My Brother Otto (Ingrid Laguna, Text)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
In My Brother Otto, Ingrid Laguna (Edie Tells a Lie) explores the emotional upheaval of welcoming and losing a new sibling. Quinn is 11 years old and happy being an...
Saving Shark Pup: The Incredible True Story (Sharon Dalgleish, illus Amandine Thomas, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Saving Shark Pup: The Incredible True Story is an intriguing and emotive retelling of a great white shark pup’s dramatic rescue from Manly Beach, sure to captivate readers aged 4...
Bugger (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Bugger by Michael Mohammed Ahmad (The Lebs, The Tribe) is a heart-wrenching investigation into child sex abuse. Its protagonist, Hamoodi, is an isolated 10-year-old who adores Power Rangers and lives...
How to Make Friends and Go Viral by Accident (YK Willemse, Rhiza Edge)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
The novella How to Make Friends and Go Viral by Accident by YK Willemse (Jerry’s Window) follows 13-year-old Hayden Connor as he struggles with a speech impediment and the anxiety...
Bush Tukka Guide for Kids (Samantha Martin, HG Explore)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Bush Tukka Guide for Kids by Samantha Martin, a descendant of the Jaru people, is an exceptional book about so much more than food. Known as the “Bush Tukka Woman”,...
Muttonfish Magic (Ruth Simms & Lucy Robertson, illus Jasmine Seymour, Magabala)
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Muttonfish Magic honours the Kameragyl and Bidjigal people, the traditional custodians of the land around Kamay (Botany Bay) and Guriwal (La Perouse). With sensory lyricism, Bidjigal Elder Ruth Simms and...
The Last Resort (Amanda Hewitt, Echo)
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Amanda Hewitt’s debut, The Last Resort, opens with Abbey, newly divorced and reeling from the end of her marriage, as she seeks solace in the Maldives. During a late-night swim,...
How to Get Home (Deborah Frenkel, illus Karen Blair, Affirm)
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
How to Get Home is a charming collaboration between author Deborah Frenkel (The Truck Cat) and illustrator Karen Blair (When I’m BIG, Train Party) that revels in the everyday words surrounding...
Might Cry Later (Kay Kerr, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
In Kay Kerr’s adult fiction debut, Might Cry Later, Nora Byrne is burnt out and struggling to reclaim herself after blowing up her life in Melbourne. By Christmas, she’s back...
Vampire Squid (Prema Arasu, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Prema Arasu’s debut poetry collection, Vampire Squid, is a profound exploration of mysterious deep-sea creatures and the humans who observe them. Written over 3 years during Arasu’s time at the...
The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial (Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper & Sarah Krasnostein, Text)
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial by Helen Garner (This House of Grief), Chloe Hooper (The Arsonist) and Sarah Krasnostein (The Trauma Cleaner) brings together 3 of...
Revelation Beach
Monday, 22 September 2025
When Eleanor Freeman’s enigmatic stepmother, Ida, dies in a suspicious fire, a lifetime of secrets begins to unravel. Was Ida an Indonesian spy entangled in the murders of the Balibo...
Archaeologies of Food in Australia
Monday, 22 September 2025
Twenty-first century Australia is obsessed with food. From cookbooks to television, we're surrounded by conversations about what and how we eat. This fixation highlights that food has always been central...
Patriots and Propaganda: Chinese Australians and the Politics of Loyalty, 1930s–1940s
Monday, 22 September 2025
During China's War of Resistance against Japan (1931–1945), a complex narrative unfolded in Australia. Patriots and Propaganda: Chinese Australians and the Politics of Loyalty, 1930s–1940s explores Chinese wartime propaganda efforts,...
Ferryman: The Life and Deathwork of Ephraim Finch
Monday, 22 September 2025
Ferryman is a powerful exploration of life, death, and community through the story of Ephraim Finch OAM—a deathworker and cultural custodian who served Melbourne’s Jewish community for over 30 years. Drawing...
Rights sales: Screen
Monday, 22 September 2025
Australia is set to star in a number of screen adaptations as international and local producers tap into talent down under. Brad Pitt is set to star as protagonist Fred...
Latest acquisitions: Children’s and YA
Monday, 22 September 2025
See what Australian publishers have been signing recently in children's and YA. Picture books: First Nations storytelling, a sausage dog, cooking and phonics University of Western Australia Publishing (UWA Publishing)...
Australian CYA at Frankfurt
Monday, 22 September 2025
Even though there are a relatively small number of CYA highlights – compared to other categories – Frankfurt attendees will still find the Australian stand brightened with works for younger...
Australian market news: Mergers, new ventures, and local top-selling authors
Friday, 19 September 2025
After a turbulent 12 months for independent publishing, with three established independent publishers acquired by and integrated into larger publishing houses, 2025 has been an opportunity to walk a new...
‘Greater conversations about what poetry can be in Australia and the wider world’: New translated poetry prize launched
Friday, 19 September 2025
Giramondo Publishing, a small independent Australian publishing house, has partnered with London-based Fitzcarraldo Editions and New York City–based New Directions to launch the Poetry in Translation Prize, following the success...
Latest acquisitions: Fiction and poetry
Friday, 19 September 2025
Among the new Australian fiction and poetry titles signed this year are books from familiar names, debut works, titles signed at competitive auctions, and a range of romcoms. Fiction Familiar...
Australian nonfiction at Frankfurt
Friday, 19 September 2025
Australian publishers are showcasing nonfiction titles on topics ranging from the familiar-yet-crucial (such as the mismanagement of climate change by those in power) to the niche-yet-topical (like the trio of...
Australian fiction and poetry at Frankfurt
Friday, 19 September 2025
Readers of fiction and poetry will be keen to learn what’s been happening here in Australia through a visit to the Australian stand. Threads of romance and humour weave through...
Latest acquisitions: Nonfiction
Friday, 19 September 2025
Moving memoir, politics, cooking, sport and true crime – read all about Australian publishers’ recent nonfiction acquisitions. Memoir Kicking off memoir acquisitions is Allen & Unwin (A&U), which has shared...
Aussie award winners to look out for
Friday, 19 September 2025
Fiction Siang Lu won the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Ghost Cities (UQP), which judges celebrated for ‘shimmering with satire and wisdom, and with an absurdist bravura’, deeming the...
Australian authors recommend
Friday, 19 September 2025
We asked Australian creators to share a recent book they have read and loved – and why. Newly minted Miles Franklin winner Siang Lu is ready to build up your...
Who’s who at the Australian Collective Stand
Friday, 19 September 2025
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) stand at Frankfurt this year will feature 12 publishers; while further information on Australian publishers and their books is available on the Books from Australia...
Australian bestsellers 2025 YTD
Friday, 19 September 2025
Top 10 Australian authored fiction The Unquiet Grave (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins), 44k Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Pan Macmillan), 42k The White Crow (Michael Robotham, Hachette), 27k Lyrebird (Jane Caro,...
Not Quite White in the Head (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Melissa Lucashenko’s Not Quite White in the Head shines a light on the beauty and pain that exist simultaneously in Australia as a colonised nation. Spanning 20 pieces, the book...
Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower (Susan Wyndham, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 19 August 2025
In Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower, journalist and author Susan Wyndham offers a sympathetic and illuminating exploration of the life and work of one of post-war Australia’s...
