Plastic Budgie (Olivia De Zilva, Pink Shorts Press)
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Olivia De Zilva’s autofiction debut Plastic Budgie is a sharply funny, sad and sentimental reflection on the people, places and cultural forces that shape us as we grow up. In the novel,...
Roberts-Orr wins Anne Elder; Raven wins Fogarty Literary Award; Hardie Grant relocates; Bookshops on succession planning, social media
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
The Australian book industry this week saw Hardie Grant announce the relocation of Melbourne offices from Richmond to Collingwood; B+P reviews editor Jess Lomas spoke to a new Melbourne independent...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Sales Fiction University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold simplified Chinese rights to The White Girl (Tony Birch) to Guangxi University Press. Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold Japanese rights...
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Wednesday, 4 June 2025
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The Ghost Walk (Karen Herbert, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Ruby Rose Gillespie lives with cystic fibrosis and is admitted to the hospital for a fever on the same day the body of Dr Gabriel Beaufort – her high school...
Yilkari (Nicolas Rothwell & Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson, Text)
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Yilkari is a book that resists easy categorisation – it’s part character study, part travel narrative, part history lesson and part meditation on the connection between people and place. This...
A Gift from the Birds (Caroline Stills, Text)
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
A Gift from the Birds is the first middle-grade novel by picture book author Caroline Stills. Winner of the 2024 Text Prize – and the final recipient before the prize...
The Giant (Sophie Masson, illus Lorena Carrington, MidnightSun)
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
The award-winning duo of author Sophie Masson and illustrator Lorena Carrington reunite for The Giant. Their previous title, Satin, was a 2024 CBCA Notable book. In this mystical and poignant...
The Golden Sister (Suzanne Do, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
The Golden Sister is a fast-paced mystery set in a small fictional NSW coastal town, exploring complex and dysfunctional family dynamics and the impact of grief. Suzanne Do’s prose is...
Death at Booroomba (AL Booth, Ventura Press)
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
On the eve of his deployment to the Western Front in 1915, Jack O’Rourke has a chance encounter with an elderly Russian man, Samuel Lomond, that will profoundly impact his...
Industry responds to rescinded black&write! fellowship, de Krester wins 2025 Stella Prize, ABDA winners announced
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Across the industry this week, B+P reported on the State Library Victoria’s published ‘Ways of Working Commitment’ and outlined the events leading up to this document including the cancellation of...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Shortest History of AI (Toby Walsh) to Chongqing University Press; and Greek rights to The Shortest History of the...
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Wednesday, 28 May 2025
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Where the River Runs Free (Vikki Conley, illus Jedda Robaard, Windy Hollow)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Where the River Runs Free is a celebration of time spent outdoors by multi-award-winning author Vikki Conley (Where the Lyrebird Lives) and illustrator Jedda Robaard (The Littlest Penguin and the...
Cure (Katherine Brabon, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Katherine Brabon’s Cure is a natural extension and companion to her novel Body Friend; both are introspective literary works centred on women living with autoimmune diseases – conditions Brabon herself...
CHAOS! Which way will YOU choose? (Andrew Cranna, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
An eccentric grandfather, a talking pet pig, a rat, a toad and a baby alligator are just some of the characters in Andrew Cranna’s interactive middle-grade adventure, CHAOS! Which way...
Deep History: Country and Sovereignty (ed by Ann McGrath & Jackie Huggins, UNSW Press)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Deep History: Country and Sovereignty is a layered and collaborative work that challenges dominant narratives and asks whose voices are heard in telling history. Edited by Jackie Huggins, a Bidjara...
Be a good girl, Valerie (Marcia van Zeller, Ventura Press)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Be a good girl, Valerie by Marcia van Zeller is a quietly absorbing novel set predominantly in 2018 Perth with flashbacks to 1974 Toronto and 1978 London. It explores enduring...
Dead Ends (Samantha Byres, UQP)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Is closure possible, or is it just a convenient fiction? This is the central question explored in Dead Ends, the meditative debut novel by Aotearoa New Zealand–born Naarm/Melbourne-based writer Samantha...
NSW Literary Award winners announced; digiDirect Group acquires James Bennett; Miles Franklin, ALS Gold Medal longlists
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
In local news, digiDirect Group owner Shant Kradjian has acquired library supplier James Bennett, after acquiring Booktopia in 2024; online bookseller The Nile has appointed John Purcell as head of books...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Sales Fiction Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold Italian rights to Pip Adam's Audition (Giramondo) to Cantoni Editore. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK/Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ, India, Canada) to...
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Wednesday, 21 May 2025
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Love Overdue (Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus, A&U)
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Love Overdue, the new novel by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus (Fancy Meeting You Here), is an uneven but ultimately charming contemporary romance for readers who enjoy Jodi McAlister (An...
What Kept You? (Raaza Jamshed, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Raaza Jamshed’s debut novel, What Kept You?, is a dazzling, poignant tale of defiance and metamorphosis in an ever-changing world. Whipping between the past and present, we first meet Jahan...
Modern Australian Baking (Christopher Thé, Hardie Grant)
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Christopher Thé’s Modern Australian Baking is visually arresting, thoughtfully structured and creatively ambitious. Best known as the founder of Black Star Pastry and creator of the viral Strawberry Watermelon Cake,...
Edie Tells a Lie (Ingrid Laguna, Text)
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Ingrid Laguna’s Edie Tells a Lie is a gentle story of friendship and family. After the loss of her father, Edie mourns the large family she wishes she had. Edie’s...
Nock Loose (Patrick Marlborough, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Patrick Marlborough’s Nock Loose is a wryly postmodern and cynically satirical novel that hits the ground running and never lets up. Marlborough scorns the ‘dire humourlessness’ of Australian literature in...
When Sleeping Women Wake (Emma Pei Yin, Hachette)
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Expansive yet tightly plotted, When Sleeping Women Wake is a deeply empathetic novel that examines the devastation of war. Set in 1940s Hong Kong, it traces the city’s transformation from...
Who Might You Be? (Robert Henderson, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Inspired by the popular tangram puzzle, Who Might You Be? is a unique picture book that celebrates the power of transformation. Robert Henderson (I See, I See) has created a...
We Saw What You Started (Carla Salmon, Pan Australia)
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
Carla Salmon’s debut novel, We Saw What You Started, is set in Red Sands, a classic Australian coastal town with a ‘barefoot and boardshorts’ summer holiday vibe, where Instagram-worthy scenery...
