The Venice Hotel (Tess Woods, Penguin)
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
The Venice Hotel by Tess Woods (Love and Other Battles) is a captivating tale that unfolds over the ‘12 days of Christmas’ at Il Cuore, a boutique hotel in Venice....
Dragon Folding (Christopher Cheng, illus Lucia Masciullo, Puffin)
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Dragon Folding is an evocative picture book that celebrates community, creativity and intergenerational friendships, written by Christopher Cheng (Bear and Rat, One Tree) and illustrated by Lucia Masciullo (The Imagineer, An A–Z...
Educational Publishing Awards paused; Hachette appoints Naoum as publishing director; reports QBD, Dymocks, Kogan interested in Booktopia assets
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association has paused the Educational Publishing Awards Australia for 2024 to allow ‘time for a comprehensive review’, in order to ‘ensure future events are as valuable as...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold North American rights for The Last Secret Agent (Pippa Latour, with Jude Dobson) to St Martin’s Press (Macmillan); UK British Commonwealth (ex Canada and...
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Wednesday, 10 July 2024
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White Noise (Raelke Grimmer, UWA Publishing)
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
White Noise is the captivating debut YA novel by Darwin-based author Raelke Grimmer. Fifteen-year-old Emma’s mum died three years ago, and she and her emergency-doctor father survive in a monotonous,...
Jilya (Tracy Westerman, UQP)
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Jilya means ‘my child’ in Nyamal language, and it is evident on every page of her hybrid memoir/cultural study that leading psychologist and Nyamal woman Tracy Westerman is committed to...
The Glass Horse of Venice (Arnold Zable, illus Anita Lester, Text)
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Arnold Zable, renowned author of Cafe Scheherazade, turns to children’s literature with his first picture book, The Glass Horse of Venice. Claudia lives in Venice and passes by a glassblower’s...
The Degenerates (Raeden Richardson, Text)
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
The Degenerates is a bold, layered work of experimental literary fiction that follows the linked storylines of Maha, Titch and Ginny, three Melbournians who have found themselves lost in their...
Diving, Falling (Kylie Mirmohamadi, Scribe)
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
In Kylie Mirmohamadi’s debut novel, Diving, Falling, Leila Whittaker is left with the business of living after her husband’s death. Ken Black was a famous artist, a legend given a...
Six Summers of Tash and Leopold (Danielle Binks, Lothian)
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Middle-grade readers who enjoyed A L Tait’s The First Summer of Callie McGee and Nova Weetman’s The Edge of Thirteen will delight in this compelling coming-of-age story targeting the ever-growing...
How (Not) to Lose $1 Million (John Addis, Major Street)
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
How (Not) to Lose $1 Million is full of surprises. Given it's a book aimed at people seeking to invest in shares and control their own portfolio or improve their...
Miles Franklin 2024 shortlist, Booktopia appoints administrators, PLR/ELR payments up $3.3m
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Booktopia has appointed McGrathNicol as voluntary administrators of the company and its subsidiaries. This follows news late last week that the company requested a further extension to its voluntary trading...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold North American rights to The Naturalist's Daughter (Tea Cooper, HQ Fiction) to HarperCollins Focus; and world Hebrew rights to One Day We’re All Going to Die...
The Fog (Brooke Hardwick, S&S)
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
The atmospheric setting of Brooke Hardwick’s debut novel, a highly selective writers’ retreat on the isolated island of Rathlin, off the coast of Northern Ireland, is sure to entice readers...
Summer of Shipwrecks (Shivaun Plozza, UQP)
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Award-winning children’s author Shivaun Plozza’s Summer of Shipwrecks is a vividly real, heartfelt middle-grade novel that explores the capriciousness of tween friendship. Sidney has been waiting all year for her...
Anomaly (Emma Lord, Affirm)
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Anomaly, the debut YA novel by Emma Lord, is fast-paced, compelling and confidently plotted. In 2020, Piper Manning awakens 52 days after a virus has wiped out her town—and perhaps...
Protecting Indigenous Art (Colin Golvan, MUP)
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Scepticism is probably reasonable, at first, reading a book about Indigenous art written by a non-Indigenous person. Colin Golvan, however, has earned his bona fides by working as a barrister...
Jasper Cliff (Josh Kemp, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Western Australian author Josh Kemp’s debut novel, Banjawarn, won several prestigious awards, including the Dorothy Hewett Award, a Ned Kelly Award, and a Western Australian Premier’s Prize. For his second...
The Best Present Ever (Zoë Foster Blake, illus Lucinda Gifford, Puffin)
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
The most delightful stories can often stem from the simplest of ideas, as seen in The Best Present Ever, a playful celebration of creativity, imagination and the joy of giving....
In the Margins (Gail Holmes, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Inspired by the life of Frances Wolfreston, a book collector who preserved the earliest part of Shakespeare’s legacy, Gail Holmes’s elegant debut speaks about the injustices and lack of freedom...
APA announces Rising Stars shortlist, Gordon-Smith to step down; Booktopia requests extension to voluntary trading suspension; attendance up at MWF, SWF
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced CEO Michael Gordon-Smith will retire from the position, with current APA chief of staff Patrizia Di Biase-Dyson to be the new CEO. The...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold Romanian rights to Green Dot (Madeleine Gray, A&U), French rights to The Wolf Tree (Laura McCluskey, HarperCollins), and Italian rights to New Animal...
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Wednesday, 26 June 2024
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Translations (Jumaana Abdu, Vintage)
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Translations is a powerful, character-driven debut novel by Jumaana Abdu. It follows young mother Aliyah and her daughter, Sakina, who leave Sydney for a property in the Northern Rivers region...
Dragonfire: 18,000 Holes in the Universe (Adam Wallace & Lisa Foley, illus James Hart, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Tee off into the surreal world of Dragonfire: 18,000 Holes in the Universe, the first book in a new graphic novel series by Adam Wallace and Lisa Foley, with imaginative...
Chae: Korean slow food for a better life (Jung Eun Chae, Hardie Grant)
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Originally from Seoul, South Korea, chef Jung Eun Chae worked in the renowned Melbourne restaurant Cutler & Co before opening her cosy six-seater restaurant, Chae, in her Brunswick apartment. Her...
Girl Falling (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Girl Falling is the second novel by award-winning crime writer Hayley Scrivenor. Three women—Daphne, Magdu and Finn—head out for a day of rock climbing in the Blue Mountains, but only...
The Girl with No Reflection (Keshe Chow, Penguin)
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
The Girl with No Reflection by Keshe Chow is a debut YA historical fantasy novel set in Imperial China, drawing on Chinese mythology. The story begins with Ying, a young...
Bird (Courtney Collins, Hachette)
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Following the success of her first novel, The Burial, Courtney Collins’s new dual-narrative novel, Bird, centres on the titular 14-year-old girl. The story is told in alternating chapters differentiated by...
