The Collected Regrets of Clover (Mikki Brammer, Viking)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
The Collected Regrets of Clover is the heartwarming debut novel by Australian author and journalist Mikki Brammer. Set in New York, the book centres on Clover Brooks, a socially isolated...
Naked Ambition (Robert Gott, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Gregory Buchanan is an up-and-coming state politician with a healthy dose of self-regard. A blithe spirit, he commissions career artist Sophie White to capture his portrait. The sitting takes an unusual...
Icebreaker debuts in top 10
Monday, 27 February 2023
Top 10 bestsellers RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Someone Else’s Shoes (Jojo Moyes, Michael Joseph) It Starts with Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Spare (Prince Harry, Bantam) Icebreaker (Hannah Grace,...
Books in the media this weekend: 25–26 February
Friday, 24 February 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Book of Falling (David McCooey, Black Inc.) Fog (Tom Petsinis,...
The Party Wish (The Wish Sisters Book 1)
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Imagine if your baby sister could make wishes come true… Flick has just found out her little sister has a special gift. Birdie has wished for a super-fabulous unicorn party...
The Garden at the End of the World
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
When Isla makes a special discovery, she and her botanist mother adventure to the Global Seed Vault in Norway. Isla is going to leave her precious package there, so children...
Australian children’s and YA bestsellers for 2023 YTD
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Ahead of the Bologna Book Fair we look at bestselling children's and YA Australian titles for the year to date. Once again, the brand's dominance means Bluey titles have been...
Secret Agent Mole, Book 1: Goldfishfinger
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Max Mole is a mole on a mission. With Helena Hippo and June Bug by his side, Max must stop the evil Goldfishfinger from stealing a priceless solid gold piece...
Cat on the Run, Episode 1: Cat of Death!
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Back before the BAD GUYS went good, someone was in even BIGGER TROUBLE ... What happens when the WORLD’S BIGGEST CAT VIDEO STAR gets accused of a crime she didn’t...
Say Hooray
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
This fantastic, colourful read-aloud has been designed to captivate babies and celebrate their every move. We know from research that the more senses you engage while reading to bubs, the...
Timeless
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Emit (whose parents turned back time to name him) is surrounded by busyness. Dad is too busy to read stories, Mum is too busy to play games and Emit’s brother...
Non-Essential Work (Omar Sakr, UQP)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Omar Sakr’s work is polished to a razor-sharp point in his third poetry collection. As expected, Non-Essential Work contends with notions around identities outside the white and heteronormative. But rather...
I Had a Father in Karratha (Annette Trevitt, Upswell)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
When her father dies, Annette Trevitt spends two-and-a-half years organising the detritus of his life in a remote WA mining town. I Had a Father in Karratha is a memoir...
Dragons of Hallow #1: Spellhound (Lian Tanner, illus by Sally Soweol Han, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Lian Tanner is well known for her middle grade fantasy series, including The Keepers and The Rogues. Her latest is the first in a new series, set in the intriguing...
West Side Honey (Claire Christian, Text)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Claire Christian’s novel West Side Honey serves up everything you’d want from a bingeable, indulgent rom-com, all the while remaining original and exciting. When she and her ex-husband start a...
Between You and Me (Joanna Horton, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Numerous authors have invited comparisons to Sally Rooney, and Between You and Me undoubtedly will too. Similar to Frances and Bobbi in Rooney’s breakthrough debut Conversations with Friends, 25-year-old best...
We love books for kids
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Coming to you from a country that has seen sales of children's books boom in recent years, we are so pleased to share news and new books from the world...
Who’s at Bologna? Come meet them at the party!
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Publishers attending the Bologna book fair in person on the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Collective Stand are Allen & Unwin, Berbay Publishing, CSIRO Publishing, Five Mile, Hardie Grant Children's...
The Australian publishers shortlisted for the 2023 Bologna Prize
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Australian publishers Affirm Press, EK Books, Magabala Books, Starfish Bay and Wilkins Farago have been shortlisted in this year’s Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the...
2022 Australian Market Overview
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
The Australian book market is trading well above the last pre-Covid year of 2019 after three consecutive years of growth. Sales of books in Australia grew 7.2% last year to...
First Nations YA to look out for
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
A debut young adult title by Lystra Rose, a descendant of the Guugu Yimithirr, Birri Gubba, Erub and Scottish nations, took out the prestigious $25,000 Indigenous writing prize in the...
Junior and middle-grade fiction offerings
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
In junior fiction on offer at Bologna this year, Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has Monsties: The Lost Bunny (Zanni Louise & Kyla May) featuring Orla, Pearl, Mig, Boo and Oops—five...
Pitching pictures at Bologna
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Experiences in nature fill many of the picture books on offer from Australian publishers at Bologna this year. Thank you rain! (Sally Morgan & Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr, Magabala Books) is...
The fascinating truth: Nonfiction titles on offer at Bologna
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
In nonfiction the 'long-awaited' picture book Your Brain is a Lump of Goo from Idan Ben-Barak (A&U), the award-winning author of Do Not Lick This Book, and Christopher Nielsen. It explores...
Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Among the latest children's and YA acquisitions by Australian publishers: Children's Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired two books by Maxine Beneba Clarke. Releasing in June 2023, It’s the...
Baby boom: The growth of children’s and young adult market
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Children’s and young adult (CYA) titles have been driving the growth of the Australian book market in the past year, with titles like Heartstopper, Bluey and The Bad Guys becoming...
Australian titles with international appeal
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Discover the latest rights opportunities from Australian publishers and literary agents participating in the Australian Collective Stand at Bologna. View the Stand Catalogue here, featuring over 50 children’s and YA...
Award winners
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Lystra Rose has won the $25,000 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her YA debut novel The Upwelling (Hachette Australia), while We Who Hunt the Hollow (Kate Murray, HGCP)...
Graphic novel researcher: ‘Australian publishers are hungry for titles’
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Sophie Splatt, an editor of books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin for the past decade, is the Australian Publishers Association's (APA) 2023 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow....
Spotlight on Annabel Barker
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
The launch of your own agency was quickly followed by the pandemic; how did that affect what you were pitching and how you were making deals? Like others, I had...
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