We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Think Australian talks to author Debra Dank, whose debut memoir is in the running for three NSW Premier’s awards and the Stella Prize, about the...
For the kids: Australian children’s and YA on offer at LBF
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Winner of the 2022 Text Prize, Let's Never Speak of This Again by Megan Williams (Text) is a ‘big-hearted YA debut’, which celebrates ‘the depth and strength of friendship through all of...
Bestselling Australian books 2022
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Top 10 Australian adult fiction titles Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Apples Never Fall (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) Lying Beside You (Michael Robotham, Hachette) Cobalt Blue (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan) The Dictionary of...
Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Winner of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Anam is a remarkable debut novel exploring memory, family, colonialism and displacement. The narrator, a young Vietnamese-Australian man...
We Could Be Something (Will Kostakis, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Will Kostakis’s first novel Loathing Lola was published when he was 19 years old. This uncommon experience inspires his latest book, a semi-autobiographical YA novel for readers aged 14–17. We...
The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart (Samera Kamaleddine, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
When 12-year-old Evie’s mum and stepdad Lee announce their separation, it feels like her whole world has been turned upside down. What’s more, Lee—the only father Evie has ever known—is...
Obsession (Nicole Madigan, Pantera)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
When journalist Nicole Madigan starts dating single dad Adam, it seems like the beginning of an exciting new chapter for her and her children. But as the relationship progresses, something...
Hunger of Thorns (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Lili Wilkinson’s new YA novel is a dark and twisting tale that draws on a history of persecution and celebrates the power of women, even as it interrogates society’s fear...
The Party Wish (The Wish Sisters Book 1)
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Imagine if your baby sister could make wishes come true… Flick has just found out her little sister has a special gift. Birdie has wished for a super-fabulous unicorn party...
The Garden at the End of the World
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
When Isla makes a special discovery, she and her botanist mother adventure to the Global Seed Vault in Norway. Isla is going to leave her precious package there, so children...
Secret Agent Mole, Book 1: Goldfishfinger
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Max Mole is a mole on a mission. With Helena Hippo and June Bug by his side, Max must stop the evil Goldfishfinger from stealing a priceless solid gold piece...
Cat on the Run, Episode 1: Cat of Death!
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Back before the BAD GUYS went good, someone was in even BIGGER TROUBLE ... What happens when the WORLD’S BIGGEST CAT VIDEO STAR gets accused of a crime she didn’t...
Say Hooray
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
This fantastic, colourful read-aloud has been designed to captivate babies and celebrate their every move. We know from research that the more senses you engage while reading to bubs, the...
Timeless
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Emit (whose parents turned back time to name him) is surrounded by busyness. Dad is too busy to read stories, Mum is too busy to play games and Emit’s brother...
We love books for kids
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Coming to you from a country that has seen sales of children's books boom in recent years, we are so pleased to share news and new books from the world...
Who’s at Bologna? Come meet them at the party!
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Publishers attending the Bologna book fair in person on the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Collective Stand are Allen & Unwin, Berbay Publishing, CSIRO Publishing, Five Mile, Hardie Grant Children's...
The Australian publishers shortlisted for the 2023 Bologna Prize
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Australian publishers Affirm Press, EK Books, Magabala Books, Starfish Bay and Wilkins Farago have been shortlisted in this year’s Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the...
2022 Australian Market Overview
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
The Australian book market is trading well above the last pre-Covid year of 2019 after three consecutive years of growth. Sales of books in Australia grew 7.2% last year to...
First Nations YA to look out for
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
A debut young adult title by Lystra Rose, a descendant of the Guugu Yimithirr, Birri Gubba, Erub and Scottish nations, took out the prestigious $25,000 Indigenous writing prize in the...
Junior and middle-grade fiction offerings
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
In junior fiction on offer at Bologna this year, Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has Monsties: The Lost Bunny (Zanni Louise & Kyla May) featuring Orla, Pearl, Mig, Boo and Oops—five...
Pitching pictures at Bologna
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Experiences in nature fill many of the picture books on offer from Australian publishers at Bologna this year. Thank you rain! (Sally Morgan & Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr, Magabala Books) is...
The fascinating truth: Nonfiction titles on offer at Bologna
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
In nonfiction the 'long-awaited' picture book Your Brain is a Lump of Goo from Idan Ben-Barak (A&U), the award-winning author of Do Not Lick This Book, and Christopher Nielsen. It explores...
Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Among the latest children's and YA acquisitions by Australian publishers: Children's Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired two books by Maxine Beneba Clarke. Releasing in June 2023, It’s the...
Baby boom: The growth of children’s and young adult market
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Children’s and young adult (CYA) titles have been driving the growth of the Australian book market in the past year, with titles like Heartstopper, Bluey and The Bad Guys becoming...
Australian titles with international appeal
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Discover the latest rights opportunities from Australian publishers and literary agents participating in the Australian Collective Stand at Bologna. View the Stand Catalogue here, featuring over 50 children’s and YA...
Award winners
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Lystra Rose has won the $25,000 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her YA debut novel The Upwelling (Hachette Australia), while We Who Hunt the Hollow (Kate Murray, HGCP)...
Graphic novel researcher: ‘Australian publishers are hungry for titles’
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Sophie Splatt, an editor of books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin for the past decade, is the Australian Publishers Association's (APA) 2023 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow....
Spotlight on Annabel Barker
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
The launch of your own agency was quickly followed by the pandemic; how did that affect what you were pitching and how you were making deals? Like others, I had...
Spotlight on Jess Racklyeft
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft has been awarded a Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarship to attend this year’s Bologna book fair. Here she...
Australian creators recommend
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Australian creators tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Illustrator and author Jess Racklyeft will attend this year's Bologna Book Fair as the...
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