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Australia is back at Frankfurt, come say hello!

Thursday, 13 October 2022
Australians have spent most of the past two years confined to our home country (and much of that time confined to our homes!), so it is wonderful to report that...

Diverse new offerings from First Nations writers

Thursday, 13 October 2022
First Nations poetry has been a standout success in 2022—so let's take a look at what other titles are forthcoming from across the diverse spectrum of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

Australian book market overview: 2022 so far

Thursday, 13 October 2022
The Australian book market posted strong results throughout the Covid-affected years of 2020 and 2021, and has continued this growth in 2022, with overall sales for the year to 18...

Nonfiction acquisitions: memoirs galore

Thursday, 13 October 2022
Among the most recent nonfiction acquisitions by Australian publishers are a plethora of memoir titles, including actor Sam Neill’s memoir Did I Ever Tell You This?, for which Text acquired...

Middle-grade boom: recent Australian CYA acquisitions

Thursday, 13 October 2022
The Australian children’s middle-grade market continues to grow, and recent acquisitions show it won’t be slowing down anytime soon. Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ, Oceania and non-exclusive Asia...

Down wins Miles Franklin for ‘Bodies of Light’

Thursday, 13 October 2022
Melbourne writer Jennifer Down took out Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, for her second novel Bodies of Light (Text). The winner was chosen from...

Introducing Bold Type Agency

Thursday, 13 October 2022
Nerrilee Weir, former Penguin Random House Australia senior rights manager and Fiona Henderson, former Simon & Schuster Australia publishing director, have joined forces to create new rights agency Bold Type...

Australian authors recommend

Thursday, 13 October 2022
Australian authors tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why.   Michelle Kadarusman is the author of the middle-grade book on animal activism Berani (A&U...

Australian bestsellers 2022 YTD 

Thursday, 13 October 2022
Top 10 Australian fiction YTD Apples Never Fall (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) 44,080 The Murder Rule (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins) 40,870 Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan) 39,770 Cobalt Blue (Matthew Reilly, Macmiillan) 37,040...

Australian bestsellers 2022 YTD 

Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Top 10 Australian fiction YTD Apples Never Fall (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) 44,080 The Murder Rule (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins) 40,870 Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan) 39,770 Cobalt Blue (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan) 37,040...

Every Version of You

Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror, with a dash of Murakami’s surrealism—this is speculative literary fiction at its best. In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin...

Why Does it Still Hurt? (Paul Biegler, Scribe) 

Tuesday, 11 October 2022
The way we understand pain evolves, and it is misunderstood even within the medical community. Part physical, part psychological, it is notoriously difficult to study. In Why Does it Still...

Seven Sisters (Katherine Kovacic, HarperCollins) 

Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Katherine Kovacic’s latest novel is an intense, page-turning psychological thriller that explores the depravity of domestic violence, the failings of the justice system and the lengths families will go in...

Pullin, Tame memoirs debut in top 10 

Monday, 10 October 2022
Top 10 bestsellers Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan) The 156-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) The Bullet That Missed (Richard Osman, Viking) The Bad Guys #16: Others?! (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic)...

Books in the media this weekend, 8–9 October 

Friday, 7 October 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper  Against Disappearance (ed by Leah Jing McIntosh & Adolfo Aranjuez, Pantera) A Kind...

McTiernan tops Nielsen ebooks chart 

Wednesday, 5 October 2022
Its popularity in both print and ebook formats has put It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover) at the top of Nielsen BookScan’s first publicly released combined print and ebook bestsellers...

Sydney: A biography (Louis Nowra, NewSouth) 

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
Melbourne-born Louis Nowra moved to Sydney as an adult and has never lost his passion for his adopted home. Whether he’s describing the city’s mercurial weather, its elegant convict-designed colonial...

An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb (Louise Wolhuter, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
‘Twisty mystery’ is the delightfully accurate descriptor on the AI sheet for this character-based drama. Yet before its mysterious elements begin unspooling, the characters and setting are firmly established, endearing...

New Harper debuts at number one 

Monday, 3 October 2022
Top 10 bestsellers Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan) The 156-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) The Bullet That Missed (Richard Osman, Viking) Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens, Corsair)...

Books in the media this weekend, 1–2 October 

Friday, 30 September 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National  The Saturday Paper  Black Lives, White Law (Russell Marks, La Trobe University Press)  Cautionary...

The Teal Revolution (Margot Saville, Hardie Grant) 

Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Australia's 2022 federal election brought a major upset: six independent female candidates—colloquially known as ‘the teals’ for the signature colour they adopted (a blend of green and Liberal blue)—catapulted into...

 

 

 

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