Wright leaves Leading Edge; Aotearoa sales changes at Thames & Hudson and Simon & Schuster; Hachette launches new imprint
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Leading Edge Books member services manager Kaye Wright has left as part of a restructure; Thames & Hudson Australia (T&H) has made some staff changes; and announced it will move...
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Wednesday, 3 June 2026
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Sophie, Standing There (Meg Mason, 4th Estate)
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Sophie, Standing There is the long-awaited new novel from Meg Mason (Sorrow and Bliss). Newly single 37-year-old sound technician Sophie Pattison is adjusting to life as an “unregarded” divorcee. Just...
Us in the Bright Lights (Zanni L Arnot, Lothian)
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Zanni L Arnot returns with Us in the Bright Lights, a romantic adventure that builds on the promise of her YA debut, A Guide to Falling Off the Map. Arnot...
Dying Days (Anthony Byrt, Affirm Press)
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Anthony Byrt’s debut novel, Dying Days, is a fast-paced, assured espionage novel that expertly weaves compelling fiction with real historical events. Set in Trieste in May 1945, in the immediate...
The Festival of Ice and Snow (Angie Cui, illus Anna Wilson, University of Queensland Press)
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
In The Festival of Ice and Snow, Angie Cui (My Mum Is a Bird) and illustrator Anna Wilson (A Taste of Home) transport readers aged 5 to 8 to the...
Theodora’s Tea Shop (Christy Anne Jones, Hachette)
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Christy Anne Jones has brewed a bewitching concoction in Theodora’s Tea Shop, her first adult fantasy novel. Dot, a timid girl from a seaside town, strikes out for the capital...
Stuck in the Middle (Anton Clifford-Motopi, Allen & Unwin)
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Anton Clifford-Motopi’s Stuck in the Middle is a lively, heartfelt comedy for readers aged 8 to 12, capturing the chaos and warmth of life in a big family. Leon, one...
A Bigger Book (Hannah Sommerville, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing)
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
In A Bigger Book, Hannah Sommerville’s first solo picture book for readers aged 4 to 8, the author-illustrator captures the difficult transition some children experience when they move from picture...
Alice’s Dreaming (Tom Griffiths, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Historian and author Tom Griffiths was 14 when he discovered Alice Duncan-Kemp’s Where Strange Paths Go Down at his school library. Detailing life in rural south-west Queensland at the turn...
Miles Franklin longlist; ABIA winners; record-breaking SWF
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Sydney Writers’ Festival and Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki each reported box office record-breaking years for the 2026 festival (and shared their bestsellers); while Melbourne Writers Festival reported attendance...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2026
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Funny Fairytales (Tim Harris, illus Christopher Nielsen, Penguin)
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Funny Fairytales by Tim Harris, illustrated by Christopher Nielsen, sees the creator of the Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables series turn his trademark humour to fractured fairytales. He reworks 5 familiar stories...
Rat Daniels (Alex Sawyer, Hachette)
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Rat Daniels, the debut novel by Alex Sawyer and winner of the 2023 Richell Prize, is a coming-of-age story of loyalty and friendship. Jimmy never quite belonged until he moved...
Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory (Yumna Kassab, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Written during her time as the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature, Yumna Kassab (Politica, The Lovers) turns her eye to nonfiction with Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory, though...
Neighbours: Australia and the Pacific (Joanne Wallis & Jack Corbett, La Trobe)
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Neighbours: Australia and the Pacific by Joanne Wallis (Girt by Sea) and Jack Corbett examines Australia’s relationship with the Pacific Islands, a region that may not be front of mind...
Tight Lines (Allee Richards, Summit)
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Set in a small coastal town in regional Victoria, Allee Richards’s Tight Lines is a literary coming-of-age novel steeped in nostalgia and shaped by loss. On the cusp of adulthood,...
My Dad Makes the World Go Around and Around (Maddy Mara, illus Andrew Joyner, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
My Dad Makes the World Go Around and Around by Maddy Mara – the pen name for Hilary Rogers and Meredith Badger – is an uplifting story celebrating all the...
NSW Literary Awards; Stella winner; Heiss resigns from UQ
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Anita Heiss has announced her resignation from the University of Queensland; Penguin Random House marketing and publicity director Dot Tonkin has left the publishing house; Better Reading has appointed Natika...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Sales Fiction The Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold Portuguese rights (Brazil) to Prima Facie (Suzie Miller) to Planeta. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold North American rights to The Experiment and...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2026
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I Wrote My Own Eulogy: The Art of Appreciating Your Own Life (Bradley Dryburgh, S&S)
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Bradley Dryburgh has done more than write his own eulogy: he has created a memento mori – a reminder of mortality – despite being one of the last people who...
Joey and the Junjardy (Allison Rocca, illus Brenton E McKenna, UQP)
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Wakka Wakka and Kaanju author Allison Rocca’s debut middle-grade novel, Joey and the Junjardy, is a fast-moving, vibrant comedy-drama. Joey is an 11-year-old, well-meaning yet misjudged prankster who has just...
Lovesick (Lillian Telford, HQ Fiction)
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Lillian Telford’s debut novel, Lovesick, explores love, obsession, abandonment, addiction and heartbreak, exposing the emotional fractures of characters shaped by trauma. When the lives of two lonely young people collide...
An Ocean and a Day (Hannah Richell, 4th Estate)
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Hannah Richell’s profoundly moving memoir, An Ocean and a Day, is both a tender love letter and a study of loss and hope, shaped by a devastating voyage through grief...
The Mortons (Scott Westerfeld & Justine Larbalestier, Penguin)
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Justine Larbalestier (My Sister Rosa) and Scott Westerfeld (the Leviathan series) join forces for the crime-family thriller The Mortons, which delivers plenty of grit and dark academia charm. Jessica Morton...
I Made This Just for You (Chris Ames, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Chris Ames’s short story collection, I Made This Just for You, is an astonishing debut and a highly anticipated one after winning the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished...
The Mushroom and the Flower (Sally Soweol Han, T&H)
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
In The Mushroom and the Flower, written and illustrated by Sally Soweol Han (The Colours of Home), a small forest community is centred around a striking pink-and-white mushroom who is...
Fish Don’t Hop (JoJo Leslie, Woodslane Press)
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Fish Don’t Hop! by JoJo Leslie is a heartwarming story that takes children on a journey of discovery through nature and the ways animals grow and change. Maeve is excited...
Silvey pleads guilty; Age, ABDA winners; Open Book interns announced
Wednesday, 13 May 2026
Author Craig Silvey has pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material; the successful interns for the 2026 Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship have been announced; Berkelouw Books Leichhardt has closed after...
