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Monday, 18 January 2021
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UWAP to become hybrid publisher, latest awards and more

Wednesday, 13 January 2021
In December last year, the University of Western Australia announced the university’s publishing arm will become a ‘hybrid’ publisher, with the library to take over internal management of the press....

The Gaps (Leanne Hall, Text) 

Wednesday, 13 January 2021
The fourth novel by 2009 Text Prize winner Leanne Hall is simultaneously harrowing and enchanting. The Gaps begins as abruptly as a slap, with a newscast declaring schoolgirl Yin Mitchell...

Main Abija My Grandad (Karen Rogers, A&U) 

Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Written as a tribute to the author and artist Karen Rogers’s grandfather, who was instrumental in teaching her about her ancestry and Country, this picture book is a celebration of...

A Room Called Earth (Madeleine Ryan, Scribe)

Wednesday, 13 January 2021
In the light of a full moon on a sweltering December night—Christmas Eve eve—a nameless young woman drapes herself in a silk kimono and goes to a party, alone. Singularly...

Other People’s Houses (Kelli Hawkins, HarperCollins) 

Wednesday, 13 January 2021
This suburban thriller, set on Sydney’s North Shore, explores what happens when unresolved grief turns into obsession. After experiencing a horrific tragedy, Kate develops some bad habits, including an alcohol...

The Missing Among Us (Erin Stewart, NewSouth) 

Wednesday, 13 January 2021
The Missing Among Us is instantly enthralling. Erin Stewart profiles a number of missing persons cases, deftly and confidently straddling the line between reportage and personal response. Balancing the interviewees'...

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Monday, 11 January 2021
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Monday, 4 January 2021
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Monday, 21 December 2020
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Monday, 14 December 2020
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Sales Fiction Natasha Solomun has sold French rights to The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Shokoofeh Azar, Wild Dingo Press) on behalf of The Newman Agency and Wild Dingo Press,...

The Ghost Squad (Sophie Masson, MidnightSun) 

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
This young adult thriller starts as a post-collapse story and then takes a supernatural turn. It begins with ‘the pulse’, a solar flare that shuts down all electronics, pitching the...

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Monday, 7 December 2020
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The Speechwriter (Martin McKenzie-Murray, Scribe) 

Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Martin McKenzie-Murray’s fiction debut is a fun but sometimes frustrating book that nevertheless delivers plenty of laughs along the way. The story is told by Toby—an aspiring speechwriter whose hyper-ambition...

Footprints on the Moon (Lorraine Marwood, UQP) 

Wednesday, 2 December 2020
It’s 1969 and Sharnie is entering year seven and finding it difficult to make friends. The world is consumed by the Space Race and the Vietnam War, and Sharnie is...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Sales Children’s Era Publications has sold digital German-language translation rights to the ‘Wings’ series in Turkey, Germany, Spain, Greece and Egypt. Scholastic has sold UK rights to Fartboy: The First Sniff...

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Monday, 30 November 2020
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The Boy From the Mish (Gary Lonesborough, A&U) 

Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Jackson is an Aboriginal teen who lives with his mum and little brother; he has a girlfriend, good mates and the local men’s group. Then his aunty from the city...

The Price of Two Sparrows (Christy Collins, Affirm) 

Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Christy Collins’s The Price of Two Sparrows is an elegantly structured study of migration and community in Australia. A burgeoning Muslim community on the outskirts of Sydney has made plans...

Buried Not Dead (Fiona McGregor, Giramondo) 

Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Outsider art, as critic Roger Cardinal once wrote, is ‘immune to the polarisations of culture and the copycat spirit of cultural art’. It’s fair to say that Fiona McGregor’s new...

 

 

 

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