What the Light Reveals (Mick McCoy, Transit Lounge)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Mick McCoy’s third novel, What The Light Reveals, is an intelligent, tense and memorable story that opens in a world gripped by post-WWII fear and the looming threat of the...
Trick of the Light (Laura Elvery, UQP)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
The 24 stories in Brisbane writer Laura Elvery’s debut collection Trick of the Light span countries and centuries, ranging stylistically from stark realism to light speculative fiction. Some are vignettes,...
The Ruin (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
The Ruin is as much a morality tale as it is an incendiary page-turner. This superior, haunting novel of murder, deception and ethical dilemma is set in Galway, on Ireland’s...
Apple and Knife (Intan Paramaditha, trans by Stephen J Epstein, Brow Books)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
The universe within which Apple and Knife unfolds is both mythological and everyday—from office cubicles to rat-infested underground cities, sometimes in the same breath. Sydney-based Indonesian horror writer Intan Paramaditha’s...
Introducing Scale Free Network
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Melbourne-based ‘art-science collaborative’ Scale Free Network publishes unique picture books and graphic novels ‘inspired by the microscopic world’. Co-founder Gregory Crocetti spoke to Think Australian: Describe your company in under...
‘The 91-Storey Treehouse’ tops children’s fiction bestsellers chart
Thursday, 16 November 2017
The latest instalments in several bestselling Australian junior-fiction series have made it into the Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart for October, including Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s The 91-Storey Treehouse,...
Two Shaun Tan books coming in 2018
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Award-winning author and illustrator Shaun Tan has two books coming out in 2018. Hachette Australia will publish Tan’s new picture book Cicada—about ‘a bug working in an office and all the...
‘Boy’ wins Children’s Peace Literature Award
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Phil Cummings and Shane Devries’ picture book Boy (Scholastic) has won the Australian Psychological Society’s Children’s Peace Literature Award. It tells the story of a young deaf boy who brings...
Not your average children’s book awards
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Australia has a rich and varied book awards scene. In children’s books this includes the Australian Psychological Society’s Children’s Peace Literature Award and the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the...
Introducing Pantera Press’ millennial imprint
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Sydney-based publisher Pantera Press recently launched a new imprint called Lost the Plot that is aimed at the next generation of readers. Founders Martin Green and Alison Green spoke to...
‘The Windy Season’ wins prize for ‘exciting and exceptional’ Australian fiction
Thursday, 9 November 2017
The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction—which recognises ‘exciting and exceptional new contributions to local literature’—has gone to Sam Carmody’s debut novel, The Windy Season (Allen & Unwin), about a...
New voices attracting interest at Frankfurt
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Australian publishers who attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair have reported interest across a broad range of titles, from literary debuts to ‘women’s commercial fiction’ to political memoirs. Interestingly, the...
‘Force of Nature’, ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top the Australian charts
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Australian fiction bestsellers: October Force of Nature, the follow-up to Jane Harper’s bestselling, award-winning crime-fiction debut The Dry, is at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for a...
Small press scores big rights sale
Thursday, 9 November 2017
The recently launched small press Brow Books has sold world rights to Shaun Prescott’s (pictured) debut novel The Town to Faber, which will publish the novel in the UK in...
Room on Our Rock (Kate and Jol Temple, illus by Terri Rose Baynton, Scholastic)
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
It’s never too early to instil empathy and compassion in the formative minds of the young, and Room on Our Rock does an admirable job in cultivating such qualities in...
Go Go and the Silver Shoes (Jane Godwin, illus by Anna Walker, Viking)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Jane Godwin and Anna Walker are a winning pair: Walker’s tender, beautiful illustrations are a perfect complement to Godwin’s careful, gentle words. Their previous successes include the reassuring Starting School...
Grandma Z (Daniel Gray-Barnett, Scribble)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Albert leads a very ordinary, monochrome life. But on his birthday, when his parents are planning the same boring routine, there is a surprise knock on the door. Albert’s larger-than-life...
Tin Heart (Shivaun Plozza, Penguin)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Marlowe Jensen was The Dying Girl. Born with a congenital heart defect, no-one expected Marlowe to make it to her 18th birthday until she won the organ-donation lottery, and got...
The Hole Story (Kelly Canby, Fremantle Press)
Monday, 23 October 2017
One of the joys of early childhood are those moments when you discover the remarkable in the everyday. The Hole Story turns on such uncanny moments. When Charlie discovers a...
Perfect World: Otherworlds Book One (George Ivanoff, Puffin)
Monday, 23 October 2017
While out shopping for pickles, a chance discovery lands Keagan in a parallel world: a pristine land of eerily similar clones, who quickly throw him out with the trash for being too different....
P is for Pearl (Eliza Henry-Jones, HarperCollins)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Seventeen-year-old Gwen runs every day from the thoughts of her future and the ghosts of her past. She is unable to imagine a life beyond the boundaries of her small...
Missing (Sue Whiting, Walker Books)
Monday, 23 October 2017
A mother is missing in the jungles of Panama and a father and daughter are attempting to discover the truth behind her disappearance. This is the premise of Sue Whiting’s...
Pugs Don’t Wear Pyjamas (Michelle Worthington, illus by Cecilia Johansson, New Frontier)
Monday, 23 October 2017
As far as dogs go, pugs are pretty adorable with their squishy faces, flat noses and curly tails, but Ellie is no ordinary dog. Her owner Roz treats her like...
Dyschronia (Jennifer Mills, Picador)
Monday, 23 October 2017
In a remote, single-industry Australian town, a young girl, Sam, starts to suffer from migraines. The sharp pain is accompanied by visions of the future, which her sceptical mother warns...
Hangman (Jack Heath, A&U)
Monday, 23 October 2017
In the age of the anti-hero, morally ambiguous characters compel readers to empathise with and root for them, despite their troubled natures and character flaws. Enter Timothy Blake, the Hangman,...
The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
Monday, 23 October 2017
Punchbowl Boys High, often dubbed ‘NSW’s most troubled school’, was the subject of a 2016 autobiographical essay by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Now, that reminiscence of his alma mater has become...
Introducing New Frontier
Thursday, 19 October 2017
Established in Australia in 2002, New Frontier Publishing specialises in children’s books for the trade and the educational market. In 2017 the publisher opened a UK office and in 2018...
Pug picture book tops bestsellers chart
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The Australian picture book bestsellers chart for September is dominated by Aaron Blabey and Mem Fox, with the exception of Nick Bland’s The Very Sleepy Bear—a follow-up to Bland’s 2008...
Multiple awards for ‘Words in Deep Blue’
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Cath Crowley’s YA novel Words in Deep Blue (Pan Macmillan)—a love story between estranged best friends set in a Melbourne secondhand bookshop—has picked up multiple awards in the past few...
Australian children’s books selected for international catalogues
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Several Australian children’s and YA books will soon be getting greater international exposure after being included in the prestigious IBBY Honour List and White Ravens catalogue. Two refugee stories—the YA...
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