Meet Hachette Australia head of rights Sarah Brooks
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
As the pandemic keeps rights sellers from meeting face-to-face, Books+Publishing’s Think Australian publication is shining a regular spotlight on the work of Australian rights agents. Today, we hear from Hachette Australia...
New Bluey Christmas titles debut in top 10
Monday, 16 November 2020
The 130-Storey Treehouse is spending its third consecutive week at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart, managing to stave off Bluey for the top spot. The new Bluey picture book...
25th Jack Reacher novel debuts at number two
Monday, 9 November 2020
The 10th book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's 'Treehouse' series is spending its second week at number one on the bestsellers chart after debuting there last week. It's trailed...
Tiger Daughter (Rebecca Lim, A&U)
Thursday, 5 November 2020
From Rebecca Lim, author and co-editor of the Meet Me at the Intersection YA anthology, this coming-of-age tale is about finding your own voice as a young girl in a...
Latest Treehouse book debuts at number one
Monday, 2 November 2020
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s latest book in their Treehouse series, The 130-Storey Treehouse, has debuted in top spot on this week’s bestsellers chart. The title is ahead of a...
Bestsellers: new Reilly debuts at number one
Monday, 26 October 2020
Matthew Reilly's sixth Jack West Jr novel, The Two Lost Mountains, has debuted at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart, bumping All Our Shimmering Skies down to number two after two...
Bestsellers: New Barnes memoir debuts at number three
Monday, 19 October 2020
After debuting at number one last week, All Our Shimmering Skies is spending its second week at the top of the Australian bestsellers chart, trailed by Jane Harper's The Survivors at number...
The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman (Julietta Henderson, Bantam)
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Norman Foreman isn’t your average 12-year-old: he’s obsessed with classic British comedy, he’s got raging psoriasis, and he and his best mate Jax have a five-year plan to perform stand-up...
Bestsellers: Dalton tops chart in massive week for local books
Monday, 12 October 2020
In a big week for Australian new releases, five locally authored books have debuted in the top 10 bestsellers chart, including this week's new number one, Trent Dalton's second novel...
Give Me Some Space! (Philip Bunting, Omnibus)
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Una is a singular girl on a mission: leave boring old Earth behind for greener pastures—or in this case, planets. Smart, determined and ingenious, she crafts herself a homespun spacesuit...
Bestsellers: New Harper debuts at number one
Monday, 5 October 2020
Jane Harper's fourth thriller The Survivors has debuted at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart, shifting last week's number one debut down to second spot. Also new to the...
Me, Microbes & I
Thursday, 1 October 2020
A guide to the viruses, bacteria and other weeny weirdies that share your world. Find out what they look like, how they grow and what they do—and learn how to...
Meet UQP rights and contracts manager Kate McCormack
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Kate McCormack has been the rights and contracts manager for Brisbane-based independent UQP for the past four years, joining the publisher after 10 years at Penguin Random House Australia and...
Australian children’s, YA titles headed for screen
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
After a decade in print, Sally Rippin’s bestselling Billie B Brown junior fiction series (Hardie Grant Egmont) is finally heading to the screen. Global production company Fremantle and development partner...
‘The Dressmaker’ sequel among recent Oz acquisitions
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Australian publishers have been busy acquiring new titles over the past six months, including a kids’ guide to journalism, a ‘vital, groundbreaking book’ about gender transition, and a highly anticipated...
Gearing up for a virtual Frankfurt
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Earlier this year, Australian publishers, booksellers and industry leaders predicted that 2020 would see a growing demand for uplit and practical titles on climate change, as well as health and...
Award-winners among recent rights sales successes
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic putting a halt to international travel, a majority of Australian rights managers and literary agents have reported a stable rights market over the past year, with...
Three Oz titles scoop major awards
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Three Australian books have collected several prestigious awards and shortlistings over the past six months: Tara June Winch’s novel The Yield (Hamish Hamilton), ‘a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling...
Publishing and the pandemic: The Australian book market in 2020
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Despite the disruption that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the Australian book industry this year, overall sales figures are looking surprisingly healthy. For the first eight months of 2020,...
Dalton, Pape, Bluey top Australian bestsellers YTD
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Trent Dalton’s 2018 debut novel Boy Swallows Universe has topped the Nielsen BookScan’s Australian fiction chart for the year to date, having sold more than 80,000 copies in 2020. Literary,...
Lead titles from Australian publishers & agents
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
With the Frankfurt Book Fair now purely online, Australian publishers and literary agents are gearing up to pitch their titles via the fair’s—and their own—digital channels. Here are some of...
Boy on Fire: The young Nick Cave (Mark Mordue, Fourth Estate)
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
After 35 years of communication with Nick Cave, 10 of them actively spent researching a biography which eventually grew to Moby Dick proportions, Mark Mordue has fashioned this expertly detailed...
Bestsellers: New Galbraith novel debuts at number one
Monday, 28 September 2020
J K Rowling's new Cormoran Strike crime novel, written under the Robert Galbraith pseudonym, has debuted at number one the Australian bestsellers chart, shifting last week's number one, Dog Man...
Eye of a Rook
Saturday, 26 September 2020
In Victorian London, Arthur Rochdale’s wife, Emily, is struck down by a pain for which she can find no words. In desperation, Arthur seeks the aid of Isaac Baker Brown...
Tussaud
Saturday, 26 September 2020
‘Thrilling, eerie, fun, and psychologically compelling, Tussaud cleverly blurs the line between history and the fantastical to create a Gothic delight of mysterious mansions, grimy London streets, stage magicians, wax-work...
Night Blue
Saturday, 26 September 2020
Potent, haunting and lyrical, Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It is a truly original...
Nikolai the Perfect
Saturday, 26 September 2020
While post-communist Moscow deals with political transition, Vassili is descending into despair at his wife Anna’s chronic infertility. Following his father Sergey’s footsteps, he travels to Melbourne to teach Russian...
The Place Between
Saturday, 26 September 2020
Sarah used to know who she was—a doctor, a wife, a mother—but as she prepares for the birth of her second child, she feels set adrift from the life she...
Wolfred
Saturday, 26 September 2020
A mesmerising new story about Wolfred, an endearing elevator operator, from the beloved author of the best-selling ‘Very Cranky Bear’ books. Fancy Pants Tower is the biggest, shiniest building in...
Dog (Shaun Tan, A&U)
Wednesday, 23 September 2020
This is Shaun Tan doing what he does best. Carrying an elegant tension between joy and sadness, Dog left me in a puddle of emotion. The prose poetry traces the...
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