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Miles Franklin 2021 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 16 June 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The six shortlisted novels, chosen from a longlist of 12, are: Amnesty (Aravind Adiga, Picador) The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott,...

Adult fiction dominates chart 

Tuesday, 15 June 2021
After months of the Australian bestsellers chart being dominated by children's fiction, the top five books on the chart this week are all adult fiction titles. Nora Roberts's new standalone...

Diverse voices among recent fiction acquisitions

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to The Matchmaker (2023), a romantic comedy from debut Pakistani–Australian author Saman Shad, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. The novel...

The Happiness Jar

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Losing her battle with cystic fibrosis, Rachel administers a dose of her notorious wanderlust. She asks her family for one last request: a journey to the exotic and the unknown....

Ocean Warriors: The Rise of Robo-Shark 

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Being sent to a submarine to help restore extinct sea creatures for summer camp is not exactly Kai’s idea of fun. Then he discovers a cyborg great white shark in...

All About Yves – Notes from a Transition

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Was I always trans, part boy beneath my skin, or was it that I landed in a place where 'girl' was a container so small it could break your bones?...

Music Maker of Auschwitz IV

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
The inspirational true story of an Allied POW appointed Kapellmeister (man in charge of music) to the Nazis in Auschwitz. In May 1940, he was captured at Dunkirk and interned...

The Riddle of Tanglewood Manor

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
When their parents opt for a tree-change, 150-year-old Tanglewood Manor becomes Sam and Harry’s ‘new’ home in the country. As their parents set about renovating the ruin, the brothers cautiously...

Two debut novels picked up in US, UK

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Two debut novels—Ella Baxter’s New Animal and Peter Papathanasiou’s forthcoming crime fiction The Stoning—have recently been acquired by publishers in the US and UK. US rights to Ella Baxter’s New...

‘The Yield’ among numerous novels optioned for screen

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Tara June Winch’s 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning novel The Yield (Penguin) has been optioned for the screen. The Yield centres on Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi and his granddaughter August, who...

Meet literary agent Natasha Solomun

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Natasha Solomun worked as a rights executive at Penguin Random House Australia and Five Mile Press before launching The Rights Hive, a literary rights agency that represents mostly independent Australian...

Secrets and Showgirls

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Everyone is being watched, and some of Le Prix’s colourful performers are hiding dangerous secrets. Monsieur Maurice manages Le Prix d’Amour, a successful Parisian cabaret, which boasts glitzy performers and...

A closer look at First Nations publishing

Wednesday, 9 June 2021
In this London Book Fair preview edition of Think Australian we take a closer look at Australian First Nations publishing. While a handful of Australian publishers have been publishing Indigenous...

Sugar Town Queens (Malla Nunn, A&U) 

Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Sugar Town Queens is a young adult coming-of-age novel by Malla Nunn, author of When the Ground is Hard. Her latest book follows 15-year-old Amandla, who is mixed-raced and growing...

Latest ‘Seven Sisters’ novel debuts at number one 

Monday, 7 June 2021
Irish author Lucinda Riley's latest novel The Missing Sister—the seventh instalment in her 'Seven Sisters' series—has debuted at number one the Australian bestsellers chart, becoming the first adult book since...

‘The Nancys’ optioned for screen

Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Screen adaptation rights to crime novel The Nancys by Melbourne-based New Zealand author R W R McDonald (A&U) have been optioned by Queensland production company Hoodlum Entertainment, via Grace Heifetz...

Albert Namatjira (Vincent Namatjira, Magabala) 

Wednesday, 2 June 2021
In his picture book biography Albert Namatjira, Vincent Namatjira paints a stoic and quietly devastating portrait of his great-grandfather Albert, one of the most iconic figures in Australian painting. An...

The Night Village (Zoe Deleuil, Fremantle Press)

Tuesday, 1 June 2021
A year ago, Paul and Simone met at a party—young, carefree and living separate lives. Now, they’re parents to a tiny new baby and nothing between them is the same....

‘Welcome to Consent’ debuts at number six 

Monday, 31 May 2021
The Bad Guys Episode 13: Cut to the Chase is the number one book on the Australian bestsellers chart for the second week running, trailed by Bluey: Where’s Bluey? at...

Australian children’s publishing ahead of Bologna

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
While many Australian rights managers and literary agents will be missing the book fair halls (and bars and restaurants) of Bologna, they couldn’t be busier as in-person fairs have effectively...

‘Treehouse’ titles top children’s fiction, nonfiction charts

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ series—which celebrates 10 years in print this year—has topped the Australian children’s fiction chart (The 130-Storey Treehouse) and Australian children’s/YA nonfiction chart (The Treehouse...

Bookshop-set middle-grade adventure bags multiple prizes

Wednesday, 26 May 2021
The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor (Affirm Press)—a middle-grade adventure novel set in Melbourne’s historic Cole’s Book Arcade—has picked up three major book prizes in recent months:...

 

 

 

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