How to Knit a Human (Anna Jacobson, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
The contents of Anna Jacobson’s memoir How to Knit a Human are the stuff of nightmares: a young, award-winning artist and poet has a psychotic break, is involuntarily hospitalised and...
Amma (Saraid de Silva, Moa Press)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Annie Fernando has flown to London to meet her estranged uncle Suri. So begins the captivating tale of family, love and secrets told through the lives of three generations of...
Excitable Boy: Essays on risk (Dominic Gordon, Upswell)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Dominic Gordon’s Excitable Boy: Essays on risk is a collection of punchy vignettes about his life growing up in Melbourne in the 1990s and early 2000s. Gordon sets out an...
Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree (Pamela Freeman, illus Liz Anelli, Walker)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
With breathtaking illustrations, Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree is packed with fun facts about the animals and plants native to the Daintree Rainforest region. After the success of...
Mitchell Itches (Kristin Kelly, illus Amelina Jones, EK Books)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
With one in five children living with eczema, Mitchell Itches will be a valuable resource for those looking to better understand and manage this common condition. Written by nurse and preschool...
Pheasants Nest (Louise Milligan, A&U)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Pheasants Nest is a thriller about every journalist’s nightmare—that they, too, will be reduced to clickbait headlines and long-form reflective true crime essays. There may be no more fitting journalist...
Roarsome (Joel Slack-Smith, illus Rebel Challenger, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Roarsome is the first book in a new illustrated junior fiction series by TV comedy writer Joel Slack-Smith. Like many kids, Walter wants the latest tech for his birthday—a nitro-powered...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Sales Nonfiction Rockpool Publishing has sold Swedish rights for Seasons of the Witch, Samhain Edition (Juliet Diaz & Lorriane Anderson), to go along with previous French, Spanish and German translation sales....
Hardie Grant moves distribution to TDLC; authors receive Australia Day honours; Horman, Robinsons Books apologise for X comments
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
In this week's news, Hardie Grant Publishing announced plans to move its Australian distribution from HEDS to TDLC; several authors have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours; and...
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Wednesday, 31 January 2024
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Gus and the Missing Boy (Troy Hunter, Wakefield)
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Gus Green is his injured mother’s primary carer after she was involved in a car accident; he is also gay and overweight. A true crime fanatic with aspirations of one...
Joy Moody Is Out of Time (Kerryn Mayne, Bantam)
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
For two decades, Cassiopeia (Cassie) and Andromeda (Andie) Moody have understood their destiny. They are special, chosen and kept safe, spending most of their lives within the confines of their Melbourne home,...
Unique: What autism can teach us about difference, connection and belonging (Jodi Rodgers, Hachette)
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Neurodiversity commentary often references the double empathy problem, the concept that (put simply) neurodivergent–neurotypical communication can be more challenging than communication between people with the same neurotype. A related concept—neurodivergent...
My Heart (Katrina McKelvey, illus Deb Hudson, EK Books)
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
My Heart by Katrina McKelvey is a picture book about a loving mother–child relationship. The mother character reflects on her feelings while pregnant, after birth and as she watches her...
Kin: Family in the 21st century (Marina Kamenev, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
While women’s rights over their bodies continue to be depleted in the United States, Kin: Family in the 21st century presents the history of a related struggle: the right to...
Alphabetter (Maura Pierlot, illus Jorge Garcia Redondo, Affirm)
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Alphabetter: A Better You and Me, from A to Z is a new educational picture book from Affirm Press, which published the popular Life Lessons for Little Ones series. Written by...
To The River (Vikki Wakefield, Text)
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
The Kelly family was always skirting trouble. When 17-year-old Sabine Kelly’s mum and sister die with seven other people in a mysterious caravan park fire, Sabine confesses to the crime...
Strong Christmas sales, local authors on Dublin longlist, Aus Romance Readers Awards finalists
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Nielsen BookScan figures revealed a strong finish to 2023, despite overall book sales remaining down on 2022 figures; Scribe has announced the departure of Cora Roberts from her role as...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Sales Nonfiction Rockpool Publishing has sold Spanish translation rights for Resurrection Oracle (Jena Dellagrottaglia); and Bulgarian translation rights for Spellbound (Lucy Cavendish). Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold seven titles to...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
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Look Me in the Eye (Jane Godwin, Lothian)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Look Me in the Eye is the latest young adult novel by award-winning author Jane Godwin. The story centres around Bella, a 13-year-old girl who leads quite a wholesome, drama-free...
Circles of Life (Gregg Dreise, Puffin)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Circles of Life is a picture book in verse that shares the tradition, beauty and importance of Thank You Circles, or Gabayindah Guroos. These artworks are painted in layers to...
Beatrix Bakes: Another Slice (Natalie Paull, Hardie Grant)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Come a Saturday morning, the line for Beatrix Bakes, a cult North Melbourne café and bakery, would snake down the street. Its closure in 2022—a personal tragedy for this reviewer—even...
The Rewilding (Donna M Cameron, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Jagger Eckerman, the scion of a corrupt construction mogul and protagonist of Donna M Cameron’s second novel, blows his life up one morning by sending a fateful email whistleblowing the...
The Independent Pea (Maree Coote, Melbournestyle)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Maree Coote’s love of vegetables, indulged vibrantly in her 2023 picture book Letters for Lunch!, gets another airing in The Independent Pea. This time, it’s an invigorating story about the...
A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia (Tessa Morris-Suzuki, MUP)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
A Secretive Century by Tessa Morris-Suzuki is an illuminating biography that unveils the remarkable life of Monte Punshon, an Australian woman who lived from 1882 to 1989. From her conservative...
Break the Curse (Shower Land #1) (Nat Amoore, illus James Hart, Puffin)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
The first in a new junior fiction series, Shower Land 1: Break the Curse is a fun, whimsical book that will appeal to kids who enjoy fantasy and humour plots....
Shining Like the Sun (Stephen Orr, Wakefield)
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Stephen Orr's Shining Like the Sun is like an Australian version of A Man Called Ove, with the same qualities of grit and humanity that made the Swedish novel so...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has sold Portuguese rights to You’re Fabulous As You Are (Sophie Beer) to Penguin Random House Portugal. Scholastic has sold Chinese simplified rights to...
S&S restructure, Gougoulis departs Text, Ferguson departs PANZ
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
In local news this week Simon & Schuster Australia has announced several staff changes, including the creation of several new roles; Alaina Gougoulis is departing her role as senior editor...
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