Tumarkin’s prize-winning ‘Axiomatic’ sold to US
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Brow Books has sold North American and Spanish-language rights to Maria Tumarkin’s prize-winning nonfiction book Axiomatic—a ‘boundary-shifting fusion of thinking, storytelling, reportage and meditation’—to Transit Books and Editorial Minúscula, respectively....
‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Beach reads and healthy eating titles are ubiquitous on the Australian bestsellers charts in the aftermath of Christmas, and this is reflected in January’s bestsellers. Liane Moriarty’s latest novel Nine...
Bestsellers: Evans’ ‘Easy Keto’ debuts at number three
Monday, 11 February 2019
Nonfiction continues to dominate the bestsellers chart, with The Fast 800 (Michael Mosley, S&S) at number one for the second week in a row, followed by The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley) in...
Learning to be brave: Anna Walker on ‘Lottie and Walter’
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Anna Walker’s Lottie and Walter (Picture Puffin, March) tells the story of a little girl who is scared to get in the water, but who finds courage in a singing walrus...
Let Me Sleep, Sheep (Meg McKinlay, illus by Leila Rudge, Walker Books)
Thursday, 7 February 2019
The award-winning duo behind the animal adventure picture books No Bears and Once upon a Small Rhinoceros are back with a new book that tells the story of young sleep-deprived...
Baz & Benz (Heidi McKinnon, A&U)
Thursday, 7 February 2019
The titular Baz and Benz are a pair of owls: a small blue one and a larger green one. At the start of the book, they agree wholeheartedly that they...
52 Mondays (Anna Ciddor, A&U)
Thursday, 7 February 2019
52 Mondays is the latest middle-grade novel from Anna Ciddor, written in the same classic storytelling tradition as her previous work, The Family with Two Front Doors. A fictionalised account...
Ivanhoe Swift Left Home at Six (Jane Godwin, illus by A Yi, A&U)
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Despite his parents’ concerns, Ivanhoe Swift leaves home at the age of six to see the world for himself. And so begins a dreamlike journey of self-discovery and gaining independence....
Catch a Falling Star (Meg McKinlay, Walker Books)
Thursday, 7 February 2019
It’s the late 1970s in rural Western Australia, and 12-year-old Frankie’s life isn’t always easy. Her mother works all the time, so Frankie looks after her very smart but not...
You Must Be Layla (Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Penguin)
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Thirteen-year-old Layla has landed a scholarship at a prestigious private school where no one looks like her. She’s a creative kid who loves singing and making jewellery, but many of...
Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories (ed by Tobias Madden, Nero)
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Following the success of its predecessor Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, new anthology Underdog celebrates up-and-coming writers of Australian young adult fiction, with submissions received via an open call-out....
Bestsellers this week: PRH and Harper fiction dominate highest new entries chart
Monday, 4 February 2019
The Fast 800 (Michael Mosley, S&S) is back at number one on this week’s bestseller chart, proving to be fierce competition for The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley), which has dropped to...
Exploded View (Carrie Tiffany, Text)
Friday, 1 February 2019
The name of Carrie Tiffany’s third book, Exploded View, refers to the type of diagram found in technical manuals that shows the spaces between each individual part and how they...
Hare’s Fur (Trevor Shearston, Scribe)
Friday, 1 February 2019
Russell Bass is a professional potter in his seventies, leading a quiet and solitary life in the Blue Mountains following the death of his wife. While gathering basalt for his...
Black is the New White (Nakkiah Lui, A&U)
Friday, 1 February 2019
Black is the New White is the play script of a contemporary romantic comedy written for the stage by Gamillaroi and Torres Strait Islander woman Nakkiah Lui. Young couple Charlotte...
Stranger Country (Monica Tan, A&U)
Friday, 1 February 2019
At first it’s hard to know how to interpret Monica Tan’s intention to discover ‘the Australia lying beyond her hometown’ and to ‘learn about Aboriginal Australia’ as she travels on...
Islands (Peggy Frew, A&U)
Friday, 1 February 2019
Peggy Frew shows her trademark flair for bringing complex domestic lives to the fore in her latest novel Islands. At first the book seems to have more in common with...
Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind (Nicola Redhouse, UQP)
Friday, 1 February 2019
Unlike the Heart is a quest to understand a mind, from the mind governing it, and offers much to appeal to different interests. Nicola Redhouse relates her troubled pregnancies and...
The Van Apfel Girls are Gone (Felicity McLean, Fourth Estate)
Friday, 1 February 2019
Felicity McLean’s debut novel The Van Apfel Girls are Gone opens with the arrival of a ghost, ‘summoned by the death rattle of Cornflakes in their box’. It is an...
Bestsellers: ‘Places We Swim’ a fast mover amid summer heatwaves
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
After a brief stint at the top of the bestseller's chart last week, The Fast 800 (Michael Mosley, S&S) has dropped to second spot on this week's chart, with The Barefoot Investor...
Bestsellers this week: Mosley at number one; personal development titles dominate
Monday, 21 January 2019
Michael Mosley's latest diet book The Fast 800 (S&S) is number one in this week's bestsellers chart, after debuting at number two last week. Mosley's book has replaced Scott Pape's The...
Bestsellers: ‘The Barefoot Investor’ back on top
Monday, 14 January 2019
Scott Pape's The Barefoot Investor (Wiley) is back at number one on the bestseller chart, having last appeared in the top spot in September last year, after dominating the chart for...
Ozzie Goes to School (Jocelyn Crabb, illus by Danny Snell, Working Title)
Monday, 7 January 2019
Ozzie Goes to School is a gentle picture book about one of life’s great milestones. Ozzie loves living with his dad in their shipping container on the beach. Safe in...
Dippy’s Big Day Out (Jackie French, illus by Bruce Whatley & Ben Smith Whatley, HarperCollins)
Monday, 7 January 2019
The creators of the much-loved picture book Diary of a Wombat, are back with a new book that is set centuries back in time. Dippy, short for Diprotodon, is the...
Bestsellers: ‘The Meltdown’ number one for fourth week running
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
This week's top 10 bestsellers chart sees book 13 in Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series The Meltdown (Puffin) in the top spot for the fourth week running. Lee...
Christmas predictions: Sean Guy from The Bookshop Darwin
Friday, 7 December 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment,...
Christmas predictions: the Hobart Bookshop team
Friday, 7 December 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In the this week’s...
Bestsellers this week: George R R Martin’s ‘Fire and Blood’ debuts at number nine
Monday, 3 December 2018
For the third week running, book 13 in the 'Diary of A Wimpy Kid' series The Meltdown (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) is number one on the weekly bestsellers chart and Lee Child's Past Tense (Bantam) is number...
Christmas predictions: Katy Downey from the Leaf Bookshop in Ashburton
Friday, 30 November 2018
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and 'surprise sellers'. In...
Into the Fire (Sonia Orchard, Affirm Press)
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Sonia Orchard’s second work of literary fiction, Into the Fire, is a distinctly Australian novel. Descriptions of smoky blue-green gums that paint a vivid picture of rural Victoria are balanced...
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