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Under My Bed (John Dickson, illus by Guridi, Berbay) 

Friday, 13 April 2018
Most people will remember the spine-tingling feeling of lying in bed at night and imagining there are monsters in their bedroom—and the comfort of realising that they’re safely snuggled up...

Lifel1k3 (Jay Kristoff, A&U)

Friday, 13 April 2018
Set in a savage post-apocalyptic California (or Kalifornya as it’s remembered now), Lifel1k3 (Lifelike) follows 15-year-old Eve, who makes a living building robots out of scraps and using them to...

Bonesland (Brendan Lawley, Text) 

Friday, 13 April 2018
Sixteen-year-old Bones Carter has a lot going on. With his obsessive-compulsive tendencies, anxiety, germ-phobia, separated parents and regular harassment at the hands of his older brother Trav and school bully...

The Peacock Detectives (Carly Nugent, Text) 

Thursday, 12 April 2018
Eleven-year-old Cassie Anderson, Peacock Detective, like all great detectives, is good at noticing things. She notices the scratches in the corner of the cage when the peacocks William Shakespeare and...

Stone Girl (Eleni Hale, Penguin) 

Thursday, 12 April 2018
Sophie grows up saddled with a missing dad and an unreliable alcoholic mother. At the tender age of 12, she finds her mother dead and blames herself. As there is...

Australian delegation to visit the US

Thursday, 12 April 2018
If you’ll be in New York City in early June this year, look out for a group of eight Australian publishers, rights managers and literary agents, who will travel there...

Awards put poetry in the spotlight

Thursday, 12 April 2018
Poetry has been the focus of several Australian awards and shortlists recently, with poet and performer Candy Royalle being chosen from a shortlist of 11 poets to win the 2018...

Neverland (Margot McGovern, Random House) 

Thursday, 12 April 2018
Like Alice through the looking glass, Dorothy in Oz and Wendy in Neverland, Kit Learmonth’s childhood was full of fantastical adventures: pirates, witches, fairies and battles with terrible monsters. But...

Introducing Alex Adsett

Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Alex Adsett is a literary agent representing authors across all ages and most genres, and also a freelance publishing consultant offering commercial contract advice to authors and publishers. She has 20...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 9 April 2018
Last week's highest new entry, Anh Do's Messy Weird! (Scholastic) has claimed the number two spot in this week's top 10 bestseller chart, as well as being this week's fastest...

Correction

Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Books+Publishing published an article under the title of 'Former Mary Ryan's Byron Bay relaunches as the Book Room at Byron' on 13 February 2018 in which former Mary Ryan’s franchisees...

Waiting for Elijah (Kate Wild, Scribe) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
In Armidale, NSW, in 2009, 24-year-old Elijah Holcombe was shot and killed by a police officer. Elijah was described by all who knew him as a sweet, sensitive and artistic...

Traumata (Meera Atkinson, UQP) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Trauma and the events that provoke it involve a complex web of personal experience, history and society, but most books on the topic seem to sit squarely in either the...

Staying: A Memoir (Jessie Cole, Text) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Jessie Cole’s Staying is a well-written, extremely moving memoir that steers resolutely clear of stereotypes and self-pity. The ‘staying’ of the title refers to how Cole resumes control of her...

Ironbark (Jay Carmichael, Scribe) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Ironbark brings to disturbing life three years in the life of Marcus, a young, gay country man. He has a casually supportive father, platonic girlfriends, an interest in poetry, a...

Small Wrongs (Kate Rossmanith, Hardie Grant) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Part memoir, part cultural study, Small Wrongs is a unique look into the role remorse plays in both public and private spheres. With the observational spirit of Helen Garner and...

The Way Things Should Be (Bridie Jabour, Echo) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Claudia has returned to her hometown to get married. She should be happy, but instead she feels confused and sad, and running the gauntlet of her dysfunctional family in the...

Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Flames opens with a moment of transformation: ‘Our mother returned to us two days after we spread her ashes over Notley Fern Gorge.’ This arresting first line sets the tone...

Miss Ex-Yugoslavia (Sofia Stefanovic, Viking) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia is a coming-of-age memoir that brims with warmth, curiosity and a genuine affection for commonplace family drama. Written by Serbian-Australian writer and filmmaker Sofija Stefanovic, who describes herself...

Into the Night (Sarah Bailey, A&U) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
When a homeless man is stabbed in a Carlton park, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is the first homicide officer there. Walter Miller has no enemies, not many friends and only...

Literary direct action: Meera Atkinson on ‘Traumata’

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Meera Atkinson’s exploration of the effects of trauma, Traumata (UQP, May), is a powerful, personal memoir doubling as a philosophical treatise. ‘This is a humane, thought-provoking and heartbreaking addition to...

The Motherhood (ed by Jamila Rizvi, Viking) 

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
All new mothers need to read this book—when they have time, of course, and are not insanely tired, which is a long shot. However, it is no exaggeration to say...

 

 

 

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