Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Lisa Fuller is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, and is also descended from Gooreng Gooreng and Wakka Wakka peoples. Her debut YA novel Ghost Bird won numerous awards...
Meet the publisher: Nicola Robinson at the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
After a ‘varied career in educational and trade—both kids and adult—publishing’ Nicola Robinson is ‘now lucky enough to head up the publishing team at the Indigenous Literacy Foundation’ (ILF), which...
Australian authors recommend
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Australian creators tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Anton Clifford-Motopi is the debut author of the novel To and Fro (Allen & Unwin...
Latest acquisitions: Children’s and YA
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Christmas Press has acquired world rights to Leaf Letters, a junior fiction title by author-illustrator Lorena Carrington. Christmas Press publishing director Sophie Masson said, ‘Told in words and pictures, this...
Come to the Australia party!
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Ahead of this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, here is your chance to see the titles that will be on offer from Australian publishers! See the Australian Publishers Association's 2023 Australian...
Australian book market overview: 2023 so far
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
After three consecutive years of growth, the Australian book market flattened out in 2023. In the year to 17 June 2023, Australian book sales totalled $548 million, up 0.6% on...
Epics, experiments, escapism, excellence: Australian fiction at Frankfurt
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Several prize-winning Australian authors will have new novels showcased at the fair. Waanyi (First Nations) author Alexis Wright, who is the only writer to have won both the Stella Prize...
From literary memoir to survival in a broken world: Australian nonfiction at Frankfurt
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
From literary memoir to survival in a broken world, from bookshop dogs to Sam Kerr's World Cup journey, these are the nonfiction titles publishers are most looking forward to pitching...
Authenticity, truth, wonder: Australian children’s and young adult titles at Frankfurt
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Picture books Allen & Unwin is showcasing Footprint by Phil Cummings (March 2024), a lyrical picture book that ‘empowers children to think about the natural environment in a mindful and...
Local titles selling overseas
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Since the industry last gathered for a major rights fair, titles from Australian publishers have continued to sell into international markets, with a range of new and established authors’ works...
Rights sales: Screen
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Among recent book to screen adaptations, Cognito Entertainment, a new independent film and television production company in the United States, has optioned Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm) for...
Latest acquisitions: Fiction
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Among the new fiction signed by Australian publishers this year are books by several authors trying something new. Echo has acquired world rights to Katrina Kell’s first novel for adults,...
Latest acquisitions: Nonfiction
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Hachette Australia announced last year that it would enter a publishing scout partnership with screenwriter, author and broadcaster Benjamin Law. The results are now materialising, with adult nonfiction publisher Sophie...
Chandran wins Miles Franklin, Wright honoured for Lifetime Achievement
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Tamil Australian author Shankari Chandran won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, for her third novel, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo). The book explores...
Introducing Key People
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Earlier this year, publishing professionals Lou Johnson and Jeanne Ryckmans set up a new literary agency, Key People Literary Management. With a connection going back to their time as colleagues...
Latest acquisitions: Nonfiction
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by journalist and activist Melinda Ham, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. The Lucky Ones is about refugees...
Latest acquisitions: Fiction
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to One Divine Night by Mick Cummins, the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (VPLA) for an unpublished manuscript, in a deal brokered...
London calling
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Ahead of this year's London Book Fair (LBF), in this issue of Think Australian we once again round up the latest rights sales and acquisitions from Australia, as well as...
Stories to tell: Australian fiction on offer at LBF
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Following on from recent deals for her work in the UK and US, multi-award-winning writer Alexis Wright is the ‘top author’ for publisher Giramondo at this year’s London Book Fair....
Get your facts here: Australian nonfiction on offer at LBF
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Forensic psychologist Ahona Guha’s groundbreaking book Reclaim: Understanding complex trauma and those who abuse (Scribe) will ‘broaden and expand your thinking, whether you are a trauma survivor, someone who loves...
Australian market: Christmas 2022 sales up but booksellers look to challenging year ahead
Thursday, 6 April 2023
According to booksellers surveyed by Books+Publishing for its annual post-Christmas survey, there was a bump in book sales in the lead-up to Christmas 2022 compared to the previous year. Booksellers...
Australian titles selling internationally
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Fiction sales Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days by Alice Pung to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia. Shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, One Hundred Days is Pung’s...
Latest acquisitions: Children’s and YA
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a new five-book series by Amelia Mellor as well as the third novel in Mellor’s series that began with The Grandest Bookshop in the...
De Kretser, Parker-Chan internationally recognised
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Australian authors recognised recently with international awards include Michelle de Kretser, who won the fiction category of the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U), and Shelley...
We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Think Australian talks to author Debra Dank, whose debut memoir is in the running for three NSW Premier’s awards and the Stella Prize, about the...
For the kids: Australian children’s and YA on offer at LBF
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Winner of the 2022 Text Prize, Let's Never Speak of This Again by Megan Williams (Text) is a ‘big-hearted YA debut’, which celebrates ‘the depth and strength of friendship through all of...
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...
