Explore Your World: Weird, Wild, Amazing!
Thursday, 19 September 2019
The first book for children from renowned author and environmentalist Professor Tim Flannery, exploring the world’s weirdest and most fascinating animals in all their bizarre glory. Are zombie jellyfish real?...
Twelfth Planet Press launches ‘inclusive’ imprint for pre-teens
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Australian genre publisher Twelfth Planet Press has launched a new imprint for pre-teen readers that will specialise in diverse stories, ‘with the aim to reflect the diversity of sexuality, race,...
Lynette Noni wins Gold Inky Award
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Australia’s bestselling YA author Lynette Noni has won the Gold Inky Award for her dystopian novel Whisper (Pantera), the first in a new series by the author of ‘The Medoran...
Highway Bodies
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Who will you rely on in the zombie apocalypse? Bodies on the TV, explosions, barriers, and people fleeing. No access to social media. And a dad who’ll suddenly bite your...
Book industry orgs support climate strike
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Booksellers, publishers and other industry organisations across Australia are participating in the global climate strike, taking place on Friday, 20 September. With almost 100 locations across Australia registered to strike,...
Bestsellers: Down under authors on top of the charts
Monday, 16 September 2019
Children’s books are dominating this week’s bestseller chart, with The 117-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) continuing its run in the top spot. Dog Man #7: For Whom...
Imago
Monday, 16 September 2019
Global printing solutions: China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, India and Europe. Production management of books, stationery, packaging, toys and games for publishing companies who want to benefit from our...
High Infidelity
Thursday, 12 September 2019
At 44, loyal English wife Lara Winters discovers that Brock, her husband of 21 years, has betrayed her. Devastated, desperate, she flees her home in London and heads for the...
Hardie Grant sells multiple rights to new Clive Hamilton book on China
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Hardie Grant Books has sold US, UK, German-language and Dutch-language rights to a forthcoming book by Australian academic Clive Hamilton on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) international influence. According to...
Motherling
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Motherling addresses every parent of an adult child’s nightmare. Your child is grown up. He’s got a great job, living a happy life overseas. You don’t have to worry about...
The Sea & Us
Thursday, 12 September 2019
From the Stella Prize-shortlisted author, this is a heart-warming novel about longing, absence and the people we unexpectedly come to love. A young man called Harold rents a room above...
Field of Poppies
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Keen to escape the pressures of city life, Marsali Swift and her husband, William, are drawn to Listowel, a glorious historic mansion in the seemingly tranquil small town of Muckleton....
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 12 September 2019
While the two titles at the top of the Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts continue their impressive runs, elsewhere in the top 10 there are plenty of new titles....
Almost a Mirror
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Like fireflies to light, Mona and Danny are drawn to the glamour of the Crystal Ballroom and the post-punk music scene of 1980s Melbourne, and into the orbit of musicians...
My Name is Revenge
Thursday, 12 September 2019
On 17 December 1980, two men shot the Turkish consul-general to Sydney and his bodyguard near the consul’s home in Vaucluse. The assassins aimed, fired and vanished. From the assassination...
Australian women crime writers feted
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Australia’s two premier awards for crime writing were presented this month, and three women bagged prizes at each: Dervla McTiernan for her debut novel The Ruin (HarperCollins), Jane Harper for...
Parallax: A novel
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Robin Morgan’s most radiant prose, spare but sensuous, welcomes you into her dazzling imagination. This is a story about storytelling—a set of shorter tales which, like Russian dolls, nest and...
Multiple wins for McTiernan, Harper and Lee
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Australian women crime writers have cleaned up at the Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing and—predictably—the Davitt Awards for crime books by Australian women. The multiple winners were Dervla...
Bestsellers: Nothing strange about latest ‘WeirDo’ making the chart
Monday, 9 September 2019
The 117-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffths & Terry Denton, Pan) is spending its sixth consecutive week at the top of the bestsellers chart, while Jamie Oliver's latest cookbook Veg (Michael Joseph) has moved...
Scaling new heights: H M Waugh on ‘The Lost Stone of SkyCity’
Thursday, 5 September 2019
H M Waugh’s middle-grade fantasy The Lost Stone of SkyCity (Fremantle Press, October) is set in the mountainous worlds of the Dirt and the Ice. Reviewer Catherine Moller spoke to...
The Tiny Star (Mem Fox, illus by Freya Blackwood, Puffin)
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Individually, a new book by either Mem Fox or Freya Blackwood, both award-winners and bestselling children’s book creators, would be welcomed by their readers. This book combines the two, with...
Invisible Boys (Holden Sheppard, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 5 September 2019
In the coastal town of Geraldton, several young men struggle with the restrictions placed on them by culture, parental expectations and peer pressure. With the threat of violence a constant,...
My Folks Grew Up in the ’80s (Robin Feiner, illus by Beck Feiner, ABC Books)
Thursday, 5 September 2019
From the first glance of this picture book, those of us (particularly Generation Xers) who grew up in the 80s know we’re in for a treat. There, on the cover,...
Ghost Bird (Lisa Fuller, UQP)
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Lisa Fuller was the recipient of the 2017 David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer for Ghost Bird. In this young adult novel, Stacey Thomson’s twin sister, Laney, is...
Windcatcher (Diane Jackson Hill, illus by Craig Smith, CSIRO Publishing)
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Windcatcher is the story of the migration of the short-tailed shearwater. In particular, the solo offspring of bird number 625. Her mother was tagged with a metal leg band so...
The Lost Stone of SkyCity (H M Waugh, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 5 September 2019
When the princess of the terrifying, fabled Ice-People kidnaps Danam, claiming him as her prophesied protector, his friend Sunaya knows she’s the only one who can rescue him. But it’s...
Antarctica
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Antarctica—an icy desert with mountain ranges and sleeping volcanoes, home to the spinning end of the earth and to a diverse array of quirky creatures. Award-winning artist Moira Court brings...
Bestsellers: New Jamie Oliver makes healthy debut at number four
Monday, 2 September 2019
While The 117-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) and Dog Man 7: For Whom the Ball Rolls (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) retain their top two positions on this week's bestsellers...
Following the impulse: Anna Krien on ‘Act of Grace’
Thursday, 29 August 2019
Almost a decade in the making, Anna Krien’s debut novel, Act of Grace (Black Inc., October), is described by reviewer Brad Jefferies as ‘an ambitious and compelling study of trauma’....
Act of Grace (Anna Krien, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 29 August 2019
Anna Krien’s debut novel is an ambitious and compelling study of trauma and how it’s transferred and inherited, told through the points of view of four disparate but interconnected characters....
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