Two children’s publishers launch in Australia; Magabala celebrates 30th birthday Archive
Monday, 14 August 2017
Two new Australian children’s publishers have recently released their first titles. Dirt Lane Press has published The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear (Margrete Lamond, illus by Heather Vallance), a...
Introducing Affirm Press Archive
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Affirm Press is an optimistic, owner-operated Australian publisher with a list that includes Australian and international nonfiction, fiction and children’s titles. Publisher Martin Hughes spoke to Think Australian: What makes...
‘The Trip of a Lifetime’, ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top the Australian charts Archive
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
While Liane Moriarty continues to dominate the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in July, with five titles in the top 10, titles from two other popular Australian authors sit in first...
Keith Murdoch bio wins top award Archive
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Tom D C Roberts’ biography of Rupert Murdoch’s father, Australian journalist Keith Murdoch, has won the Australian National Biography Award. The judges described Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth...
Screen rights optioned to Hannah Kent’s ‘The Good People’ Archive
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Australian production company Aquarius Films has optioned the film and TV rights to Hannah Kent’s The Good People (Picador) via Curtis Brown Australia. Aquarius producers said they were ‘absolutely thrilled...
Melbourne, Brisbane writers’ festival guests announced; new Australian digital marketplace launched Archive
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
The programs for the Melbourne Writers Festival (25 August to 3 September) and Brisbane Writers Festival (6-10 September) have been announced. Both festivals regularly attract authors from around the world...
If Baby Could Talk (Michael Wagner, illus by Jess Racklyeft, Windy Hollow Books) Archive
Friday, 4 August 2017
It’s never too early to start reading books to children; even newborns will derive pleasure from listening to words read out loud by a loved one. If Baby Could Talk...
The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear (Margrete Lamond & Heather Vallance, Dirt Lane Press) Archive
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Bear and Fox have a tumultuous friendship, marred by Fox’s pranks and mean tricks. However, when Fox disappears, Bear finds he misses his buddy. New companions Rooster and Hare seem to...
Drawn Onward (Meg McKinlay, illus by Andrew Frazer, Fremantle Press) Archive
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Drawn Onward is a clever picture book for older children that explores the transformative power of perspective. Author Meg McKinlay has crafted a palindrome that will delight observant young readers with the...
The Lion in Our Living Room (Emma Middleton, illus by Briony Stewart, Affirm) Archive
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Emma Middleton and Briony Stewart’s The Lion in Our Living Room is a gentle picture book that celebrates the spirit of imagination in the same vein as Judith Kerr’s The...
Koalas Eat Gum Leaves (Laura and Philip Bunting, Scholastic) Archive
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Koalas Eat Gum Leaves is a funny take on the one fact that every budding naturalist knows about Australia’s beloved marsupial: they eat gum leaves. ‘Gum leaves for breakfast. Gum...
Dungzilla (James Foley, Fremantle Press) Archive
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Sally Tinker is an inventor—the world’s foremost inventor under the age of 11, to be precise—and her latest invention is a doozy. The Resizenator can shrink anything to microscopic size...
The Trauma Cleaner (Sarah Krasnostein, Text) Archive
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Sandra Pankhurst was adopted through the Catholic Church in the 1950s by a Melbourne couple who would prove to be horrendously abusive parents. Driven out of home by the age...
Baby Lost: A Story of Grief and Hope (Hannah Robert, MUP) Archive
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Baby Lost is a heartbreaking study of the aftermath of an accident that changed the author’s life. Hannah Robert—a law lecturer at Melbourne’s La Trobe University—is not a saccharine writer,...
Force of Nature (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Archive
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Jane Harper’s follow-up to her 2016 bestseller The Dry is another well-written, pacey crime thriller. Force of Nature is set after the events of The Dry but can be read...
Suburbia (Jeremy Chambers, Text) Archive
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Melbourne author Jeremy Chambers’ second novel is a nostalgic coming-of-age story set in the unglamorous outer-eastern suburbs of Melbourne in the 1980s. The book’s protagonist Roland is a bookish outsider...
Two Steps Forward (Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist, Text) Archive
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Martin, a divorced English engineer, and Zoe, a widowed American artist, are each at a turning point in their lives. Unexpectedly alone, without money or young families to care for,...
Untidy Towns (Kate O’Donnell, UQP) Archive
Monday, 24 July 2017
Seventeen-year-old Adelaide Longley has had enough. After five years of striving for success at her expensive boarding school, she’s done with trying to be the person her teachers and family...
Call of the Reed Warbler (Charles Massy, UQP) Archive
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Farmer and author Charles Massy has been thinking intensely about the environment and our relationship to it for most of his life. Brought up in the industrial farming tradition, with...
The Life to Come (Michelle de Kretser, A&U) Archive
Monday, 17 July 2017
The Life to Come is Michelle de Kretser’s first novel since her Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning Questions of Travel in 2012, and it affirms her as a writer of great...
Mirror Sydney: An Atlas of Reflections (Vanessa Berry, Giramondo) Archive
Monday, 17 July 2017
Every city has its ghost lines, those mysterious details that underpin the contemporary physicality of a place, the memories that are faded but visible to anyone with a keen eye...
Danny Blue’s Really Excellent Dream (Max Landrak, Lothian) Archive
Monday, 17 July 2017
Max Landrak’s first children’s book is a delight. A fanciful tale of a boy who unexpectedly dreams of ‘not-blue’ in a world that consists only of blue, it functions equally...
Tintinnabula (Margo Lanagan, illus by Rovina Cai, Little Hare) Archive
Monday, 17 July 2017
Acclaimed for her short stories and novels, Margo Lanagan’s latest creation Tintinnabula is a picture book that explores light and shade. Through a poetic narrative, the story looks at the...
The Very Noisy Baby (Alison Lester, Affirm) Archive
Monday, 17 July 2017
Alison Lester never disappoints. She is a much-loved, award-winning author and illustrator with many successful books to her name. This delightful book is no exception. It has all the trademarks...
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Jaclyn Moriarty, A&U) Archive
Monday, 17 July 2017
As a baby, Bronte Mettlestone was left in the lobby of her Aunt Isabelle’s building by her parents, before they set off to have adventures. When she is 10, Bronte...
Tales from a Tall Forest (Shaun Micallef, illus by Jonathan Bentley, Hardie Grant Egmont) Archive
Monday, 17 July 2017
Shaun Micallef’s first book for children takes a large dose of fairytale ingredients, flavours them with a dash of nursery rhyme and a pinch of Greek mythology, and bakes them...
Introducing the ‘Treehouse’ series Archive
Thursday, 13 July 2017
It’s impossible to overstate the success of the ‘Treehouse’ junior-fiction series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. The series launched in Australia in 2011 with The 13-Storey Treehouse and will...
Introducing ‘Think Australian Junior’ Archive
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Welcome to the first edition of the Think Australian Junior newsletter. We’re incredibly excited to be bringing the best Australian children’s and YA books to an international audience of publishers,...
Shortlist highlights Australian books with an environmental theme Archive
Thursday, 13 July 2017
The Australian Wilderness Society has announced the shortlists for the Environment Award for Children’s Literature, which are presented annually to books that ‘foster a love of wild places and wildlife’...
‘Reverse psychology’ picture book tops bestsellers chart Archive
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Radio host Andy Lee’s debut picture book Do Not Open This Book, illustrated by Heath McKenzie, has topped the Australian picture book bestsellers chart for June. The book, which was...
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