‘Definitely Do Not Open This Book’ tops Australian picture book bestsellers chart
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Australian picture book bestsellers: September Andy Lee’s fourth picture book, Definitely Do Not Open This Book (illus by Heath McKenzie), which encourages children not to turn the pages with hilarious...
Self-published ‘Dinner Detectives’ series to be adapted for TV
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Last year, Australian children’s book creators Yves Stening and Nigel Buchanan won a pitching competition at the world’s biggest children’s entertainment industry event, MIPJunior, for their self-published picture-book series ‘Dinner...
Children’s books honoured at environment awards
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Three children’s books with environmental themes have been honoured at the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award for Children’s Literature. They are: the picture book The All New Must Have Orange 430...
The Medicine: A doctor’s notes (Karen Hitchcock, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
When discussing modern medicine there is a lot to consider. There are the complexities of the doctor/patient relationship. The wellbeing of doctors. How responsible treatment and the law sometimes intersect...
Cherry Beach (Laura McPhee-Browne, Text)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
When best friends Ness and Hetty move to Canada together, it seems as though a new phase of their lives is beginning—but their shared past won’t relinquish its grip so...
In the Clearing (J P Pomare, Hachette)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
If J P Pomare’s Call Me Evie was a slow-burner of a psychological thriller, his follow-up, In the Clearing, is a pared-back firecracker where the danger is clear and present—even...
Fauna (Donna Mazza, A&U)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Donna Mazza’s Fauna is set in a near-future Western Australia, recognisable but markedly bleaker. Stacey and her family have signed up to an experimental research procedure in which Stacey’s embryo’s...
‘Too Much Lip’ shortlisted for PM and Qld literary awards
Thursday, 10 October 2019
The shortlists for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Queensland Literary Awards have been announced, with Melissa Lucashenko’s Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Too Much Lip in the running for both. Also shortlisted for both...
‘The Yield’ sells to US, France
Thursday, 10 October 2019
Penguin Random House Australia has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Tara June Winch’s novel The Yield to HarperCollins US imprint HarperVia, and French-language rights to Actes Sud. President...
Zadie Smith, Curtis Sittenfeld to appear at new Australian feminist festival
Thursday, 10 October 2019
A new feminist ideas festival will be held in Melbourne later this year. Broadside festival, which runs from 9–10 November, has an all-star line-up that includes Zadie Smith, Curtis Sittenfeld,...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 10 October 2019
Christian White’s debut mystery-thriller The Nowhere Child is back in the Australian fiction bestsellers chart following the release of his second book The Wife and the Widow in late September...
True West (David Whish-Wilson, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Opening on a Western Australian freeway in 1988, True West immediately introduces Lee Southern, a teenager on the run from the militaristic bikie gang in which he grew up. Such...
Nothing New: A history of second-hand (Robyn Annear, Text)
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Opportunity shops—or op shops, as they’re lovingly referred to—are a well-established and much-loved feature of the Aussie retail landscape. In this entertaining and insightful history, Robyn Annear looks at where...
Peace (Garry Disher, Text)
Thursday, 26 September 2019
In Peace, Garry Disher returns to the rural South Australian town of Tiverton and to the hero of his 2013 novel Bitter Wash Road, Constable Paul ‘Hirsch’ Hirschhausen. Hirsch has...
Fascists Among Us: Online hate and the Christchurch massacre (Jeff Sparrow, Scribe)
Thursday, 26 September 2019
In the wake of the Christchurch massacre, Jeff Sparrow turns his eye to the recent rise of far-right violence. Fascists Among Us traces the history of fascism and seeks to...
The Great Divide (L J M Owen, Echo)
Thursday, 26 September 2019
In her fourth novel, L J M Owen, author of the ‘Dr Pimms, Intermillenial Sleuth’ series, gives us Australian rural crime at its most atmospheric: mist-shrouded streets, ruined vineyards, an...
Maurice Blackburn: Champion of the people (David Day, Scribe)
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Maurice Blackburn (1880–1944) was an influential member of the Australian Labor Party and a barrister, specialising in cases defending socialist causes. He held seats at both the state and federal...
‘Antarctica’ picture book sold to the US
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Fremantle Press has sold US rights to Moira Court’s forthcoming picture book Antarctica to Massachusetts-based children’s publisher Charlesbridge. ‘Charlesbridge’s roots are in nature nonfiction, which is what attracted them to...
Who’s Your Real Mum?
Thursday, 19 September 2019
When Nicholas wants to know which of Elvi’s two mums is her real mum, she gives him lots of clues. Her real mum is a circus performer, and a pirate,...
‘Young Dark Emu’ tops Australian children’s/YA nonfiction bestsellers chart
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Since we last checked in on the Australian children’s/YA nonfiction bestsellers in April, there are five new releases in the chart. Young Dark Emu, a younger readers edition of Bruce...
Explore Your World: Weird, Wild, Amazing!
Thursday, 19 September 2019
The first book for children from renowned author and environmentalist Professor Tim Flannery, exploring the world’s weirdest and most fascinating animals in all their bizarre glory. Are zombie jellyfish real?...
Twelfth Planet Press launches ‘inclusive’ imprint for pre-teens
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Australian genre publisher Twelfth Planet Press has launched a new imprint for pre-teen readers that will specialise in diverse stories, ‘with the aim to reflect the diversity of sexuality, race,...
Lynette Noni wins Gold Inky Award
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Australia’s bestselling YA author Lynette Noni has won the Gold Inky Award for her dystopian novel Whisper (Pantera), the first in a new series by the author of ‘The Medoran...
Highway Bodies
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Who will you rely on in the zombie apocalypse? Bodies on the TV, explosions, barriers, and people fleeing. No access to social media. And a dad who’ll suddenly bite your...
Imago
Monday, 16 September 2019
Global printing solutions: China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, India and Europe. Production management of books, stationery, packaging, toys and games for publishing companies who want to benefit from our...
High Infidelity
Thursday, 12 September 2019
At 44, loyal English wife Lara Winters discovers that Brock, her husband of 21 years, has betrayed her. Devastated, desperate, she flees her home in London and heads for the...
Hardie Grant sells multiple rights to new Clive Hamilton book on China
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Hardie Grant Books has sold US, UK, German-language and Dutch-language rights to a forthcoming book by Australian academic Clive Hamilton on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) international influence. According to...
Motherling
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Motherling addresses every parent of an adult child’s nightmare. Your child is grown up. He’s got a great job, living a happy life overseas. You don’t have to worry about...
The Sea & Us
Thursday, 12 September 2019
From the Stella Prize-shortlisted author, this is a heart-warming novel about longing, absence and the people we unexpectedly come to love. A young man called Harold rents a room above...
Field of Poppies
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Keen to escape the pressures of city life, Marsali Swift and her husband, William, are drawn to Listowel, a glorious historic mansion in the seemingly tranquil small town of Muckleton....
