When You’re Older (Sofie Laguna, illus by Judy Watson, A&U Children)
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
There are many picture books that look at life with a new sibling from the perspective of a young child, probably because these books are regularly requested in bookshops and...
Moth in a Fancy Cardigan (Charlotte Lance, illus by David Booth, Berbay)
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
This illustrated middle-grade novel is a cute and quirky story about self-expression and the courage to be seen, told from the perspectives of a shy moth and a popular butterfly....
This is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch (Tabitha Carvan, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
When Tabitha Carvan suddenly falls in love with the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who she has never met, she doesn’t know what to make of it. Her growing obsession simultaneously puzzles,...
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Monday, 6 December 2021
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Engaged readers driving book sales, latest awards news
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
A new survey by Australia Reads has found that engaged readers were driving the growth in book sales during the pandemic. In other news, ADS has announced it is working...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Acquisitions Fiction Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the historical novel The Natural History of Love by Caroline Petit, via Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary Agency, to be...
Tik Merauke: An epidemic like no other (John Richens, MUP)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
In the early 1900s the sexually transmitted infection donovanosis ravaged the Marind of New Guinea. Through the lens of this disease, known as tik Merauke to the native people, doctor...
Only a Monster (Vanessa Len, A&U)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Joan is enjoying her summer in London with her eccentric family and dream job at the historic Holland House. After unexpectedly losing several hours out of her day after a...
A Great Hope (Jessica Stanley, Picador)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
When ACTU boss John Clare falls to his death from the roof of the family home, a note found on him makes it seem like suicide. But is that the...
The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Matt Ottley, Dirt Lane)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
An author, visual artist and composer, Matt Ottley has combined his talents in his latest work to create a multi-modal sensory feast that merges words, art and music. Bold and...
The Islands (Emily Brugman, A&U)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
It’s the 1950s and the Finnish migrants who have made their home on the ruthless terrain of Little Rat Island are accustomed to surviving harsh landscapes, both emotional and physical....
The Power of Podcasting: Telling stories through sound (Siobhán McHugh, UNSW Press)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
It’s strange to think that ‘less than a decade ago, most people had never heard of podcasting’, as Siobhán McHugh points out in The Power of Podcasting. In this part...
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Monday, 29 November 2021
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NZ book sales up, National Book Award winners
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Since Auckland and Waikato emerged from lockdown, New Zealand print book sales are up 4% on value on the same time in 2020, while year-to-date sales are up 17%. The...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Portuguese translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Univers Dos Livros. Nonfiction HarperCollins has sold Thai translation rights to Complete Self-Help...
Big World, Tiny World: Forest (Jess Racklyeft, Affirm)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Jess Racklyeft will already be a familiar name to readers of picture books, and Big World, Tiny World: Forest is just as lovely as her earlier works. The book begins with a...
The Grass Hotel (Craig Sherborne, Text)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
A woman suffering from dementia speaks to her son in her own idiosyncratic, damaged voice—her ‘wiring’ is gone. The mother-narrator's son is introverted and perhaps on the autism spectrum: he...
The Furies (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
A woman in a small Australian town is haunted. Death is all around her: she is still grieving her murdered sister, Mallory, while the spectre of her mother’s arrest and...
South Flows the Pearl (Mavis Gock Yen, ed by Siaoman Yen & Richard Horsburgh, SUP)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Over the 80s and 90s, Mavis Gock Yen (1916–2008) collected the stories of her contemporaries—Australian Chinese people whose memories and experiences spanned the late 1800s through to almost the end...
The Cane (Maryrose Cuskelly, A&U)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Award-winning nonfiction writer Maryrose Cuskelly’s first leap into fiction is set in a small Australian town where an unsolved crime turns the community upside down. It’s the 1970s and it...
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Monday, 22 November 2021
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Sales Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Australia has sold German rights to The Nazis Knew My Name (Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee) to Bastei Lübbe. Children’s/YA Affirm Press has sold Italian...
Supply chain chaos, Melbourne Prize for Literature winners
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Booksellers on Australia’s east coast are reporting serious delivery delays, missing deliveries and damaged stock, with reports that the problems are particularly acute in Queensland. The ABA will hold its...
Xavier in the Meantime (Kate Gordon, Riveted Press)
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Xavier in the Meantime is the new companion novel to Kate Gordon’s CBCA award-winning Aster’s Good, Right Things. Focusing this time on Xavier, Aster’s best friend, the story takes a sensitive but...
The Very Last List of Vivian Walker (Megan Albany, Hachette)
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
This quiet but compelling novel follows the very ordinary path of an ordinary woman completing the ordinary business of dying. However, it is in this ordinariness that the heart of...
A Witness of Fact (Drew Rooke, Scribe)
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
A Witness of Fact examines the controversial public life of South Australia's former chief forensic pathologist Dr Colin Manock, and his problematic role in the state's criminal justice system. Manock might...
Leo and Mina Fink: For the greater good (Margaret Taft, Monash Publishing)
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
In this biography of the working lives of an impressive 20th-century power couple, the competing forces of hope and catastrophe are clearly at work. Historian Margaret Taft has expertly detailed...
In an Artist’s Garden (Claire Orrell, Thames & Hudson)
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Like all good seek-and-find books, In an Artist’s Garden is a bit addictive regardless of the reader’s age, though is perhaps best suited to a middle/upper primary audience; the objects are simple...
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Monday, 15 November 2021
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Jordan wins Richell Prize, ‘The Promise’ wins 2021 Booker Prize
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
This week the Australian Society of Authors alerted authors and publishers that the decision by the National Library of New Zealand to donate more than 400,000 books to the Internet...
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