The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About (Elfy Scott, Pantera)
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
In The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About, Sydney-based journalist and podcast presenter Elfy Scott uses her talent for explaining complicated issues in accessible ways to examine the myths and...
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder (Kerryn Mayne, Bantam)
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
In the lush, comforting Dandenongs, east of Melbourne, primary school teacher Lenny Marks is living a very organised life. She rides her bike to work, has dutifully polite conversations with...
The New Rulebook (Chris Cheers, Harper by Design)
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
In an era when psychologists’ waiting lists are months long, navigating mental health can be overwhelming. The New Rulebook by psychologist Chris Cheers is a godsend for those of us...
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Monday, 28 November 2022
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Easy Peasy (Ky Garvey, illus by Amy Calautti, EK Books)
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
When Ruby is given a pair of fabulous sparkly red roller skates for her birthday, she expects to be able to skate, equally fabulously, immediately—easy peasy. Of course, it isn’t...
Two Can Play That Game (Leanne Yong, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Leanne Yong’s debut Two Can Play That Game is a joyful and fun addition to the growing Asian-Australian Own Voices YA movement, joining the likes of Tiger Daughter and The...
‘Barefoot Kids’ breaks records, BookPeople reps of the year, Falconer wins Nib Award
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
This week, Scott Pape's new financial guide for children, Barefoot Kids, debuted at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart, breaking several records along the way. Sales were propelled by...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days (Alice Pung) to HarperVia, in a deal made by Black Inc. international director Sophy Williams...
Crows Nest (Nikki Mottram, UQP)
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Crows Nest is the absorbing debut crime thriller by Nikki Mottram. Following the breakdown of her marriage, social worker Dana Gibson takes a job interstate, fleeing north to Toowoomba. While...
A Man of Honour (Simon Smith, Echo)
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
When debut novelist Simon Smith was a child he was told, ‘Someone in our family shot a prince.’ That man was Henry James O’Farrell, whose failed attempt in 1868 to...
The Good Death Through Time (Caitlin Mahar, MUP)
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Historian Caitlin Mahar’s The Good Death Through Time joins previous works exploring euthanasia—see, for example, Assisted by Stefanie Green—but it is unique in its approach to the story. Mahar’s book is an account of...
Running with Ivan (Suzanne Leal, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Having previously won the Nib People's Choice Prize for her historical adult novel The Deceptions, Suzanne Leal tackles a similar era in her first book for younger readers, a time...
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Monday, 21 November 2022
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Smashing Serendipity (Louise K Hansen, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Proud Binjareb Nyoongar woman Louise K Hansen unfortunately passed away before her profound memoir, Smashing Serendipity: The story of one Moordtj Yorga, was published. But the strong stories from her...
The Death of John Lacey (Ben Hobson, A&U)
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Ben Hobson’s third novel tells the fragmented story of the life and demise of John Lacey, a ruthless, violent settler of a Victorian gold rush town. John and his brother...
Hedgehog the Wonder Dog (Dannika Patterson, illus by Ross Morgan, Ford Street)
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Hedgehog the Wonder Dog is a picture book with a beautiful aura around it, both visually and figuratively, telling a tender and soul-soothing story of the power of connection—in this...
Maggie (Catherine Johns, Hachette)
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
In Catherine Johns’s debut novel, a 17-year-old Catholic school girl’s life is derailed when she becomes enamoured of her priest. It’s 1967 and Maggie is a straight-A student whose education...
Tumbleglass (Kate Constable, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Rowan is helping her big sister Ash with painting her room when suddenly they find themselves in 1999, at a party in the very same house. While Ash wants to...
This Time it’s Real (Ann Liang, Penguin)
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Ann Liang’s This Time it’s Real is a vibrant young adult romantic comedy with its heart in the right place. When 17-year-old Eliza Lin’s school essay about her fabricated love...
Taking to the Field (Jane Carey, Monash University Publishing)
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
The most surprising thing to be found in a book about the history of women in science—for the author, as well as the reader—is the fact that the field has...
Pham recieves Heyman Mentorship Award, Ashenden wins Aus Political Book of the Year
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Kim Pham has won the 2022 Heyman Mentorship Award for her coming-of-age novel manuscript ‘Bird Hands Beaver a Fishmint Bouquet’. Meanwhile, the inaugural Australian Political Book of the Year was...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Russian translation rights at auction to The Laughter Effect: How to build joy, resilience and positivity in your life (Ros Ben-Moshe, April 2023) to...
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Monday, 14 November 2022
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Little Plum (Laura McPhee-Browne, Text)
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Little Plum is the second novel by the award-winning author of Cherry Beach, Laura McPhee-Browne. The story unfolds around 29-year-old Coral, who decides to follow through with a pregnancy from...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Brazilian rights to The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to Universo dos Livros. Fremantle Press has sold traditional Chinese translation rights to...
Koko and the Coconut (Turia Pitt & Celestine Vaite, illus by Emilie Tavaearii, Puffin)
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Koko and the Coconut is the first picture book by author and humanitarian Turia Pitt, written in collaboration with her mum Celestine Vaite. While the story is simple—a crab sheds...
Ractliffe to leave PRH, Begbie wins Richell Prize, PMLA shortlists
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Penguin Random House Australia has announced publishing director Justin Ractliffe will be leaving the company following a review of its local adult publishing division. In awards news, Susannah Begbie has...
You Talk, We Die (Judy Ryan, Scribe)
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Safe injecting rooms have been a polarising issue in Victoria for decades. Years of debate, government inquiries, coroner’s reports, media conjecture and scare campaigns have plagued any productive conversation. But...
Brain is (Not) Always Right (Scott Stuart, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Scott Stuart may have come to creating books for children in an unconventional way, but the social media storm surrounding his support for his child to be everything they could...
Cloud Land (Penny van Oosterzee, A&U)
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
In the gripping and extensively researched Cloud Land, Penny van Oosterzee imagines what a small region of Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands has witnessed over both geological time and since white settlement....
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