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Wednesday, 17 January 2024
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What Happened to Nina? (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Nina and Simon are teenage sweethearts, but cracks are starting to show in their relationship. After a stint of long distance, they decide to get away to Simon's parents’ new...
Saturday Is Pancake Day (Bernadette Green, illus Daniel Gray-Barnett, Scribble)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
In the lively domestic chaos of Saturday Is Pancake Day—a story that might make you relieved it’s not your turn for the washing up (or that you’re not attending the...
Cool Water (Myfanwy Jones, Hachette)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Myfanwy Jones’s Cool Water is a cross-generational novel about the inheritance of toxic masculinity. When Frank Herbert returns to Tinaroo for his daughter’s wedding, he can’t stop thinking about his...
Thanks for Having Me (Emma Darragh, JOAN)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Emma Darragh’s debut novel, Thanks for Having Me, is an intergenerational familial story that offers a glimpse into the lives of three women: Mary Anne, Vivian and Evie. It’s a non-sequential...
The Great Housing Hijack (Cameron K Murray, A&U)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Instead of your typical dense economics book, The Great Housing Hijack: The hoaxes and myths keeping prices high for renters and buyers in Australia uses a compelling narrative with analogies,...
Outlaw Girls (Emily Gale & Nova Weetman, Text)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Emily Gale and Nova Weetman deliver again with Outlaw Girls, the Kelly country time-slip follow-up to their CBCA Notable Elsewhere Girls. In 1878, Kate Kelly secretly slips supplies to her...
A Room for Ryel (Emma Cameron, Wombat)
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Within modern shifting family dynamics, Emma Cameron’s A Room for Ryel emerges as a heartwarming tale that adeptly explores the intricacies and joys of blending families. The book seamlessly transcends...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Sales Nonfiction Rach Crawford at Wolf Literary Services has sold the following rights to The Intuition Toolbox (Joel Pearson, S&S): UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Welbeck, via Kate Johnson; Korean...
Create NSW funding recipients, 2024 REP editors, Peter Porter Prize shortlist
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Happy New Year to our readers! In local news, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award shortlists were announced late last year, several literary organisations and projects are among the successful applicants...
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Wednesday, 10 January 2024
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One Another (Gail Jones, Text)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Expect no less from Gail Jones’s tenth novel, One Another, than carefully crafted prose that will delight and assure you of an expert at work. With a languid sense of...
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You (Ann Liang, Penguin)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Ann Liang’s third young adult novel, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You, is a feel-good rom-com that uses all the well-worn tropes of the enemies-to-lovers subgenre. When people-pleaser school captain...
The Most Amazing Thing (Ian Hayward Robinson, illus Matt Shanks, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
The Most Amazing Thing is a sweet story about Henry, who, one rainy day, is trying to figure out what the most amazing thing is, so he can draw it...
The Girl from Moscow (Julia Levitina, Pantera)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
In Julia Levitina’s debut novel, The Girl from Moscow, Ella Ashkenazi, an aspiring actor on the verge of a breakthrough role, discovers she is pregnant. It’s a low-key beginning to...
To and Fro (Anton Clifford-Motopi, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
To and Fro by debut author Anton Clifford-Motopi is a heartfelt and humorous exploration of the complexities of growing up mixed-race in Australia. This delightful offering for readers aged 8–12...
Like Fire-Hearted Suns (Melanie Joosten, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
‘Deeds not words’ was the valiant cry of the suffragettes, but does the average reader know what those deeds entailed? This average reader did not. While a work of fiction,...
Some People Want to Shoot Me (Wayne Bergmann & Madelaine Dickie, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Some People Want to Shoot Me is the straight-talking biography of Wayne Bergmann, an Indigenous land rights advocate and native title lawyer who famously took on a multinational company and...
Indie Book Awards longlist; Magabala fellowship, grants; Curry launches VenX
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Jane Curry, founder of independent book publisher Ventura Press, has established 'digital sibling' VenX, a membership-based digital community for writers that provides self-publishing options, with editorial services offered through a...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold A Brilliant Life (Rachelle Unreich, Hachette) in the UK on behalf of Curtis Brown Australia; Estonia and German rights to The Wolf Tree (Laura...
What They Told Me (Hayley Lawrence, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Fifteen-year-old Elliott Gillespie has always believed she and her family are the lucky ones. Their home by Crooked River has been in the Gillespie family for generations. Her best friend,...
Sloths Love Parties (Rory H Mather, illus Binny Talib, Affirm)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Have you ever wondered why sloths are so slow and sleepy? In Rory H Mather’s Sloths Love Parties, it’s not because of their low-energy diet but due to their high-energy...
The Concierge (Abby Corson, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Abby Corson’s debut crime thriller, The Concierge, offers readers a locked-room murder mystery in a lavish English country hotel, where the guests are pointing fingers, and the person who knows...
Beyond Booze (Sarah Rusbatch, Murdoch)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
The term ‘sober curiosity’ has been around for a few years now, but Beyond Booze: How to create a life you love, alcohol-free offers something a bit more. Author Sarah...
Greater City Shadows (Laurie Steed, UWAP)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Laurie Steed’s third book and debut short story collection, Greater City Shadows, collates tales of grief, loss, loneliness, unrequited love, fractured relationships and—ultimately—hope. Suburban Perth is the setting for many an...
The Daredevil Princess and the Golden Unicorn (Belinda Murrell, illus Rebecca Crane, Puffin)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
The Daredevil Princess and the Golden Unicorn is the first in kid-lit superstar Belinda Murrell’s latest series, with a second book (The Daredevil Princess and the Goblin King) to be...
Go Lightly (Brydie Lee-Kennedy, Bloomsbury)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Brydie Lee-Kennedy’s debut, Go Lightly, is an honest, hilarious and often painful exploration of taking risks in life and love. Full of wry humour, it dives into the complexities of...
Little Horses (Deborah Kelly, illus Jenni Goodman, Wombat Books)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Deborah Kelly’s Little Horses opens with a beautiful, graceful scene of seahorses living in harmony with other marine life in their ocean habitat. The jewel-coloured seahorses live a peaceful life...
Woven (ed by Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Magabala)
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Woven, the second collaborative project between Red Room Poetry and Magabala Books, is a profound and unique collection of First Nations poetry that sees some of the world’s finest First...
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Monday, 11 December 2023
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