The Concierge (Abby Corson, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Abby Corson’s debut crime thriller, The Concierge, offers readers a locked-room murder mystery in a lavish English country hotel, where the guests are pointing fingers, and the person who knows...
Beyond Booze (Sarah Rusbatch, Murdoch)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
The term ‘sober curiosity’ has been around for a few years now, but Beyond Booze: How to create a life you love, alcohol-free offers something a bit more. Author Sarah...
Greater City Shadows (Laurie Steed, UWAP)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Laurie Steed’s third book and debut short story collection, Greater City Shadows, collates tales of grief, loss, loneliness, unrequited love, fractured relationships and—ultimately—hope. Suburban Perth is the setting for many an...
The Daredevil Princess and the Golden Unicorn (Belinda Murrell, illus Rebecca Crane, Puffin)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
The Daredevil Princess and the Golden Unicorn is the first in kid-lit superstar Belinda Murrell’s latest series, with a second book (The Daredevil Princess and the Goblin King) to be...
Go Lightly (Brydie Lee-Kennedy, Bloomsbury)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Brydie Lee-Kennedy’s debut, Go Lightly, is an honest, hilarious and often painful exploration of taking risks in life and love. Full of wry humour, it dives into the complexities of...
Little Horses (Deborah Kelly, illus Jenni Goodman, Wombat Books)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Deborah Kelly’s Little Horses opens with a beautiful, graceful scene of seahorses living in harmony with other marine life in their ocean habitat. The jewel-coloured seahorses live a peaceful life...
Woven (ed by Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Magabala)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Woven, the second collaborative project between Red Room Poetry and Magabala Books, is a profound and unique collection of First Nations poetry that sees some of the world’s finest First...
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Monday, 11 December 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Sales Fiction Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold The Housemate (Sarah Bailey, A&U) to French publisher Mera Editions. Penguin Random House (PRH) ANZ has sold Spanish and Catalan...
Kelly joins Affirm, Kassab named Parramatta Laureate, Bitto wins Blake-Beckett scholarship
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
In this week's news, Affirm Press has appointed Tace Kelly to the role of publicity manager; author Yumna Kassab was named the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature; QBD announced plans...
My Brilliant Sister (Amy Brown, Scribner)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
My Brilliant Sister is a layered and involving story about womanhood, motherhood and art. It follows three very different women who all want to create art and are at a...
The Beacon (P A Thomas, Echo)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Living in the Byron region, doctor-turned-author P A Thomas is well placed to helm this debut crime novel featuring colourful characters and rollicking action set in this lively location. Jack...
The Intuition Toolkit (Joel Pearson, S&S)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Forget the idea of intuition as a sixth sense or any of the other mysterious connotations that many gurus and self-help books have been portraying for decades. Instead, in The...
Countdown to Yesterday (Shirley Marr, Puffin)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Shirley Marr’s latest novel, Countdown to Yesterday, takes young readers on a heartwarming journey through time, memories, and the complexities of family and friendship. This enchanting tale is a delightful...
How to Avoid Being Eaten By Sharks… and other advice (John Larkin, illus Chrissie Krebs, Walker)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
How do you avoid being eaten by sharks? Is the Earth flat or round? How do you translate parent-speak, pass a creative writing test, and elude alien abduction? Tongue-in-cheek, chapter-length...
Ho Jiak: A Taste of Malaysia (Junda Khoo, Hardie Grant)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Ho Jiak: A taste of Malaysia by chef Junda Khoo with Nick Jordan is an exciting culinary exploration of Malaysian cuisine. The title, meaning ‘delicious’ in Hokkien—also the name of...
Smoke & Mirrors (Barry Jonsberg, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
High-school student Grace is a whiz at magic—or she tries to be. Since learning an array of magic tricks and pranks from her no-good Uncle Mike as a little girl,...
Everything Is Perfect (Maxine Fawcett, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
The protagonists of what was once deemed ‘chick lit’ have grown older and now face the trials of middle age. In Maxine Fawcett’s debut novel, Everything Is Perfect, Cassandra is no...
Time to Rest (Jack Carty, illus Natasha Carty, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Husband and wife team Jack and Natasha Carty have collaborated on a new children’s book for the first time. Time to Rest is written as a lullaby, with songwriter and poet...
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Monday, 4 December 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency reports that Vincent and Sien (Silvia Kwon) has been licensed in Lithuania and the Czech Republic; Fire with Fire (Candice Fox) has been licensed in Italy...
Lynch wins Booker, Arnott wins Voss, Loewenstein wins Walkley
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Earlier this week, Paul Lynch was announced as the winner of the 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song (Oneworld); Bloomsbury Australia said that reprinted stock will be available from this Friday. BookPeople...
Andromache Between Worlds (Gabriel Bergmoser, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Andromache Between Worlds is the middle-grade fiction debut from prolific adult and young adult writer Gabriel Bergmoser. Andromache is the 14-year-old daughter of two celebrity adventurer journalists whose escapades have...
Birdy (Sharon Kernot, Text)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
In Birdy, a compelling YA verse novel by CBCA award-winning author Sharon Kernot (The Art of Taxidermy), we meet Maddy, who began experiencing selective mutism and anxiety after an unnamed...
A Thousand Wasted Sundays (Victoria Vanstone, Pantera)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Since quitting alcohol in 2018, Queensland-based writer Victoria Vanstone has been sharing sobriety advice as a blogger and as co-host of the Sober Awkward podcast. Now, in her memoir, A...
Kintsugi (Marie O’Rourke, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Marie O’Rourke’s book of memoir essays, Kintsugi, shortlisted for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, takes its title from the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer mixed...
Gawimarra: Gathering (Jeanine Leane, UQP)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
In Gawimarra: Gathering, Wiradjuri poet and educator Jeanine Leane expresses her Country with poetry that overflows with celebrations of culture and acts of Blak resistance. Arranged into three sections, the...
We All Lived in Bondi Then (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
We All Lived in Bondi Then is the last publication of new work by Georgia Blain. This collection comprises nine previously unpublished stories written between 2012 and 2015, before Blain’s...
Nova’s Missing Masterpiece (Brooke Graham, illus Robin Tatlow-Lord, EK Books)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
It’s Nova’s dad’s birthday, and she has made him a special masterpiece drawing as his present. It’s nearly time for the party, but she can’t find the drawing! (‘Where is...
The Great Undoing (Sharlene Allsopp, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Imagine a completely digital future, with people connected via nanotechnology, attaining ultimate convenience at the price of absolute surveillance—good for people who like where they are, bad for those who...
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