Publisher picks: Australian junior and middle-grade fiction
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers at Bologna name the junior and middle-grade fiction titles they expect to gain international interest at the fair. On the eve of Bologna, Annabel Barker Agency announced that...
Publisher picks: Australian YA
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers pick their top YA offerings. Carey Schroeter, rights and international sales manager, books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin (A&U), will be attending Bologna in...
Publisher picks: Australian nonfiction children’s books
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers offer not one but two Dogs with Jobs children’s books, among a range of nonfiction titles on offer at Bologna. We suppose publishers must be onto something when...
Australian children’s and YA award winners
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Read on for recent Australian award winners in children’s and young adult literature. Illustrated children’s titles For the first time in the history of the prestigious Victorian Premier's Literary Awards,...
Australian children’s and YA bestsellers YTD
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Top 10 Australian YA fiction Cruel Is the Light (Sophie Clark, Penguin) 5.0K I Am Not Jessica Chen (Ann Liang, Harlequin Teen) 2.0K Immortal Dark (Tigest Girma, Lothian) 1.8K My...
Market report: Australian publishers on Christmas sales trends and the year ahead
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Each year, Think Australian’s sister publication Books+Publishing surveys publishers to see how Christmas matched up with their expectations and what they expect from the year ahead. This year, while one...
‘Why I’ll be at LBF’: Meet the Australians attending in 2025
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Meet the Australian visitors – both seasoned and brand new – attending LBF this year. In her nine years at Australian independent Allen & Unwin, Wenona Byrne (Creative Australia director,...
Publishers’ top picks: Australian fiction
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
A new publisher, a new literary agency and the Australian fiction on offer at LBF. Members of newest Australian literary agency on the block, a4 Literary – for which former...
Publishers’ picks: Australian nonfiction
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Food and family, AI, and escaping a cult: The Australian nonfiction publishers have high hopes for at LBF Sandra Buol, rights and international sales manager at Australian independent Allen &...
Introducing Pink Shorts Press: recent Australian acquisitions
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
With Australia’s independent publisher count recently dropping significantly – thanks to the acquisitions of Pantera Press by Hardie Grant and Text Publishing by Penguin Random House following hot on the...
Winners who keep winning: Australian awards news
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Repeat winners, internationally recognised authors and the latest winners of Australian manuscript prizes As reported in the previous edition of Think Australian, Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) has already won the...
Australian bestsellers in 2024
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Top 10 Australian adult fiction bestsellers Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan), 157K Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 80K Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate)*, 64K...
Australian market news: Publishers welcome survival of key online bookseller
Thursday, 26 September 2024
As the Australian book trade approaches the crucial Christmas bookselling period, publishers do so with some relief that a key local channel to market has survived to sell books in...
Australian fiction and poetry at Frankfurt
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Australian publishers are excited to pitch a wide range of fiction titles this year, including major award winners, debuts and follow-ups, in genres ranging from complex literary works to page-turning...
Nonfiction at Frankfurt
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Australian publishers are heading to Frankfurt with plenty of nonfiction titles on offer, from poetic memoirs to vibrant art books. Below, they share highlights they look forward to pitching at...
Australian CYA at Frankfurt
Thursday, 26 September 2024
An array of books—from those for young children to those on the cusp of adulthood, and with subjects ranging from axolotls to ultra-villains—are set to feature among publishers' CYA pitches...
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
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...
Who from Australia is at Bologna? Come and say hello at the Australian Stand party
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
In this Bologna Book Fair issue of Think Australian, we introduce you to Nicola Robinson, who will be attending Bologna for the first time, representing the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. See...
Australian publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Australian publishers Affirm Press, Fremantle Press and Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing have been shortlisted for this year’s Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania...
2023 Australian market overview
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Overall, the book market was down in Australia in 2023 by 2.1% in value and 1.7% in volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookData’s BookScan service. However, sales in 2023...
Nonfiction children’s titles on offer at Bologna
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
From Walker Books, I Wonder ‘explores how curiosity leads us to knowledge’ in a book by Philip Bunting, ‘the master of inviting us to ponder questions without definitive answers’. Other...
Picture books being pitched at Bologna
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
First Nations publisher Magabala, winner of the 2023 Bologna Prize for the Oceania region, is excited: ‘The release of a book by bestselling and award-winning author Gregg Dreise is always...
Junior and middle-grade titles on offer at Bologna
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Junior Affirm Press describes its junior fiction title Forbidden Journal of Rufus Rumble #1: Worst Space Crew Ever (Nick Long, illus by Robin Tatlow-Lord) as Diary of A Wimpy Kid...
Young adult titles on offer at Bologna
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
From First Nations publisher Magabala Books, winner of last year's Bologna Prize for the Oceania region, comes a young adult novel ‘and gripping thriller’ Robert Runs by Mariah Sweetman, winner...
Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Among the latest children’s and YA acquisitions by Australian publishers: Junior Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Landovel, a three-part junior fantasy adventure story from Emily Rodda....
Award winners to look out for
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Illustrated books Open Your Heart to Country by Dharug author/illustrator Jasmine Seymour (Magabala) won in the children’s category of the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (PMLAs) and is described by Books+Publishing...
