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New Treehouse book debuts at number one 

Monday, 19 September 2022
Top 10 bestsellers                  The 156-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) Fairy Tale (Stephen King, Hodder & Stoughton) Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens, Corsair)* The Ink Black Heart...

Books in the media this weekend, 17–18 September 

Friday, 16 September 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper  Survival of the Richest (Douglas Rushkoff, Scribe)  This Devastating Fever (Sophie...

Bologna rights centre to open to adult publishers

bologna logo Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) will expand its current BCBF Agents' Centre to include rights professionals from across the industry, including adult general trade publishers. BCBF director Elena Pasoli said:...

Carey memoir debuts at number three 

Monday, 12 September 2022
Top 10 bestsellers                              The Ink Black Heart (Robert Galbraith, Sphere) Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens, Corsair)* The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Emma Carey, A&U) One (Jamie...

Books in the media this weekend, 10–11 September 

Friday, 9 September 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper  Bon and Lesley (Shaun Prescott, Giramondo) New Australian Fiction 2022 (ed...

Waiting for the Storks (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books) 

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Waiting for the Storks is the latest historical fiction title from Katrina Nannestad, transporting the reader to the Second World War and the time of Himmler’s Lebensborn Program, in which...

Tell Me Again (Amy Thunig, UQP) 

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Amy Thunig is an academic and social commentator on shows such as ABC’s The Drum. She also grew up in poverty, the child of parents battling drug addictions who provided...

Hazelwood’s new novel enters top 10 at number two 

Monday, 5 September 2022
Top 10 bestsellers                              Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens, Corsair)* Love on the Brain (Ali Hazelwood, Sphere) It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Cobalt Blue (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan)...

Books in the media this weekend, 3–4 September 

Friday, 2 September 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper  Brother Alive (Zain Khalid, Ultimo) Empire, War, Tennis and Me (Peter...

Bold Types (Patricia Clarke, NLA Publishing) 

Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Patricia Clarke started her career in journalism in 1951, a time when the industry was very much a man's world but women were making inroads. In Bold Types, Clarke gives...

‘Crawdads’ at number one for sixth week 

Monday, 29 August 2022
Top 10 bestsellers Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens, Corsair)* It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Cobalt Blue (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan) The Rising Tide (Ann Cleeves, Macmillan) Bluey: Little...

Books in the media this weekend, 27–28 August 

Friday, 26 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper August in Kabul (Andrew Quilty, MUP) The Nerves and their Endings...

Salonika Burning (Gail Jones, Text) 

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Award-winning novelist Gail Jones’s new offering adapts the First World War experiences of four very real people: British artists Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer, and Australians Olive King and Stella...

Men I Trust (Tommi Parrish, Scribe) 

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Scribe is proving itself to be at the forefront of local comics publishing with its second graphic release of 2022, Men I Trust by US-based Australian artist Tommi Parrish. The...

Koori Princess (Anita Heiss, Magabala) 

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Anita Heiss is an award-winning author who has published across the gamut of Australian writing: from adult fiction and memoir to children’s novels, she’s seemingly done it all. Koori Princess...

A Tiny Light (Alison Lester, UQP) 

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
It’s always a delight when Alison Lester, one of Australia’s most well loved picture-book creators, releases a new story. A Tiny Light is her latest offering, a charming narrative in...

Willowman (Inga Simpson, Hachette)

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
In Inga Simpson’s heartfelt new novel Willowman, a gifted young cricketer and a dedicated batmaker live their lives in parallel to one another, their love of the game binding them...

Latest Cleeves thriller debuts at number 10 

Monday, 22 August 2022
Top 10 bestsellers                              Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens, Corsair)* Cobalt Blue (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan) It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) The Boy from Boomerang Crescent (Eddie Betts,...

Berani (Michelle Kadarusman, A&U) 

Saturday, 20 August 2022
Berani is a powerful middle-grade story about animal activism set in Indonesia, by the Indonesian-Australian author of Music for Tigers. Weaving in two interconnected stories and three voices, including that...

Books in the media this weekend, 20–21 August 

Friday, 19 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper  Desire: A reckoning (Jessie Cole, Text) Marlo (Jay Carmichael, Scribe) The...

The Soulmate (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan)

Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Sally Hepworth delivers another brilliant, page-turning domestic thriller with her eighth novel The Soulmate. Set in the idyllic coastal town of Portsea, sheltered from the hustle of city life, the...

Betts bio debuts at number three 

Monday, 15 August 2022
In bestsellers this week, the new Matthew Reilly is the highest new entry, while former AFL star Eddie Betts' The Boy from Boomerang Crescent (S&S) was Australia’s highest selling nonfiction...

Books in the media this weekend, 13–14 August 

Friday, 12 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper  Grounded (Alisa Bryce, Text) Provocations (Jeff Sparrow, NewSouth) Should We Fall...