Clunes Booktown 2025 – books, bands, and breaking records
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Under blue skies and a hot sun, Clunes transformed into Booktown during the weekend of 22–23 March, welcoming about 10,000 visitors and a record 135 booksellers. Books+Publishing publishing director Kate...
Sun rises on new number one as Suzanne Collins tops charts
Friday, 28 March 2025
Top 10 bestsellers Sunrise on the Reaping (Suzanne Collins, Scholastic) The Let Them Theory (Mel Robbins & Sawyer Robbins, Hay House) Cozy Corner (Coco Wyo, Penguin) Onyx Storm (Rebecca Yarros,...
Books in the media this weekend, 29–30 March
Friday, 28 March 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week's round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Saturday Paper The...
Our Dance (Jacinta Daniher & Taylor Hampton, illus by Janelle Burger, Lothian)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Our Dance by Jacinta Daniher and proud Ngiyampaa/Wiradjuri man Taylor Hampton celebrates Australian First Nations culture through the joy of movement as children dance and sing in the corroboree. The...
My Supercharged ADHD Brain (Dani Vee & James Layton, illus Ruth-Mary Smith, Larrikin)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
My Supercharged ADHD Brain is a brightly coloured picture book that candidly explores some of the positive aspects of having ADHD, celebrating differences and encouraging a better understanding of neurodivergence....
The Book of Guilt (Catherine Chidgey, Penguin)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Welcome to an alternative version of the UK in the 1970s. In Catherine Chidgey’s The Book of Guilt, Hitler is assassinated in 1943. After a purge of senior Nazis and...
The Letter Writer (Binny Talib, Windy Hollow)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
The Letter Writer by author and illustrator Binny Talib (Sloths Love Parties) opens with stunning endpapers – a delightful collage of envelopes adorned with scribbles and doodles that immediately draws...
Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family (Micaela Sahhar, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Several generations into the Palestinian diaspora in Australia, Micaela Sahhar explores the complexities of being disconnected from her ancestral land in Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of...
The Edge of Everything (Miranda Luby, Text)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
In The Edge of Everything, Miranda Luby (Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over) tells a poignant story of a teenager recovering from tragedy. It’s been eleven months since Lucy’s older...
The Haunting of Hindmarsh Hall (Kate Gordon, Riveted Press)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
The Haunting of Hindmarsh Hall is the first book in The Secret Detectives Club middle-grade series by Kate Gordon (Xavier in the Meantime). Set in the quiet town of Table...
I Want Everything (Dominic Amerena, S&S)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
An unnamed aspiring writer leaves a Melbourne hospital and, seeking distraction, swims laps at his local pool. There, he recognises an elderly woman as Brenda Shales, one of Australia’s best...
Lonely Mouth (Jacqueline Maley, Fourth Estate)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Jacqueline Maley (The Truth About Her) returns with Lonely Mouth, a powerful exploration of family, trauma and identity. Half-sisters Matilda and Lara share a mother but have different fathers. Abandoned...
No surprises, just reshuffling in this week’s top sellers
Friday, 21 March 2025
Top 10 bestsellers The Let Them Theory (Mel Robbins & Sawyer Robbins, Hay House) Wild Side (Elsie Silver, Piatkus) Onyx Storm (Rebecca Yarros, Piatkus) RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan)...
Books in the media this weekend, 22–23 March
Friday, 21 March 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Elegy, Southwest (Madeleine Watts, Ultimo) Show Don't Tell (Curtis Sittenfeld, Doubleday)...
Australian market report: 2024 book sales down 3% in value
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Overall, the book market was down in Australia in 2024, by 3% in value and 1.2% in volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookData’s BookScan service. Nielsen’s 2024 snapshot, which covered...
What Australian publishers are looking to acquire at Bologna
Thursday, 20 March 2025
We ask Australians attending Bologna this year what they are looking to acquire – and what they are expecting to talk about with fellow attendees. Miriam Rosenbloom, publisher and art...
Publisher picks: Australian picture books
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers at Bologna name the picture books they have the highest hopes for at the fair. Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke, founder, managing director and publishing director at Berbay Books, will be...
Publisher picks: Australian junior and middle-grade fiction
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers at Bologna name the junior and middle-grade fiction titles they expect to gain international interest at the fair. On the eve of Bologna, Annabel Barker Agency announced that...
Publisher picks: Australian YA
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers pick their top YA offerings. Carey Schroeter, rights and international sales manager, books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin (A&U), will be attending Bologna in...
Publisher picks: Australian nonfiction children’s books
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers offer not one but two Dogs with Jobs children’s books, among a range of nonfiction titles on offer at Bologna. We suppose publishers must be onto something when...
Australian children’s and YA award winners
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Read on for recent Australian award winners in children’s and young adult literature. Illustrated children’s titles For the first time in the history of the prestigious Victorian Premier's Literary Awards,...
Australian children’s and YA bestsellers YTD
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Top 10 Australian YA fiction Cruel Is the Light (Sophie Clark, Penguin) 5.0K I Am Not Jessica Chen (Ann Liang, Harlequin Teen) 2.0K Immortal Dark (Tigest Girma, Lothian) 1.8K My...
Villain
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Gaming fanatic Jay receives a strange phone call on a school trip to Titanium Tower. The voice on the other end calls himself Z. And he has trapped Jay's classmates...
Australian titles with international appeal
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
You can find the Australian Collective Stand at Bologna at Hall 25, Stand A87. Come visit for the Australia party, to be held on 1 April at 5pm. In the...
Super Epic Dragon Quest #1 The Deadly Fang
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
WANTED: Brave Heroes to find Deadly Fang Arlo is a brave, hard-working farm boy who dreams of doing more than brushing the unibrows of his unicows. Julia's a plucky adventurer...
Back at Bologna in person for networking, insights and ‘the inevitable spritz and gelato!’
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Berbay Books founder and publishing director Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke is set to visit Bologna for the 12th time. ‘Bologna is a key event on our calendar,’ she says. ‘For me, it’s...
Too Many Dogs (Maura Finn, illus Lucinda Gifford, Affirm)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Too Many Dogs is a charming and light-hearted picture book from the creative pairing behind Too Many Cats that explores what it means to be top dog. In their new collaboration,...
Nightingale (Laura Elvery, UQP)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Grounded in history and buoyed by Laura Elvery’s elegant, moving prose, Nightingale is a fictional reimagining of the near-mythic figure of Florence Nightingale, told in three parts. The first and...
Viet Kieu: Recipes Remembered from Vietnam (Thi Le, Murdoch)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
‘Viet Kieu’ is a Vietnamese term used for people of Vietnamese heritage who were raised and are living in the diaspora. In Viet Kieu: Recipes remembered from Vietnam, Thi Le,...
Diggers, Dozers, and Dumpers (Ole Könnecke, Gecko)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Picture books about machinery are always a hit, but they don’t always deliver an engaging narrative – this one does, seamlessly blending fiction with nonfiction. Diggers, Dozers, and Dumpers, written...
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