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Australian bestsellers 2024 YTD

Thursday, 26 September 2024
Top 10 Australian adult fiction titles YTD Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 68k Boy Swallows Universe* (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 56k What Happened to Nina? (Dervla McTiernan,...

Australian authors recommend

Thursday, 26 September 2024
Australian creators tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Michelle de Kretser won the Miles Franklin twice, for The Life to Come and Questions...

Latest acquisitions: Fiction and poetry

Thursday, 26 September 2024
Among the new Australian fiction signed this year are books from familiar names, debut works, manuscript prize winners, titles signed at competitive auctions, and a good dose of romantasy. Fiction...

Latest acquisitions: Nonfiction

Thursday, 26 September 2024
First Nations reportage, moving memoir, cooking, sport and Drag Queens Down Under—read all about Australian publishers’ recent nonfiction acquisitions. S&S imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to...

Latest acquisitions: Children’s and YA

Thursday, 26 September 2024
See what Australian publishers have been signing recently in children's and YA. Animals Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to Bindi Irwin’s debut picture book, titled You Are a...

Award winners to look out for

Cover of Praiseworthy Thursday, 26 September 2024
Fiction Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) won the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the $60,000 Stella Prize, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) fiction book award...

Meet the Australian publishers at this year’s fair!

Thursday, 26 September 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) stand at Frankfurt this year will feature 14 publishers, with an additional seven to appear on the APA Virtual Australian Collective Stand. Appearing on the...

Books in the media this weekend, 28–29 September 

Thursday, 26 September 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper Cherrywood (Jock Serong, Fourth Estate) The Great Divide (Alan Kohler, Quarterly Essay)...

Bigfoot vs Yeti

Wednesday, 25 September 2024
The Bigfoot and Yeti have been enemies for as long as anyone can remember, living on opposite sides of an enormous rift—too wide to cross—too deep to fathom. But when...

After the Great Storm

Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Forty-year-old Alice Kaczmarek has lost so much. She wants a baby, but her husband, Daniel, is serving a life sentence, accused of orchestrating an accident on Sydney’s new transport system....

Australian titles with international appeal

Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Discover the latest rights opportunities from Australian publishers participating in the Australian Collective Stand at Frankfurt. View the stand catalogue here, featuring a range of fiction, nonfiction and children’s titles...

The Thinning (Inga Simpson, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
In Inga Simpson’s The Thinning, Fin has grown up in a world long past its tipping point. Daughter to an astronomer father and an astrophotographer mother, Fin knows everything about...

Extreme Animal Facts (Jennifer Cossins, Lothian) 

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Animal books are big business as toddlers to tweens revel in discovering quirky titbits about earth’s creatures. Standing out in a saturated book field is no easy task, but CBCA...

Leave the Girls Behind (Jacqueline Bublitz, A&U) 

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Ruth-Ann Baker, affectionately known as ‘Ruthie’ to those around her, never takes the same route home, secures her apartment with three internal chain locks and can recite murder victim statistics...

‘Nexus’ debuts on the charts 

Friday, 20 September 2024
Top 10 bestsellers Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) Daydream (Hannah Grace, S&S) It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Wild Eyes (Elsie Silver, Piatkus) Passions in Death (J D...

Books in the media this weekend, 21–22 September 

Friday, 20 September 2024
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 Cactus...

Down the Rabbit Hole (Shaeden Berry, Echo) 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
In Shaeden Berry’s mystery debut, Down the Rabbit Hole, the lives of three women unravel in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 2015, Alice Montgomery goes missing. Seven years later,...

Vegan Italian Food (Shannon Martinez, Hardie Grant) 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Prolific vegan chef and restauranteur Shannon Martinez’s fourth cookbook, Vegan Italian Food, is anything but conventional, but she promises she’s not out to shock your nonna. Martinez is a Spanish Australian...

Molly (Rosalie Ham, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Molly is a riveting prequel to The Dressmaker from much-loved Australian author Rosalie Ham, and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel. Set in the inner-city suburbs of Melbourne in...

Books in the media this weekend, 14–15 September 

Friday, 13 September 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Creation Lake (Rachel Kushner, Jonathan Cape) Diving, Falling (Kylie Mirmohamadi, Scribe)...

 

 

 

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