Other People’s Houses (Kelli Hawkins, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
This suburban thriller, set on Sydney’s North Shore, explores what happens when unresolved grief turns into obsession. After experiencing a horrific tragedy, Kate develops some bad habits, including an alcohol...
The Missing Among Us (Erin Stewart, NewSouth)
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
The Missing Among Us is instantly enthralling. Erin Stewart profiles a number of missing persons cases, deftly and confidently straddling the line between reportage and personal response. Balancing the interviewees'...
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Monday, 11 January 2021
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Monday, 4 January 2021
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Monday, 21 December 2020
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Monday, 14 December 2020
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Sales Fiction Natasha Solomun has sold French rights to The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Shokoofeh Azar, Wild Dingo Press) on behalf of The Newman Agency and Wild Dingo Press,...
Decolonising Australian publishing is an ongoing project
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
‘Having First Nations editors in mainstream publishing houses, especially for those that are putting out a lot of work by our mob, it goes without saying. If they’re publishing books...
White launches new imprint, Booktopia lists on ASX, VPLAs shortlists
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Former UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White has launched a new not-for-profit imprint, Upswell, to be distributed within the Black Inc. list. In other news from the past week, online bookseller...
Eating With My Mouth Open (Sam van Zweden, NewSouth)
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Sam van Zweden’s Eating With My Mouth Open is at once an expressive memoir and a cultural commentary on the role of food in our lives. It’s part vulnerable and...
The Ghost Squad (Sophie Masson, MidnightSun)
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
This young adult thriller starts as a post-collapse story and then takes a supernatural turn. It begins with ‘the pulse’, a solar flare that shuts down all electronics, pitching the...
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Monday, 7 December 2020
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The Speechwriter (Martin McKenzie-Murray, Scribe)
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Martin McKenzie-Murray’s fiction debut is a fun but sometimes frustrating book that nevertheless delivers plenty of laughs along the way. The story is told by Toby—an aspiring speechwriter whose hyper-ambition...
With a Little Kelp from Our Friends (Mathew Bate, illus by Liz Rowland, Thames & Hudson)
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
From the evolution of this fascinating stuff to its modern usage as food, fuel and building material, in With a Little Kelp from Our Friends Mathew Bate tells you everything...
Footprints on the Moon (Lorraine Marwood, UQP)
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
It’s 1969 and Sharnie is entering year seven and finding it difficult to make friends. The world is consumed by the Space Race and the Vietnam War, and Sharnie is...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Sales Children’s Era Publications has sold digital German-language translation rights to the ‘Wings’ series in Turkey, Germany, Spain, Greece and Egypt. Scholastic has sold UK rights to Fartboy: The First Sniff...
The sale of S&S to Bertelsmann will create a ‘book behemoth’
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
'There is clearly no market logic to a bid of that size—only anti-market logic. Bertelsmann is not just buying a book publisher, but buying market dominance as a book behemoth...
Bertelsmann to buy S&S, court dismisses HarperCollins defamation case
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Penguin Random House’s parent company Bertelsmann announced it will acquire Simon & Schuster from media company ViacomCBS for US$2.175 billion. Last week, a federal court judge dismissed a defamation case...
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Monday, 30 November 2020
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We need better arguments for the importance of writing
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
'Being a writer in Australia is seen as an esoteric thing at best, certainly not a profession, a hobby maybe, and this is the first time I’ll say it and...
The Boy From the Mish (Gary Lonesborough, A&U)
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Jackson is an Aboriginal teen who lives with his mum and little brother; he has a girlfriend, good mates and the local men’s group. Then his aunty from the city...
The Price of Two Sparrows (Christy Collins, Affirm)
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Christy Collins’s The Price of Two Sparrows is an elegantly structured study of migration and community in Australia. A burgeoning Muslim community on the outskirts of Sydney has made plans...
Buried Not Dead (Fiona McGregor, Giramondo)
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Outsider art, as critic Roger Cardinal once wrote, is ‘immune to the polarisations of culture and the copycat spirit of cultural art’. It’s fair to say that Fiona McGregor’s new...
ASA writers survey, first Perth Fest guests, Booker Prize winner
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
A new survey by the Australian Society of Authors shows more than half of full-time writers earn below $15,000 per year. The first guests for next year’s Perth Festival Literature...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Sales Fiction Hachette Australia has sold UK & Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to When the Apricots Bloom (Gina Wilkinson) and Ten-Ager (Madonna King) to Headline Publishing Group. Left Bank Literary...
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Monday, 23 November 2020
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Editing requires time and skill—regardless of market pressures
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
'Despite the high volume of books being produced, and the increasing pressures to produce them as quickly and cheaply as possible—and of course to sell as many as possible—editing itself...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold North American English-language rights to All Our Shimmering Skies (Trent Dalton) to Harper Fiction, UK rights to The Borough Press, German rights to HarperCollins Germany,...
The Silent Listener (Lyn Yeowart, Viking)
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Lyn Yeowart’s debut crime thriller The Silent Listener is the intense, horrific, utterly devastating and totally addictive tale of the Henderson family. Spanning four decades and encompassing a missing child...
Beneath the Trees (Cristy Burne, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Cam and her little sister Sophie have travelled halfway across Australia to see some platypuses in the wild, and even their mum forcing them to wear bright yellow emergency ponchos...
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