The Memory Thief (Leonie Agnew, Puffin)
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Following her last spellbinding tale The Impossible Boy, Leonie Agnew has created another spine-tingling adventure novel for middle-grade readers. The Memory Thief tells the magical story of an unlikely friendship...
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Monday, 24 May 2021
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Brio joins Booktopia; Booksellers’ Choice shortlists
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Independent publisher Brio Books has been integrated into Booktopia, in a deal which will see the small press continue to publish books under the Brio imprint as part of Booktopia...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Sales Fiction Fremantle Press has sold Turkish-language rights to Over My Dead Body (Dave Warner) to Yeri Insan Publishing in Turkey. HarperCollins Australia has sold German, Dutch and Italian translation...
The Newcomer (Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Scribe)
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Paulina Novak is a bad-girl bogan archetype in early 2000s Sydney. Stuck in a rut, she moves on a whim to Fairfolk Island, a fictional Pacific island known as a...
The Cat Thief (Pat Simmons, illus by Liz Duthie, Little Pink Dog Books)
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Olive desperately wants a cat. So much so she is willing to steal them from off the street! The Cat Thief is a wickedly sly and humorous tale of theft,...
Gentle and Fierce (Vanessa Berry, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
If you grew up in the 80s you’ll probably remember that infamous scene in The NeverEnding Story where Artax the horse sinks forever into the Swamp of Sadness. Sydney writer...
Shockingly Good Stories (R A Spratt, Puffin)
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
The foreword to R A Spratt’s latest middle-grade book declares that the collection of stories the reader holds in their hands was created specifically to spread joy in challenging times....
After Story (Larissa Behrendt, UQP)
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
'Books have been my lifeline, my escape.' Jasmine’s family was forever changed by the loss of her sister when she was three. Now a lawyer, Jasmine is invited on a...
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Monday, 17 May 2021
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Sales Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Australia has sold Hungarian rights to The Nazis Knew My Name (Magda Hellinger and Maya Lee, September) to Nouvion Trade Sociedad Anonima, under the IPC...
Over 100 attend BookUp, Avid Reader shortlisted for LBF bookstore of the year
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Over 100 people attended the APA’s first BookUp conference; however, the event—particularly the inclusivity panel—was criticised by attendees for its lack of diversity. Brisbane's Avid Reader has been shortlisted for...
Rainfish (Andrew Paterson, Text)
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Debut middle-grade novel Rainfish is set in the 1980s during the uncomplicated glory days of Transformers and Star Wars, when ‘being offline’ meant you left your phone off the hook....
The Shut Ins (Katherine Brabon, A&U)
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
When Mai Takeda runs into an old acquaintance at a train station in Nagoya, it begins a narrative that weaves the lives of four people together in unexpected ways. Mai,...
The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the great Australian dissent (Gideon Haigh, Scribner)
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
If Herbert Vere 'Doc' Evatt is thought of at all today, it’s usually in terms of his nearly decade-long failure as Labor leader to combat Menzies’ conservative stranglehold. Gideon Haigh...
The Incredibly Busy Mind of Bowen Bartholomew Crisp (Paul Russell & Nicky Johnston, EK Books)
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
The title of this picture book is a bit of a mouthful, but it is rather apt because there is a lot going on in the mind of young Bowen...
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Monday, 10 May 2021
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Sales Fiction Big Sky Publishing has sold Hungarian rights to Hitler's Brothel (Steve Matthews) to IPC. Brazilian rights to the inaugural Novel Prize winner Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au,...
ABIA winners, push for EBA at Better Read Than Dead
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
In a big week for awards, the winners of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards were announced, as were the winners of the Vogel, the Nature Writing Prize, IPEd’s Janet Mackenzie...
The Nordic Edge: Policy possibilities for Australia (ed by Andrew Scott & Rod Campbell, MUP)
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
What can Australia learn from Nordic countries Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland? Quite a lot, according to editors Andrew Scott and Rod Campbell. Marshalling an array of Australian and...
The Story of Australia: For the young (and the curious) (Don Watson, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
After being out of print for 20 years, Don Watson’s The Story of Australia has been given a new life, a new target demographic and a new subtitle. Now targeted...
Henry Hamlet’s Heart (Rhiannon Wilde, UQP)
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Henry Hamlet lives in his head, and his head is full of worries—will he ever get a girlfriend and lose his virginity? Will he pass his year 12 exams? What...
The Rabbits (Sophie Overett, Vintage)
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
The Rabbits is a tense suburban drama that probes the limits of family bonds and human potential. Sophie Overett, who won the 2020 Penguin Literary Prize for the manuscript, has...
Catch Us the Foxes (Nicola West, S&S)
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Marlowe ‘Lo’ Robertson is an ambitious young journalist given the job of covering the annual show for the local paper. When Lo discovers the body of her friend, reigning showgirl...
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Monday, 3 May 2021
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Brazilian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Autêntica. Left Bank Literary has sold US rights to New Animal (Ella Baxter,...
Stella Prize and NSW Prem’s winners, industry moves
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Evie Wyld has won this year’s Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her novel The Bass Rock (Vintage). Meanwhile, Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their...
The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette)
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s latest novel continues the story of Bani Adam, a young Lebanese Muslim man growing up in Sydney. Bani, the protagonist of Ahmad’s 2018 novel The Lebs, now...
Everything Harder Than Everyone Else (Jenny Valentish, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Don't be fooled by the Motörhead-inspired title: journalist Jenny Valentish’s latest work of nonfiction isn't about music but is instead an accessible deep dive into extreme bodily endurance. A spiritual...
Coco, the Fish with Hands: Endangered Animal Tales 1 (Aleesah Darlison, illus by Mel Matthews, Puffin)
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Coco, the Fish with Hands is a simple book that reads almost like a souvenir from a conservation habitat visit. Its story is practical and streamlined, introducing an individual handfish,...
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