‘Nevermoor’ scores industry hat-trick
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor (Lothian) has won yet another award—this time the Australian Booksellers Association Booksellers Choice Award, announced on 17 June. The children’s book has previously taken out Book of...
Masters of the middle grade
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Several years ago Hilary Rogers, then a publisher at Australian children’s imprint Hardie Grant Egmont, commissioned author Sally Rippin to write the ‘Billie B Brown’ series. It turned out to...
Introducing MidnightSun Publishing
Friday, 15 June 2018
MidnightSun publisher Anna Solding tells Think Australian about her small South Australian press and her 'amazing' six-figure deal. What makes your press unique? We only publish books that we love....
PRH acquires ‘No Spin’ by Shane Warne
Friday, 15 June 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) will publish Australian cricketer Shane Warne’s memoir No Spin in Australia and the UK. The publisher said the memoir will cover the bowler’s ‘extraordinary cricketing career and...
‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top charts
Friday, 15 June 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: May Much-loved Australian novelist Tim Winton tops the fiction charts this month with The Shepherd’s Hut, but his 2008 novel Breath is back in the top 10...
Aussie crime wave
Friday, 15 June 2018
No doubt you’ve heard of Jane Harper’s debut bestselling crime novel The Dry (Pan). It has added the accolade of crime and thriller ‘book of the year’ at the recent British Book...
What do you think of when you ‘Think Australian’?
Friday, 15 June 2018
Penguin Random House Australia’s rights manager Nerrilee Weir said recently of Australian publishing: ‘It does feel like we have a strength in that area at the moment.’ She was talking...
Leaf Stone Beetle (Ursula Dubosarsky, illus by Gaye Chapman, Dirt Lane Press)
Thursday, 7 June 2018
This gentle fable presents a delicate perspective on the cyclical patterns of life in the natural world, where seasons and the weather can both offer adventure and prompt quiet philosophical...
Off the Track (Cristy Burne, illus by Amanda Burnett, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 7 June 2018
Cristy Burne’s latest work of adventure fiction takes us off the beaten track and deep into the Australian bush. Harry isn’t thrilled about spending a weekend hiking with his mum,...
The Dog with Seven Names (Dianne Wolfer, Penguin)
Thursday, 7 June 2018
This book for middle readers uses the experiences of a dog with many owners to tell stories of Australia during wartime. While her family watches the running of the 1939...
The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania (Sam Twyford-Moore, NewSouth)
Friday, 1 June 2018
Sam Twyford-Moore’s The Rapids is a fascinating exploration of the fragility of the mind, states of mania and how mental ill-health is treated in art and popular culture. Having been...
The Eastern Curlew (Harry Saddler, Affirm Press)
Friday, 1 June 2018
All birds are miracles, but migratory shorebirds are perhaps the most wondrous of all. Author Harry Saddler is fascinated by the Eastern Curlews that chase summer across the hemispheres, breeding...
No-Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging (Zoya Patel, Hachette)
Friday, 1 June 2018
In her razor-sharp debut, No-Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging, Fijian-Indian-Australian writer Zoya Patel charts the chasm that results from juggling three cultures at once, never completely belonging to...
I Am Out with Lanterns (Emily Gale, Random House)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
I Am Out with Lanterns is nuanced, complex and thoroughly readable. Told from multiple perspectives, it follows a kaleidoscope of characters as it explores community, connections, and the desire to...
After the Lights Go Out (Lili Wilkinson, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Emergency drills, bug-out bags, a secret underground bunker with a year’s supply of food—life’s a little different when your dad’s a doomsday prepper. Seventeen-year-old Pru Palmer and her two younger...
Zeroes and Ones (Cristy Burne, Xoum)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Zeroes and Ones is a history of the most exciting milestones in computing, with a focus on individual inventors and innovators. It spans from Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine and Ada...
A Song Only I Can Hear (Barry Jonsberg, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Rob Fitzgerald is 13 years old, painfully shy, prone to panic attacks, and desperately, disgustingly in love for the very first time. Rob begins receiving texts from an unknown phone...
Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds (Jeremy Lachlan, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Immediately exciting and inventive, this is a thrilling story set in a universe made up of multiple worlds. Twelve years ago, Jane and her father arrived at the island of...
Wisp: A Story of Hope (Zana Fraillon, illus by Grahame Baker Smith, Lothian)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
There have been some beautiful, compassionate picture books that feature the plight of refugees and their search for a peaceful life away from war and poverty. Joining these is this...
Sonam and the Silence (Eddie Ayres, illus by Ronak Taher, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
A fable about a young girl in Kabul during the Taliban occupation hardly sounds like the stuff of picture books so Sonam and the Silence was warily approached. However, fear...
Maya and Cat (Caroline Magerl, Walker Books)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Caroline Magerl has a very distinctive style of illustration and this book does not disappoint. It’s full of cats. ‘On a roof, as wet as a seal, as grey as...
How Did I Get Here? (Philip Bunting, Scholastic)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
At some point the little kid in your life will venture to ask the question feared by most adults: ‘How did I get here?’ The history of life is a...
Backyard (Ananda Braxton-Smith, illus by Lizzy Newcomb, Black Dog Books)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Backyard is a gentle reminder that to experience nature, you don’t need to venture much further than out the back door. Set in a city ‘that is like other cities’,...
Trace (Rachael Brown, Scribe)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Journalist Rachael Brown’s ABC podcast Trace, which earned comparisons to the global sensation Serial, investigated the cold-case murder of Melbourne bookshop owner Maria James. The 38-year-old single mother was stabbed...
Teacher (Gabbie Stroud, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Gabbie Stroud always wanted to be a teacher. Her childhood teachers changed her life, and she wanted to do the same for others. This memoir weaves together a broader look...
Happy Never After (Jill Stark, Scribe)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Picking up where her debut bestseller High Sobriety left off, journalist and author Jill Stark’s Happy Never After charts the period from her breakdown in October 2014 to her ensuing...
Always Another Country (Sisonke Msimang, Text)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
A coming-of-age memoir brimming with no-holds-barred honesty, Always Another Country is a story about love, survival, politics and home. Sisonke Msimang charts various stages of her life, observing her surroundings...
Too Much Lip (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
The title of Melissa Lucashenko’s latest book—both an accusation and a lament—speaks of hunger, greed, desperation, destruction and redemption. Central to the novel are themes of rage, incarceration, and generational...
A Superior Spectre (Angela Meyer, Peter Bishop)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Angela Meyer’s A Superior Spectre is an eerie, gothic work that is both a richly detailed historical novel and a chilling prediction of the near future. The book follows Jeff,...
Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
In a dying Riverina town that’s suffering a merciless drought, ‘good people fight to retain honour and dignity against unfair odds’. Shockingly, one Sunday morning, the town’s priest opens fire...
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