Sexual abuse victim seeks compensation from NLA
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is being pursued for compensation by a Balinese man who was the victim of sexual abuse revealed in a book of diary entries by...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 9 July 2018
This week's highest new entry, Michael Robotham's thriller The Other Wife (Hachette), debuts in third spot in this week's overall top 10 bestsellers. Another thriller, Christian White's debut The Nowhere...
Waiting for Chicken Smith (David Mackintosh, Little Hare)
Thursday, 5 July 2018
The nameless narrator of this story has been coming to the same beach with his family for summer holidays for many years. He’s there this year with his sister and...
The Institute of Fantastical Inventions: Book One (Dave Leys, illus by Shane Ogilvie, Harbour Publishing)
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Brilliant super-scientist Leo McGuffin works at the Institute of Fantastical Inventions, a laboratory that delivers creative, high-concept solutions to realising people’s fantasies. Be it a desire to fly, play underwater...
I Had Such Friends (Meg Gatland-Veness, Pantera Press)
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Hamish is a nobody. Less than a nobody. A poor year 12 farm boy with one friend—who is an even bigger loser. But his world is suddenly turned upside down...
Grumpy Bear, Grouchy Bear (Lynn Ward, illus by Monty Lee, Yellow Brick Books)
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Bear is desperately hungry and searching everywhere for food. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t catch anything to eat. A series of accidents distracts him from his hunt...
Maddie’s First Day (Penny Matthews, illus by Liz Anelli, Walker Books)
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Written for preschoolers who may be feeling nervous about their next educational chapter, Penny Matthews’ picture book takes us through the exhilarating journey of a little girl’s first day at...
Reaching out: Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina on ‘Catching Teller Crow’
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s Catching Teller Crow (A&U, September) is a 'distinctly Australian hybrid YA novel that blends thriller, crime and ghost story elements', writes reviewer Karen Wyld. Told in two...
Catching Teller Crow (Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, A&U)
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Siblings Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina have teamed up again on this distinctly Australian hybrid YA novel that blends thriller, crime and ghost story elements. Set in contemporary times, the book...
‘Alpacas with Maracas’ to be read for 2019 National Simultaneous Storytime
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Matt Cosgrove’s picture book Alpacas with Maracas (Koala Books) has been chosen for the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) National Simultaneous Storytime next year. National Simultaneous Storytime will take...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 2 July 2018
Last week's highest new entry, footballer Alex Rance’s picture book Tiger’s Roar (A&U), climbs to sixth spot in this week's overall bestsellers, while 2017 diet book The Clever Guts Diet, by...
Mother of Invention (ed by Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts, Twelfth Planet Press)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its physical manifestation, the robot, are science-fiction perennials, and they’re ideas that have always resonated beyond just fiction. In 2016, Microsoft gave its learning chat bot,...
Milk Teeth (Rae White, UQP)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Rae White’s striking debut poetry collection, Milk Teeth, explores gender, identity and the body with an admirably light touch. The manuscript, which won the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, defies...
No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis (Peter Mares, Text)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Why are Australia’s property prices so high? Is it a shortage of supply? The tax system rewarding speculation? In No Place Like Home, writer and journalist Peter Mares gives a...
The bigger picture: Katherine Collette on ‘The Helpline’
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Katherine Collette’s debut novel The Helpline (Text, September) is a witty and heartfelt story about an insurance probability outcomes mathematician who ends up answering a seniors’ helpline for the local...
Man Out of Time (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
In September 2001, Stella Gilman’s father, Leon, wanders the streets of a coastal city, armed with his camera, arbitrarily snapping photographs. His walkabout seems purposeless; his thoughts, fragmented. When the...
The Helpline (Katherine Collette, Text)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Germaine Johnson is an insurance probability outcomes mathematician with a burning passion for Sudoku championships. More comfortable with calculus and polynomials than people, the only job she can get post-retrenchment...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 25 June 2018
Media personality Tanya Hennessy’s humorous autobiography Am I Doing This Right? (A&U) debuts in sixth spot in this week’s overall bestsellers chart, and is also this week’s fastest moving entry. Last...
‘The Bad Guys’ feature film in development with DreamWorks
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Scholastic Australia has recently sold Italian rights at auction to the first four books in ‘The Bad Guys’ series by Aaron Blabey, and now DreamWorks Animation has begun development on...
Introducing Hardie Grant Egmont
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont rights manager Joanna Anderson is part of a small Melbourne team doing big things. She reveals to Think Australian that almost all of the publisher’s fiction and...
‘Where is the Green Sheep?’ tops bestsellers chart
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Australian children’s book author Mem Fox consistently tops the earnings chart for Public Lending Rights and Educational Lending Rights in Australia—the system under which authors are renumerated for the borrowing...
‘Nevermoor’ scores industry hat-trick
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor (Lothian) has won yet another award—this time the Australian Booksellers Association Booksellers Choice Award, announced on 17 June. The children’s book has previously taken out Book of...
Masters of the middle grade
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Several years ago Hilary Rogers, then a publisher at Australian children’s imprint Hardie Grant Egmont, commissioned author Sally Rippin to write the ‘Billie B Brown’ series. It turned out to...
Australian bestsellers in May: Winton and Pape haven’t budged
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Tim Winton’s latest, The Shepherd’s Hut, was the bestselling Australian fiction book in May, making this the third month in a row Winton has topped the monthly Australian fiction bestseller...
The ‘B+P’ guide to the Miles Franklin 2018 shortlist
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Six titles are vying for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. Two of these are from multinational publishers (one each from HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan), three are from small, independent...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 18 June 2018
Political thriller The President is Missing (Century), coauthored by former US president Bill Clinton and James Patterson, sits at the number two spot in this week's overall bestsellers chart, and is also...
Introducing MidnightSun Publishing
Friday, 15 June 2018
MidnightSun publisher Anna Solding tells Think Australian about her small South Australian press and her 'amazing' six-figure deal. What makes your press unique? We only publish books that we love....
PRH acquires ‘No Spin’ by Shane Warne
Friday, 15 June 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) will publish Australian cricketer Shane Warne’s memoir No Spin in Australia and the UK. The publisher said the memoir will cover the bowler’s ‘extraordinary cricketing career and...
‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top charts
Friday, 15 June 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: May Much-loved Australian novelist Tim Winton tops the fiction charts this month with The Shepherd’s Hut, but his 2008 novel Breath is back in the top 10...
Aussie crime wave
Friday, 15 June 2018
No doubt you’ve heard of Jane Harper’s debut bestselling crime novel The Dry (Pan). It has added the accolade of crime and thriller ‘book of the year’ at the recent British Book...
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