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...
Bestsellers: Walliams, Blabey hold on to top spots
Monday, 22 July 2019
This week's bestseller chart sees new novels by Nora Roberts and David Baldacci entering the top 10. Roberts' latest romance Under Currents (Hachette) has entered the chart in fourth place,...
‘The Big Bad Wolf’ tops June Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart
Friday, 19 July 2019
Aaron Blabey’s The Big Bad Wolf: The Bad Guys Episode Nine leads the Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart in June, ahead of two titles by Anh Do, Movie Time! Hotdog!...
Speech Pathology Book Awards shortlist announced
Thursday, 18 July 2019
The shortlists for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The books are judged on their ‘appeal to children, interactive quality and ability to assist...
Allen & Unwin launches children’s imprint; Blabey series tops ‘NYT’ chart
Thursday, 18 July 2019
Allen & Unwin has created a new children’s imprint called Albert Street Books, which will have a ‘strong commercial focus’. The publisher says its aim is to publish books for...
Five Mile sells UK, US and Canadian rights to ‘Love Your Body’
Thursday, 18 July 2019
Five Mile has sold UK, US and Canadian rights to Jessica Sanders’ picture book Love Your Body (illus by Carol Rossetti) to the Quarto Group, with the book now sold...
‘The Big Bad Wolf’ tops Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart
Thursday, 18 July 2019
Aaron Blabey is having an exceptional month, with The Big Bad Wolf: The Bad Guys Episode Nine leading the Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart in June and ‘The Bad Guys’...
Bestsellers: Savva’s ‘Plots and Prayers’ debuts in top 10
Monday, 15 July 2019
This week's bestseller chart is looking markedly different to last week's, with middle-grade book The World's Worst Teachers (David Walliams, HarperCollins) moving up from number nine to take the top...
June bestsellers: Dalton, Morris keep top spots
Friday, 12 July 2019
Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe and Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz continue to hold on to the first and second spots in the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in June,...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 11 July 2019
Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe and Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz continue to hold on to the first and second spots in the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in June,...
Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist announced
Thursday, 11 July 2019
Five titles have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award ahead of the winner’s announcement on 30 July. They are: The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette), A Sand Archive (Gregory Day, Picador), A Stolen Season (Rodney...
Boochani to headline Ubud; new ventures in Australian publishing
Thursday, 11 July 2019
Author, journalist and Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani, whose memoir No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Picador) has won several Australian literary awards and been sold into nine...
Krien’s debut novel ‘Act of Grace’ sold to UK
Thursday, 11 July 2019
Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ and Canada) to accomplished nonfiction author Anna Krien’s forthcoming debut novel Act of Grace to Serpent’s Tail. Acquiring editor Hannah...
Bestsellers: ‘The Fast 800 Recipe Book’ at number one
Monday, 8 July 2019
This week on the bestsellers chart, Boy Swallows Universe's (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) four-week run at number one has come to end, with The Fast 800 Recipe Book (Clare Bailey &...
A writer’s life for me: Andrew Daddo on ‘Atticus Van Tasticus’
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Atticus Van Tasticus, Andrew Daddo and Stephen Michael King’s illustrated middle-grade adventure (Puffin, September), follows a 10-year-old whose grandma gifts him a pirate ship. Kelsey Oldham spoke with Daddo about...
How to Make a Movie in 12 Days (Fiona Hardy, Affirm Kids)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Hayley, 11, has one mission in life: to make a movie. Ever since Grandma—who was going to make it with her—died, the need is much greater than before, especially since...
The Secret Science Society’s Spectacular Experiment (Kathy Hoopmann & Josie Montano, illus by Ann-Marie Finn, Wombat Books)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Since Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, the trend for kids’ books celebrating perseverance, creativity and innovation has seeped from nonfiction into fiction. Kathy Hoopmann and Josie Montano’s chapter book for...
Monuments (Will Kostakis, Lothian)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Award-winning young adult author Will Kostakis makes his first foray into urban fantasy with Monuments, book one in a duology that has a massive scope but a local setting. Sixteen-year-old...
Ollie and Augustus (Gabriel Evans, Walker)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
When Ollie (‘small—like a pickling jar or a shoe box’) starts school, he worries that his beloved pet Augustus (‘large—like a fridge or a table’; a vast creature of indeterminate...
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling (Wai Chim, A&U)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Sixteen-year-old Anna comes from a relatively traditional Chinese-Australian family. Originally from Hong Kong, her father owns a restaurant while her mother stays at home to look after the children. Anna...
Grace’s Secrets (Louise Park, Berbay)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Having relocated to a Scottish castle with her mother, Grace discovers a way into the past and promptly sets about helping her predecessors, even as her actual life seems to...
Kulinmaya! Keep Listening, Everybody! (Mumu Mike Williams, A&U)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Pitjantjatjara artist and activist Mumu Mike Williams, aka Kunmanara, sought to hold the government to account on Indigenous issues through his subversive artwork, which repurposed Australia Post mailbags into painted...
Cryptosight (Nean McKenzie, MidnightSun)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Cryptosight is a fun romp through regional Victoria, following Raff and his younger sister as they try to track down their missing monster-tracking father, while out-swerving the baddies at every...
The Gift (Michael Speechley, Picture Puffin)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Rosie is a lonely little girl who misses her mum. Across the street from Rosie’s place is a scary and neglected-looking house. Rosie has never seen the person who lives...
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