Monsties #1: The Lost Bunny (Zanni Louise & Kyla May, HGCP)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
The first in a new series, Monsties: The Lost Bunny will no doubt be literary candy for its target readership of 5–8-year-olds. The story is a frothy concoction of zany,...
We Need to Talk About Ageing (Melissa Levi, Hachette)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Melissa Levi is a clinical psychologist who intended to specialise in paediatric medicine. It’s a happy accident that she ended up helping the ageing instead. With We Need to Talk...
The Archipelago of Us (Reneé Pettitt-Schipp, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Originally written as part of Reneé Pettitt-Schipp’s PhD thesis, The Archipelago of Us is a moving travel memoir mixed with a reflective story of trauma and healing. Pettitt-Schipp decided to...
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Monday, 17 April 2023
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Johnson joins Ultimo, new Master of Publishing scholarship for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, LBF rescheduled
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Ultimo Press has appointed Andrea Johnson as marketing and community manager, and the University of Sydney is offering a new scholarship in the Master of Publishing postgraduate degree for Aboriginal...
Sad Girl Novel (Pip Finkemeyer, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
When we first meet aspiring writer Kim Mueller, she’s taking a train through Berlin, on her way to see her therapist. She’s wondering if she’s ‘talented or deluded’. She has...
Queen Narelle (Sally Murphy, illus by Simon O’Carrigan, Walker)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Sally Murphy is one of the best verse novelists in Australian children’s fiction. Her tenderness, lyricism, poetic voice and sensitive handling of troubling themes are what make her verse novels...
Birdie Lights Up the World (Alison McLennan, illus by Lauren Mullinder, EK Books)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
From performer and voiceover artist Alison McLennan comes a story about a penguin who is thought to be the ‘chosen one’. Birdie is convinced she has the unique ability to...
Backyard Footy (Carl Merrison, illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Kicking the footy around in your backyard is fun, but playing with mates is even better! Jaru/Kija author Carl Merrison and illustrator Samantha Campbell score big with their lively, cumulative...
Sunday Skating (Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville, HGCP)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
This picture book is as warm and tender as a sunset glow upon a band of friends. Award-winning author and illustrator duo Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville follow the triumph...
Notes on Her Colour (Jennifer Neal, Vintage)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Gabrielle has inherited the gift of being able to change the colour of her skin from her mother Tallulah, and her mother before her. Yet Gabrielle grows up in a...
Minds of Sand and Light (Kylie Chan, Voyager AU)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Two rebel journalists get caught up in a conflict between secretive AIs in this new cyberpunk thriller. Minds of Sand and Light is set some 50 years in the future:...
Trump’s Australia (Bruce Wolpe, A&U)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
What would happen to Australia should Donald Trump win a second term as president of the United States? Such a situation seems an impossibility, yet the same was said for...
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Tuesday, 11 April 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
Sales Children's/YA Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has sold English Language rights for China to A Human for Kingsley and A Job for Kingsley (Gabriel Evans), Herman Crab (Peter Helliar, illus by Matt Shanks), The Little Things (Penny Harrison,...
Government to fund Trove, Heiss to curate Bundyi, Stella shortlist announced
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
The National Library of Australia has welcomed the federal government's commitment to funding the library's digital archive, Trove; the federal government has also extended the deadline for new title claims...
Sensational Sharks (Tim Flannery & Emma Flannery, illus by Katie Melrose, HGCP)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
The latest book by scientists Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery delves into similar territory as Flannery's 'Explore Your World' series, but is pitched at a younger age group. Giving the...
Search History (Amy Taylor, A&U)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Most of us have left some kind of regrettable imprint on the internet. It’s with this discarded online ephemera that anxiety swells about what people may make of it all—including...
Monster Island (George Ivanoff, Puffin)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
When Bernie’s mother gets a top-secret new job, it seems too good to be true. So instead of staying behind with his aunt, Bernie decides instead to sneak along—and it’s...
Where I Slept (Libby Angel, Text)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Where I Slept, by award-winning poet and author Libby Angel, is a sharp and sobering piece of autofiction that follows a struggling, unnamed poet/artist living on the margins in 1990s...
Media Monsters (Sally Young, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
After breaking through to the mainstream with her 2019 Stella Prize-longlisted book Paper Emperors, academic Sally Young continues to expose the dark interplay between Australian media and politics with Media...
Mizuto and the Wind (Kaye Baillie, illus by Luisa Gioffre-Suzuki, MidnightSun)
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
When Mizuto’s father disappears after a tsunami, Mizuto and his mother are both lost in lonely grief, until Mizuto hears about the ‘kaze no denwa’ (‘wind phone’): connected to nothing...
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...
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Monday, 3 April 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Danish rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams) to Lindhardt & Ringhof, and Hungarian rights to The Bookseller’s Apprentice (Amelia Mellor) to Lira. Nonfiction...
Rubbo to retire, Agius leaves Welbeck, De Kretser wins Folio Prize
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Mark Rubbo has announced he is planning to retire from the position of managing director at Readings in June, but will remain chair of the board, and in other personnel...
Desert Jungle (Jeannie Baker, Walker)
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Nearly seven years since her last picture storybook, Jeannie Baker returns in top form with Desert Jungle, a breath of fresh air in children’s books, offering a humble and vital...
Stay for Dinner (Sandhya Parappukkaran, illus Michelle Pereira, Bright Light)
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
If ever Australian publishers needed inspiration to produce more diverse picture books written by own voices authors, Sandhya Parappukkaran’s Stay for Dinner is a perfect example. It is an entertaining...
Isles of the Gods (Amie Kaufman, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
With Isles of the Gods, Amie Kaufman once again reminds us why she is one of the best young adult authors writing today. Her first solo YA after numerous collaborations,...
Reckless (Marele Day, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Accomplished crime writer Marele Day’s memoir Reckless opens in coastal NSW, where the author learns of the death of her French friend Jean. Day had met the charismatic Jean in...
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