When Nothing Feels Real (Nathan Dunne, Murdoch)
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
When Nothing Feels Real is a raw and immersive first-person account of journalist Nathan Dunne’s experience of depersonalisation. It begins with a moment – a dive into cold water –...
Ever Blessed (Olivia O’Flynn, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Ever Blessed by Olivia O’Flynn is a confident debut in the romantasy genre, featuring a recalcitrant heroine, a taciturn hero, and potentially world-ending stakes. Captain Elva, a warrior princess of...
A Farm by the Sea (Jillian Packer, Berbay)
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Fans of Alison Lester, Freya Blackwood and Trace Balla will be captivated by A Farm by the Sea by debut author and illustrator Jillian Packer. This new picture book invites young readers...
Rytual (Chloe Elisabeth Wilson, Penguin)
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
In her unsettling and sharply constructed debut, Rytual, Chloe Elisabeth Wilson dissects the seductive promise of transformation through beauty, rituals and belief systems. Marnie Sellick once dreamed of writing screenplays....
Joss: A History (Grace Yee, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Grace Yee’s Joss: A History uncovers the lives of Chinese immigrants in Australia during the 19th and 20th centuries through a powerful blend of archival research and poetry. Viewing White...
Joint statement on LibGen; 2025 VPLA winners; MWF, BookPeople programs; S&S opens new office
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
In the news this week, the Australian Publishers Association, the Australian Society of Authors, and the Copyright Agency have released a joint statement and plan of action for Australian authors...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Sales Fiction Pantera has sold Czech rights to The Medoran Chronicles book 2: Raelia (Lynette Noni) to Albatros, via Kristin Olson Literary Agency. Children’s/YA Affirm Press has sold UK rights...
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Wednesday, 26 March 2025
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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...
My Supercharged ADHD Brain (Dani Vee & James Layton, illus Ruth-Mary Smith, Larrikin)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
My Supercharged ADHD Brain is a brightly coloured picture book that candidly explores some of the positive aspects of having ADHD, celebrating differences and encouraging a better understanding of neurodivergence....
The Book of Guilt (Catherine Chidgey, Penguin)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Welcome to an alternative version of the UK in the 1970s. In Catherine Chidgey’s The Book of Guilt, Hitler is assassinated in 1943. After a purge of senior Nazis and...
The Letter Writer (Binny Talib, Windy Hollow)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
The Letter Writer by author and illustrator Binny Talib (Sloths Love Parties) opens with stunning endpapers – a delightful collage of envelopes adorned with scribbles and doodles that immediately draws...
Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family (Micaela Sahhar, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Several generations into the Palestinian diaspora in Australia, Micaela Sahhar explores the complexities of being disconnected from her ancestral land in Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of...
The Edge of Everything (Miranda Luby, Text)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
In The Edge of Everything, Miranda Luby (Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over) tells a poignant story of a teenager recovering from tragedy. It’s been eleven months since Lucy’s older...
The Haunting of Hindmarsh Hall (Kate Gordon, Riveted Press)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
The Haunting of Hindmarsh Hall is the first book in The Secret Detectives Club middle-grade series by Kate Gordon (Xavier in the Meantime). Set in the quiet town of Table...
I Want Everything (Dominic Amerena, S&S)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
An unnamed aspiring writer leaves a Melbourne hospital and, seeking distraction, swims laps at his local pool. There, he recognises an elderly woman as Brenda Shales, one of Australia’s best...
Lonely Mouth (Jacqueline Maley, Fourth Estate)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Jacqueline Maley (The Truth About Her) returns with Lonely Mouth, a powerful exploration of family, trauma and identity. Half-sisters Matilda and Lara share a mother but have different fathers. Abandoned...
ABIA shortlists announced; New graphic novel publisher; BookPeople’s top 100; Festival programs
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
The ABIA shortlists have been announced! Also in industry news, Wombat Books founder Rochelle Stephens and teacher and author Bethany Loveridge announced the establishment of new publishing venture Perentie Press,...
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Wednesday, 19 March 2025
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Too Many Dogs (Maura Finn, illus Lucinda Gifford, Affirm)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Too Many Dogs is a charming and light-hearted picture book from the creative pairing behind Too Many Cats that explores what it means to be top dog. In their new collaboration,...
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...
Viet Kieu: Recipes Remembered from Vietnam (Thi Le, Murdoch)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
‘Viet Kieu’ is a Vietnamese term used for people of Vietnamese heritage who were raised and are living in the diaspora. In Viet Kieu: Recipes remembered from Vietnam, Thi Le,...
Diggers, Dozers, and Dumpers (Ole Könnecke, Gecko)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Picture books about machinery are always a hit, but they don’t always deliver an engaging narrative – this one does, seamlessly blending fiction with nonfiction. Diggers, Dozers, and Dumpers, written...
The Bearcat (Georgia Rose Phillips, Picador)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Based on true events, The Bearcat is an ambitious, mesmeric and deeply affecting debut novel that imagines the inner life of Anne Hamilton-Byrne, a rare female cult leader who founded...
The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains (Sarah Clutton, A&U)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Sarah Clutton’s The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains is a richly woven novel that explores family dynamics, small-town life and long-buried secrets. The story follows Penny, a widowed farmer whose...
This Dream Will Devour Us (Emma Clancey, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
What if humanity developed a drug that could manipulate the elements – essentially perform magic? In This Dream Will Devour Us, debut author Emma Clancey builds a world where the...
He Would Never (Holly Wainwright, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Holly Wainwright’s fifth novel, He Would Never, is pacy, compelling and character-driven, and will hook readers from the startling first sentence. The story follows five families on their annual summer...
Sector gender pay gaps released; Australia Reads announces LitUp; ABDA longlists revealed
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
The Australian Government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency has published data on gender pay gaps for the second year in a row, indicating that many large publishing houses continue to have...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin has sold French rights to Sensitive Creatures (Mandy Ord). Gaby Naher of The Naher Agency has sold French rights to A Catalogue of Love (Erin...
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Wednesday, 12 March 2025
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