Family Tree (Josh Pyke, illus by Ronojoy Ghosh, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Family Tree shares the beauty of life through the growth of a tree, one that unites families and communities around the world, spreading joy, love and spirit—and it all starts...
New Reilly novel debuts in top spot
Friday, 22 October 2021
Matthew Reilly’s latest novel, The One Impossible Labyrinth, has debuted at number one on this week’s bestsellers chart, ending the four-week streak of Liane Moriarty’s Apples Never Fall in top...
Books in the media this weekend
Friday, 22 October 2021
This week’s round-up will be updated as data is available. National The Saturday Paper The Brumby Wars (Anthony Sharwood, Hachette) Devotion (Hannah Kent, Picador) Search History (Eugene Lim, Coffee House...
Books in the media this weekend
Friday, 15 October 2021
This week’s round-up will be updated as data is available. National The Saturday Paper Cop (Valentin Gendrot, trans by Frank Wynne, Scribe) Currowan (Bronwyn Adcock, Black Inc.) Scary Monsters (Michelle...
Grohl’s ‘The Storyteller’ debuts at number two
Friday, 15 October 2021
Liane Moriarty's novel Apples Never Fall is spending its fourth consecutive week at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart, followed by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl's memoir The Storyteller,...
Sales and Crabb enter top 10 at number two
Friday, 8 October 2021
All of this week’s five highest new entries have cracked the top 10 overall bestsellers list, as the Christmas big names begin to hit the shelves. Yotam Ottolenghi’s latest, Ottolenghi...
Booktober
Friday, 8 October 2021
Booktober from WestWords is the lockdown friendly fundraising event helping turn the page on literary disadvantage in Greater Western Sydney. WestWords is partnering with Booktopia for the second year in...
Books in the media this weekend
Friday, 8 October 2021
This week’s round-up will be updated as data is available. National The Saturday Paper Bodies of Light (Jennifer Down, Text) Love & Virtue (Diana Reid, Ultimo) Philosophy for Spiders: On the low theory...
Books in the media this weekend
Friday, 1 October 2021
This week's round-up will be updated as data is available. National The Saturday Paper Bewilderment (Richard Powers, William Heinemann) Permafrost (S J Norman, UQP) Signs and Wonders (Delia Falconer, S&S)...
Moriarty, Rooney top charts as adult fiction dominates
Friday, 1 October 2021
For the second week in a row, Liane Moriarty’s latest novel Apples Never Fall and Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You are in first and second spot respectively on...
‘Magical Australian light’: Rights successes and recent titles from Australian illustrated nonfiction publishers
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Australia’s leading publisher of books on the visual arts, Thames & Hudson Australia, has been publishing—and exporting—local titles for many years. ‘We find there is a real thirst for Australian...
Exploring the natural world: Australian picture books and children’s nonfiction with an environmental theme
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Australian artist and mother of three Kat Macleod was inspired by the challenge of entertaining small children during lockdown to create her first picture book for Thames & Hudson Australia....
YA, graphic novels among recent international sales
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Lisa Fuller’s multi-award-winning YA novel Ghost Bird (UQP), which previously won the David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer, has been sold to UK independent publisher Old Barn Books...
Debut buzz: new authors attract major deals
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
A number of debuts have been picked up by Australian publishers in recent months amid significant buzz. Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to two crime novels by Canberra debut...
‘Ginnie & Pinney’ educational children’s series optioned for TV
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Big Sky Publishing’s educational children’s series Ginnie & Pinney, Learn & Grow has been optioned for development as a television series by Australian animation studio Moody Street Productions. Created by...
Modern families, joy and koalas: latest nonfiction acquisitions
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
A new acquisition at NewSouth Publishing offers a ‘meticulously researched and highly accessible deep-dive’ into 21st-century families. The publisher has acquired ANZ rights to Kin: Family in the 21st century...
Williams, Pape, Bluey top Australian bestsellers 2021 YTD
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams has topped the Australian fiction bestsellers for the year to date (YTD), selling more than 66,000 copies in 2021 so far, edging...
Uplit dominates recent fiction acquisitions
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to two uplifting ‘family dramedies’ by Toni Jordan, author of numerous award-winning, bestselling novels, including Addition, Nine Days and Our Tiny, Useless Hearts (all...
Lohrey wins Miles Franklin Literary Award for seventh novel
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Amanda Lohrey has won Australia’s prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award for her seventh novel The Labyrinth (Text), ‘the work of a major novelist at the peak of her powers’, according...
Uplit, environment trending ahead of Frankfurt
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
While Frankfurt returns as an in-person fair this year, Australian rights managers and literary agents will be participating virtually once again as international travel remains difficult for those of us...
The bigger picture: Australian books respond to climate change
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
It’s hard to find a theme more urgent in publishing today—and one that unites fiction and nonfiction—than climate change. Australian independent publisher Black Inc. has been particularly active in publishing...
Meet literary agent Martin Shaw
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Since moving from Australia to Germany in 2015, former book buyer Martin Shaw has established himself as a literary agent, first as ‘an understudy’ to Alex Adsett, and subsequently as...
Evie and Rhino
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
When Evie finds a fully-grown rhinoceros washed up on a beach, she feels an immediate connection and knows she has to help him. When Rhino wakes, he knows that the...
How We Love
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. This lyrical memoir explores love in...
Gustav and Henri: Volume #1
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Opposites attract in this humorous graphic novel series about best friends Gustav and Henri. Gustav is a goofy, optimistic and naively enthusiastic pig. Henri is a grounded, pragmatic and quietly...
Bluey, Wolf Girl dominate Aus children’s bestsellers YTD
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
The Australian children’s year to date (YTD) charts continue to be dominated by Bluey, so much so that Nielsen Book Australia has provided the children’s data with Bluey titles removed....
Moriarty debuts at number one
Monday, 27 September 2021
Liane Moriarty’s latest novel Apples Never Fall has debuted in the top spot on this week’s bestseller charts, pushing Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You down to number two....
Books in the media this weekend
Friday, 24 September 2021
In a new weekly feature for booksellers, Books+Publishing rounds up the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Believe in Me (Lucy Neave,...
Williams, Pape top Aus bestseller charts YTD
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams has topped the Australian fiction bestsellers for the year to date (YTD), selling more than 66,000 copies in 2021 so far, edging...
Devotion (Hannah Kent, Picador)
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
When Hanne meets Thea, her life suddenly makes sense. They live in Kay, a tight-knit community of devout Lutherans who have been shunned for their beliefs. Both girls, on the...
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