Saturday, Sunday (Natalie Kate Forbes, illus Danny Snell, Affirm)
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Weekends are so busy for families, with the competing demands of sports and activities, seeing friends and extended family, shopping for the week and more. Saturday, Sunday captures this frantic...
Unfinished Business (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
The first in Miles Franklin–winning author Shankari Chandran’s Ellie Harper political thriller series, Unfinished Business mirrors the themes of the author’s past books (Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, Safe Haven):...
Heifetz, Gilliatt, McGuire, Slater form a4 Literary; Booktopia administrators call second creditor meeting; Walkley Book Award shortlist announced
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Grace Heifetz, Tom Gilliatt, Michaela McGuire and Rebecca Slater have announced the creation of new literary agency a4 Literary. This follows news of the upcoming dissolution of Left Bank Literary,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold North American rights to South with the Seabirds (Jess McGeachin); North American rights to four books in the Bravepaw series (L M Wilkinson, illus...
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Wednesday, 6 November 2024
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The Worst Perfect Moment (Shivaun Plozza, Walker)
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
The Worst Perfect Moment is a dark comedy about finding yourself and finding the good in the bad. After dying in an accident, 16-year-old Tegan is ushered by Zelda, a...
Lexie Moon and the Word Burgling Bungle (Melissa Garside, illus Lauren Mullinder, Riveted Press)
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Lexie Moon and the Word Burgling Bungle is debut author Melissa Garside’s exciting junior novel about a creative and prolific 10-year-old inventor. Lexie has been mentored by her grandfather, but...
Gunnawah (Ronni Salt, Hachette)
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
In 1974, in the fictional rural Riverina town of Gunnawah, population 989, everyone knows everyone’s business … or so they think. After an unfortunate event the year before, 19-year-old Adelaide...
The Wedding Party (Rebecca Heath, Head of Zeus)
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
In her latest thriller, The Wedding Party, Rebecca Heath (The Summer Party, The Dinner Party) masterfully tells the gripping story of three families connected by a tragic incident that occurred...
The Spirit Circle (Tara Calaby, Text)
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Tara Calaby’s The Spirit Circle is a thrilling sapphic historical fiction set in 19th-century Victoria, exploring the passage of loss and grief and the importance of platonic and romantic bonds....
TT. O. wins Patrick White Literary Award, Hughes to leave Affirm, Pan Mac to move distribution to TDLC
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
In local news this week, Martin Hughes will leave Affirm Press, amid other staff changes; Left Bank Literary will dissolve in December; the Australia Institute is launching its own publishing...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ, Canada, Indian Subcontinent) rights to The Shortest History of Scandinavia (Mart Kuldkepp) to Old Street; and Serbian translation rights to The Shortest...
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Wednesday, 30 October 2024
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One Dark Night (Hannah Richell, S&S)
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
One Dark Night is Hannah Richell’s sixth novel. Like its predecessor, The Search Party, the story is a gripping, tangled web of mystery and intrigue from the opening paragraph to...
Saltwater Cure: True Stories of the Transformative Power of the Ocean (Ali Gripper, Murdoch)
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
In Saltwater Cure: True Stories of the Transformative Power of the Ocean, journalist Ali Gripper (The Barefoot Surgeon) explores the profound connections people forge with the ocean. The book blends...
Revenge of the Toxic Space Potato (First Dog on the Moon, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Finding a fresh angle on superheroes in 2024 is no easy task—unless you’re the Indefatigable EnviroTeens, who effortlessly revitalise a tired genre with humour, action and underpants pastry. In First...
Every Rock Has a Story: An A to Z of Australian Geology (Kitty van Cuylenburg, illus Cher Hart, CSIRO Publishing)
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
In Every Rock Has a Story: An A to Z of Australian Geology, Kitty van Cuylenburg invites readers to experience the magnitude of planet Earth by looking down and getting...
SPN to wind up unless new board formed, Shawline liquidation affects hundreds, ‘Edenglassie’ wins Roderick Literary Award
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
The board of the Small Press Network has informed members that it will apply to Consumer Affairs Victoria to terminate the organisation in 30 days, unless a new board is...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold world English (ex ANZ) rights to Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania (Hamish McDonald) to Hurst Publishers; North America rights to The Shortest History of AI...
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Wednesday, 23 October 2024
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Yayoi Kusama (ed by Wayne Crothers & Miranda Wallace, NGV)
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
The book Yayoi Kusama from the National Gallery of Victoria captures the extraordinary 80-year legacy of the enigmatic artist, as showcased in the titular exhibition. This tribute to one of...
Costa’s Garden (Costa Georgiadis, illus Brenna Quinlan, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Costa’s Garden follows an illustrated Costa Georgiadis as he shares his expansive garden and flowers with a group of children, encouraging them to see the world in a new way....
Tomorrow There Will Be Sun (A Hope Prize Anthology, S&S)
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Armed with a mandate to celebrate hope, courage and resilience, the 20 stories in the anthology Tomorrow There Will Be Sun venture near and far, from the sheep-herding plains of...
Robert Manne: A Political Memoir (Robert Manne, La Trobe)
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
In 2024, amid widespread political polarisation, Robert Manne’s memoir, Robert Manne: A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars, offers an interesting read. As one...
Han Kang wins Nobel Prize; McGregor, Sakr, Apolonio awarded Copyright Agency fellowships; bookshops celebrate LYBD 2024
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’. Also...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Sales Fiction Jenny Darling & Associates has sold rights to Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional (A&U) to Sceptre (UK), Riverhead (US), Seuil (France), Kein & Aber (Germany), Fazi Editore (Italy), Kultur (Turkey), One...
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Wednesday, 16 October 2024
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Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger (Jackie French, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Jackie French once again showcases her meticulous research in an engaging historical fiction novel that will captivate upper middle-grade readers. In 1859, near the Ballarat goldfields, we meet Tigg, a...
The Bogan Book Club (John Larkin, Larrikin)
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
When James Larwood is released from prison, his career is in tatters and his marriage is broken. His brother, Larry, throws him a lifeline in the form of a cleaning...
Murriyang: Song of Time (Stan Grant, Bundyi)
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
In May 2023, journalist Stan Grant (Talking to My Country) stepped away from his role as host of ABC’s Q+A. His latest book, Murriyang: Song of Time, is a heartfelt...
