‘Storm Boy’ tops Australian YA bestsellers chart
Thursday, 18 April 2019
A film adaptation of Colin Thiele’s classic children’s book Storm Boy—about a boy who rescues three pelican chicks after their mother is shot—has sent the title to the top of...
Kindness, environmental themes popular at Bologna
Thursday, 18 April 2019
Australian publishers have reported an ‘upbeat’ Bologna Children’s Book Fair, with middle-grade books continuing to dominate the market, and kindness and environmental themes emerging as new trends. Books with a...
CBCA awards shortlists announced
Thursday, 18 April 2019
The shortlists for the prestigious Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. Carly Nugent’s middle-grade novel The Peacock Detectives (Text) has won the...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2019: Sam Cooney
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
The Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2019: Mark Campbell
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
The Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2019: Catriona Murdie
Monday, 15 April 2019
The Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....
Bestsellers: latest ‘WeirDo’ book at number one
Monday, 15 April 2019
After a brief stint at number one last week, The Secret Runners of New York (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan) is at number two on this week's bestseller chart, with Anh Do's...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2019: Ella Chapman
Friday, 12 April 2019
The Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In this...
‘Uplifting nonfiction’ in demand at LBF
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Australian publishers attending the 2019 London Book Fair have reported an interest in ‘uplifting or inspiring nonfiction’. Allen & Unwin rights manager Maggie Thompson said a big trend in narrative...
Get to know … Murdoch Books
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Think Australian interviewed publishing director Lou Johnson about Murdoch Books' rebranding and forthcoming titles. What makes Murdoch Books unique? A whole combination of things. The fact that we have such...
‘No Friend but the Mountains’ sells into nine territories
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Writer, journalist and Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani’s award-winning memoir No Friend but the Mountains (Picador) has been sold in nine territories, including the US and the UK. Boochani, who is...
‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 11 April 2019
New paperback editions have propelled Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers to the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in March and Tim Winton’s The Shepherd’s Hut into sixth place....
‘The Erratics’ wins Stella Prize
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Vicki Laveau-Harvie has won Australia’s prestigious Stella Prize for women writers for her memoir The Erratics (Fourth Estate), which tells the story of an estranged daughter who journeys home to...
Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2019: Alice Wood
Thursday, 11 April 2019
The Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....
Changes at Books+Publishing in 2019
Tuesday, 9 April 2019
Books+Publishing has undergone a series of significant changes over the past year as the business transitions to local ownership again, and we thought it would be useful to fill you...
Bestsellers: Reilly YA novel debuts at number one
Monday, 8 April 2019
Matthew Reilly's latest book—a YA novel—The Secret Runners of New York (Macmillan) has debuted at number one on this week's bestseller chart, knocking The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley) down...
My Culture and Me (Gregg Dreise, Puffin)
Thursday, 4 April 2019
This beautiful picture book presents the voice of an Indigenous child relating the importance of knowing and living your culture. Beginning with an expression of love for Country and family,...
Arthur and the Tiger (Sophie Beer, Puffin)
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Sophie Beer has a knack for creating books that simultaneously feel contemporary and vintage, which is sure to make them modern classics. In Arthur and the Tiger, Arthur is the son of...
Sophia and the Corner Park Clubhouse (Davina Bell, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Davina Bell is one of Australia’s most highly regarded authors for young people, and the first book in her new series for middle-grade readers cements her reputation as one of...
Devil’s Ballast (Meg Caddy, Text)
Thursday, 4 April 2019
After escaping her violently abusive husband, Anne Bonny disguises herself as a boy and joins her lover, pirate captain Calico Jack Rackham, on his ship the Ranger. Anne fits in...
How it Feels to Float (Helena Fox, Pan)
Thursday, 4 April 2019
How do you find the will to live when you can’t even feel the ground anymore? Elizabeth Martin Grey—Biz—doesn’t know. All she knows is that she’s got one foot in...
Shauna’s Great Expectations (Kathleen Loughnan, A&U)
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Seventeen-year-old Shauna is the recipient of an Indigenous scholarship to an elite Sydney girls’ school. The expectations placed on her could be no higher than those she places on herself,...
My Real Friend (David Hunt, illus by Lucinda Masciullo, ABC Books)
Thursday, 4 April 2019
David Hunt returns with his second offering for children following 2016’s The Nose Pixies. Taking the story of an imaginary friend and telling it from the other side, we hear...
Alex and the Alpacas Save the World (Kathryn Lefroy, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Alex and the Alpacas Save the World is Kathryn Lefroy’s first novel. Part fantasy, part adventure, it reinvigorates the familiar good-versus-evil narrative with an original (if somewhat offbeat) setting and...
Bestsellers this week: ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ back in charts
Monday, 1 April 2019
Two fiction titles are new to this week's bestseller chart, with Clive Cussler's latest adventure novel Celtic Empire (with Dirk Cussler, Michael Joseph) at number two and the b-format edition of...
After She Left (Penelope Hanley, Ventura)
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
After She Left is an exploration of feminism in relation to the arts, domestic life and the cultural ramifications of non-traditional motherhood. It spans six decades and the lives of...
A Lovely and Terrible Thing (Chris Womersley, Picador)
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
A Lovely and Terrible Thing is novelist Chris Womersley’s debut short story collection, and his first book since 2017’s City of Crows. Of the 20 stories in the collection, 17...
Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia (Andreas Harsono, Monash University Publishing)
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
After the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime in 1998, journalist Andreas Harsono spent almost three years travelling across Indonesia. Race, Islam and Power, which chronicles this journey, is a...
Daughter of Bad Times (Rohan Wilson, A&U)
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Vogel Award-winning novelist Rohan Wilson is back with another gripping page-turner, this time in the form of a dystopian tale set 50 years in the future. Sea levels have risen,...
Room for a Stranger (Melanie Cheng, Text)
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
After an attempted home invasion leaves her feeling unsafe, elderly Meg signs on with a homeshare agency: Andy, an international student from Hong Kong who’s come to Melbourne to study...
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