The Apprentice Witnesser (Bren MacDibble, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
Bren MacDibble has become well-known for her unique and heartfelt adventure novels for middle-grade readers, including How to Bee, The Dog Runner and Across the Risen Sea, as well as The Raven’s...
How to Measure the Ocean (Inda Ahmad Zahri, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
How to Measure the Ocean by scuba diver and surgical doctor Inda Ahmad Zahri prompts and encourages children aged 4–8 to interact with their environment scientifically and mathematically. In the...
The Deed (Susannah Begbie, Hachette)
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
Small-town cattle farmer Tom Edwards knows he is going to die—before he does, he pays a visit to the local solicitor to change the terms of his will. Upon his...
Human? (Ziggy Ramo, Pantera)
Tuesday, 5 March 2024
For those familiar with the sounds of Ziggy Ramo, Human?—while his debut book—is but the latest in a collection of revolutionary literary works by the artist. Human? is Ramo’s powerful...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Sales Fiction Hachette Australia has sold world large print rights to The Girl from London (Olivia Spooner) to Ulverscroft; and ANZ large print rights to Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap...
Daisley on Walter Scott longlist; Forge promoted at A&U; Overland, Island prize winners
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
In local news this week, Allen & Unwin has promoted Samantha Forge to associate publisher—books for children and young adults, the Conversation has launched a books and ideas newsletter, and Aotearoa...
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Wednesday, 28 February 2024
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Work Backwards (Tim Duggan, Pantera)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
If you’ve ever felt disenchanted by the daily grind or pondered the pointlessness of the eternal wheel of capitalism, then Work Backwards: How to design the life you want will...
Thunderhead (Miranda Darling, Scribe)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Set over one fever-pitched day of errand-running, child-rearing, appointment-hopping and dinner-party prep in the suburbs, Thunderhead is about Winona Dalloway’s desperate desire to be free of her domestic shackles and...
The Work (Bri Lee, A&U)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Having tackled power, privilege and sexual politics in her nonfiction books, Eggshell Skull, Beauty and Who Gets to Be Smart, Bri Lee brings the same shrewd scrutiny to her debut novel,...
Tree (Claire Saxby, illus Jess Racklyeft, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Tree, by multi-award-winning picture book creators Claire Saxby and Jess Racklyeft, explores the life of a mighty mountain ash, the tallest in a forest of tall trees. Similar to their...
Sanctuary (Garry Disher, Text)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Grace has been stealing her whole life. She is an expert thief, taught by pros and specialising in small, high-value items, such as stamps and watches. However, a life of...
Wurrtoo (Tylissa Elisara, illus Dylan Finney, Lothian)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
As a Nunga woman reading to her young Nunga and Murri son, Tylissa Elisara was fed up with the lack of First Nations representation in her beloved childhood stories. Wurrtoo...
Deep Water (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
The first chapter of Deep Water is named ‘The Word for World Is Water’, a reference to science fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin’s novella The Word for World Is...
Those Girls (Pamela Rushby, Walker)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
When Australia entered World War II, new possibilities emerged for women to enter the services, work in munitions or uniform factories, or join the Land Army to fill the workforce...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold Italian rights to Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy and Carpentaria to Il Saggiatore, via Casanovas & Lynch. Pan Macmillan has sold simplified Chinese rights to Prima Facie (Suzie Miller) to Staread,...
Kroetsch appointed Writers SA CEO, Cultural Fund grants for literary orgs, Funder on inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction longlist
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
In this week's news, the Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of the latest round of Cultural Fund grants, among which are many literary organisations and projects, as well as...
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Wednesday, 21 February 2024
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Deep Is the Fen (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Lili Wilkinson’s latest fantasy novel is set in the same magical world as her Victorian Premier's Literary Award–winning novel, A Hunger of Thorns. It’s a realm where all magic is...
Italian Coastal (Amber Guinness, T&H)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Amber Guinness’s Italian Coastal: Recipes and stories from where the land meets the sea takes readers on a tour of the seven Italian regions that sit on the Tyrrhenian Sea—places...
The Glass House (Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, Hachette)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Graeme Simsion is well-known for The Rosie Project, and Anne Buist for her crime novels. Partners in real life, their new collaboration, The Glass House, showcases their talent and fields of interest where...
Jerry’s Window (Y K Willemse, Wombat Books)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
In the spirit of Dennis the Menace, 10-year-old Jerry Ronden is a notorious nightmare. His parents are at a loss as he torments his school and neighbours with pranks, stink...
Frog Squad: Dessert Disaster (Kate Temple & Jol Temple, illus Shiloh Gordon, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Prepare yourselves, Bin Chicken and Underdogs fans (among others): the unstoppable force that is Kate and Jol Temple (That Bird Has Arms) has a new series. The first book, Frog...
It Takes a Town (Aoife Clifford, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Aoife Clifford’s latest crime novel, It Takes a Town, is set in the fictional town of Welcome. This small town produced a superstar talent, Vanessa ‘Baby Vee’ Walton, who tap-danced...
Happy All Over (Emma Quay, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Happy All Over is exactly that. Emma Quay’s capacity to capture miniatures of joy, through both word and image, will bring a smile to even the most careworn and cynical...
The Most Famous Boy in Town (Bel Schenk, Espresso)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Bel Schenk’s latest work and her fourth publication, The Most Famous Boy in Town, delves into the intricate relationship dynamics in Charlotte Bay, a coastal community that unravels in the...
Black Silk & Sympathy (Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Deborah Challinor’s latest offering, Black Silk & Sympathy, sweeps readers away to the intriguing world of Victorian funeral customs in 1860s Sydney. In this expertly crafted novel, Challinor delivers a...
Booktopia results down, Ena Noël shortlists, rural and regional writers’ festivals
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
In a trading update, Booktopia has announced 'results were down year-on-year' to the end of the first half of the 2024 financial year. Meanwhile, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation has appointed...
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Wednesday, 14 February 2024
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Girt by Sea: Re-imagining Australia’s security (Rebecca Strating & Joanne Wallis, La Trobe)
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
In their thought-provoking book, Girt by Sea: Re-imagining Australia’s security, Rebecca Strating and Joanne Wallis challenge conventional notions of Australia’s security. This book invites readers to rethink the country’s approach...
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