Catch (Sarah Brill, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Sarah Brill’s Catch is a heartfelt and quietly thrilling coming-of-age novel. The story follows 16-year-old Beth as she navigates the upheaval of her older sister’s surprise pregnancy, the quiet chaos of...
The Eagle and the Crow (JM Field, UQP)
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
The Eagle and the Crow is a work of many layers – lyrical, intellectual and political – all grounded in Gamilaraay knowledge and resistance. JM Field (Etta and the Shadow...
Cure (Katherine Brabon, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Katherine Brabon’s Cure is a natural extension and companion to her novel Body Friend; both are introspective literary works centred on women living with autoimmune diseases – conditions Brabon herself...
Moonlight and Dust (Jasmin McGaughey, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Jasmin McGaughey’s debut YA fantasy Moonlight and Dust is set in Cairns and follows 16-year-old Zillah, a responsible Torres Strait Islander who always thinks before she acts – unlike her...
Wait Here (Lucy Nelson, S&S)
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Lucy Nelson’s debut short story collection, Wait Here, is a striking reflection on women’s lives in all their beautiful complexity. Through narratives of varying lengths, Nelson deftly incorporates many perspectives...
Foreign Country (Marija Peričić, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
In Marija Peričić’s lyrical and haunting third novel, the foreign country is the site of dislocation and alienation wrought by migration, grief and trauma. Croatian-Australian nurse Eva, who resides in...
My Name Is Jemima (Olivia Muscat, illus by Allison Colpoys, Scribble)
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
My Name Is Jemima is a heartwarming and informative picture book that introduces young readers to the life and work of guide dogs and teaches children about disability, independence and...
Rise of the Witch (Everglade #1) (Kitty Black, illus Rebecca Crane, Affirm)
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
Take one part Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood, add a sprinkle of Diana Wynne Jones and a dash of Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for a...
Bombard the Headquarters! The Cultural Revolution in China (Linda Jaivin, Black Inc)
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
Chairman Mao’s decade of terror is the subject of Bombard the Headquarters!, Australian sinologist Linda Jaivin’s excellent primer on China’s Cultural Revolution. In 1966, Peking University’s Nie Yuanzi created a...
Our Dance (Jacinta Daniher & Taylor Hampton, illus by Janelle Burger, Lothian)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Our Dance by Jacinta Daniher and proud Ngiyampaa/Wiradjuri man Taylor Hampton celebrates Australian First Nations culture through the joy of movement as children dance and sing in the corroboree. The...
Australian market report: 2024 book sales down 3% in value
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Overall, the book market was down in Australia in 2024, by 3% in value and 1.2% in volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookData’s BookScan service. Nielsen’s 2024 snapshot, which covered...
What Australian publishers are looking to acquire at Bologna
Thursday, 20 March 2025
We ask Australians attending Bologna this year what they are looking to acquire – and what they are expecting to talk about with fellow attendees. Miriam Rosenbloom, publisher and art...
Publisher picks: Australian picture books
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers at Bologna name the picture books they have the highest hopes for at the fair. Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke, founder, managing director and publishing director at Berbay Books, will be...
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...
Villain
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Gaming fanatic Jay receives a strange phone call on a school trip to Titanium Tower. The voice on the other end calls himself Z. And he has trapped Jay's classmates...
Australian titles with international appeal
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
You can find the Australian Collective Stand at Bologna at Hall 25, Stand A87. Come visit for the Australia party, to be held on 1 April at 5pm. In the...
Super Epic Dragon Quest #1 The Deadly Fang
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
WANTED: Brave Heroes to find Deadly Fang Arlo is a brave, hard-working farm boy who dreams of doing more than brushing the unibrows of his unicows. Julia's a plucky adventurer...
Back at Bologna in person for networking, insights and ‘the inevitable spritz and gelato!’
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Berbay Books founder and publishing director Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke is set to visit Bologna for the 12th time. ‘Bologna is a key event on our calendar,’ she says. ‘For me, it’s...
Nightingale (Laura Elvery, UQP)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Grounded in history and buoyed by Laura Elvery’s elegant, moving prose, Nightingale is a fictional reimagining of the near-mythic figure of Florence Nightingale, told in three parts. The first and...
Little World (Josephine Rowe, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Josephine Rowe’s Little World is a compact, lyrical read that feels both mythic and frighteningly current. When the perfectly preserved body of a child is brought to Western Australia, it...
Australians are ready to buy, sell, and talk AI at LBF
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Gregory Messina is an American literary agent based in Paris who will be representing more than one Australian author at LBF this year. He’s been attending LBF every year since...
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...
