The Transformations (Andrew Pippos, Picador)
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Andrew Pippos’ The Transformations is a reflective and introspective novel for lovers of the written word, tracing the gentle and at times unforgiving arc of a life lived in the...
The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? (ed Natalie King & Iwantja Arts, T&H)
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
To open The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? is to tumble into a kaleidoscopic world of colour, energy and cultural references. Edited by Natalie King and...
Berbay Travel and Little Smith imprints launched; PANZ Book Design Awards presented; Creative Australia Fellowships announced
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
In local news, children’s publisher Berbay Publishing announced Berbay Travel, a new imprint dedicated ‘to revealing the hidden and unseen elements of destinations around the globe’; while Smith Street Books...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Sales Fiction University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold Arabic rights to Discipline (Randa Abdel-Fattah) to Dar Al Karma. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Dutch rights to The Shortest History...
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Wednesday, 24 September 2025
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Sundays Under the Lemon Tree (Julia Busuttil Nishimura, illus Myo Yim, Scribble)
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Best known for her cookbooks, Julia Busuttil Nishimura has released a debut picture book, Sundays Under the Lemon Tree, a cheerful story inspired by her own childhood. The unnamed narrator shares how...
Rivers Flow: Reflections on the Songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter (curated by Kim Scott, ed by Casey Mulder, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Rivers Flow: Reflections on the Songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter is a collection of writing as deeply personal and political as the music that inspired it. Curated and...
Wirrawoorliny/Whirlwind (Kim Scott, Cass Lynch & Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project, illus Monique Farmer, UWA Publishing)
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Wirrawoorliny/Whirlwind sweeps readers onto Noongar Country, where a boy is eaten by a djanak (devil) and later put back together by a mysterious whirlwind. It is ‘an old story retold’...
Collision (Kelvin Templeton, Wilkinson Publishing)
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Kevin Templeton’s debut novel, Collision, transports readers to Melbourne during the 1970s and 1980s and into the world of 20-year-old Joshua Shamrock, whose life revolves around football, sex and booze. Raised in...
Mega! Australia’s Megafauna (Laura Holloway, illus by Liz Duthie, Wild Dog)
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Move over, dinosaurs – Australia’s megafauna are stomping in with Laura Holloway’s Mega! Australia’s Megafauna. In this engaging and appealing nonfiction picture book, giant echidnas, kangaroos, pythons and many more...
Myint wins Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award; Hachette, EWF reveal Richell Prize longlist; Le Roy leaves Creative Australia
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
In local industry news, Karen Le Roy left Creative Australia after 14 years; among other projects, she oversaw the Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program. Meanwhile, Pigface Bookstore opened in Perth,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold world English (ex ANZ) rights to Silence Is My Habitat: Ecobiographical Essays (Jessica White, Upswell) to Milkweed Editions. Rockpool Publishing has sold Japanese translation...
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Wednesday, 17 September 2025
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The Hiding Place (Kate Mildenhall, Scribner)
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
No stranger to the literary scene, Kate Mildenhall (The Mother Fault, Skylarking, The Hummingbird Effect) returns with The Hiding Place, an eminently readable and vividly imagined novel. Four families seeking...
Yes, No, Maybe (Ursula Dubosarsky, illus Andrew Joyner, Little Book Press)
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Children are inquisitive – they wonder, observe and ask questions. In Yes, No, Maybe, acclaimed collaborators Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner (The Terrible Plop, Too Many Elephants in This House)...
Escape from Sherwood (Beattie Alvarez, illus David Allan, Christmas Press)
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Something lurks just beyond the screen in Beattie Alvarez’s Escape from Sherwood, as Michael enters into a retro-style video game alongside his sister, his best friend, and a girl who...
beautiful changelings (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
According to myth, a changeling is a human child replaced by a faerie – one that looks similar enough, but is not of this world. In beautiful changelings, Maxine Beneba Clarke...
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...
Outback Country: A Collection of Short Stories from Cunnamulla (Kids from Cunnamulla, ILF)
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Outback Country by Kids from Cunnamulla is a spirited collection of short stories that capture life in the town through children’s eyes. Produced through the Indigenous Literacy Foundation’s Community Publishing...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin has sold North American rights to Murder in the Cathedral (Kerry Greenwood) to Sourcebooks; and UK rights of Murder in the Cathedral (Kerry Greenwood) to Constable...
Meanjin literary journal to close ‘on financial grounds’, NSW History Award winners revealed, Anthropic settles book piracy lawsuit
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
In a move roundly condemned by industry figures and other publications, Melbourne University Publishing shuttered 85-year-old literary journal Meanjin last Thursday ‘on financial grounds’. This was followed by a brief...
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Wednesday, 10 September 2025
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Mary Penfold (Grantlee Kieza, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Grantlee Kieza’s Mary Penfold is an intriguing biography of the Englishwoman who embraced her husband’s vision, made it her own, and turned their vineyard into one of Australia’s most enduring...
Frances Bloom (Frances Bloom #1) (Katrina Nannestad, illus Marina Zlatanova, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Children’s literature powerhouse Katrina Nannestad (All the Beautiful Things) returns with Frances Bloom, a delightful beginning to a new series. Eight-year-old Frances has posted her parents to the South Sandwich...
Chosen Family (Madeleine Gray, Summit Books)
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Warning: Clear your schedule for the all-consuming read that is Madeleine Gray’s second novel, Chosen Family. Set over 18 years, the novel follows Sydney friends Eve and Nell from high...
Stories about Fire, Wind, the Moon and other Dreamings: Warinypa wariny Mangunyjajamuwarr wirlarrapa wangalpa wika (Solomon Cocky, ed Barbara Hale & Inge Kral, UWA Publishing)
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Stories about Fire, Wind, the Moon and other Dreamings: Warinypa wariny Mangunyjaja muwarr wirlarrapa wangalpa wika is a newly edited collection of Nyangumarta narratives by Solomon Cocky and his father....
Eros: Queer Myths for Lovers (Zoe Terakes, Hachette)
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Zoe Terakes’ debut, Eros: Queer Myths for Lovers, retells five ancient Greek myths, drawing on the richness of their Cretan heritage to celebrate the long lineage of queer storytelling. Some stories...
A Murder is Going Down (Kate Emery, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Kate Emery (My Family and Other Suspects, The Not So Chosen One) returns with a mystery within a mystery in A Murder is Going Down, while remaining true to her...
Indigenous Literacy Day takes place today; Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards; Aotearoa New Zealand Poet Laureate
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Happy Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD)! This year, ILD's theme is ‘Strength In Our Stories: For Now & Future Generations’, and live events are being streamed from three Aboriginal Communities. Also...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Sales Children’s/YA Penguin Random House has sold traditional Chinese rights to Boys Do Cry (Gus Worland) to ACME Publishing in Taiwan. Scholastic has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Wonderful...
