Booktopia results down, Ena Noël shortlists, rural and regional writers’ festivals
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
In a trading update, Booktopia has announced 'results were down year-on-year' to the end of the first half of the 2024 financial year. Meanwhile, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation has appointed...
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Wednesday, 14 February 2024
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Girt by Sea: Re-imagining Australia’s security (Rebecca Strating & Joanne Wallis, La Trobe)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
In their thought-provoking book, Girt by Sea: Re-imagining Australia’s security, Rebecca Strating and Joanne Wallis challenge conventional notions of Australia’s security. This book invites readers to rethink the country’s approach...
No Church in the Wild (Murray Middleton, Picador)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Stereotypes and bad press about the commission towers of Melbourne’s inner west are easy to come by, but Vogel winner Murray Middleton’s deeply researched and complex portrayal of this community...
The Gorgon Flower (John Richards, UQP)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
John Richards’s The Gorgon Flower is a collection of six short stories (and the title novella), for fans of the macabre and peculiar. This is a collection both classic and...
Pidge’s Poppies (Jan Andrews, illus Timothy Ide, Ford St)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Pidge’s Poppies by Jan Andrews, illustrated by Timothy Ide (Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures), is a charming lesson on the role of carrier pigeons during war, encouraging young readers to...
Signal Erased (Adele Jones, Rhiza Edge)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Signal Erased is the latest YA near-science-fiction novel by Adele Jones. The story follows Anna Faraday, a high schooler with a remarkable singing voice and a traumatic past. While occupied with...
Audrey’s Gone AWOL (Annie de Monchaux, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Annie de Monchaux’s debut novel, Audrey’s Gone AWOL, is a beautifully crafted and witty coming-of-middle-age tale that explores womanhood, motherhood, life, death, marriage and betrayal. Audrey has devoted her life...
The Pinchers and the Diamond Heist (Anders Sparring, illus Per Gustavsson, Gecko Press)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Anders Sparring’s The Pinchers and the Diamond Heist is a first-in-series chapter book that ticks many boxes young primary school children love: comedy, crime, and fun family connections. Opening with...
Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, MUP)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
An Australian inventor patented the future of world finance. An Australian journalist saw what finance had become and told the world. Business and finance writer Stuart Kells (The Library: A...
When the World Was Soft (Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
The Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation (based in Roebourne and Ngurrawaana Community, in WA’s Pilbara region) has compiled Yindjibarndi Creation Stories in a compelling and beautiful graphic novel format. For readers...
Bundyi acquires Stan Grant memoir
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) imprint Bundyi has announced that it has acquired world rights to A Song of Time, a memoir by author, media commentator and public intellectual Stan Grant....
Ena Noël Award 2024 shortlists announced
Monday, 12 February 2024
The shortlists for the biennial Ena Noël Award has been announced by the Australian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). The shortlisted authors and illustrators are:...
Affirm acquires Micallef anthology
Monday, 12 February 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Slivers, Shards and Skerricks, a comedy anthology from television personality and author Shaun Micallef. The publisher described Micallef’s forthcoming anthology as ‘a spectrum...
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2024 shortlists announced
Monday, 12 February 2024
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2024 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Illustrated books The Queen Next Door (Marcela Ferreira,...
Rippin appointed Australian Children’s Laureate 2024–25
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) has named Sally Rippin as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2024–25. Rippin has written over 100 books for children and young adults, including the...
Yee wins at VPLAs, Vivendi plans to put Hachette on stock market, moves at Scribe and Ultimo
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Grace Yee has won the Victorian Prize for Literature for her poetry collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo) at this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Meanwhile, in France, Vivendi, which acquired Hachette parent...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Sales Fiction Hachette has sold Russian rights to Bird (Courtney Collins) to Azbooka, via the Zeitgeist Agency. HarperCollins has sold Russian rights to The House That Joy Built (Holly Ringland)...
Larrikin acquires Betoota Advocate series
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled nonfiction series from satire publication the Betoota Advocate. The publisher said the series, which is for readers aged 8 to 12,...
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Wednesday, 7 February 2024
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The Cave (Victor Kelleher, Eagle Books)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
In Victor Kelleher’s upper-middle-grade prehistoric adventure novel The Cave, young Irian—one of the few survivors after the Beast (a sabre-toothed tiger) attacks the cave where he lives—is traumatised into muteness...
How to Knit a Human (Anna Jacobson, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
The contents of Anna Jacobson’s memoir How to Knit a Human are the stuff of nightmares: a young, award-winning artist and poet has a psychotic break, is involuntarily hospitalised and...
Amma (Saraid de Silva, Moa Press)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Annie Fernando has flown to London to meet her estranged uncle Suri. So begins the captivating tale of family, love and secrets told through the lives of three generations of...
Excitable Boy: Essays on risk (Dominic Gordon, Upswell)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Dominic Gordon’s Excitable Boy: Essays on risk is a collection of punchy vignettes about his life growing up in Melbourne in the 1990s and early 2000s. Gordon sets out an...
Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree (Pamela Freeman, illus Liz Anelli, Walker)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
With breathtaking illustrations, Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree is packed with fun facts about the animals and plants native to the Daintree Rainforest region. After the success of...
Mitchell Itches (Kristin Kelly, illus Amelina Jones, EK Books)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
With one in five children living with eczema, Mitchell Itches will be a valuable resource for those looking to better understand and manage this common condition. Written by nurse and preschool...
Pheasants Nest (Louise Milligan, A&U)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Pheasants Nest is a thriller about every journalist’s nightmare—that they, too, will be reduced to clickbait headlines and long-form reflective true crime essays. There may be no more fitting journalist...
Roarsome (Joel Slack-Smith, illus Rebel Challenger, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Roarsome is the first book in a new illustrated junior fiction series by TV comedy writer Joel Slack-Smith. Like many kids, Walter wants the latest tech for his birthday—a nitro-powered...
Upswell sells Ekhō to Soft Skull Press
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Upswell Publishing has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Ekhō (Roslyn Orlando) to Soft Skull Press. The deal was brokered between Sophy Williams, publisher and international director at Black Inc....
Fellowship prize added to City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
The prize for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award has increased in value, with the addition of a new writing fellowship from the Centre for Stories. In addition to the $15,000...
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