YA graphic novel ‘Heartstopper’ climbs to number four
Monday, 9 May 2022
Top 10 bestsellers The Bad Guys #15: Open Wide and Say Arrrgh! (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) Cat Kid Comic Club #3: On Purpose (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) It Ends With Us (Colleen...
Books in the media this weekend, 7–8 May
Friday, 6 May 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Bedtime Story (Chloe Hooper, S&S) Here Goes Nothing (Steve Toltz, Hamish...
Blue Hour (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sarah Schmidt’s second novel, following her award-winning debut See What I Have Done, is an intensely absorbing emotional journey through motherhood and trauma set against the turbulent 20th century. In...
The Angry Women’s Choir (Meg Bignell, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
When going through tough times in life you often turn to any solace you can find, sometimes discovering it in the unlikeliest of places. For Freycinet Barnes that solace just...
‘Cat Kid #3’ reaches number one
Monday, 2 May 2022
Top 10 bestsellers Cat Kid Comic Club #3: On Purpose (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Dream Town (David Baldacci, Macmillan) Verity (Colleen Hoover, Sphere)...
Books in the media this weekend, 30 April – 1 May
Friday, 29 April 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Elizabeth Finch (Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape) Jack of Hearts: QX11594 (Jackie...
‘Cat Kid #3’ moves up to number three
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Top 10 bestsellers Bluey: More Easter fun! (Puffin) Bluey: Easter (Puffin) Cat Kid Comic Club #3: On Purpose (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Dream...
Books in the media this weekend, 23–24 April
Friday, 22 April 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Keeping Them Honest (Stephen Charles & Catherine Williams, Scribe) Other Houses...
‘Bluey: Easter’ at number one six weeks running
Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Top 10 bestsellers Bluey: Easter (Puffin) Bluey: More Easter fun!: A craft book (Puffin) Dream Town (David Baldacci, Macmillan) Wings of Fire #15: The Flames of Hope (Tui T Sutherland,...
New Baldacci thriller debuts at number seven
Monday, 11 April 2022
Top 10 bestsellers Bluey: Easter (Puffin) Bluey: More Easter fun! (Puffin) Wings of Fire #15: The Flames of Hope (Tui T Sutherland, Scholastic) It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover,...
Books in the media this weekend, 9–10 April
Friday, 8 April 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Auē (Becky Manawatu, Scribe) The Burnished Sun (Mirandi Riwoe, UQP) Judith...
Film adaptation puts ‘Crawdads’ back in top 10
Monday, 4 April 2022
Top 10 bestsellers Bluey: Easter (Puffin) Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens, Corsair) Bluey: More Easter fun! (Puffin) Run Rose Run (Dolly Parton & James Patterson, Century) It Ends...
It’s good to be back
Friday, 1 April 2022
After more than two years attending rights fairs virtually, several Australian publishers will be attending the 2022 London Book Fair (LBF) in person next week. 'We’re excited to attend LBF...
Moriarty, Dalton top Australian fiction, nonfiction charts YTD
Friday, 1 April 2022
Trent Dalton, whose 2018 debut Boy Swallows Universe remains in the top 10 Australian fiction bestsellers over three years after its publication, is at the top of Australian nonfiction charts...
Bios, how-tos, hybrid memoirs: recent nonfiction acquisitions in Aus
Friday, 1 April 2022
A biography of Australian surfer Owen Wright (world rights acquired by S&S Australia) tells the story of the surfer’s recovery after a serious brain injury ahead of the Pipeline Masters...
Framed
Friday, 1 April 2022
In this gripping art heist thriller, art conservator JJ Jego spots a long-lost masterpiece through the window of a luxury apartment – what she believes is a priceless Van Gogh...
Koalas, climate and real-life ‘Succession’: Australian nonfiction offerings at LBF
Friday, 1 April 2022
Of all the titles being pitched at LBF, perhap the most instantly recognisable as Australian is forthcoming nonfiction title Koala by biologist Danielle Clode (Black Inc., September), which promises ‘an...
Australian book market overview 2021
Friday, 1 April 2022
After a pandemic-fuelled record year in 2020—during which sales of books in Australia grew 7.8% to A$1.25 billion (unit sales for the year were 67 million) according to Nielsen BookScan—in 2021,...
Fiction acquisitions: debuts, familiar names and plenty of two-book deals
Friday, 1 April 2022
Among recent acquisitions are a spate of two-book deals. MacLehose Press, an imprint of Hachette-owned UK publisher Quercus, has acquired world rights to two new novels by Australian author Peter...
Australian authors recommend
Friday, 1 April 2022
Australian authors tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Hayley Scrivenor is the author of forthcoming crime novel Dirt Town (Macmillan, May). ‘I...
Aus crime wave continues: the fiction publishers are pitching at LBF
Friday, 1 April 2022
Australian publishing continues to ride a literary crime wave, with several local publishers bringing crime offerings to London. ‘We are delighted to share Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone in My Family Has...
Debut memoir wins Australia’s richest literary prize
Friday, 1 April 2022
In February this year, first-time author Veronica Gorrie took home Australia’s richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature at the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, for her memoir...
Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 April
Friday, 1 April 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper A History of Dreams (Jane Rawson, Brio) The Fish (Lloyd Jones,...
Moriarty, Dalton top Australian fiction, nonfiction charts YTD
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Trent Dalton, whose 2018 debut Boy Swallows Universe remains in the top 10 Australian fiction bestsellers over three years after its publication, is at the top of Australian nonfiction charts...
‘Bluey: Easter’ number one three weeks running
Monday, 28 March 2022
Top 10 bestsellers Bluey: Easter (Puffin) Run Rose Run (Dolly Parton & James Patterson, Century) Verity (Colleen Hoover, Sphere) It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Bluey: More Easter fun!...
Books in the media this weekend, 26–27 March
Friday, 25 March 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Childless (Sian Prior, Text) The Mirror Book (Charlotte Grimshaw, RHNZ Vintage)...
Parton & Patterson thriller debuts at number two
Monday, 21 March 2022
Top 10 bestsellers Bluey: Easter (Puffin) Run Rose Run (Dolly Parton & James Patterson, Century) It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) Verity (Colleen Hoover, Sphere) Again, Rachel (Marian Keyes,...
Books in the media this weekend, 19–20 March
Friday, 18 March 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Party (Stuart Macintyre, A&U) Skin Deep (Phillipa McGuinness, Vintage) Loop...
Alex and the Alpacas Ride Again
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
After saving the world from Kiala, the ancient spirit of destruction, Alex longs for more adventure—and the chance to feel special again. Compared to riding through the Tasmanian wilderness on...
Zombie Diaries #1: Apocalypse Cow!
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
The first book in a fast-paced comedy-adventure series set in a town called Buttburgher where all the adults start turning into zombie cows! Jimmy, Daisy and Hooey will have to...
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