Teacher (Gabbie Stroud, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Gabbie Stroud always wanted to be a teacher. Her childhood teachers changed her life, and she wanted to do the same for others. This memoir weaves together a broader look...
Happy Never After (Jill Stark, Scribe)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Picking up where her debut bestseller High Sobriety left off, journalist and author Jill Stark’s Happy Never After charts the period from her breakdown in October 2014 to her ensuing...
Always Another Country (Sisonke Msimang, Text)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
A coming-of-age memoir brimming with no-holds-barred honesty, Always Another Country is a story about love, survival, politics and home. Sisonke Msimang charts various stages of her life, observing her surroundings...
Too Much Lip (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
The title of Melissa Lucashenko’s latest book—both an accusation and a lament—speaks of hunger, greed, desperation, destruction and redemption. Central to the novel are themes of rage, incarceration, and generational...
A Superior Spectre (Angela Meyer, Peter Bishop)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Angela Meyer’s A Superior Spectre is an eerie, gothic work that is both a richly detailed historical novel and a chilling prediction of the near future. The book follows Jeff,...
Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
In a dying Riverina town that’s suffering a merciless drought, ‘good people fight to retain honour and dignity against unfair odds’. Shockingly, one Sunday morning, the town’s priest opens fire...
Prize Fighter (Future D Fidel, Hachette)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Isa Alaki is 10 years old, a budding engineer with a loving family in the Congolese city of Bukavu, when a rebel militia descends on his city, slaughtering his family and...
The Fireflies of Autumn (Moreno Giovannoni, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
The stories in this impressive fictional debut by Moreno Giovannoni cover all aspects of noisy, nosey, gossipy Italian village life. Ninety-year-old Ugo introduces a series of stories from his Tuscan...
The Biographer’s Lover (Ruby J Murray, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Ruby J Murray returns with her second novel, The Biographer’s Lover, a book that is as much about the art of biography as it is a fictional story about a...
Beautiful Revolutionary (Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Scribe)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
In this meticulously researched first novel, Laura Elizabeth Woollett tells the story of Jim Jones’ religious cult, the Peoples Temple, infamous for the mass-suicide of nearly a thousand people in...
The Shanghai Wife (Emma Harcourt, HQ)
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Escaping a mysterious past in Australia, Annie Brand dreams of adventures along the Yangtze with her new husband, but soon finds herself ensconced in Shanghai for her own safety. Chafing...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 28 May 2018
This week's overall bestsellers charts includes several Australian and international crime fiction titles: book 14 in the 'Private' series, Private Princess (James Patterson, Century) is in fourth spot; book four in...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 21 May 2018
This week's overall bestsellers chart is dominated by a mix of Australian and international adult fiction. Debuting in the number 10 spot is James Patterson's Private Princess (Century), book 14 in...
Noni takes three in Australian YA April charts
Thursday, 17 May 2018
The first book in Lynette Noni's 'Medoran Chronicles', Akarnae, has taken out top spot in the Australian YA bestsellers chart for April, with the second and third books in the...
Introducing Ford Street Publishing
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Paul Collins is the publisher at Ford Street Publishing, an industry stalwart and the author of ‘around 140’ books himself. Ford Street Publishing is a micro-press that releases all manner...
Random House acquires Elliot Perlman’s first kids’ book
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Random House Children’s Books has acquired the first children’s book by award-winning novelist Elliot Perlman (pictured). The Adventures of Catvinkle centres on the unlikely friendship between pampered house cat Catvinkle and Ula...
Australian ‘Own Voices’ snapped up
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
‘The last few years has seen an increased focus in the US and UK on diversity in children’s publishing, with the emphasis more and more being placed on Own Voices,’...
‘Nevermoor’ continues award-winning run
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend (Lothian) continues its award-winning streak, earning the author three awards at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) announced earlier this month. Nevermoor won the awards for...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 14 May 2018
Debuting in the number two spot in the top 10 bestsellers chart is this week's highest new entry, A Court of Frost and Starlight (Sarah J Maas, Bloomsbury), the latest...
Australian bestsellers in April: Winton, Pape hold on to top spots
Friday, 11 May 2018
Tim Winton’s new novel The Shepherd’s Hut was the bestselling Australian fiction book in April, claiming top spot in the Australian fiction bestseller chart for the second month in a row. Winton...
Introducing Wild Dingo Press
Thursday, 10 May 2018
Wild Dingo Press launched its list with a commissioned biography by a refugee from Afghanistan, which went on to become an Australian bestseller. Last year the press took a chance...
‘The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree’ sells in US and UK
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Wild Dingo Press has sold North American and UK rights to Shokoofeh Azar’s Stella Prize-shortlisted The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree. US and UK rights were sold to Europa Editions, in...
‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
There's no change at the top of the bestseller lists this month, with Scott Pape continuing his seemingly endless barefoot reign in the nonfiction category and Tim Winton’s new novel The...
Australia’s ‘Next Chapter’ in diverse publishing
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
What stops publishers publishing more diversely? The reported ‘trends’ at Bologna included a continuing focus on diverse voices in children’s literature, but what about in adult titles? A new initiative...
‘Taboo’ and ‘The Book of Dirt’ dominate NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Two works of fiction that draw on and draw attention to horrifying historical events events have dominated Australia’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, announced on 30 April. Book of...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 7 May 2018
Debuting in the number two spot in the overall top 10 bestsellers chart—and also this week's highest new entry—is The Fallen by David Baldacci (Macmillan), book four in the 'Amos Decker'...
Girltopia (Hilary Rogers, Scholastic)
Friday, 4 May 2018
Twelve-year-old Clara wakes up one day to a city where all the men and boys are afflicted by a mystery illness that leaves them unconscious and unresponsive but thankfully still...
Mercy Point (Anna Snoekstra, HarperCollins)
Friday, 4 May 2018
Five teenagers living in a small town become anonymous online friends, without realising they hate each other in real life. The common thread they share is that they all believe...
A quiet place: Katrina Lehman on ‘Wren’
Friday, 4 May 2018
Katrina Lehman’s picture book Wren (illus by Sophie Beer, Scribble, July) is filled with ‘fluid, rhythmic prose’ that ‘rolls off the tongue’, alongside ‘gloriously colourful’ illustrations, writes reviewer Bronte Coates....
Hive (A J Betts, Pan)
Friday, 4 May 2018
Hayley is a beekeeper, content with her place in her small, rigid, underwater world ruled over by a shadowy council. But while her friend Celia dreams of marrying a ‘netter...
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