The Trespassers (Meg Mundell, UQP)
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Meg Mundell’s second novel has been hotly anticipated since her debut, Black Glass, showed her to be a writer of extraordinary imaginative prowess, with a commitment to exploring themes of...
The Wooleen Way: Renewing an Australian resource (David Pollock, Scribe)
Thursday, 27 June 2019
David Pollock, a second-generation pastoralist from Western Australia, describes a wicked environmental problem in his memoir The Wooleen Way. Animals produced for food—beef in particular—eat native grasses and plants, degrading...
Going Under (Sonia Henry, A&U)
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Dr Kitty Holliday has just started her internship at a Sydney hospital and is struggling to stay afloat. The problem isn’t just the long hours or the emotional drain of...
Sand Talk: How Indigenous thinking can save the world (Tyson Yunkaporta, Text)
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Tyson Yunkaporta is a researcher, academic and arts critic. With ties to the Apalech clan in Far North Queensland, Yunkaporta combines his lived experiences and academic interests in this innovative...
Here Until August (Josephine Rowe, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 27 June 2019
A man reflects on a life-changing act his brother committed many years ago; a cab driver in America picks up a mysterious passenger who wants to be driven over the...
Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing (David Leser, A&U)
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Following on from his article 'Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing', which was published in Good Weekend magazine in early 2018, journalist David Leser once again positions himself at...
Bewildered (Laura Waters, Affirm)
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Bewildered, a memoir by Laura Waters about hiking the Te Araroa Trail in New Zealand, will inevitably invite comparisons to Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. On a surface level, there are some...
Meet Me at Lennon’s (Melanie Myers, UQP)
Thursday, 27 June 2019
In her debut novel, Melanie Myers delves into an under-explored area of Brisbane history: the influx of US soldiers during World War II and how their presence affected the social...
The Rich Man’s House (Andrew McGahan, A&U)
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Andrew McGahan’s posthumously published The Rich Man’s House reads like an earlier draft of a more mature work. Though its premise of a billionaire who builds his home inside the...
May bestsellers: ‘Alpacas with Maracas’ tops picture book chart
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Over one million children in schools, libraries and bookshops across Australia participated in this year’s National Simultaneous Storytime on 22 May, so it was no surprise to see the chosen...
Bestsellers: Gilbert’s ‘City of Girls’ enters top 10
Monday, 24 June 2019
This week's bestseller chart is looking very similar to last week's, with Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) topping the chart for the third week running, followed by both...
ANU launches Australian Common Reader database
Friday, 21 June 2019
Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have launched a searchable database of Australian library records spanning 1861 to 1928. The Australian Common Reader website provides a snapshot of the...
YA debut ‘What I Like About Me’ sold to US and France
Thursday, 20 June 2019
US and Canadian rights and French-language rights have been sold to Jenna Guillaume’s YA debut What I Like About Me (Pan) to Peachtree Publishing and Pocket Jeunesse, respectively. What I Like About...
YA books shortlisted for Readings Prize
Thursday, 20 June 2019
The shortlist has been announced for the Readings Young Adult Prize, presented by the Australian independent bookseller for debut or second YA books. The shortlisted titles are: Highway Bodies (Alison...
Landmark Aboriginal Australian history gets a young readers edition
Thursday, 20 June 2019
First published in 2014, Bruce Pascoe’s landmark history of Aboriginal Australians pre-European colonisation, Dark Emu, will now reach a younger readership with the release of a young readers edition, Young...
‘Alpacas with Maracas’ tops Australian picture book bestsellers chart
Thursday, 20 June 2019
Over one million children in schools, libraries and bookshops across Australia participated in this year’s National Simultaneous Storytime on 22 May, so it was no surprise to see the chosen...
May bestsellers: ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ still on top
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
Trent Dalton’s multi-award-winning Boy Swallows Universe remains at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in May, while Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor shows no signs of relinquishing the...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Eadie Allen from the Sun Bookshop
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
In the lead-up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2019 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for the Young Bookseller of the Year award ahead of the winner announcement on...
Bestsellers: ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ number one for second week running
Monday, 17 June 2019
This week, Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) spends its second consecutive week at number one on the bestseller chart, followed by both of Mark Manson's nonfiction books, Everything is...
Stella Prize-winning memoir sold to US, Canada
Friday, 14 June 2019
US and Canadian rights to the Stella Prize-winning memoir The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie (Fourth Estate) have sold to Knopf and Doubleday Canada, respectively. The Erratics follows two daughters who return home to Canada...
Australian books heading for the screen, crime writers bound for the US
Friday, 14 June 2019
As season two of the TV series Big Little Lies—adapted from Liane Moriarty’s bestseller of the same name—premieres this month, progress is being made on a number of other screen...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Friday, 14 June 2019
Trent Dalton’s multi-award-winning Boy Swallows Universe—now in the running for the Miles Franklin Literary Award—remains at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in May, while Scott Pape’s The...
Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist announced
Friday, 14 June 2019
The longlist for the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette), Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text), Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), A...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Aisling Lawless from Dymocks Joondalup
Friday, 14 June 2019
In the lead-up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2019 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for the Young Bookseller of the Year award ahead of...
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Kate Adams from Better Read Than Dead
Wednesday, 12 June 2019
In the lead-up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2019 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for the Young Bookseller of the Year award ahead of...
Bestsellers: ‘Dark Emu’ and ‘Young Dark Emu’ in charts
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) has reclaimed the top spot on this week's bestseller chart, relegating last week's number one, Everything is F*cked (Mark Manson, HarperCollins), to second....
Meet the ABA Young Booksellers of the Year: Simon McDonald from Potts Point Bookshop
Friday, 7 June 2019
In the lead-up to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) 2019 conference, Books+Publishing spoke to each of the five shortlisted nominees for the Young Bookseller of the Year award ahead of...
Nervous laughter: Nina Kenwood on ‘It Sounded Better in My Head’
Thursday, 6 June 2019
Nina Kenwood won the 2018 Text Prize for her YA debut It Sounded Better in My Head (Text, August), which follows neurotic 18-year-old Natalie as she navigates first love during...
It Sounded Better in My Head (Nina Kenwood, Text)
Thursday, 6 June 2019
Natalie is caught in-between: between year 12 exams and uni results, between her parents’ slow-motion divorce, between her two best friends, Zach and Lucy, who have been dating for a...
Bitsy (Nicki Greenberg, Affirm Kids)
Thursday, 6 June 2019
We all know that bats are nocturnal creatures, but writer/illustrator Nicki Greenberg’s latest picture book takes this fact and subverts it: her bat, Bitsy, dares to behave differently from its...
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