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Monday, 27 July 2020
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. Features include: 'Homeward bound' 'A...
Poly (Paul Dalgarno, Ventura)
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Spouses Chris and Sarah are trying something new—after years without sex, but still in love and keen to remain a family unit, they’ve agreed to see other people. The confident,...
Tricky Nick (Nicholas J Johnson, illus by Russell Jeffery, Pan)
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
I’m usually suspicious of books written by performers, celebrities or adult writers turning to children’s fiction, but Tricky Nick won me over in the first 20 pages. Magician-turned-author Nicholas J...
Winch wins Miles Franklin, Nielsen predicts book sales rebound and more
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Tara June Winch has won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel The Yield (Hamish Hamilton), becoming the fourth First Nations writer to win the award in its...
The History of Mischief (Rebecca Higgie, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
The History of Mischief is an exploration of family, grief and the power of stories, with a pseudo-historical twist. Nine-year-old Jessie is struggling with the loss of her parents and...
Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with invisible illness (Kylie Maslen, Text)
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Imagine living with an invisible illness. For 20 years, Kylie Maslen has been doing just that: her chronic pain and bipolar II (the latter undiagnosed until she was 35) have...
Publishers need to release more work in Indigenous languages
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
'Having our languages become normalised and celebrated is going to positively affect our future generations. It will psychologically change them. Having a linguistic connection to the past doesn’t just change...
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Monday, 20 July 2020
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. Features include: Fall children's books...
Book sales down 2% for year to June, ABA Booksellers’ Choice awards winners and more
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Nielsen BookScan data shows that strong sales during the second quarter of 2020 have largely cushioned the local book market from the effects of Covid-19, with sales down by just...
Representation is essential for arts orgs—even during Covid-19
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
'We acknowledge that Covid-19 continues to make the programming and delivery of events extremely challenging. However, the issue of true representation is the civic and professional responsibility of all arts...
The Fire Star (A L Tait, Penguin)
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Maven is a servant girl doomed to a life of servitude and forced to hide how sharp-minded she really is. Reeve is a squire with dreams of becoming a knight...
Dreams They Forgot (Emma Ashmere, Wakefield)
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
The tagline on the title page of Emma Ashmere’s Dreams They Forgot is ‘stories of illusion, deception and quiet rebellion’. This is an apt description of the 25 stories that...
Windfall: Unlocking a fossil-free future (Ketan Joshi, NewSouth)
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
In Windfall: Unlocking a fossil-free future, renewable energy industry insider Ketan Joshi gives a teeth-gnashing account of Australia's interminable climate debates. Working as a data analyst and communicator at Infigen...
Bunnygirl (Holly Jayne, Berbay)
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
In this adorable junior graphic novel, the main character Bea loves superhero comics, cute things, bunnies and eating cereal. She really wants to become a superhero so that she can...
None Shall Sleep (Ellie Marney, A&U)
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
From mastermind Australian YA writer Ellie Marney comes a gripping new psychological thriller. Although the novel is not set in Australia—Marney opts for the larger criminal playing field of the...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Acquisitions Fiction Penguin Random House Australia has acquired Echolalia (Briohny Doyle) in a two-book deal via Rach Crawford of Mackenzie Wolf (see news). Nonfiction Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights...
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Monday, 13 July 2020
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On creating a community free from racism, sexism and discrimination
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
‘I don’t wish to exist in a literary community that relies on a whisper network to warn others. Many have fallen through the cracks. If we all have more courage,...
The Lost Library (Jess McGeachin, Puffin)
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
This is unashamedly a story for every child (and adult) who loves books and reading—and it reaches out to encourage every reader to fit that description. Little Oliver and his...
Under the Rainbow: The life and times of E W Cole (Richard Broinowski, MUP)
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Edward William Cole (1832—1918), arguably Australia’s most famous bookseller, started his career by accident. Trying to hawk his self-penned pamphlets door-to-door in East Melbourne, a woman told him he should...
Ordinary Matter (Laura Elvery, UQP)
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Award-winning Brisbane author Laura Elvery (Trick of the Light) now brings us Ordinary Matter, a short story collection inspired by the 20 times women have won the Nobel Prize for...
Fly on the Wall (Remy Lai, Walker)
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
When Henry Khoo isn’t trolling his school as anonymous cartoonist ‘Fly on the Wall’, he is being babied at home by an overprotective family. To correct this, Henry devises a...
Bluebird (Malcolm Knox, A&U)
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
A shaggy array of characters populate Malcolm Knox’s ambitious novel, with 50-year-old Gordon Grimes at the centre. An erstwhile journalist and estranged husband, Gordon is determined to preserve a rundown...
Ingram to open new Melbourne printing plant, research into accessible content and more
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Online literary journal Verity La is taking a break from publishing to ‘reflect on the ways in which the journal has been complicit with systemic racism, sexism and disablism’ following...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Acquisitions Nonfiction Text has acquired ANZ rights to Scottish sports broadcaster Andrew Cotter’s book Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with my Canine Companions. Cotter's videos of him commentating...
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Monday, 6 July 2020
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Workers share salaries for transparency, new Wheeler Centre CEO and more
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
A spreadsheet inviting Australian publishing workers to share their salaries is circulating on social media, with about 70 staff so far having shared information including their job titles, wage, gender identity, ethnicity...
Heiss on the surge in sales of Indigenous books
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
‘This increase in passion, in the desire to learn, to understand, to be part of the necessary process of change that requires ALL of society’s citizens to participate—that passion is...
The Wolves of Greycoat Hall (Lucinda Gifford, Walker Books)
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Author and illustrator Lucinda Gifford brings us a refreshing and humorous tale with The Wolves of Greycoat Hall, the first book in a new junior fiction series. Boris and his...
Aunty’s Wedding (Miranda Tapsell & Joshua Tyler, illus by Samantha Fry, A&U)
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
There are few picture books about weddings for young children, who are naturally curious about this important ceremony. This story takes the charming perspective of a young child who is...
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