The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls (Adam Cece, illus by Andrew Weldon, Text)
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Welcome to Huggabie Falls, where, on a normal day, you might encounter mad scientists, vegetarian piranhas and a spell-slinging schoolteacher with a penchant for turning students into hippopotamuses. In a...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 26 February 2018
This week’s top 10 bestsellers chart is led by two personal development titles: The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley) in top spot for the eighth consecutive week and Mark Manson’s...
January and February reviews unlocked
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Eleven reviews of January and February 2018 new releases are now free to view on the Books+Publishing website: Fiction The Cage (Lloyd Jones, Text) Cake at Midnight (Jessie L Star,...
Floral communication: Holly Ringland on ‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Holly Ringland’s The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (HarperCollins, April) is ‘a lush, powerful contemporary novel' about female survival in Australia’s Red Centre. Reviewer Claire West spoke to the author....
Pink Mountain on Locust Island (Jamie Marina Lau, Brow Books)
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Set in a Chinatown in an unnamed city, Jamie Marina Lau’s first book is a neon sucker-punch of a coming-of-age story. A short, literary novel in the vein of Jenny...
The Death of Noah Glass (Gail Jones, Text)
Thursday, 22 February 2018
In her seventh novel, The Death of Noah Glass, Gail Jones returns to familiar territory with a narrative grounded in its sense of place and character. Art historian Noah Glass...
The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean (Mira Robertson, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 22 February 2018
It is 1944 and 14-year-old Emily Dean, the novel’s narrator, has been sent from her home in Melbourne to stay on the family farm in rural Victoria. A reluctant visitor,...
Out There: A Survival Guide for Dating in Midlife (Kerri Sackville, Echo)
Thursday, 22 February 2018
‘This is not a guide to finding a new soulmate,’ writes Kerri Sackville as she introduces the premise of Out There. The objective of this ostensible dating guide is to...
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia (ed by Anita Heiss, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia is a new anthology compiled by Anita Heiss that asks Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contributors to share what ‘Growing up Aboriginal’ means to them....
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Holly Ringland, Fourth Estate)
Thursday, 22 February 2018
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a lush, powerful contemporary novel from debut author Holly Ringland. It revolves around Alice, who we first meet as an isolated young girl...
The Lace Weaver (Lauren Chater, S&S)
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Lauren Chater’s debut novel, The Lace Weaver, is a sweeping historical story set in Estonia and Russia during the tumultuous year of 1941. Stalin’s Red Army has descended on Estonia,...
The Fortress (S A Jones, Echo)
Thursday, 22 February 2018
In the midst of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, where men are being held accountable for indecent actions in their personal and professional lives, The Fortress is a timely and...
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted (Robert Hillman, Text)
Thursday, 22 February 2018
In this tender, emotive novel, the lives of sheep farmer Tom Hope and Hungarian Holocaust survivor Hannah Babel collide in a small Victorian country town in the 1960s. Hannah’s exuberance,...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 19 February 2018
The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley) remains on top of a familiar overall top 10 this week, with nine of last week’s top 10 bestsellers reappearing in this week’s chart....
Introducing Scribble
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Scribe Publications’ picture book imprint, Scribble, is ‘a vibrant, eclectic list of illustrated books for children’ that combines ‘editorial expertise with innovative design and production’. Publisher Miriam Rosenbloom spoke to Think...
Middle-grade historical epic wins Prime Minister’s Literary Award
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Wendy Orr’s Minoan-era historical epic, Dragonfly Song (Allen & Unwin), was the joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award (PMLA) for children’s fiction, and has also been shortlisted for...
‘Akarnae’ tops young adult bestsellers chart
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Lynette Noni takes top spot in the young adult (YA) bestseller chart for January with Akarnae, the first in Noni’s fantasy series, the ‘Medoran Chronicles’. The third book in the...
Debut picture book builds international buzz
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Scribble, has sold rights to two forthcoming children’s books: world rights (ex ANZ) to Antonia Pesenti’s board book Rhyme Cordial were sold to Phaidon ahead of its Australian release date in May,...
Gleitzman to be ambassador for Australian children’s lit
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
The position of Australian Children’s Laureate was created to ‘promote the importance and transformational power of reading, creativity and story in the lives of young Australians’, and this week Morris...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 12 February 2018
Three new releases have shaken up the top 10 bestseller charts this week, with J D Robb’s Dark in Death (Hachette) debuting in fourth spot, Danielle Steel’s Fall from Grace...
Introducing Sophy Williams
Thursday, 8 February 2018
Sophy Williams is the international director for Melbourne publisher Black Inc., which specialises in ‘serious nonfiction books, including politics, current affairs, biography, memoir and history’. Alongside its core list, Black...
‘The Dry’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 8 February 2018
Australian fiction bestsellers: January Jane Harper’s Force of Nature (Macmillan) has finally ceded top spot on the fiction chart—to Jane Harper’s The Dry (Pan), the debut crime novel that started...
‘The Trauma Cleaner’ wins multiple awards
Thursday, 8 February 2018
Melbourne-based writer Sarah Krasnostein has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her first book, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster (Text Publishing) at this...
Controversial delayed China book finds publisher
Thursday, 8 February 2018
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to Clive Hamilton’s book on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence in Australia. Silent Invasion explores how CCP agencies have sought to extend...
Australians set sights on the US
Thursday, 8 February 2018
Welcome back to the first issue of the Think Australian newsletter for 2018. This year will see the Australia Council send a publishing delegation of six Australian rights sellers, literary...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 5 February 2018
Jojo Moyes’ Still Me (Michael Joseph), the third 'Lou Clarke’ novel following Me Before You and After You, is the highest new entry in this week’s charts, debuting in fifth...
Up for a challenge: Nelly Thomas on ‘Some Girls’
Thursday, 1 February 2018
When comedian Nelly Thomas came up with the idea for Some Girls, an early childhood picture book that challenges gender and other stereotypes in young girls, she decided to crowdfund...
Down through the blue: Alison Lester and Jane Godwin on ‘The Silver Sea’
Thursday, 1 February 2018
Alison Lester and Jane Godwin's The Silver Sea (Affirm, March) was created in collaboration with children from Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, with all profits from the book going to the...
White Night (Ellie Marney, A&U)
Thursday, 1 February 2018
Bo Mitchell is a typical guy in Lamistead. He’s nice, sporty, and doesn’t do anything that will make him stand out. Aurora Wild stands out in all the wrong ways....
Turtle Trackers (Samantha Wheeler, UQP)
Thursday, 1 February 2018
Ten-year-old Isaac and his mum run a caravan park on the coast of Queensland. Things have been tough since the death of Isaac’s father, with Isaac having to take on...
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