Hydra (Adriane Howell, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Adriane Howell’s debut novel Hydra is unsettling and dreamlike. In its folds, the strange and unflinching Anja becomes the reader’s friend—because we’re privy to her thoughts, because she tolerates our...
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Monday, 23 May 2022
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Sales Fiction Fremantle Press has sold Turkish language rights to The Last Bookshop (Emma Young) to Yeditepe Yayınları. Nonfiction Pantera Press has sold simplified Chinese rights to Killer Thinking (Tim Duggan) to Cheers,...
Ockham NZ Book Awards, NSW Premier’s winners, new Wollongong writers festival, Australian Reading Hour moves to March
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Australia Reads has announced its annual flagship event the Australian Reading Hour, which runs in September, will not take place this year, and will instead moves to March from next...
Willa and Woof (Jacqueline Harvey, Puffin)
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Jacqueline Harvey’s new series Willa and Woof follows a smart eight-year-old girl, Willa, and her ‘best four-legged friend’, Woof. In this first instalment, following in the tradition of other spirited...
Rita’s Revenge (Lian Tanner, A&U)
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Rita’s Revenge is the companion book to Lian Tanner’s debut crime book A Clue for Clara (2020), and is set in the same small town of Little Dismal. Rita the...
Women I Know (Katerina Gibson, Scribner)
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
A solitary camper at a beach observes the families playing in the surf; a lonely woman laments her fractured relationship with her reclusive teenage son; a young marine biologist privately...
August & Jones (Pip Harry, Lothian)
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Meet Jones and August: Jones’s family have had to sell their farm and relocate to Sydney because of the drought, while August’s quirky personality means he feels isolated both at...
The All of It: A bogan rhapsody (Cadance Bell, Viking)
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Our lives are multiple, our stories of ourselves never-ending, and yet when it comes to being a transgender person, there is this idea that we have one sole identity: trans....
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Monday, 16 May 2022
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Romanian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Nemira. HarperCollins Australia has sold Italian translation rights to The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley)...
Nash to step down as Booktopia CEO, WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlist, Otmar wins 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Booktopia has announced co-founder Tony Nash will step down as CEO, but continue working within the company in a new position focused exclusively on growth, as company earnings fell 65%....
The Registrar (Neela Janakiramanan, A&U)
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Emma Swann has worked her whole life to get here—and it’s even worse than she imagined. The young doctor has recently been accepted onto the highly competitive orthopaedic surgery program...
Of Marsupials and Men (Alistair Paton, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
If members of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria had had their way, monkeys and boa constrictors would have been let loose in the foliage of 19th-century Melbourne. That idea was...
The Vexatious Haunting of Lily Griffin (Paula Hayes, illus by Katy Jiang, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Eleven-year-old Lily Griffin is precocious but lonely—bullied by her brother and benignly neglected by the rest of her unusual family. Lily’s life changes dramatically when she discovers a girl trapped...
Jack’s Jumper (Sara Acton, Walker)
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Jack’s jumper is far too big for him (it once belonged to his beloved big brother Paul, who has grown up and is rarely home anymore) but that’s half the...
The Chronic Pain Couple (Karra Eloff, Exisle)
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Karra Eloff met her forever partner while she was struck with chronic pain. Since that time Eloff, a health professional, founded the Chronic Pain Couple, an organisation that delivers practical...
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Monday, 9 May 2022
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold North American rights to The Shortest History of Japan (Lesley Downer) to The Experiment, and Romanian rights to Machines Behaving Badly: The morality of...
Araluen wins Stella Prize; Parker-Chan finalist for Hugo Award; UK paper crisis to worsen
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Evelyn Araluen has won the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear (UQP), the first time a poetry collection has won the award after it opened to works of poetry this year;...
Blue Hour (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sarah Schmidt’s second novel, following her award-winning debut See What I Have Done, is an intensely absorbing emotional journey through motherhood and trauma set against the turbulent 20th century. In...
The Angry Women’s Choir (Meg Bignell, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
When going through tough times in life you often turn to any solace you can find, sometimes discovering it in the unlikeliest of places. For Freycinet Barnes that solace just...
Holy Woman (Louise Omer, Scribe)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
For Louise Omer, leaving a problematic marriage became leaving a faith. For her, the two went hand-in-hand, one a symbol of the other: the wife is subject to the husband,...
Tarni’s Chance (Paul Collins, illus by Jules Ober, Ford St)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
In Tarni’s Chance, the world of Paul Collins and Jules Ober’s young protagonist is grey with sadness as her parents argue, and her inner mood is reflected in the monochromatic...
The Snow Laundry (Mette Jakobsen, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Ally, her boyfriend Bon, and hundreds of other homeless young people live together in a former hotel converted into a state-run laundry and kitchen. The new home is courtesy of...
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Monday, 2 May 2022
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Booksellers’ Choice shortlists, Wheeler Centre 2022 Hot Desk fellows
Thursday, 28 April 2022
In awards news, the Australian Booksellers Association announced the shortlists for the 2022 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards; local writers Sarah Walker, Eleanor Kirk and Shelley Burne-Field are...
Old Fellow (Christopher Cheng, illus by Liz Anelli, Walker)
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Old Fellow, written by Christopher Cheng and illustrated by Liz Anelli, is a warm, simple and engaging story of an old man and his old dog. Which one of the...
My Spare Heart (Jared Thomas, A&U)
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
There’s a lot to unpack in this YA novel, which covers issues including alcoholism, climate change, divorce and racism. At the centre of it all is 17-year-old Phoebe. She is...
Forty Nights (Pirooz Jafari, Ultimo)
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Forty Nights is the literary debut of photographer turned lawyer and writer Pirooz Jafari. The novel weaves together three separate timelines, moving between 1360s Sweden, 1980s Iran and present-day Australia—with...
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