S&S acquires Affirm, Booktopia trading again, Books+Publishing to produce 2025 ABIAs
Wednesday, 28 August 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) and Affirm Press announced this week that Affirm will become part of S&S; Booktopia’s website is up and running once more, following the sale of the...
Epic Salads (Jessica Prescott, Hardie Grant Books)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
If you’re ready to ditch the pre-made salads from your local supermarket, Jessica Prescott’s Epic Salads: For every mood, craving and occasion is a must-have for your cookbook collection. Prescott...
Stepping Sideways (ed by Emily Larkin & Lynne Stringer, Rhiza Edge)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
An Irish water sprite takes on human form with dire consequences, young people without professional prospects are farmed out to sadistic circuses, and a clockwork pneumatic contraption becomes sentient. These...
The Whale’s Last Song (Joanne Fedler, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Joanne Fedler’s spellbinding The Whale’s Last Song is set in a time known as ‘The Great Forgetting’, when a plague ravages the medieval hamlet of Villingraz. While the wealthy hide...
This Kingdom of Dust (David Dyer, Penguin)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
In his sophomore novel, David Dyer skilfully blurs history and fiction to pose the question: What if the Apollo mission had failed to return from the Moon? This Kingdom of...
The Burrow (Melanie Cheng, Text)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
A triumph of restrained and tender storytelling, Melanie Cheng’s The Burrow follows a Melbourne family living on autopilot five years after a senseless tragedy. Amy, Jin and Lucie have since...
Everywhere We Look (Martine Kropkowski, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Everywhere We Look is the debut novel by Martine Kropkowski, a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, who has also written about the ethics of true crime and crime...
Tardigrades (Anne Morgan, illus Jennifer Falkner, CSIRO Publishing)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Tardigrades: Nature’s toughest survivors is the latest nonfiction picture book from Anne Morgan, author of the CBCA Notable Book The Way of the Weedy Seadragon. Morgan showcases the remarkable microorganisms...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists, CBCA winners announced; McGrathNicol confirms Booktopia sale
Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Last Thursday, Creative Australia announced the titles shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, with winners to be revealed on 12 September. Headlining other local news this week, the...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold world English (ex ANZ) rights to Whitewash: Poland and the Jews (Jan Grabowski, Jewish Quarterly) to Toronto University Press; Russian rights to Beyond the Snow Leopard:...
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Wednesday, 21 August 2024
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Skysong (C A Wright, Pantera)
Tuesday, 20 August 2024
C A Wright’s debut novel, Skysong, is inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale ‘The Nightingale’. Oriane is the latest in a long line of skylarks: women who transform into...
A Lot of Silly (Joy Cowley, illus David Barrow, Gecko)
Tuesday, 20 August 2024
A Lot of Silly is a collection of poems and short stories for young children by the prolific Aotearoa New Zealand writer Joy Cowley (Good Night, Good Beach), who has...
The Natural Advantage (Jenny Brockis, Major Street)
Tuesday, 20 August 2024
The message of Jenny Brockis’s The Natural Advantage is straightforward: the cure for stress in our increasingly hectic modern world is to spend more time in nature. ‘Intuitively, we know...
The Belburd (Nardi Simpson, Hachette)
Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Written with the same lyrical prowess and evocative tone as her award-winning debut, Song of the Crocodile, Yuwaalaraay storyteller Nardi Simpson’s second novel, The Belburd, is a powerful ode to...
George the Wizard (Tony Armstrong, illus Emma Sjaan Beukers, Lothian)
Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Gamilaroi man, professional footballer, and radio and TV personality Tony Armstrong adds ‘children’s author’ to his CV with George the Wizard. It’s the first picture book in a new series...
Prize Catch (Alan Carter, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Alan Carter’s latest crime novel, Prize Catch, is a page-turning thrill ride set on Australia’s Emerald Isle. With the action taking place in Hobart and its surrounds, and brimming with...
Dunn named 2024 Rising Star, Hammer wins ACT Book of the Year, SA Literary Awards shortlist announced
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
In local news this week, the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has confirmed that 14 publishers will attend the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair on the APA collective stand; attendance was up...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Serbian rights to The Shortest History of Economics (Andrew Leigh) and The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to Laguna, via the Anna Jarota...
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Wednesday, 14 August 2024
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A Song to Drown Rivers (Ann Liang, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
A Song to Drown Rivers is a bold departure from Ann Liang’s critically acclaimed YA rom-com novels (This Time It’s Real, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You, If You Could...
Double Happiness (Rochelle Siemienowicz, MidnightSun)
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
In Double Happiness, journalist and film critic Rochelle Siemienowicz explores the intricacies, challenges and taboos surrounding polyamory and ethical non-monogamy (ENM). Set in Melbourne between 2014 and the Covid lockdown...
Game On (Prank Wars #1) (Louise Park & Mo Johnson, illus Jules Faber, Larrikin)
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
If Game On is any indication, Louise Park and Mo Johnson’s new series, Prank Wars, will be a hit with middle-grade readers who are high in energy and imagination. It’s a...
Twenty-Two Impressions (Jessica Friedmann, Scribe)
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
For years, Jessica Friedmann (Things That Helped) circled the tarot, feeling a combination of mild embarrassment, curiosity and intellectual bewilderment when a pack was inevitably drawn at the end of...
Stand Proud (Nicho Hynes with Marlee Silva, illus Blak Douglas, Puffin)
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Stand Proud is a picture book that shares one man's powerful story of self-discovery during childhood. Wiradjuri author and rugby league star Nicho Hynes tells his story with the help...
Giinagay Juluum, Hello Mountains (Melissa Greenwood, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Following the success of Miimi Marraal, Mother Earth, and Miimi and Buwaarr, Mother and Baby, the latest picture book by Melissa Greenwood (Giinagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean) is a vivid storytelling...
No One Will Know (Rose Carlyle, Text)
Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Pregnant, homeless, and alone, 24-year-old Eve Sylvester is faced with a desperate future when a meeting at her dead fiancé’s gravesite offers a chance too glorious to refuse: nannying for...
Wright becomes two-time Miles Franklin winner; UBD to rebrand; Hazard to join Keeperton
Wednesday, 7 August 2024
Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her novel Praiseworthy (Giramondo), becoming a two-time winner; former Hachette Australia group publishing director Fiona Hazard has joined...
Rights round up
Wednesday, 7 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold Thai rights to Good with Money (Emma Edwards) to B2S and Chinese simplified rights to the same title to China Machine Press. Children’s/YA Scholastic...
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Wednesday, 7 August 2024
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