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‘Boy’ wins Children’s Peace Literature Award

Thursday, 16 November 2017
Phil Cummings and Shane Devries’ picture book Boy (Scholastic) has won the Australian Psychological Society’s Children’s Peace Literature Award. It tells the story of a young deaf boy who brings...

Not your average children’s book awards

Thursday, 16 November 2017
Australia has a rich and varied book awards scene. In children’s books this includes the Australian Psychological Society’s Children’s Peace Literature Award and the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the...

Christmas predictions: Kath Pigou from Dymocks Adelaide

Wednesday, 15 November 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Dymocks Adelaide store...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 13 November 2017
Jimmy Barnes’ memoir Working Class Man (HarperCollins) is the country’s bestseller for the second week in a row, in a top 10 chart dominated by established, well-known authors. Among them are...

Introducing Pantera Press’ millennial imprint

Thursday, 9 November 2017
Sydney-based publisher Pantera Press recently launched a new imprint called Lost the Plot that is aimed at the next generation of readers. Founders Martin Green and Alison Green spoke to...

New voices attracting interest at Frankfurt

Thursday, 9 November 2017
Australian publishers who attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair have reported interest across a broad range of titles, from literary debuts to ‘women’s commercial fiction’ to political memoirs. Interestingly, the...

Small press scores big rights sale

Thursday, 9 November 2017
The recently launched small press Brow Books has sold world rights to Shaun Prescott’s (pictured) debut novel The Town to Faber, which will publish the novel in the UK in...

Christmas predictions: John Purcell from Booktopia

Thursday, 9 November 2017
In a new series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In our first instalment, Booktopia’s...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 6 November 2017
Jimmy Barnes’ Working Class Man (HarperCollins) has shot to the top of the overall bestsellers chart in its first week of release. Anticipation for the second volume of the singer’s...

Reading ahead: 2018 children’s and YA preview 

Wednesday, 1 November 2017
2018 sees the release of a new YA series from Jay Kristoff and a middle-grade series from Amie Kaufman; the re-release of a 10-year-old series from Liane Moriarty; and the...

From the heart: Shivaun Plozza on ‘Tin Heart’ 

Wednesday, 1 November 2017
In her second YA novel Tin Heart (Penguin, March), Shivaun Plozza tells the story of a teenage girl who undergoes an organ transplant. The book ‘cements Plozza as a writer with...

If I Tell You (Alicia Tuckerman, Pantera) 

Wednesday, 1 November 2017
Seventeen-year-old Alexandra has known for a while that she is a lesbian but she hasn’t told anyone. When a new family moves to her small country town and spiteful gossip starts to...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 30 October 2017
Dan Brown’s Origin (Bantam) has claimed the top spot in the overall bestsellers chart for the third week in a row, ahead of a resilient The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape,...

Write on: 2018 nonfiction preview 

Thursday, 26 October 2017
Andrea Hanke reports on Australian publishers’ local nonfiction highlights for 2018. Click here for the full preview. Recently retired Western Bulldogs captain Bob Murphy will release his memoir with Black...

Write on: 2018 fiction preview 

Thursday, 26 October 2017
New books by Ceridwen Dovey, Kristina Olsson, Melissa Lucashenko, Lloyd Jones and Gerald Murnane, and a number of highly anticipated debuts, are among Australian publishers’ local highlights for 2018, reports...

Grandma Z (Daniel Gray-Barnett, Scribble)

Monday, 23 October 2017
Albert leads a very ordinary, monochrome life. But on his birthday, when his parents are planning the same boring routine, there is a surprise knock on the door. Albert’s larger-than-life...

Tin Heart (Shivaun Plozza, Penguin) 

Monday, 23 October 2017
Marlowe Jensen was The Dying Girl. Born with a congenital heart defect, no-one expected Marlowe to make it to her 18th birthday until she won the organ-donation lottery, and got...

The Hole Story (Kelly Canby, Fremantle Press) 

Monday, 23 October 2017
One of the joys of early childhood are those moments when you discover the remarkable in the everyday. The Hole Story turns on such uncanny moments. When Charlie discovers a...

Missing (Sue Whiting, Walker Books) 

Monday, 23 October 2017
A mother is missing in the jungles of Panama and a father and daughter are attempting to discover the truth behind her disappearance. This is the premise of Sue Whiting’s...

Before I Let You Go (Kelly Rimmer, Hachette) 

Monday, 23 October 2017
Successful physician Lexie receives a frantic call in the middle of the night—her younger sister Annie is addicted to heroin and heavily pregnant. Lexie rushes Annie to hospital, but the...

 

 

 

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