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Temperance (Carol Lefevre, Wakefield)

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Award-winning author Carol Lefevre’s latest novel, Temperance, is the touching story of a woman attempting to make sense of a childhood memory. The book begins in 1963 in South Australia,...

Downtown Sewertown (Tull Suwannakit, Ford St)

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
CBCA notable author-illustrator Tull Suwannakit has crafted his picture book Downtown Sewertown to depict a refugee experience. It is also a cautionary tale about the environment. A mouse, fox, rabbit...

The Wish Sisters #1: The Party Wish (Allison Rushby, illus by Karen Blair, UQP)

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
The Party Wish is the first book in the middle-grade series The Wish Sisters by Allison Rushby. At just under 100 pages it follows Flick and baby Birdie, who discover...

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Monday, 9 January 2023
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Rights round-up

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Sales Children’s/YA Scholastic Australia has licensed Slovenian and Arabic rights to The Bad Guys Episode 1, Episode 2: Mission unpluckable and Episode 3: The furball strikes back (Aaron Blabey); and...

Gilliatt joins LBL, latest Copyright Agency funding, Booktopia appoints new chair, sells stake in Welbeck ANZ

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
In moves, former Allen & Unwin publishing director Tom Gilliatt has joined Left Bank Literary as an agent and Booktopia has appointed Retail Food Group executive chairmen Peter George as...

Tiny Tradies (Tami Sussman, illus by Tom Jellett, Affirm Press)

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Tami Sussman and evergreen illustrator Tom Jellett perfectly execute their ingenious idea of comparing toddlers and tradespeople in Tiny Tradies. The picture book begins at home before a big day...

Shirley (Ronnie Scott, Hamish Hamilton)

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Ronnie Scott’s second novel marks the beginning of a great remembering—in which artists reflect on the summer of 2019-20, a summer that we previously thought was going to be marked...

A Routine Infidelity (Elizabeth Coleman, Pantera)

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Small-time private investigator Edwina ‘Ted’ Bristol spends her days serving court documents and exposing cheating spouses, but she longs for the dangerous and exciting kind of high-profile crime case that...

Resistance (Jacinta Halloran, Text)

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Resistance is the fourth novel by the award-winning author of Dissection and Pilgrimage, Jacinta Halloran. Narrated by family therapist Nina, it follows the Agostino family, mandated to see Nina after...

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Monday, 5 December 2022
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Kefala wins Patrick White Literary Award, Nash re-elected to Booktopia board, National Survey of Australian Book Authors results

Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Author and poet Antigone Kefala has won the 2022 Patrick White Literary Award, worth $15,000; Booktopia founder and former CEO Tony Nash has been re-elected to the company’s board; and...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Sales Fiction Zeitgeist Agency has sold rights to The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding to five territories: France (Fayard), UK (Legend Press), Romania (Humanitas), Finland (Minerva) and Russia (MTS Library). ...

Higher Education (Kira McPherson, Ultimo)

Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Kira McPherson’s debut novel Higher Education portrays the turbulence of early adult life. Twenty-year-old student Sam is juggling a lacklustre university degree and family tensions. Troubled by her family’s alcohol-fuelled...