The Drop-Off (Fiona Harris & Mike McLeish, Echo)
Friday, 28 February 2020
The Drop-Off is a cheerful depiction of parenting culture, told through the alternating points-of-view of three parents and set in a middle-class primary school in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne....
Fathoms: The world in the whale (Rebecca Giggs, Scribe)
Friday, 28 February 2020
Rebecca Giggs’ nonfiction debut is a lyrical, wide-ranging meditation on whales and their complex relationship with humanity. Meticulously researched and full of fascinating information, Fathoms is not just limited to...
Mammoth (Chris Flynn, UQP)
Friday, 28 February 2020
Chris Flynn’s third novel is an ambitious adventure back in time that recounts the folly of humanity—as told by the fossil of a 13,000-year-old mammoth. It sounds like it could...
Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem (Rick Held, Hachette)
Friday, 28 February 2020
Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem is an impressive and gripping debut that blurs the line between memoir and fiction. Based on the wartime diaries of the author’s father, the novel tells...
Ghost Species (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton)
Friday, 28 February 2020
James Bradley’s latest novel tells the story of Eve, a genetically engineered Neanderthal brought into life as part of a scheme for mitigating the environmental degradation of climate change. In...
Untethered (Hayley Katzen, Ventura)
Friday, 28 February 2020
In 1989 academic Hayley Katzen moved from apartheid South Africa to Australia. In Sydney she taught and worked in law and enjoyed the comparative safety and community of the city...
Bestsellers: ‘Witcher’ casts spell on charts
Monday, 24 February 2020
The top three titles in this week's top 10 bestsellers chart are all spending their second consecutive week in their respective positions. Dropping out of this week's chart is Jeanine...
Bestsellers: Keyes’ ‘Grown Ups’ reaches number one in five countries
Monday, 17 February 2020
The Australian bestsellers chart has a new number one this week: Irish author Marian Keyes' first novel since 2017, Grown Ups—which also reached the top fiction spot in the UK,...
Where is Claris in Paris!
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
A brand-new search-and-find series starring Claris, the chicest mouse in Paris! With a quarter of a million Claris books in print, readers can’t get enough of this stylish little mouse!...
Oil Under Troubled Water
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and long-term legal counsel to the government of East Timor, was charged by the Australian Commonwealth Director...
The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel....
Popular Art and the Avant-Garde: Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-garde art world....
Uplit and practical climate change titles predicted for 2020
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
When Books+Publishing asked Australian publishers, booksellers and industry leaders to share their predictions for 2020, uplifting fiction and nonfiction were widely predicted, as well as titles that offer practical solutions...
Lead titles for LBF from Australian publishers & agents
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
A number of Australian publishers and literary agents will be heading to this year’s London Book Fair in March, with some taking their own stands, others joining their parent company...
Christos Tsiolkas’ ‘Damascus’ wins best fiction at VPLAs
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
The winners of the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Christos Tsiolkas’ Damascus (Allen & Unwin) picked up the prize for fiction, Sea People: The puzzle of Polynesia...
The Fatal Lure of Politics: The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In Britain, with the publication of The Dawn of European Civilisation (1925), Childe began a...
Dunera Lives: Profiles
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
The story of the ‘Dunera Boys’ is an intrinsic part of the history of Australia in the Second World War and in its aftermath. The injustice these 2000 men suffered...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top 2019 Australian charts
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Trent Dalton’s multi-award-winning debut novel Boy Swallows Universe and Scott Pape’s 2016 guide to household finance The Barefoot Investor have topped the Australian fiction and nonfiction charts for 2019—the third...
Marchetta’s Printz-winning YA novel to be adapted for TV
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Melina Marchetta’s 2006 YA novel On the Jellicoe Road (Penguin Australia)—which was published in the US by HarperCollins and awarded a Printz Award for excellence in YA literature—is being adapted...
Debut novel sold into multiple territories; children’s guide to changing the world snapped up
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Fiction sales International rights to Pip Williams’ forthcoming debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words (Affirm, April) have sold in multiple territories, including UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to...
Hardie Grant, UQP acquire books from Indigenous experts
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Nonfiction acquisitions Hardie Grant Travel has acquired world rights to Fire Country, a memoir from Indigenous fire practitioner Victor Steffensen, and has fast-tracked publication for mid-February 2020. Steffensen said, ‘With...
2019 Australian bestsellers: ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top charts
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Trent Dalton’s multi-award-winning debut novel Boy Swallows Universe and Scott Pape’s 2016 guide to household finance The Barefoot Investor topped the Australian fiction and nonfiction charts for 2019—the third year running...
Bestsellers: Dark Emu bolts to number one
Monday, 10 February 2020
After five consecutive weeks in the top spot on the bestsellers chart, Bluey has been knocked to number two (Time to Play!, Puffin) and replaced by Bruce Pascoe's perennial bestseller...
How to Grow a Family Tree (Eliza Henry Jones, HarperCollins)
Thursday, 6 February 2020
Eliza Henry Jones explores addiction, family and identity in this insightful, compelling novel for young adults. Stella has always known that she’s adopted, but an unexpected letter from her birth...
Mum’s Elephant (Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O’Keefe, illus by Christina Booth, Magabala)
Thursday, 6 February 2020
Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O’Keefe has spun a cherished childhood memory into a beguiling tale for children in this debut picture book. In its pages she reflects on her mum’s ‘elephant’,...
The January Stars (Kate Constable, A&U)
Thursday, 6 February 2020
Fans of Kate Constable’s previous titles Crow Country and Cicada Summer will welcome the release of her latest middle-grade novel, The January Stars. This story introduces 12-year-old Clancy, yet another...
Who’s Your Real Mum? (Bernadette Green, illus by Anna Zobel, Scribble)
Thursday, 6 February 2020
This is an exceptional book. It promises kindness, humour and insight, and absolutely delivers. Nicholas is obsessed with discovering which of Elvi’s two female parents is her ‘real mum’: a...
Anisa’s Alphabet (Mike Dumbleton, illus by Hannah Sommerville, MidnightSun)
Thursday, 6 February 2020
In this picture book, Anisa takes the reader though the alphabet, describing her journey from an unnamed war-torn country to a refugee camp, then on to an overcrowded boat towards...
Shoestring, the Boy Who Walks on Air (Julie Hunt, illus by Dale Newman)
Thursday, 6 February 2020
The creators of the 2015 graphic novel KidGlovz reunite with this illustrated companion novel. KidGlovz told the tale of a young musician so prized that he lived the life of...
Duck, Apple, Egg (Glenda Millard, illus by Martina Heiduczek, ABC Books)
Thursday, 6 February 2020
This sweet and simple picture book will be a nice one to read to babies and toddlers just beginning to enjoy books. Duck, Apple, Egg is a cheerful, concise text...
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