisher. HGG represents leading local and international publishers and supplies a curated range...
Readers and Writers Against the Genocide fundraising for medics book
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
Not-for-profit industry org Readers and Writers Against the Genocide (RWAG) is two-thirds of the way to its fundraising goal for its next book: a collection of essays titled The Weight...
Junior project editors, Melbourne
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
Insight Publications Insight Publications is an independent Australian-owned company with over 50 years of experience publishing educational resources for secondary teachers and students. We develop innovative, engaging and evolving resources...
Night Swimming (Sharon Kernot, Text)
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Sharon Kernot’s first foray into adult fiction, Night Swimming, is both a suspenseful verse novel and a ghost story in which the narrator of the book haunts herself. Night Swimming...
A Flash in the Dust (Meg Caddy, UQP)
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Set in Western Australia in 1899, Meg Caddy’s queer YA historical novel A Flash in the Dust follows Gilberta and Norah, who are imprisoned in Fremantle Asylum and escape into...
I Remember Everything (Fiona Wilkes, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Fiona Wilkes’s debut novel, I Remember Everything, memorialises the LGBTQIA+ communities lost to the AIDS crisis. In this fictionalised memoir, Billie recounts her formative years from 1979 to 1990, moving...
Floating by the Clouds (Mohammad Awad, illus Niña Nill, Penguin)
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Floating by the Clouds by Mohammad Awad is a lyrical debut picture book that explores the highs and lows of emotions, encouraging children to acknowledge and express their feelings. The central...
The Sisters of Serendib (Ayesha Inoon, HQ Fiction)
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
The Sisters of Serendib, the sophomore novel from Ayesha Inoon (Untethered), opens in 1990 with a flurry of events as Tamil Muslims board boats to escape the escalating violence of...
Wormhole (Hannah McElhinney, Affirm)
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
How far should you go in search of answers when mainstream medicine can’t help? Wormhole is author Hannah McElhinney’s attempt to answer that question through a blend of memoir, cultural...
“The Witness” sees a rise on the charts
Friday, 17 April 2026
Top 10 bestsellers Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir, Penguin) (combined editions) Rites of the Starling (Devney Perry, Penguin) Hope Rises (David Baldacci, Macmillan) Game On (Navessa Allen, Quercus) The Witness...
Book Club – this month’s reads
Friday, 17 April 2026
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction to thought-provoking...
Books in the media this week
Friday, 17 April 2026
A round-up of books being reviewed and discussed in key media this week, updated as information becomes available. National The Bookshelf, ABC Radio National Ghost-Eye (Amitav Ghosh, John Murray) The...
Early bird tickets closing!
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
Get ready to celebrate another year of exceptional talent and creativity in the book sector at the Australian Book Industry Awards 2026! The Australian Book Industry Awards ceremony will be...
Commissioning editor (identified), Brisbane
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
University of Queensland Press (UQP) An exciting opportunity is available for a Commissioning Editor to join UQP. This role focuses on acquiring and publishing commercially viable and culturally significant titles,...
Marketing co-ordinator maternity leave cover, Victoria
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
Text Publishing Text Publishing is looking for an organised and energetic Marketing Co-ordinator for a 12-month maternity leave cover. We are seeking a team player skilled in social media operations...
Sales assistant, Sydney
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
Walker Books Australia We have an exciting opportunity for an organised, innovative, self-motivated Sales Assistant to join our National Sales team. We are looking for someone who understands the value...
Children’s bookseller, New South Wales
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
Constant Reader We are currently looking for a Children’s Bookseller with a passion for all books and reading to join our team. This exciting position serves our loyal customers in...
Senior editor, Sydney
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for an organised and enthusiastic individual to join the HarperCollins Children’s Books division in the role of Senior Editor on a 14-month...
Touch Grass (Mary Colussi, Penguin)
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
Mary Colussi’s debut novel, Touch Grass, is the sharp and inventive winner of the 2025 Penguin Literary Prize. This work of speculative fiction takes readers into the not-too-distant future, where strawberries are...
Where the Heart Is (Shirley Marr, illus Michael Speechley, Walker)
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
In Where the Heart Is, Shirley Marr (Countdown to Yesterday) (with illustrations by Michael Speechley) crafts a wistful picture book for readers aged 3 to 6 that plays with the...
What’s That Splat? (Johanna Bell, illus Amelia Luscombe, Thames & Hudson)
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
What’s That Splat? is the picture-book equivalent of the famous Rorschach test – the psychological assessment that analyses a person’s response to a series of inkblots. Here, writer Johanna Bell...
Detention (Ralph Jackman, A&U)
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
Detention is a powerful memoir about Australia’s youth detention system, told from the perspective of a rookie teacher and his fight for the rights of some of our country's most...
The Palace of Lost Virtue (Anthea Hodgson, Penguin)
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
In The Palace of Lost Virtue, Anthea Hodgson follows her bestselling novel The War Nurses with a stirring work of historical fiction. Spanning 1898 to 1926, this new novel offers...
Song of the Shadow of a Seed (Luisa Mitchell, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
For Whadjuk Nyungar writer Luisa Mitchell, seeds represent the longevity of the past and sustainability of the future. From seeds grow roots and trees, a living representation of connection to...
Cleopatra: The Girl Who Would Be King (Heroes in the Ancient World #1) (Jackie French, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
Bestselling author and historian Jackie French (Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger) tackles the question of what the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra was up to during her tween years in Cleopatra: The...
SWF non-compete clause “a disaster for independent bookshops”
Monday, 13 April 2026
The Sydney Writers’ Festival, which prides itself on being “a barometer of the world around us”, last year jointly received $1.5 million from the NSW government to expand events beyond...
“Redbelly Crossing” debuts on the charts
Friday, 10 April 2026
Top 10 bestsellers Game On (Navessa Allen, Quercus) Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir, Penguin) (combined editions) Bluey: Easter (Puffin) Peter Rabbit: Peter’s Easter Slide-and-Seek (Beatrix Potter, Puffin) Hope Rises (David...
Books in the media this week
Friday, 10 April 2026
A round-up of books being reviewed and discussed in key media this week, updated as information becomes available. National The Bookshelf, ABC Radio National Errol Flynn: The True Story of...
