Epic: Adventures across Aotearoa (Ray Salisbury, Exisle)
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Covering 10 iconic journeys around and across Aotearoa New Zealand, Ray Salisbury retells each adventurer’s inspiring and often harrowing trek, working from first-hand accounts in blogs and books to bring...
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Monday, 4 September 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 30 August 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold simplified Chinese character rights to The Economy of Algorithms: Rise of the digital minions (Marek Kowalkiewicz, La Trobe University Press) to Hangzhou Blue Lion...
Booktopia revenue down 18%, Readings YA Prize shortlist announced, Writers for the Voice launched
Wednesday, 30 August 2023
Booktopia has reported its revenue was down 18% in the 12 months to 30 June (FY23), with the company's earnings falling 23.7% over the same period, while educational publisher Hawker...
A Life Song (Jane Godwin, illus Anna Walker, Puffin)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
The latest masterpiece by dream team Jane Godwin and Anna Walker, A Life Song is a gentle rhyming picture book that ponders growing up and finding your place in the world. ‘When you are...
The Vanishing Point (Andrea Hotere, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Journalist and researcher Andrea Hotere has put her investigative skills to work in The Vanishing Point: a dual-timeline historical mystery novel concerning Diego Velázquez’s 1656 royal portrait, Las Meninas. In 17th-century...
Everything Under the Moon (ed by Michael Earp, illus Kit Fox, Affirm)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Everything Under the Moon: Fairy tales in a queerer light is a collection of insightful stories from a variety of authors, including Michael Earp, Alison Evans, Helena Fox, Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner,...
Blair Moon: How to be cooler than the moon (AshIeigh Mounser, Ford St)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Blair Moon: How to be cooler than the moon by Ashleigh Mounser is a fast-paced novel that doesn’t let up, much like its protagonist, Blair Moon. Eleven-year-old Blair is precocious,...
Run Pups Run (Kerri Day, illus Nicky Johnston, Windy Hollow)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Kerri Day's Run Pups Run is a lively and charming story of a family beach excursion. The day begins as a family and their three dogs head down to the...
The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard (Natasha Lester, Hachette)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
In Paris, 1917, 16-year-old Mizza Bricard is determined to leave a lasting mark on the world. She creates a house of couture that will establish a legacy spanning generations, reaching...
The Things We Live With (Gemma Nisbet, Upswell)
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Gemma Nisbet is a writer and journalist who holds onto things, but this book isn’t about hoarding. It’s not even a self-help antidote to ‘Marie Kondo-ing’ your stuff. In this...
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Monday, 28 August 2023
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Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Sales Fiction/poetry Giramondo has sold Spanish language rights to Last Letter to a Reader (Gerald Murnane) to Gris Tormenta for publication in Latin America, and to Minúscula for publication in...
Redundancies at PRHNZ, CBCA Awards, Langshaw named 2023 Rising Star
Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Fiction publisher Harriet Allan is among three redundancies of senior staff announced at Penguin Random House New Zealand, according to Newsroom.co.nz; Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has announced its full...
Home to Biloela (Priya Nadesalingam with Rebekah Holt, A&U)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Raw and poignant, Priya Nadesalingam’s Home to Biloela is a personal account of what became a national campaign to bring one family home. It provides an intimate insight into the well-known story...
The Rust Red Land (Robyn Bishop, Spinifex)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Set in country New South Wales beginning in 1890, The Rust Red Land follows Matilda as she comes of age through to the 1930s. She does all that is expected of her as...
Giinagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean (Melissa Greenwood, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
With Giinagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean, Gumbaynggirr artist Melissa Greenwood, from the NSW region known as Coffs Harbour, once again gifts us with a beautiful ode to family and the land....
Gunflower (Laura Jean McKay, Scribe)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Laura Jean McKay’s Gunflower is a vivid and tantalising short story collection where animals are as seamlessly anthropomorphised as humans are animalised. McKay asks readers to suspend their narrative expectations and blurs...
What to Do When You’re Not Sure What to Do (Davina Bell, illus Hilary Jean Tapper, Lothian)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
‘Some things need careful hands ... It’s always good to ask first ... Remember to look up! And look down.’ These are some of the little snippets of advice offered in...
Unfinished Woman (Robyn Davidson, Bloomsbury)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Robyn Davidson is perhaps best known for her novel Tracks and has a writing career spanning over 40 years. Her latest, Unfinished Woman, is a nomadic memoir that details the author’s traumatic childhood,...
The Observologist (Giselle Clarkson, Gecko)
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
An observologist is someone who makes scientific expeditions every day and notices interesting details in the world around them. This is the first thing we learn in The Observologist by Giselle Clarkson,...
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Monday, 21 August 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Vietnamese rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Bookhunter. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold traditional Chinese rights to Faking It: Artificial intelligence...
Byron Writers Festival receives $1 million pledge, 2023 NZ Book Awards for CYA, Ngaio Marsh Awards shortlist
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Byron Writers Festival has received a $1 million pledge from the Vasudhara Fund, to ‘contribute to the ongoing viability of the Festival and support the continued presentation of women writers...
Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie is a literary epic that skilfully weaves between the present day, where Grannie Eddie is looked after by her feisty granddaughter Winona and Dr Johnny, and mid-1850s Brisbane, where...
Unholy Terrors (Lyndall Clipstone, Penguin)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Unholy Terrors is an alluring, gothic tale of forbidden love and shifting allegiances in a land of magic and monsters. Everline Blackthorn is not like the other wardens who guard...
Zero Risk: Keeping others safe in a dangerous world (Tony Loughran, Echo)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Tony Loughran’s memoir, Zero Risk, certainly lives up to his motto—‘I’d rather spend one year as a tiger than a hundred years as a sheep’. From his rough-and-tumble—and then outright...
Kinky History (Esmé Louise James, Pantera)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Kinky History is based on the wildly popular TikTok account we all needed. Author Esmé Louise James (@esme.louisee) is a TikTok phenomenon with over 2.3 million followers, and it’s pretty...
Nikki Hind: Dressed for success (John Dickson, illus Chantel de Sousa, Berbay)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Nikki Hind: Dressed for Success is part of Vision Australia’s Big Vision series that profiles Australian people living with blindness or low vision. It’s a short biography of Nikki Hind,...
A–Z of Who I Could Be (Chloe Dalton, illus Kim Siew, A&U)
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
A–Z of Who I Could Be showcases 26 Australian top-performing female and non-binary athletes across 26 different sports. Chloe Dalton presents us with the likes of Ash Barty, Nova Peris,...
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