Between Worlds (B D Lovell, UWAP)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
While often overlooked, science fiction poetry, or speculative verse as it’s sometimes called, has a distinguished pedigree, with contributions from such luminaries as Ursula K LeGuin and Brian Aldiss, as...
Naked Ambition (Robert Gott, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Gregory Buchanan is an up-and-coming state politician with a healthy dose of self-regard. A blithe spirit, he commissions career artist Sophie White to capture his portrait. The sitting takes an unusual...
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Monday, 27 February 2023
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Racklyeft awarded 2023 SCBWI Bologna Scholarship, Aus authors longlisted in Walter Scott Prize, Nielsen Books and Consumer pilot report
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
In the lead-up to the Bologna Book Fair, Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft has won one of the two Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators International Bologna Scholarships...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Sales Fiction Puncher & Wattmann has sold German language rights to Bird (Adam Morris) to Edition Nautilus. Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold world French rights to The Certainty Myth: how...
Non-Essential Work (Omar Sakr, UQP)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Omar Sakr’s work is polished to a razor-sharp point in his third poetry collection. As expected, Non-Essential Work contends with notions around identities outside the white and heteronormative. But rather...
The Garden at the End of the World (Cassy Polimeni, illus by Briony Stewart, UQP)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
After Isla discovers a unique seed pod, readers accompany her and her mother to the Global Seed Vault in Norway. The Garden at the End of the World is the...
I Had a Father in Karratha (Annette Trevitt, Upswell)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
When her father dies, Annette Trevitt spends two-and-a-half years organising the detritus of his life in a remote WA mining town. I Had a Father in Karratha is a memoir...
Little Treasure (Chanelle Gosper, illus by Jennifer Goldsmith, Lothian)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Little Treasure is a beach story, for ages two to five, but it’s so much more than that. A mother and child are at the beach, playing in the sand,...
Dragons of Hallow #1: Spellhound (Lian Tanner, illus by Sally Soweol Han, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Lian Tanner is well known for her middle grade fantasy series, including The Keepers and The Rogues. Her latest is the first in a new series, set in the intriguing...
Big Cat (Jess Racklyeft, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Organised Catherine loves to investigate things, and when she hears rumours about the Big Cat sightings, she is intrigued and sets out to solve the mystery. The Big Cat that...
West Side Honey (Claire Christian, Text)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Claire Christian’s novel West Side Honey serves up everything you’d want from a bingeable, indulgent rom-com, all the while remaining original and exciting. When she and her ex-husband start a...
Between You and Me (Joanna Horton, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Numerous authors have invited comparisons to Sally Rooney, and Between You and Me undoubtedly will too. Similar to Frances and Bobbi in Rooney’s breakthrough debut Conversations with Friends, 25-year-old best...
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Monday, 20 February 2023
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Reid departs PRH, Five Mile Press in administration, MUD Literary Prize shortlist
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Penguin Random House’s launch title director Karen Reid has resigned from the company after 30 years; Five Mile Press owner Regency Media has entered administration; and the MUD Literary Prize...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Lithuanian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words and Polish rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (both Pip Williams) to Liutai Ne Avys and...
Aphrodite’s Breath (Susan Johnson, A&U)
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Author Susan Johnson, now in her early 60s, is drawn back to a place she travelled to as a young woman: Kythera, the most southern of the Ionian islands and...
Logan’s Big Move (Logan Martin with Jess Black, illus by Shane McGowan, Puffin)
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Freestyle BMX Olympic gold medalist and X Games legend Logan Martin culminates his journey to riding success in this action-packed and inspiring picture book. Co-authored by Jess Black and illustrated...
The Secret Life of You (Kerri Sackville, Pantera)
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Spending time alone splits the room: some prefer it, while some can’t do it. Kerri Sackville suspects that even those of us who can do it need to be better...
Quiet Time with My Seeya (Dinalie Dabarera, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Quiet Time with My Seeya is the debut solo picture book by Dinalie Dabarera, whose previous illustrations in The Cat With The Coloured Tail were nominated for the CBCA Award...
Selfie (Allayne L Webster, Text)
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Tully Sinclair is in eighth grade. She loves art, has a long-time best friend Kira and some complicated family issues to deal with. Dene Walker is a social media influencer...
Grace and Mr Milligan (Caz Goodwin, illus by Pip Kruger, Marshall Cavendish)
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Young Grace, old Mr Milligan from next door and his goat Charlie regularly enjoy spending time together in their gardens and at the nearby beach, happily munching on fruit grown...
Things She Would Have Said Herself (Catherine Therese, Hachette)
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Catherine Therese’s novel Things She Would Have Said Herself is an ambitious undertaking, centring on the life of elderly matriarch Leslie Bird and her family. The novel switches between the...
Crushing (Genevieve Novak, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
After being unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend of five years, Marnie finds herself alone for the first time in her adult life. As a self-professed serial girlfriend, the 28-year-old Melburnian...
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Monday, 13 February 2023
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Gigorou (Sasha Kutabah Sarago, Pantera)
Thursday, 9 February 2023
As women our identity and self-worth is often defined and limited by our understanding of beauty. Gigorou is a reverent and awe-inspiring foray into memoir. It is the personal genre...
Booktopia secures funding for CFC, VPLAs winners, Ockham NZ Book Awards longlists
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
In book retailing news, Booktopia has secured $12 million in funding for the development of its new customer fulfilment centre at South Strathfield which it says will be operational in...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold Czech and Slovakian rights to The Reality Slap: How to survive and thrive when life hits hard (2nd edition) (Russ Harris), and German rights to The...
Thirst for Salt (Madelaine Lucas, A&U)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Madelaine Lucas’s debut novel opens with the unnamed female narrator, now 37 years old, recalling a past lover. Twenty-four years old at the time and holidaying with her mother, the...
Philomella and the Impossible Forest (Doris Brett, HGCP)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Philomella is having a perfectly ordinary terrible day when she stumbles across a door that shouldn’t be there that leads to a library which is, frankly, impossible. Sick of being...
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