Star-crossed (Minnie Darke, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Star-crossed is a charming rom-com centred on an aspiring journalist whose attempts to influence fate lead to unintended—and at times hilarious—consequences. When Justine Carmichael finally gets a promotion at the...
Yahoo Creek (Tohby Riddle, A&U)
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
In this imaginative work, Tohby Riddle delves into the mystery of the yahoo (or the yowie, as it is commonly known today). Reported sightings of these large, hairy beasts were...
Queen Celine (Matt Shanks, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Matt Shanks’ latest picture book introduces us to Celine Beaufort. Celine lives a fairly ordinary life, doing ordinary things, but sometimes she gets to be the queen of a very...
Mallee Sky (Jodi Toering, illus by Tannya Harricks, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
The Australia of Mallee Sky is a familiar one—wide, red-brown, drought-stricken, unforgiving, yet strikingly beautiful—but never a cliche. The book avoids patronising children, instead welcoming them into a mature literary...
47 Degrees (Justin D’Ath, Puffin)
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Author Justin D’Ath lost his home in Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires, and the story of that harrowing day forms the basis for his new novel, 47 Degrees. The morning of...
Lottie and Walter (Anna Walker, Picture Puffin)
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Following in the tradition of her previous works Mr Huff and Florence, Anna Walker once again pays tribute to the creativity and resilience of children in this tale of a...
A right royal romance: Emma Grey on ‘Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess’
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Emma Grey’s Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess (HarperCollins, December) follows an 18-year-old aspiring writer who wins a six-week internship at a top London PR firm, and somehow gets wrapped...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 29 October 2018
Liane Moriarty's Nine Perfect Strangers (Macmillan) retains the number one spot on this week's bestseller chart, followed by The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley), sitting three spots above Pape's new book The Barefoot Investor...
Call Me Evie (J P Pomare, Hachette)
Thursday, 25 October 2018
What do you do when you can’t remember the incident that changed your life? Seventeen-year-old Kate—now using the alias ‘Evie’ to protect her identity—is being held captive in a remote...
Bookish backchat: Elias Grieg on ‘I Can’t Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue’
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Author, academic and bookseller Elias Grieg’s debut book I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue (A&U, December) is an ‘always amusing and often laugh-out-loud funny’ compendium detailing Grieg’s...
Half Moon Lake (Kirsten Alexander, Bantam)
Thursday, 25 October 2018
In July of 1913 Sonny Davenport, the four-year-old son of a prominent family in America’s Deep South, goes missing. The father puts his political ambitions on hold to chase up...
Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook (Jacqueline Kent, UQP)
Thursday, 25 October 2018
On the face of it, Jacqueline Kent’s memoir feels like a simple story, a May to December romance between editor Kent and author Kenneth Cook. Like most of us, Kent...
Imperfect: How Our Bodies Shape the People We Become (Lee Kofman, Affirm Press)
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Lee Kofman turns her eye to bodies that ‘defy the natural order of things’ in her latest book, blending memoir with cultural criticism to delve into what bodies that contravene...
Man at the Window (Robert Jeffreys, Echo)
Thursday, 25 October 2018
In the mid 1960s at a boarding school in Western Australia, a boarding master is shot dead. The shooting is deemed an accident and Detective Cardilini is sent in to...
Saving You (Charlotte Nash, Hachette)
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Following The Paris Wedding and her series of romantic rural medical dramas, Charlotte Nash’s novel Saving You features a woman crossing the US on an emotionally fuelled odyssey to find...
I Can’t Remember the Title but the Cover Is Blue (Elias Greig, A&U)
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Sydney bookseller Elias Greig thought writing down his customer interactions would make for a nice creative outlet in between part-time work and his PhD thesis. The resulting book, similar in...
The Finest Gold (Brad Cooper, Scribe)
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Australian swimmer Brad Cooper won gold at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. The Finest Gold is a coming-of-age memoir that looks at Cooper’s teenage years and the amazing route...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 22 October 2018
This week's bestseller chart sees the same three titles as last week dominating the list: Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty, Pan) at number one, The Barefoot Investor For Families (Scott Pape, HarperCollins) at number...
Introducing Peter Vu’s ‘Paper Cranes Don’t Fly’
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Paper Cranes Don’t Fly (Ford Street Publishing) tells the story of a cancer patient as he undergoes treatment with friends by his side. It’s the debut novel from Australian author...
Book-to-screen
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
SLR Productions has commenced production on an animated telemovie based on Jacqueline Harvey’s ‘Alice-Miranda’ children’s book series (Random House Australia). The comedy-drama Alice Miranda Shines Bright will premiere on Australian...
Feminist fantasy series sells into Germany for ‘record’ sum
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold German-language rights to debut author Rhiannon Williams’ middle-grade fantasy Ottilie Colter and the Narroway Hunt, plus two further books by Williams, to Random House Germany...
‘104-Storey Treehouse’ tops Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Australian children’s fiction bestsellers: September The 104-Storey Treehouse—the eighth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s super successful ‘Treehouse’ series (profiled in Think Australian Junior last year)—is at the top...
‘Paper Cranes Don’t Fly’ wins teen-voted Inky Award
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Peter Vu’s YA novel Paper Cranes Don’t Fly (Ford Street Publishing) has won the Gold Inky Award—selected by readers aged between 12-20 from shortlists chosen by a panel of teen...
Putting the anarchy back into childhood
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
A recent interview with bestselling Australian children’s book creators Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton—which coincides with the release of their latest book and this month’s top-selling Australian children’s fiction title...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 15 October 2018
Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) is back at the top of this week's bestsellers chart after debuting at number one two weeks ago, relegating The Barefoot Investor for Families (Scott Pape, HarperCollins), which...
Australian bestsellers in September: ‘Scrublands’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top charts
Friday, 12 October 2018
Australian crime-thrillers are currently dominating the fiction bestsellers chart, with Chris Hammer’s debut novel Scrublands at number one for September following its release a month earlier. Other crime-thrillers in the...
Third O’Neill title sold to UK’s Lightning Books
Thursday, 11 October 2018
UK publisher Lightning Books has acquired UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Ryan O’Neill’s 2012 debut short story collection The Weight of a Human Heart (Black Inc.)—the third title...
Introducing literary agent Benython Oldfield
Thursday, 11 October 2018
Benython Oldfield is an Australian literary agent and the Sydney-based director of Zeitgeist Media Group Agency, which represents 40 Australian authors alongside other international writers and illustrators. He spoke to...
Book-to-screen
Thursday, 11 October 2018
Synchronicity Films will adapt Heather Morris’ bestselling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo Publishing) as a television drama miniseries. The miniseries is planned to be broadcast in January 2020 to...
Australian crime fiction in the spotlight
Thursday, 11 October 2018
When Australian author Benjamin Stevenson heard that his debut crime-thriller Greenlight had sold into North America and the UK, he quipped: ‘There’s no question international readers are loving Aussie crime...
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