The Grass Hotel (Craig Sherborne, Text)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
A woman suffering from dementia speaks to her son in her own idiosyncratic, damaged voice—her ‘wiring’ is gone. The mother-narrator's son is introverted and perhaps on the autism spectrum: he...
The Furies (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
A woman in a small Australian town is haunted. Death is all around her: she is still grieving her murdered sister, Mallory, while the spectre of her mother’s arrest and...
South Flows the Pearl (Mavis Gock Yen, ed by Siaoman Yen & Richard Horsburgh, SUP)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Over the 80s and 90s, Mavis Gock Yen (1916–2008) collected the stories of her contemporaries—Australian Chinese people whose memories and experiences spanned the late 1800s through to almost the end...
The Cane (Maryrose Cuskelly, A&U)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Award-winning nonfiction writer Maryrose Cuskelly’s first leap into fiction is set in a small Australian town where an unsolved crime turns the community upside down. It’s the 1970s and it...
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Monday, 22 November 2021
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Sales Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Australia has sold German rights to The Nazis Knew My Name (Magda Hellinger & Maya Lee) to Bastei Lübbe. Children’s/YA Affirm Press has sold Italian...
Supply chain chaos, Melbourne Prize for Literature winners
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Booksellers on Australia’s east coast are reporting serious delivery delays, missing deliveries and damaged stock, with reports that the problems are particularly acute in Queensland. The ABA will hold its...
Xavier in the Meantime (Kate Gordon, Riveted Press)
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Xavier in the Meantime is the new companion novel to Kate Gordon’s CBCA award-winning Aster’s Good, Right Things. Focusing this time on Xavier, Aster’s best friend, the story takes a sensitive but...
The Very Last List of Vivian Walker (Megan Albany, Hachette)
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
This quiet but compelling novel follows the very ordinary path of an ordinary woman completing the ordinary business of dying. However, it is in this ordinariness that the heart of...
A Witness of Fact (Drew Rooke, Scribe)
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
A Witness of Fact examines the controversial public life of South Australia's former chief forensic pathologist Dr Colin Manock, and his problematic role in the state's criminal justice system. Manock might...
Leo and Mina Fink: For the greater good (Margaret Taft, Monash Publishing)
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
In this biography of the working lives of an impressive 20th-century power couple, the competing forces of hope and catastrophe are clearly at work. Historian Margaret Taft has expertly detailed...
In an Artist’s Garden (Claire Orrell, Thames & Hudson)
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Like all good seek-and-find books, In an Artist’s Garden is a bit addictive regardless of the reader’s age, though is perhaps best suited to a middle/upper primary audience; the objects are simple...
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Monday, 15 November 2021
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Jordan wins Richell Prize, ‘The Promise’ wins 2021 Booker Prize
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
This week the Australian Society of Authors alerted authors and publishers that the decision by the National Library of New Zealand to donate more than 400,000 books to the Internet...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold North American English-language rights to The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to The Experiment; Arabic, Israeli and Hungarian translation rights to The...
Ouch! Tales of Gravity (Kate Simpson, illus by Andy Hardiman, A&U)
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
How do you explain something as complicated as gravity to a young audience (five-year-olds and above)? Well, humour certainly helps. The narrator in Ouch! Tales of Gravity is knowledgeable and...
Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo)
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Cold Enough for Snow is Jessica Au’s second novel and the winner of Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions’ inaugural Novel Prize. The book’s narrator travels with her Hong...
This is Me! (Sally Morgan, Magabala)
Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Written and illustrated by well-loved author Sally Morgan, This is Me is a simple and colourful board book for very young children. Morgan’s illustration style features simple shapes and patterns...
Found, Wanting (Natasha Sholl, Ultimo Press)
Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Beginning with a sudden death, Natasha Sholl’s memoir sets us up to expect a traditional grief narrative, ending with the author having processed the loss, found new meaning in their...
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Monday, 8 November 2021
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Rights round-up
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Sales Audio Big Sky Publishing has sold audio rights to Dasher: The Kevin Wheatley VC story (Michael C Madden) to Wavesound. Acquisitions Nonfiction Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to...
Parliamentary inquiry into the arts, US DoJ seeks to block PRH, S&S deal
Thursday, 4 November 2021
A parliamentary inquiry has made a slate of recommendations to support Australia’s cultural and creative industries, including a review of PLR/ELR schemes, minimum thresholds of local content and increased funding...
Tiny Wonders (Sally Soweol Han, UQP)
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
This story has been told plenty of times but it’s one that is always worth listening to: the idea that our world has become so busy, so grey, so predictable,...
The Competition (Katherine Collette, Text)
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
When 21-year-old Frances’s parents give her the ultimatum to find some direction in her life or find herself a new place to live, she decides to sign up for the...
Delia Akeley and the Monkey (Iain McCalman, Upswell)
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
On an African hunting expedition in 1909, an American woman named Delia Akeley captured a baby vervet monkey to settle an argument. It was a casual act that changed both...
The Riddle of Tanglewood Manor (Tracey Hawkins, Storytorch)
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The Riddle of Tanglewood Manor is a new younger readers novel from real-life detective-turned-children’s author Tracey Hawkins. When Sam and Harry’s parents tell them they're moving, it sounds like an...
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Wednesday, 3 November 2021
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Twelve Summers (Adam Zwar, Hachette)
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Twelve Summers is a memoir by actor and writer Adam Zwar, structured around the retelling of several memorable performances by the Australian men’s cricket team during the author’s formative years....
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold Swedish rights to Noah and Blue’s Zooniverse: The outstanding octokey and Noah and Blue’s Zooniverse: The speedy spidersaurus (Nova Weetman, illus by...
Record-breaking week for book sales, PMLAs shortlists
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Australian book sales for the week ending 16 October broke the 10-year average BookScan weekly sales record for this time of year, as New South Wales booksellers were finally able...
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