‘Funny Kid for President’ tops bestsellers chart
Monday, 14 August 2017
Bestselling Australian children’s author and illustrator Matt Stanton (There is a Monster under My Bed Who Farts, This is a Ball) has launched a new middle-grade series called ‘Funny Kid’...
Introducing Berbay Publishing
Monday, 14 August 2017
Australian small press Berbay Publishing specialises in local and international children’s picture books. Last year it won the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania...
Refugee story takes out Australian YA prize
Monday, 14 August 2017
Zana Fraillon’s YA novel The Bone Sparrow (Hachette) has won the inaugural Readings YA Prize. Fraillon’s novel tells the story of Subhi, a refugee born in a detention centre, who...
New acquisitions for Affirm Press, Walker Books
Monday, 14 August 2017
Affirm Press has acquired a children’s fiction series by Australian lifeguard and TV star Trent ‘Maxi’ Maxwell. The series, co-written by children’s book author David Lawrence, will centre on ‘a...
Two children’s publishers launch in Australia; Magabala celebrates 30th birthday
Monday, 14 August 2017
Two new Australian children’s publishers have recently released their first titles. Dirt Lane Press has published The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear (Margrete Lamond, illus by Heather Vallance), a...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 14 August 2017
While this week’s overall bestsellers chart remains largely similar to last week’s, with The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, John Wiley) in top spot, three new books have climbed into the...
Introducing Affirm Press
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Affirm Press is an optimistic, owner-operated Australian publisher with a list that includes Australian and international nonfiction, fiction and children’s titles. Publisher Martin Hughes spoke to Think Australian: What makes...
Book blogger spotlight: Babbling Books
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Multi-platform blogger Tamsien West shares her eclectic reading tastes across her blog, Instagram, YouTube and book club under the name Babbling Books. She has found that ‘deeply personal stories and...
‘The Trip of a Lifetime’, ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top the Australian charts
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
While Liane Moriarty continues to dominate the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in July, with five titles in the top 10, titles from two other popular Australian authors sit in first...
Keith Murdoch bio wins top award
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Tom D C Roberts’ biography of Rupert Murdoch’s father, Australian journalist Keith Murdoch, has won the Australian National Biography Award. The judges described Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth...
Screen rights optioned to Hannah Kent’s ‘The Good People’
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Australian production company Aquarius Films has optioned the film and TV rights to Hannah Kent’s The Good People (Picador) via Curtis Brown Australia. Aquarius producers said they were ‘absolutely thrilled...
Melbourne, Brisbane writers’ festival guests announced; new Australian digital marketplace launched
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
The programs for the Melbourne Writers Festival (25 August to 3 September) and Brisbane Writers Festival (6-10 September) have been announced. Both festivals regularly attract authors from around the world...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 7 August 2017
Crime is the dominant genre in this week’s bestsellers charts, with mystery, thriller and true crime books taking up five spots in the overall top 10, although none could unseat...
If Baby Could Talk (Michael Wagner, illus by Jess Racklyeft, Windy Hollow Books)
Friday, 4 August 2017
It’s never too early to start reading books to children; even newborns will derive pleasure from listening to words read out loud by a loved one. If Baby Could Talk...
Whimsy and Woe (Rebecca McRitchie, Angus & Robertson)
Friday, 4 August 2017
Adventurous and outlandish, Whimsy and Woe will hook kids in from the first page. The story follows the eponymous Mordaunt siblings in unravelling the mystery of what has happened to...
When I Grow Up (Tim Minchin, illus by Steve Antony, Scholastic)
Thursday, 3 August 2017
From the award-winning Australian composer and comedian Tim Minchin comes a picture book inspired by Minchin’s lyrics to the song ‘When I Grow Up’ from Matilda the Musical. The song/story...
Something wundrous: Jessica Townsend on ‘Nevermoor’
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Queensland author Jessica Townsend’s debut Nevermoor (Hachette, October) is a middle-grade fantasy about a cursed 11-year-old girl ‘that will hook readers aged 10 and up with intricate imaginative detail and...
Fresh take: Margrete Lamond on ‘The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear’
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear (Margrete Lamond, illus by Heather Vallance, August) is the first title from newly launched small publisher Dirt Lane Press. Inspired by Norwegian folk...
The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear (Margrete Lamond & Heather Vallance, Dirt Lane Press)
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Bear and Fox have a tumultuous friendship, marred by Fox’s pranks and mean tricks. However, when Fox disappears, Bear finds he misses his buddy. New companions Rooster and Hare seem to...
The Amulet of Athlone: The Chronicles of Jack McCool Book One (R E Devine, Bauer Media)
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Things aren’t easy for Jack McCool. His teacher Miss Medusa hates him, the school bully picks on him and even his hair won’t sit straight. While he gets called ‘McNerd’...
Drawn Onward (Meg McKinlay, illus by Andrew Frazer, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Drawn Onward is a clever picture book for older children that explores the transformative power of perspective. Author Meg McKinlay has crafted a palindrome that will delight observant young readers with the...
The Lion in Our Living Room (Emma Middleton, illus by Briony Stewart, Affirm)
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Emma Middleton and Briony Stewart’s The Lion in Our Living Room is a gentle picture book that celebrates the spirit of imagination in the same vein as Judith Kerr’s The...
Koalas Eat Gum Leaves (Laura and Philip Bunting, Scholastic)
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Koalas Eat Gum Leaves is a funny take on the one fact that every budding naturalist knows about Australia’s beloved marsupial: they eat gum leaves. ‘Gum leaves for breakfast. Gum...
Book blogger spotlight: Half Deserted Streets
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
For blogger Danielle Carey, Instagram ‘feels like the most enthusiastic and inviting place to flail about books online’. Her Instagram-based microblog, Half Deserted Streets, reaches 11,000 followers, but she also...
Dungzilla (James Foley, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Sally Tinker is an inventor—the world’s foremost inventor under the age of 11, to be precise—and her latest invention is a doozy. The Resizenator can shrink anything to microscopic size...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 31 July 2017
The top 10 bestsellers chart has a new number one, with Michael Connelly’s The Late Show (A&U) taking out the top spot in its second week in the charts, followed...
The Trauma Cleaner (Sarah Krasnostein, Text)
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Sandra Pankhurst was adopted through the Catholic Church in the 1950s by a Melbourne couple who would prove to be horrendously abusive parents. Driven out of home by the age...
Baby Lost: A Story of Grief and Hope (Hannah Robert, MUP)
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Baby Lost is a heartbreaking study of the aftermath of an accident that changed the author’s life. Hannah Robert—a law lecturer at Melbourne’s La Trobe University—is not a saccharine writer,...
Force of Nature (Jane Harper, Macmillan)
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Jane Harper’s follow-up to her 2016 bestseller The Dry is another well-written, pacey crime thriller. Force of Nature is set after the events of The Dry but can be read...
Suburbia (Jeremy Chambers, Text)
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Melbourne author Jeremy Chambers’ second novel is a nostalgic coming-of-age story set in the unglamorous outer-eastern suburbs of Melbourne in the 1980s. The book’s protagonist Roland is a bookish outsider...
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