All About the Heart (Remi Kowalski, illus by Tonia Composto, Berbay)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
All About the Heart by paediatric cardiologist Remi Kowalski and graphic designer Tonia Composto is the first in Berbay’s new nonfiction picture book series for four- to eight-year-olds. Kowalski and...
She and Her Pretty Friend (Danielle Scrimshaw, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Danielle Scrimshaw’s debut, She and Her Pretty Friend, is a history of queer Australian women. In a light and intriguing tone, Scrimshaw pieces together what little evidence there is—letters, diary entries,...
Harriet Hound (Kate Foster, illus Sophie Beer, Walker)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Harriet Hound is eight years old, vegan, and autistic. Her family runs a dog rescue shelter, Hound’s Rescue, on Hound Lane in their town of Labrador. On her eighth birthday,...
The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart (Samera Kamaleddine, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
When 12-year-old Evie’s mum and stepdad Lee announce their separation, it feels like her whole world has been turned upside down. What’s more, Lee—the only father Evie has ever known—is...
The Fall Between (Darcy Tindale, Bantam)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023
The first body is waiting for Detective Rebecca Giles on a property in Muswellbrook, floating in a water trough. Giles is fresh out of a missing-persons case wrapped up in...
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Tuesday, 14 March 2023
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‘Grimmish’ removed from NSW Prem’s shortlist, Stella longlist announced, Lien wins MUD prize
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
BookPeople has released its industry sustainability report, Towards a Sustainable Bookselling Future, outlining key areas of concern for booksellers including carbon emissions from freight and printing, as well as issues related specifically...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Hungarian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Alexandra Kiadócsoport, and German rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams) to...
A Friend for George (Gabriel Evans, Puffin)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
George is accustomed to being alone. All he wants is a friend. Is that so much to ask? Someone to frolic in the sea and go on boat rides with....
Royals (Tegan Bennett Daylight, S&S)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
This compelling, character-driven novel is Tegan Bennett Daylight’s first foray writing for teens. Through 16-year-old Shannon’s perspective, we follow the day-to-day minutiae of six teens (and one baby) who have...
The Letterbox Tree (Rebecca Lim & Kate Gordon, Walker)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
In The Letterbox Tree, two acclaimed children’s writers have teamed up for the first time to write a platonic, cli-fi version of The Lakehouse, crafting a tense and pacy story...
The Sydney Harbour Fairy (Deborah Frenkel, illus by Cate James, Affirm)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Set on Sydney Harbour and its surrounds, The Sydney Harbour Fairy revolves around a clever play-on-words between ‘fairy’ and ‘ferry’. Nanna has organised a Girls’ Day Out with her granddaughter...
After the Rain (Aisling Smith, Hachette)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Aisling Smith’s debut novel, After the Rain, is the melancholic and moving winner of the 2020 Richell Prize. The story begins with Malti, a woman who moved from Fiji to...
Obsession (Nicole Madigan, Pantera)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
When journalist Nicole Madigan starts dating single dad Adam, it seems like the beginning of an exciting new chapter for her and her children. But as the relationship progresses, something...
The Rush (Michelle Prak, S&S)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
The Rush by Michelle Prak gives new meaning to the words gripping and horrifying. Take Jane Harper’s The Lost Man, add some sinister Wolf Creek, and you’re on the right...
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Monday, 6 March 2023
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Record year for S&S Australia, ‘A Kunwinjku Counting Book’ recognised in US
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia recorded a ‘record year of sales, profit, and market share’ in 2022, with print sales were up 35.5%, ebooks up 21.6% and audio up 51%. A...
Neil, the Amazing Sea Cucumber (Amelia McInerney, illus by Lucinda Gifford, Affirm)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Expect to be giggling, chortling then guffawing through Neil, the Amazing Sea Cucumber. Amelia McInerney writes a mockumentary-style picture book, taking a creative risk that pays off in abundance, and...
Hunger of Thorns (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Lili Wilkinson’s new YA novel is a dark and twisting tale that draws on a history of persecution and celebrates the power of women, even as it interrogates society’s fear...
Etta and the Octopus (Zana Fraillon, illus by Andrew Joyner, Lothian)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
What should we offer a newly independent reader who is ready for a book with more text than a picture book but still needs plenty of support from the illustrations?...
Love Letter to Lola (Carmel Bird, Spineless Wonders)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Carmel Bird was the recipient of the 2016 Patrick White Literary Award and is a respected author of fiction and nonfiction. Love Letter to Lola, a compilation of 18 short...
The Collected Regrets of Clover (Mikki Brammer, Viking)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
The Collected Regrets of Clover is the heartwarming debut novel by Australian author and journalist Mikki Brammer. Set in New York, the book centres on Clover Brooks, a socially isolated...
Between Worlds (B D Lovell, UWAP)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
While often overlooked, science fiction poetry, or speculative verse as it’s sometimes called, has a distinguished pedigree, with contributions from such luminaries as Ursula K LeGuin and Brian Aldiss, as...
Naked Ambition (Robert Gott, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Gregory Buchanan is an up-and-coming state politician with a healthy dose of self-regard. A blithe spirit, he commissions career artist Sophie White to capture his portrait. The sitting takes an unusual...
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Monday, 27 February 2023
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Racklyeft awarded 2023 SCBWI Bologna Scholarship, Aus authors longlisted in Walter Scott Prize, Nielsen Books and Consumer pilot report
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
In the lead-up to the Bologna Book Fair, Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft has won one of the two Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators International Bologna Scholarships...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Sales Fiction Puncher & Wattmann has sold German language rights to Bird (Adam Morris) to Edition Nautilus. Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold world French rights to The Certainty Myth: how...
Non-Essential Work (Omar Sakr, UQP)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Omar Sakr’s work is polished to a razor-sharp point in his third poetry collection. As expected, Non-Essential Work contends with notions around identities outside the white and heteronormative. But rather...
The Garden at the End of the World (Cassy Polimeni, illus by Briony Stewart, UQP)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
After Isla discovers a unique seed pod, readers accompany her and her mother to the Global Seed Vault in Norway. The Garden at the End of the World is the...
I Had a Father in Karratha (Annette Trevitt, Upswell)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
When her father dies, Annette Trevitt spends two-and-a-half years organising the detritus of his life in a remote WA mining town. I Had a Father in Karratha is a memoir...
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