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Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 16 October 2017
Dan Brown’s new novel Origin (Bantam) has unseated The 91-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) to take top spot in the overall bestsellers chart this week. Griffiths and Denton’s...

Introducing Spinifex Press

Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Founded in 1991, Melbourne-based Spinifex Press publishes innovative and controversial feminist books and ebooks with an optimistic edge. Spinifex Press was also one of the first small publishers in Australia...

‘Page-turning small-town mystery’ sold into nine territories

Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Affirm Press has sold the rights to Christian White’s ‘page-turning small-town mystery’ The Nowhere Child, previously called Decay Theory, into nine overseas territories. White’s novel won this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 9 October 2017
Jane Harper’s second novel, Force of Nature (Macmillan), is showing all signs of living up to her bestselling debut The Dry, landing in second spot on this week’s overall bestseller...

Unearthed (Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner, A&U) 

Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Unearthed is an explosive action-adventure with a touch of romance set on an alien planet. Earth is a devastated planet where resources are scarce and humans are desperate. When an...

Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)

Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Clare Atkins follows up her award-winning debut novel Nona & Me with this moving tale of two young people in Darwin who make a connection, though one of them lives...

Quark’s Academy (Catherine Pelosi, Lothian) 

Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Once a year the prestigious and mysterious Quark’s Academy admits 15 exceptional young scientists for a week’s study that will culminate in the Best Invention Competition. This year’s batch of...

Book blogger spotlight: The Bookish Manicurist

Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Amanda Salles creates ‘bookish nail art’ inspired by the covers of her favourite books. Pictures of her nail art and tutorial videos accompany reviews of YA fiction on her blog,...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 2 October 2017
The 91-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) has held the top spot in this week’s overall bestsellers chart for a seventh consecutive week, while Scott Pape and David...

Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo) 

Thursday, 28 September 2017
In Border Districts, which is conceived as Gerald Murnane’s last work of fiction, the narrator has moved to a remote town, near the border of a neighbouring state, so that he...

Dissent (Sally Percival Wood, Scribe) 

Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Sally Percival Wood’s Dissent is a lively and accessible slice of Australian cultural history. Percival Wood revisits the tumultuous 1960s and reveals the extent to which an unlikely and often-forgotten...

Into the World (Stephanie Parkyn, A&U) 

Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Inspired by true events in the 18th century, Into the World is the story of Marie-Louise Girardin, an unwed woman who must escape revolutionary France to save the life of...

Tracker (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)

Cover of 'Tracker' Wednesday, 27 September 2017
A biography can be written in a standard form: subject born, raised, educated, worked and died. And that will be fine for most people. But not Tracker Tilmouth. He was a polarising, intelligent, charismatic...

Book blogger spotlight: Trish Talks Texts

Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Trish Buckley is a teacher-librarian who brings a critical perspective to YA literature. ‘I have been reading YA novels since I was a teenager, so that’s 30-odd years of context,...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 25 September 2017
The 91-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) maintains its position as the overall bestseller in a familiar-looking top 10 bestsellers chart, while new books by Marian Keyes (The Break,...

Introducing #LoveOzYA

Thursday, 21 September 2017
Several years ago a group of Australian YA authors and supporters launched the grassroots campaign #LoveOzYA to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles. Think Australian...

‘The Silent Invasion’ tops YA bestsellers chart

Thursday, 21 September 2017
The Silent Invasion—the first book in a new YA dystopian trilogy from novelist James Bradley—is at the top of the Australian YA bestsellers chart for August. It’s followed by In the...

Oz YA under the spotlight

Thursday, 21 September 2017
In this newsletter, we shine a spotlight on Australian young adult (YA) fiction. In our profile, we speak to literary agent, editor and YA advocate Danielle Binks about the state...

CBCA Book of the Year Awards announced

One Would Think the Deep cover Thursday, 21 September 2017
The winners of the prestigious Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. They include: One Would Think the Deep (Claire Zorn, University of Queensland...

 

 

 

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