Books from abroad: Overseas CYA titles, February to April 2026
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
Some perennial favourite topics are set to arrive on our shores in the coming months: Books+Publishing shares new international CYA titles arriving in Australia in 2026, featuring plenty of fantasy...
Bestsellers, first week back
Friday, 9 January 2026
Top 10 bestsellers The Housemaid (Freida McFadden, Bookouture) (combined editions) Talons of Power (Wings of Fire graphic novel #9) (Tui Sutherland, illus by Mike Holmes, Scholastic) Arnott's: The Cookbook (Are...
Change for Marco Polo
Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Publisher: Marco Polo Old distributor: Hardie Grant New distributor: Woodslane Pty Ltd Changeover date: 1 January 2026 Contact URL: info@woodslane.com.au
Change for PowerHouse Books
Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Publisher: PowerHouse Books Old distributor: Simon & Schuster ANZ New distributor: Contact PowerHouse Books Changeover date: 31 December 2025 Returns cut-off: 1 February 2026 (See classified.)
Anh Do’s “The Break In” breaks through
Friday, 12 December 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Guinness World Records 2026 (Guinness World Records, Guinness) Exit Strategy (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) Big Jim Believes (Dog Man...
Books in the media this weekend, 13 to 14 December
Friday, 12 December 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week's round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Book Show, ABC...
Boys Don’t Cry?: How picture books shape what children learn about pain and gender
Friday, 12 December 2025
BookUp’s inaugural research day was held on 8 August this year. As part of this full day dedicated to book industry research, Sarah Wallwork shared some of hers and Dur-E-Nayab Mehar’s findings...
Book Club – holiday reads
Friday, 12 December 2025
After fresh reads for Christmas or long summer days by the beach? Our bumper holiday Book Club brings together standout new releases and great titles from throughout the year that...
From Summer Reading for MPs to a new publishing house
Thursday, 11 December 2025
Readers and Writers Against the Genocide (RWAG) describes itself as “a community of readers and writers who believe in the power of literature to enable us to speak up and...
Submit your 2026 ABIA nominations now!
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Australian Book Industry Awards. Book Award nominations are open until Wednesday 28 January Audiobook and Publisher Business Award nominations are open until Wednesday 11 February Nominations for all 2026 Retail...
Senior editor, New South Wales
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for an experienced book editor to join the HarperCollins Adult Books team. This is a full-time position, based at our head office...
Meltdown (Lauren Novak, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Meltdown is a heavily researched yet highly accessible examination of “mum rage”, the gendered term the book uses to describe anger experienced in motherhood, exploring why it happens and how...
Red Star Rebels (Amie Kaufman, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Amie Kaufman is a well-known name in young adult speculative fiction, particularly for the bestselling Starbound and Illuminae Files series (co-authored with Megan Spooner and Jay Kristoff respectively). Red Star...
Romeo v Juliet (RA Spratt, Penguin)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Bestselling author RA Spratt’s Romeo v Juliet is a light-hearted time-travelling comedy that will appeal to older middle-grade and younger YA audiences aged 12 and up. When 16-year-old Selby, a...
My Brother Otto (Ingrid Laguna, Text)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
In My Brother Otto, Ingrid Laguna (Edie Tells a Lie) explores the emotional upheaval of welcoming and losing a new sibling. Quinn is 11 years old and happy being an...
The World from Here (Cassy Polimeni, illus Mel Armstrong, CSIRO Publishing)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Cassy Polimeni, whose junior fiction novel Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra won the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award, brings her gift for accessible science to The World from Here. In...
Saving Shark Pup: The Incredible True Story (Sharon Dalgleish, illus Amandine Thomas, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Saving Shark Pup: The Incredible True Story is an intriguing and emotive retelling of a great white shark pup’s dramatic rescue from Manly Beach, sure to captivate readers aged 4...
Two Tongues (Maria van Neerven, UQP)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Two Tongues is a memoir of language and memory told through poetry. Mununjali woman from the Yugambeh nation Maria van Neerven structures the collection in three chronological parts, tracing her...
A Time of Living Graciously: Reflections on Growing Older (Brigid Lowry, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
In a culture obsessed with youth and productivity, it’s easy to forget that rest is not laziness, aging is not failure and our worth is not measured by output. Brigid...
Bugger (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Bugger by Michael Mohammed Ahmad (The Lebs, The Tribe) is a heart-wrenching investigation into child sex abuse. Its protagonist, Hamoodi, is an isolated 10-year-old who adores Power Rangers and lives...
The Sisterhood Rules (Kathy Lette, Aria)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Bawdy, cheeky and resoundingly “punny”, Kathy Lette’s latest romp, The Sisterhood Rules, is 100% on brand. Twin sisters Isabel and Verity have been estranged for five years, ever since Verity...
Crime, politics and history in Aussie bestsellers
Friday, 5 December 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Guinness World Records 2026 (Guinness World Records, Guiness) Last One Out (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Exit Strategy (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) Brimstone (Callie Hart, Hodderscape) Big...
Books in the media this weekend, 6 to 7 November
Friday, 5 December 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week’s round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Book Show, ABC...
Junior Book Club – holiday reads
Friday, 5 December 2025
On the hunt for great books to share with kids? Our bumper Junior Book Club holiday edition rounds up new releases for the month and top picks from the past...
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Australian Book Industry Awards!
Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Nominations are now open! Gather those lists and enter your 2025 titles for consideration in next year's ABIA, as we prepare to celebrate all that has been achieved and those...
Senior editor, New South Wales
Wednesday, 3 December 2025
HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Publishers has an exciting opportunity for an experienced book editor to join the HarperCollins Adult Books team. This is a full-time position, based at our head office...
How to Make Friends and Go Viral by Accident (YK Willemse, Rhiza Edge)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
The novella How to Make Friends and Go Viral by Accident by YK Willemse (Jerry’s Window) follows 13-year-old Hayden Connor as he struggles with a speech impediment and the anxiety...
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates (Shailee Thompson, Atria Australia)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Shailee Thompson’s debut, How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates, is a genre-blending good time that captures the zeitgeist with its mélange of romantic comedy and horror, movie quotes...
Bush Tukka Guide for Kids (Samantha Martin, HG Explore)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Bush Tukka Guide for Kids by Samantha Martin, a descendant of the Jaru people, is an exceptional book about so much more than food. Known as the “Bush Tukka Woman”,...
Muttonfish Magic (Ruth Simms & Lucy Robertson, illus Jasmine Seymour, Magabala)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Muttonfish Magic honours the Kameragyl and Bidjigal people, the traditional custodians of the land around Kamay (Botany Bay) and Guriwal (La Perouse). With sensory lyricism, Bidjigal Elder Ruth Simms and...
