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‘Room on Our Rock’ sold into multiple territories

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Scholastic Australia has sold US, Japanese, German, French, Brazilian and Turkish rights to the picture book Room on Our Rock (Kate & Jol Temple, illus by Terri Rose Baynton). Exploring...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 17 September 2018
The top 10 bestsellers chart this week is looking very similar to last week's chart, with The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley) and Pig the Grub (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) remaining at number one and...

Introducing Peggy Frew’s ‘Islands’

Thursday, 13 September 2018
In March 2019, Allen & Unwin will publish award-winning Australian author Peggy Frew’s third novel Islands, the story of the disintegration of a marriage and its tragic aftermath. The publisher...

More love for Nanette

Thursday, 13 September 2018
International rights are being snapped up for Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby’s forthcoming memoir Ten Steps to Nanette (Allen & Unwin) after the Netflix special based on Gadsby’s stand-up comedy show went...

Book-to-screen

Thursday, 13 September 2018
Australian production company Carver Films and US production company Anonymous Content have acquired screen rights to Christian White’s debut thriller The Nowhere Child (Affirm Press). White’s novel, which recently broke...

De Kretser wins second Miles Franklin Award

Thursday, 13 September 2018
Michelle de Kretser has won Australia’s prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award for the second time for her novel The Life to Come (Allen & Unwin) after previously winning in 2013...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 10 September 2018
The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley) is still number one on the weekly bestseller chart, while The 104-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) has dropped from second to fifth spot...

My Sunbeam Baby (Emma Quay, ABC Books) 

Thursday, 6 September 2018
My Sunbeam Baby is a sweet picture book written and illustrated by Emma Quay. Combining playful illustrations with rhyming text, the narrator explores all the ways she loves her baby...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 3 September 2018
For the first time since its release in July, The 104-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) has dropped down to second spot in the weekly bestseller chart, with The Barefoot Investor...

Stretching the truth: Jack Heath on ‘The Truth App’ 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
The Truth App (Scholastic, September) is the first book in YA author Jack Heath’s five-book junior-fiction series 'Liars', described by reviewer Heath Graham as a ‘non-stop action-adventure ride’ for readers who want ‘techno-thrillers...

Growing pains: Karen Foxlee on ‘Lenny’s Book of Everything’

Thursday, 30 August 2018
Karen Foxlee’s middle-grade novel Lenny’s Book of Everything (A&U) is ‘bittersweet tale about heartbreak and healing’ with ‘a sense of whimsy that never feels forced’. Reviewer Karys McEwen spoke to the author. Lenny’s brother...

Two Old Men Dying (Tom Keneally, Vintage) 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
Tom Keneally’s latest novel is a dual narrative shared between Shelby Apples, an Oscar-winning documentary maker in the present day, and Learned Man, thought to be a link to early...

Table for Eight (Tricia Stringer, HQ Fiction) 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
The cover for Table for Eight noticeably lacks two mainstays of Tricia Stringer’s usual book covers: a woman in a hat, and a landscape in the background. This is because...

Preservation (Jock Serong, Text) 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
Jock Serong's Preservation is based on the true story of the shipwrecked merchant vessel Sydney Cove in 1797. A stranded group of 17 men set out on the arduous trek...

Sisters of No Mercy (Vincent Silk, Brio) 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
In Vincent Silk's debut ‘cli-fi’ novel, scenes of destruction and desperation are artfully crafted in a city that seems like most metropolises in the western world. It's an unnamed, yet...

Best Summer Stories (ed by Aviva Tuffield, Black Inc.) 

Wednesday, 29 August 2018
When Black Inc. announced this year that it would discontinue the annual ‘Best Australian’ anthologies, readers and booksellers alike were disappointed. However, the announcement of a one-off anthology of short stories...

Any Ordinary Day (Leigh Sales, Hamish Hamilton) 

Wednesday, 29 August 2018
In her third book, Leigh Sales explores—with great clarity and intelligence—how tragedy and loss can affect people. In doing so, she confronts some of the most profound questions about being...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 27 August 2018
The top three bestsellers in this week's charts remain the same as last week, with The 104-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan), The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley), and Scrublands (Chris Hammer, Allen...

Bridge of Clay (Markus Zusak, Picador) 

Friday, 24 August 2018
More than a decade after The Book Thief, Markus Zusak returns with an evocative, compassionate and exquisitely composed coming-of-age story about family, love, tragedy, and forgiveness. Narrated by Matthew, the...

The Butcherbird Stories (A S Patric, Transit Lounge) 

Friday, 24 August 2018
Most readers may associate A S Patric with his Miles Franklin-winning novel Black Rock White City, but he has previously released three collections of short fiction. His latest is quietly...

The Children’s House (Alice Nelson, Knopf) 

Friday, 24 August 2018
The Children’s House is a lovely, lyrical and meditative novel, with a title that refers to both an actual dormitory-style communal house in Israel, and the desire—shared by many in...

The Fragments (Toni Jordan, Text) 

Friday, 24 August 2018
In The Fragments, Toni Jordan has her characters set out to solve what truly happened to a brilliant, enigmatic author who died in a fire in New York in the...

Shell (Kristina Olsson, Scribner) 

Friday, 24 August 2018
In this ambitious historical novel by Kristina Olsson, Australia’s decision to send conscripts to Vietnam and the forced resignation of the architect of the iconic Sydney Opera House, Jorn Utzon,...

When I Saw the Animal (Bernard Cohen, UQP) 

Friday, 24 August 2018
A young man adopts a dog and unintentionally reveals the cracks in his family; a couple bicker over an undesired meal; a person slides slowly into insanity as a creature—or...

 

 

 

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