100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze (Clayton Zane Comber, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Xander Maze’s best friend is his Nanna. When she is diagnosed with stage four cancer and asks him to write a list of 100 Remarkable Feats for him to achieve...
A Pair of Pears and an Orange (Anna McGregor, Scribble)
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
A pair of pears are good friends who like to spend their days together, playing games that are just right for the two of them. When Orange appears, Little Pear...
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Monday, 12 April 2021
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Rights round up
Thursday, 8 April 2021
Sales Fiction Affirm has sold The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to the following territories: Japanese translation rights to Shogakukan and Czech translation rights to Argo. The title has...
RISE funding recipients, ABDA shortlists
Thursday, 8 April 2021
The Australian Publishers Association, and the Melbourne and Blue Mountains writers festivals are among the latest recipients of the federal government’s RISE funding. In awards news, the shortlists for the...
One Hundred Days (Alice Pung, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 8 April 2021
Is there a right way to love? Karuna feels suffocated by her mother—and her entrapment multiplies when her dad leaves and she’s forced to move away from private school and...
A Paper Inheritance (Dymphna Stella Rees, UQP)
Wednesday, 7 April 2021
Leslie Rees and Coralie Clarke Rees were a literary partnership, contemporaneous with two more famous Australian literary couples of the 20th century, Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland, and Charmian Clift...
Marlow Brown, Magician in the Making (Kesta Fleming, illus by Marjory Gardner, Celapene Press)
Wednesday, 7 April 2021
Kesta Fleming has written stories and poems for junior readers for many years, making her publishing debut with the Marlow Brown chapter books in 2019. Magician in the Making, the second in...
Echolalia (Briohny Doyle, Vintage)
Wednesday, 7 April 2021
Echolalia, Briohny Doyle's skilful second novel, concerns a family on the verge of disintegration. Skipping elegantly between chapters set before and after a traumatic event that changes the family irrevocably,...
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Tuesday, 6 April 2021
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Stella Prize shortlist, APA launches rights networking events
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Last week the shortlist for the 2021 Stella Prize was announced, as was the program for the second StoryFest festival, which takes place on the NSW South Coast in June....
Gunk Baby (Jamie Marina Lau, Hachette)
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Leen has opened up a massage and ear cleaning studio in the suburban wastelands of Par Mars. Her shop is housed in the second-best shopping mall in the district—Topic Heights....
Dear Ibis (Kate Liston-Mills, Spineless Wonders)
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
From the author of The Waterfowl Are Drunk! comes an elegant and moving collection of short fiction set principally in New South Wales. With stories taking place against the backdrop...
A Glasshouse of Stars (Shirley Marr, Puffin)
Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Meixing and her family have recently arrived in the New Land with hopes of a better life. Everything is different for Meixing, including the large house that is now the...
Frizzle and Me (Ellie Royce, illus by Andrew McLean, Ford St)
Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Frizzle and Me jumps on board a current—and vital—trend for books celebrating diversity, and makes a respectable contribution to the cohort. The premise is that the definition of ‘family’ is...
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Monday, 29 March 2021
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold rights to Jessica Au's forthcoming novel Cold Enough for Snow to the following: German rights to Suhrkamp, French rights to Grasset and Fasquelle, world Spanish rights...
BWF program announced, Readings staff request EBA
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival, running from 7–9 May, has been announced. Meanwhile, Red Room Poetry is planning a series of daily events for the first ever...
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) (Anita Heiss, S&S)
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Exploring themes of family, belonging, courage, equality and heartache, this important new historical novel from Anita Heiss raises awareness of First Nations perspectives on the early days of white settlement...
As Beautiful As Any Other (Kaya Wilson, Picador)
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
As Beautiful As Any Other is a joyous and thoughtful memoir–travelogue covering the terrains of both the body and the environment. Kaya Wilson's voice makes the reader feel immediately at...
Why Do Tigers Have Whiskers? (ed by Sunanda Creagh, Thames & Hudson)
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Curated from the Curious Kids section of the academic-authored news website The Conversation, this book is compiled as a series of questions provided by kids and answered by a range...
A Human for Kingsley (Gabriel Evans, Little Hare)
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Kingsley, a dog who has decided to own a human, sets off on a journey to find just the right one. The problem is, there are so many humans to...
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Monday, 22 March 2021
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) rights to The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Sheila Fitzpatrick) to Old Street Publishing. Transit Lounge has...
Monster (Ashleigh Synnott, Puncher & Wattmann)
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Monster is a collection of dark, finely written short stories by debut author Ashleigh Synnott. The stories are peopled with eccentric, predominantly female characters living atomised, often isolated lives. Mental...
SWF program announced, guests revealed for BookUp, IPEd
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
In a big week for events announcements, the Sydney and Auckland writers’ festival programs have been revealed, and the first speakers for the BookUp and IPEd conferences—the second of which...
Elsewhere Girls (Emily Gale & Nova Weetman, Text)
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Acclaimed authors Emily Gale and Nova Weetman have teamed up to write this beautifully rendered time-slip narrative that delves into the personal and social struggles of young women past and...
Before You Knew My Name (Jacqueline Bublitz, A&U)
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
We know the phrase from books, from crime shows, from the news: ‘The body was found by a jogger.’ Someone is murdered and somebody else finds them, while just going...
Bear and Rat (Christopher Cheng, illus by Stephen Michael King, Puffin)
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
This picture book is a heartwarming, tender tale of the loving relationship between two friends. The elegantly simple story in Bear and Rat holds a timeless, universal appeal with themes...
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Monday, 15 March 2021
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