The Elephant (Peter Carnavas, UQP)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
The Elephant is the first junior-fiction novel from Peter Carnavas, who is well known for his gentle, heartfelt picture books. Olive lives with her Grandad, her Dad, and—even if no-one...
The Fall (Tristan Bancks, Random House)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Following an operation to ease his scoliosis, 12-year-old Sam Garner secures the chance to stay with his father Harry (never ‘Dad’) in the city, to better understand and get to...
Marsh and Me (Martine Murray, Text)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Joey Green is a nice, sensitive boy. He’s a bit of a loner, lacking in confidence and trying to find a way to fit in at school. One day, he...
My Lovely Frankie (Judith Clarke, A&U)
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Tom has never forgotten his friend Frankie—even though he hasn’t seen him for over half a century. In 1950, when Tom is just 16, he thinks he feels the hand...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 1 May 2017
Swedish writer Jo Nesbo’s latest Harry Hole mystery, The Thirst (Harvill Secker), has climbed into second spot in the top 10 bestsellers this week. Its rapid rise into the top 10 has...
Ache (Eliza Henry Jones, Fourth Estate)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Eliza Henry Jones’ second novel demands that you slow down, take a breath and settle in. This beautifully written novel will eventually reward you for working past the slow opening....
Book blogger spotlight: Book Thingo
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Kat Mayo says Book Thingo, a blog she runs with about half-a-dozen regular contributors, is a site for ‘readers, browsers and compulsive book hoarders, mostly of romance novels’. She spoke...
Heart to heart: Melanie Cheng on ‘Australia Day’
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Melanie Cheng’s Australia Day (Text, July) is a ‘bittersweet, beautifully crafted collection’ about the conflicts and realisations that occur when people of different backgrounds are brought together. She spoke to reviewer...
Untying the knots: Mark Brandi on ‘Wimmera’
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Mark Brandi’s debut crime novel Wimmera (Hachette, July) is a ‘languid and unsettling’ story about two boys growing up together in a small town in the 1980s. He spoke to reviewer...
No Way! Okay, Fine (Brodie Lancaster, Hachette)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
A coming-of-age story with a fierce, feminist heart and a broad sense of purpose, Brodie Lancaster’s debut memoir No Way! Okay Fine is narrated through a series of chronological yet...
Random Life (Judy Horacek, Horacek Press)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Judy Horacek’s whimsical cartoons have long been a fixture in the Australian media landscape; Random Life (published through her own just-released imprint) is Horacek’s ninth collection. In the foreword, John...
Australia Day (Melanie Cheng, Text)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
The title story of Melanie Cheng’s debut short fiction collection Australia Day is about a Chinese medical student visiting the rural farm of an Australian friend who he hopes will...
Mischka’s War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s (Sheila Fitzpatrick, MUP)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick met photonuclear physicist Mischka Danos in 1989. They married and spent the next 10 years together until Mischka’s death. But this biography is not about those years....
The Trip of a Lifetime (Monica McInerney, Michael Joseph)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Set in the wine country of South Australia’s Clare Valley, and in Ireland, Monica McInerney’s latest novel is a saga about family, memories and promises, secrets and lies. At the...
Wimmera (Mark Brandi, Hachette)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Set in small-town Australia in the 1980s, Wimmera is the story of two boyhood friends, Fab and Ben, presented in three parts. Part one is told in schoolboy Ben’s voice:...
Hinterland (Steven Lang, UQP)
Thursday, 27 April 2017
A small Queensland town is divided. The collapse of local industry in a once-thriving dairy community has seen farmland abandoned, repurposed for suburban sprawl or replanted by conservationists. When a...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 24 April 2017
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo, Particular Books) has shot up the charts to fourth spot in this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart, as well...
RiP Rose Creswell
Monday, 24 April 2017
Former literary agent Rose Creswell has died. The Cameron Creswell Agency writes: ‘It is with much sadness The Cameron Creswell Agency announces the death, on Tuesday 19 April 2017, of...
Book blogger spotlight: Genie in a Book
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Eugenia Alabasinis’ blog Genie in a Book began in 2014 with a sole focus on YA novels, but has since expanded to include a range of adult fiction. Alabasinis spoke...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
This week’s bestsellers charts features a largely unchanged top 10, with the top four overall bestsellers echoing the top four from last week. The eighth book in Anh Do’s ‘Weirdo’ series, Really Weird!...
Book blogger spotlight: Angel Reads
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
Blogger Angel Gouvas has been writing about YA books since 2012, and has a particular interest in #LoveOzYA and discussions about diversity. Gouvas spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘Book blogger...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 10 April 2017
This week’s bestsellers chart has a new number one, with Really Weird! WeirDo (Anh Do, Scholastic) topping both the overall bestsellers and the fastest movers charts. The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) is in...
Get cultured: Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost on ‘Do Not Lick This Book’
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Writer Idan Ben-Barak and illustrator Julian Frost’s guide to microbes is a ‘fun, beautifully designed and repulsive [picture] book’ that will have kids ‘[delighting] in the gross elements’, writes reviewer...
Psynode (Marlee Jane Ward, Seizure)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Marlee Jane Ward impressed with her YA debut Welcome to Orphancorp in 2015, winning Seizure’s Viva La Novella Prize as well as the YA category of the Victorian Premier’s Literary...
Living on Hope Street (Demet Divaroren, A&U)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Demet Divaroren’s YA novel Living on Hope St does not shirk from tackling the big issues that concern society today. Refugees, domestic abuse, racism, grief and bullying all feature in...
Do Not Lick This Book (Idan Ben-Barak, illus by Julian Frost, A&U)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
What a fun, beautifully designed and repulsive book! Its premise is humble: let’s meet some microbes. It sits between educational text and narrative picture book, following Min the microbe on...
Book blogger spotlight: Sam Still Reading
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Blogger Jeanie Misko has been writing about an eclectic mix of books for her blog Sam Still Reading since 2010, with her audience growing to about 2500 people a month. Misko...
Ollie’s Treasure (Lynn Jenkins, illus by Kirrili Lonergan, EK Books)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Here’s a picture book that unpacks mindfulness and the awareness of transient moments in time. Ollie’s grandma knows he loves treasure hunts so she sends him a map. He enthusiastically...
Storm Whale (Sarah Brennan, illus by Jane Tanner, A&U)
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Jane Tanner’s rich, textured, gorgeous illustrations work in parallel with Sarah Brennan’s equally complex and affecting language in this verse-narrative of three young girls who find a beached whale. Their...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 3 April 2017
This week’s bestsellers chart remains largely unchanged, with The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) remaining in the top spot, ahead of 16th Seduction: A Women’s Murder Club Thriller (James Patteron &...
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