RISE funding for Australia Reads, latest awards
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
The Australia Reads campaign and ALIA’s Online Storytime initiative are among the latest recipients of the federal government’s RISE funding. A new bookshop, The Chestnut Tree, has opened in Melbourne’s...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Arabic rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to SRMG. Black Inc. has sold North American rights to A World With No...
The Younger Wife (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan)
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Readers won’t be shocked to learn that Sally Hepworth’s new novel The Younger Wife features a May–December romance between a younger woman and an older man, and the effects the relationship has...
The One That Got Away: Travelling in the time of Covid (Ken Haley, Transit Lounge)
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
The One That Got Away documents journalist and travel writer Ken Haley’s year evading the pandemic. While many of us were kept in captivity as Covid-19 raged across the world,...
Tomorrow is a Brand-New Day (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys, Scribble)
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Tomorrow is a Brand-New Day is an ode to making a mistake and then making things right. It follows two children—friends with different styles—who come into conflict with each other...
Marcie Gill and the Caravan Park Cat (Monica McInerney, illus by Danny Snell, Puffin)
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
With a dozen adult novels under her belt, Monica McInerney is now turning her hand to children’s fiction and her first foray into middle-grade territory is just as full of heart and laughter as her...
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Monday, 6 September 2021
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Booktopia yearly results, latest award winners
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Booktopia has posted revenue growth of 35% and a 125% rise in profit for the 2021 financial year—its first full year results as an ASX-listed company. In other news, Brisbane Writers Festival...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s has sold Japanese, Turkish and Brazilian rights to Walk of the Whales (Nick Bland, November 2021); Spanish language rights in North America to Polly &...
The Dogs (John Hughes, Upswell)
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
John Hughes, whose last book No One was shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin, grapples with the idea of whether it is possible to ever truly know another person in...
The Greatest Mistakes That Went Right (Maddy Mara, illus by Cheryl Orsini, Affirm Press)
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Many kids are afraid to try new things because they are scared of not getting it right the first time; niggling insecurities and latent perfectionism can often mean they miss...
Terciel and Elinor (Garth Nix, A&U)
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Garth Nix’s ‘Old Kingdom’ books have been a perennial staple of YA sections in bookstores for the past 25 years, and I couldn’t even guess how many copies of Sabriel...
Another Day in the Colony (Chelsea Watego, UQP)
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Chelsea Watego’s debut essay collection Another Day in the Colony documents the sustained racism First Peoples suffer in this continent. Through critical race scholarship, memoir and archival imagery a powerful assemblage is...
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Monday, 30 August 2021
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CBCA winners, MWF live events cancelled
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
The winners of this year’s CBCA Book of the Year Awards were announced last Friday. In other awards news, the recipients of the Sydney Opera House Mentorship for Diverse Emerging...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children's has sold German rights to I Can Wear Anything! and I Can Play with Anything! (Susann Hoffmann); Swedish rights to Naughty Dragons Make Trouble! and...
How Decent Folk Behave (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette)
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
How Decent Folk Behave is an exploration of the systemic failures that have led to lockdowns, massacres, violence against women and worsening natural disasters over the past decade. This collection...
How to Repaint a Life (Steven Herrick, UQP)
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
How to Repaint a Life is the latest offering from Steven Herrick, author of award-winning young adult titles including The Simple Gift and The Bogan Mondrian. This is gritty, heartbreaking prose that delves into...
Norton and the Borrowing Bear (Gabriel Evans, Berbay)
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Gabriel Evans is fast becoming one of the most consistently delightful Australian picture book creators of recent years. With each release he adds to his oeuvre with such apparent ease,...
She’s a Killer (Kirsten McDougall, VUP)
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
This fun, dark-comedy thriller is led by one of the most memorable characters I’ve encountered in recent contemporary fiction. Alice is in her late 30s, a near-genius (IQ: 159) content to waste her life away in a...
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Monday, 23 August 2021
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The First Scientists (Corey Tutt, illus by Blak Douglas, Hardie Grant)
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
In The First Scientists, Corey Tutt, founder of the Deadly Science charity and NSW Young Person of the Year 2020, brings us an extremely engaging, informative and at times funny account of...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Slovak rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Motyl. Black Inc. has sold North American rights and UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights...
Lockdowns hit sales, Nielsen ebook sales tracking service
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Recent lockdowns across several states have led to year-on-year declines in both value and volume of print books, according to Nielsen Book Australia. Nielsen has also launched a new ebook...
Wild Abandon (Emily Bitto, A&U)
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Emily Bitto’s second novel paints a portrait of a young man as he grapples with love, relationships and his place in the world. In the spring of 2011 Will finds...
The Dancer: A biography for Philippa Cullen (Evelyn Juers, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Dead in 1975 at 25 years old, the Australian avant-garde dancer, teacher and artist Philippa Cullen lived a tragically short life. And yet, at the time, her artistic activity cast...
Social Queue (Kay Kerr, Text)
Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Neurodiverse teenager Zoe is undertaking an internship at an online media company when her first assignment, about the struggles of navigating the online dating scene as an autistic person, goes...
A Duck Called Brian (Al Murphy, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Brian the duck is unique—unlike all his yellow duck friends, he is bright blue. When Brian wakes up one morning to find he has run out of his favourite cereal,...
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Monday, 16 August 2021
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S&S stands by Zonfrillo, Dyer to step down from AWW
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Simon & Schuster is standing by celebrity chef Jock Zonfrillo’s memoir Last Shot following a profile of Zonfrillo published in Good Weekend. Jo Dyer will step down as director of Adelaide...
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