‘The Secret Runners of New York’ tops July YA bestsellers chart
Friday, 23 August 2019
Matthew Reilly’s dystopian time-travel thriller The Secret Runners of New York leads the Australian YA bestsellers chart for July, unseating the film tie-in edition of Storm Boy, which has dropped to...
Berbay to expand publishing program
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Melbourne-based children’s publisher Berbay Books has announced it will double its publishing list from eight to 16 titles in 2020. After a few years of ‘significant’ sales growth of its...
CBCA winners announced
Thursday, 22 August 2019
The winners of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Older readers: Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)...
Wakefield sells debut YA novel to US
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Wakefield Press has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to Poppy Nwosu’s debut YA novel Making Friends with Alice Dyson to Walker Books US for a five-figure sum. The first book...
‘The Secret Runners of New York’ tops Australian YA bestsellers chart
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Matthew Reilly’s dystopian time-travel thriller The Secret Runners of New York leads the Australian YA bestsellers chart for July, unseating the film tie-in edition of Colin Thiele’s classic children’s book...
July bestsellers: Ten new entries across fiction, nonfiction
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
There are 10 new entries across the Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts in July. In fiction, it’s all about the thriller: Petronella McGovern’s debut suburban thriller Six Minutes; Michael Robotham’s...
Bestsellers: Room on the chart for ‘The Inn’
Monday, 19 August 2019
The only new title on this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart is thriller novel The Inn by James Patterson and Candice Fox (Century), which has debuted at fifth place. The...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 15 August 2019
Australian fiction bestsellers: July There are 10 new entries across the Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts in July. In fiction, it’s all about the thriller: Petronella McGovern’s debut suburban...
Bestsellers: ‘Dare to Lead’ challenges ‘Treehouse’ for top spot
Monday, 12 August 2019
The 117-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths, illus by Terry Denton, Pan) is at the top of the top 10 bestsellers chart for the second week in a row. In second spot...
‘Axiomatic’ sold to UK’s Fitzcarraldo Editions
Friday, 9 August 2019
Small press Brow Books has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Maria Tumarkin’s Axiomatic—‘a boundary-shifting fusion of thinking, storytelling, reportage and meditation’—to independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions. The deal follows the...
Melbourne Writers Festival interrogates love
Friday, 9 August 2019
‘When We Talk About Love’ is the heart-interrogating theme of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 30 August to 8 September, with sessions that explore ‘our love for people,...
‘Too Much Lip’ wins Miles Franklin Literary Award
Friday, 9 August 2019
Melissa Lucashenko has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for her darkly funny novel Too Much Lip (UQP), about a woman who returns to her hometown after an armed robbery...
There Was Still Love (Favel Parrett, Hachette)
Tuesday, 6 August 2019
Favel Parrett’s third novel, There Was Still Love, is a meticulously observed and masterfully crafted immigrant story about a displaced Czech family. The novel oscillates in nearly every way—between the...
Bestsellers: latest ‘Treehouse’ tale at top
Monday, 5 August 2019
Andy Griffiths’ and Terry Denton’s latest ‘Treehouse’ book The 117-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has debuted at the top of this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart. In second place is Scott Pape’s...
Book-to-screen adaptations pitched at 2019 Books at MIFF
Friday, 2 August 2019
The 13th annual Books at MIFF (BaM) event, run by Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market, was held at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on 1 August. Representatives from publishing and...
Summer Time (Hilary Bell, illus by Antonia Pesenti, NewSouth)
Thursday, 1 August 2019
Summer Time, Hilary Bell and Antonia Pesenti’s third picture book collaboration, explores ideas of time within the grand nostalgic mythology of Australian summer. On each double-page spread, a chapter-like stanza...
The Man in the Water (David Burton, UQP)
Thursday, 1 August 2019
Four years after his award-winning YA memoir How to be Happy, David Burton returns with The Man in the Water, a coming-of-age mystery novel with an undercurrent of grief and...
Angel Mage (Garth Nix, A&U)
Thursday, 1 August 2019
Recently in fantasy there has been a move away from medieval Europe settings. One of the most popular examples of this is the 17th-century-Europe-inspired ‘Flintlock Fantasy’, though it owes as...
All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors (Davina Bell, illus by Jenny Løvlie, Little Hare)
Thursday, 1 August 2019
A little boy called Frankie, accompanied by his mother, visits the library and borrows his favourite book about tractors. He is already well versed in all the characteristics and functions...
Super Nova (Krys Saclier, illus by Rebecca Timmis, Ford St)
Thursday, 1 August 2019
Super Nova is the story of the protagonist and his sister Nova, who he believes is getting up to all sorts of mischief. 'Nova always gets away with it,' says...
The Glimme (Emily Rodda, illus by Marc McBride, Scholastic)
Thursday, 1 August 2019
The Glimme starts in a perfectly ordinary and dull fishing village with a boy called Finn sketching dragons and monsters. But it’s not long before Finn is standing in front...
Ask Hercules Quick (Ursula Dubosarsky, illus by Andrew Joyner, A&U)
Thursday, 1 August 2019
Hercules lives with his alligator aunt in a building full of quirky characters. On a trip to the shops his imagination is captured by a magic box, but how will...
Bestsellers: ‘One Good Deed’ at number one
Monday, 29 July 2019
David Baldacci’s thriller One Good Deed (Macmillan) has jumped to number one on this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart, up from seventh last week. Baldacci's novel is followed by Nora Roberts’...
The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The extraordinary life of Dr Claire Weekes (Judith Hoare, Scribe)
Thursday, 25 July 2019
Australian doctor Claire Weekes found worldwide fame with her bestselling books on ‘nervous illness’ in the 1960s and 1970s—but despite gratitude from thousands of sufferers, she is almost forgotten today....
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on reading and writing (Debra Adelaide, Picador)
Thursday, 25 July 2019
Debra Adelaide’s biblio-memoir is more of a collection of essays than a cohesive story of a literary life, and reading it as such can help mitigate some of the internal...
The Weekend (Charlotte Wood, A&U)
Thursday, 25 July 2019
After Sylvie’s sudden death, her three closest friends—former restaurateur Jude, public intellectual Wendy and actress Adele—must renegotiate the boundaries of their lifelong foursome. As they retreat to Sylvie’s isolated beach...
Being Black ’N Chicken, & Chips (Matt Okine, Hachette)
Thursday, 25 July 2019
It’s 1998. Mike Amon is almost 13 and about to start high school. All he wants is to be good enough at athletics to be chosen for the Dobson Dash,...
Hide (S J Morgan, MidnightSun)
Thursday, 25 July 2019
Hide opens in the Australian outback in the 1980s. A hitchhiker, Alec, is picked up by a man who has his own intentions for the passenger. When the driver reveals...
The Tiniest House of Time (Sreedhevi Iyer, Wild Dingo)
Thursday, 25 July 2019
The Tiniest House of Time is the well-researched debut novel by Sreedhevi Iyer, an Indian-Malaysian-Australian author. Matriarch Susheela Sastri is dying. Her granddaughter, Sandhya, born on the same date as...
Silver (Chris Hammer, A&U)
Thursday, 25 July 2019
Silver is Chris Hammer’s follow-up to his bestselling debut Scrublands. In Hammer’s second novel, journalist Martin Scarsden, fresh from turning the events of Scrublands into a book, follows his new...
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