Domestic Interior (Fiona Wright, Giramondo)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Fiona Wright’s second book Small Acts of Disappearance won the Kibble Literary Award for Australian women writers, and her debut Knuckled won the Mary Gilmore Award for poetry. In this new...
Homecamp (Doron and Stephanie Francis, Hardie Grant)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Homecamp is 250 pages of pure escapism. Compiled by Doron and Stephanie Francis, creators of the popular Homecamp blog and stylish outdoor lifestyle brand, this unusual coffee-table book features short...
Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir (Gareth Evans, MUP)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Gareth Evans has enjoyed a stellar career as a politician, policy expert and internationalist. He has worked for governments and institutions that he variously describes as ‘gold standard’, ‘platinum’ and...
Whiteley on Trial (Gabriella Coslovich, MUP)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
From the dramatis personae of the opening pages—the Suspect Paintings, the Authentic Painting and the Individuals—I was taken by this story of true crime and courtroom drama. Who would want...
The Greatest Gift (Rachael Johns, HQ)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Rachael Johns is best known for her rural romances, but her more recent books, including the ABIA-winner The Patterson Girls, have moved into contemporary women’s fiction, or ‘life-lit’, as Johns...
The Passage of Love (Alex Miller, A&U)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
The Passage of Love is a slow-burning, fictional recasting of dual Miles Franklin Award-winning novelist Alex Miller’s life, told through the often lost and solitary life of Robert Crofts, an...
Deadly Kerfuffle (Tony Martin, Affirm)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Dunlop Crescent is in an uproar. Muslims have taken over this once peaceful enclave. The Tamaki family, as rumour has it, are turning their house on its axis so it...
Atlantic Black (A S Patric, Transit Lounge)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Seventeen-year-old Katerina is an ambassador’s daughter on the precipice—and perhaps already over the edge—of womanhood. Travelling on board the transatlantic ocean liner RMS Aquitania en route to her beloved father...
Can You Hear the Sea? My Grandmother’s Story (Brenda Niall, Text)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
When Brenda Niall was 10 years old her grandmother gave her a cedar box that was made more than 50 years ago by a brother who died as they were...
Book blogger spotlight: Romancing the Social Sciences
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Dani St Clair brings her unique perspective as a social and political scientist to her blog, Romancing the Social Sciences. ‘I was inadvertently analysing everything I read recreationally, and my...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 28 August 2017
The 91-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) remains in the top spot in the bestseller charts in its second week of release, with three other titles from the series...
Book blogger spotlight: Lectito
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Since starting her book blog Lectito in 2015, Margot McGovern believes that blogging has become ‘much more fluid’. ‘Most of the bloggers I follow work across multiple platforms and use...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 21 August 2017
The latest instalment in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ series, The 91-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has unsurprisingly debuted in top spot in this week’s bestseller charts. The release of the...
Book-to-screen adaptations pitched at 2017 Books at MIFF
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
The 11th annual Books at MIFF (BaM) event, run by Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market, was held on 3 August. Fremantle Press CEO Jane Fraser reports: The Forum...
Book blogger spotlight: ReadLikeWildfire
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
BookTuber Chami Rupasinghe experimented with different platforms before settling on YouTube. ‘Although YouTube does take quite a bit more effort to produce content for compared to other platforms like Twitter...
‘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...
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