Salonika Burning (Gail Jones, Text)
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Award-winning novelist Gail Jones’s new offering adapts the First World War experiences of four very real people: British artists Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer, and Australians Olive King and Stella...
Men I Trust (Tommi Parrish, Scribe)
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Scribe is proving itself to be at the forefront of local comics publishing with its second graphic release of 2022, Men I Trust by US-based Australian artist Tommi Parrish. The...
Koori Princess (Anita Heiss, Magabala)
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Anita Heiss is an award-winning author who has published across the gamut of Australian writing: from adult fiction and memoir to children’s novels, she’s seemingly done it all. Koori Princess...
A Tiny Light (Alison Lester, UQP)
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
It’s always a delight when Alison Lester, one of Australia’s most well loved picture-book creators, releases a new story. A Tiny Light is her latest offering, a charming narrative in...
Willowman (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
In Inga Simpson’s heartfelt new novel Willowman, a gifted young cricketer and a dedicated batmaker live their lives in parallel to one another, their love of the game binding them...
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Monday, 22 August 2022
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Berani (Michelle Kadarusman, A&U)
Saturday, 20 August 2022
Berani is a powerful middle-grade story about animal activism set in Indonesia, by the Indonesian-Australian author of Music for Tigers. Weaving in two interconnected stories and three voices, including that...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian and Turkish rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams), following the book's selection...
Brennan wins National Biography Award, NSW Premier’s History Awards shortlists, Readings union considers industrial action
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Late last week Bernadette Brennan won the 2022 National Biography Award for Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears (A&U), while the State Library of NSW announced the shortlists for...
Diary of a Rescued Wombat (Jackie French, illus by Bruce Whatley, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Who says prequels are only for YA epics and fantasy novel franchises? Jackie French and Bruce Whatley have decided it’s time for us to learn the backstory of the protagonist...
Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here (Heather Rose, A&U)
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
At the age of six, Heather Rose stood under a eucalyptus tree and pledged herself to a higher power: ‘I’m ready. Tell me what to do.’ Throughout her childhood in...
Art (Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella, Magabala)
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Art is, on the surface, two skilled poets in dialogue over the artwork of the late Nyoongar artist Shane Pickett. But it is also a political text, asking ‘who is...
The Reindeer and the Submarine (Beverley McWilliams, Pantera)
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Having previously been awarded a notable CBCA commendation for her picture book on aviator Captain Harry Butler, Beverley McWilliams now makes a quirky and charming foray into middle-grade fiction. The...
The Soulmate (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Sally Hepworth delivers another brilliant, page-turning domestic thriller with her eighth novel The Soulmate. Set in the idyllic coastal town of Portsea, sheltered from the hustle of city life, the...
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Monday, 15 August 2022
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Sales Fiction Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold UK and US rights at auction to Grimmish (Michael Winkler, Puncher & Wattmann) on behalf of the publisher, to Peninsula Press...
QLA 2022 shortlists, Griffin Press ceases POD, Dessaix Lifetime Achievement award
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Opus Group has confirmed that Griffin Press will cease its print on demand services; Publishers Association of NZ/TeRau o Tākupu have reported that its trade publishers’ revenue grew 0.8% last...
To Greenland! (Pip Smith, illus by Beau Wylie, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
To Greenland! is the joyous new picture book from Pip Smith and Beau Wylie, who last collaborated on Theodore the Unsure. This new adventure follows Ellie the elephant, who resides...
Hard Labour: Wage theft in the age of inequality (Ben Schneiders, Scribe)
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Income inequality fell in Australia during the postwar period, and by 1979 inequality was at its lowest. Then neoliberal economics took hold, championed by leaders such as Ronald Reagan and...
The Glass House (Brooke Dunnell, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
When Julia’s elderly father, Don, finally agrees to move out of the family home and into an aged-care facility, Julia knows she has a lot of work ahead of her....
Boundary Crossers (Meg Foster, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
In her new book Boundary Crossers, historian Meg Foster combs archives and family histories to explore questions surrounding the lesser known bushrangers of Australian history. Is there more to the story...
Amazing Animal Journeys (Jennifer Cossins, Lothian)
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Tasmanian artist Jennifer Cossins hit world picture-book fame with 101 Collective Nouns, and has since collected a swag of CBCA and other accolades. Her newest title, the nonfiction Amazing Animal...
The Lovers (Yumna Kassab, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Yumna Kassab’s The Lovers is the folkloric tale of Jamila and Amir’s love. We don’t know many details of their relationship or what their love was like at its crescendo;...
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Monday, 8 August 2022
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Age Book of the Year, Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlists, Mossop joins SWF
Wednesday, 3 August 2022
The shortlists for the Age Book of the Year 2022, which this year includes a nonfiction category, and the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize have been announced, while the longlist...
The Careless State (Mark Considine, MUP)
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
The Careless State is a timely and forensic examination of the failures of the Australian government’s provision of social services. The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed—particularly through the publicised failures in...
Off to the Market (Alice Oehr, Scribble)
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
Off to the Market is a celebration of markets and healthy, whole foods. Graphic artist Alice Oehr showcases her skills in her debut narrative nonfiction picture book, for children aged...
Her Death Was Also Water (Allen C Jones, MidnightSun)
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
Seven people, an open boat, a flood. I’m not sure if they’re supposed to be archetypes, but they’re uncomfortably familiar. The men: a widowed South-Asian mini-mart owner, a pathetic liberal...
The Hats of Marvello (Amanda Graham, illus by Lavanya Naidu, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
In a quintessential Australian country town, the biggest excitement for grade five student Olive is the upcoming school play, which she has a starring role in as the narrator. To...
Dusty in the Outwilds (Rhiannon Williams, HGCP)
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
Dusty, real name Willa Dust, might just be the most intuitive, smart and brave 12-year-old you’ll ever get caught up in an extraordinary adventure with. Dusty has always heard about...
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