You’ve Let Them In (Lois Murphy, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Scott is not happy when his hippy stepmum convinces his dad to buy a house straight out of The Amityville Horror. A far cry from their comfortingly overcrowded flat, the...
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Monday, 22 February 2021
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Sales Children’s Hardie Grant has sold Portuguese rights to Me, Microbes & I (Philip Bunting); Russian rights to All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors (Davina Bell & Jenny...
Tish (Edwina Wyatt, illus by Odette Barberousse, Berbay)
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Due to their very definition, imaginary friends can come in all shapes and sizes, and Tish is no exception. Resembling a woolly mammoth but with wings and an odour problem...
No Document (Anwen Crawford, Giramondo)
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
In this arresting book, Anwen Crawford reckons with the death of a close friend and comrade. Seeking a language suitable for grief, Crawford stitches together material from a wide range...
New HarperCollins imprint; Au wins inaugural Novel Prize
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
HarperCollins Australia is launching a new ‘design-led’ illustrated imprint, Harper by Design. In industry events, IPEd and BWF are collaborating on an Authors and Editors in Conversation series, while EWF...
The Katha Chest (Radhiah Chowdhury, illus by Lavanya Naidu, A&U)
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
In Radhiah Chowdhury and Lavanya Naidu’s book, elegant textile patterns are patchworked together with descriptive snapshot stories of young Asiya’s family members and their histories. Asiya delights in every one...
The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley, Fourth Estate)
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
There is a lot to love about Fairfax journalist Jacqueline Maley’s debut novel, the ripped-from-the-headlines story of Suzy, a journalist who’s blamed for the shocking death of Tracey Doran, a...
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Monday, 15 February 2021
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The Prison Healer (Lynette Noni, Penguin)
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Lynette Noni, the winner of the 2019 Gold Inky for her dystopian sci-fi novel Whisper, returns to fantasy with The Prison Healer. Kiva’s daily life as prisoner and prison healer...
Love Objects (Emily Maguire, A&U)
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Pop culture representations of hoarding tend to paint a picture of unrestrained excess. Perhaps this is why, when Emily Maguire introduces Nic, a 45-year-old who loves her job at the...
Pre-Christmas sales up, Giggs wins ALA Carnegie Medal
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Book sales in Australia were up 17.5% in the 10 weeks to 5 December 2020, data from Nielsen BookScan shows. Rebecca Giggs won the American Library Association's (ALA) Andrew Carnegie...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Sales Nonfiction Jeanne Ryckmans at Cameron Creswell Agency (Cameron’s Management) has sold Chinese translation rights to American Journeys (Don Watson, Penguin) to The Commercial Press; and Korean translation rights to...
Tussaud (Belinda Lyons-Lee, Transit Lounge)
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Madame Tussaud is synonymous with wax figures of the famous and infamous and also with the uncanny-valley discomfort that such figures evoke. This book takes the documented strange life of...
Huda and Me (H Hayek, A&U)
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
When their parents make a sudden trip back to their home country of Lebanon, Huda and Akeal find themselves left with their fellow siblings under the care of a family...
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Monday, 8 February 2021
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Paws (Kate Foster, Walker Books)
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Kate Foster is a literary agent and now, with her middle-grade novel Paws, a published children’s author. Eleven-year-old Alex loves dogs, sketching and computer games. But he doesn’t have any...
Wonder Earth (Zanni Louise & Tiff Bollhorn, illus by Sophy Louise Smith, Five Mile)
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Wonder Earth is a slightly strange hybrid of science reference and imaginative meditation. The authors set out to help children connect with the Earth at both an emotional and a...
Car Crash: A Memoir (Lech Blaine, Black Inc.)
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
In 2009, 17-year-old Lech Blaine and six of his friends were driving home together in Toowoomba. The driver swerved and was hit by an oncoming car. Blaine, who was sitting...
Smokehouse (Melissa Manning, UQP)
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Melissa Manning’s debut short story collection is an evocative and sometimes heartbreaking exploration of family, home and what it takes to build a fulfilling life. Bookended by two longer works...
VPLAs winners, Booktopia EBITDA up 506%
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Laura Jean McKay has won Australia’s richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for The Animals in That Country (Scribe), at this year’s Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. In...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Greek translation rights to The Shortest History of China (Linda Jaivin), to Metaichmio Publications. Children’s Hardie Grant has sold German rights to Me, Microbes...
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Monday, 1 February 2021
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Like Mother (Cassandra Austin, Hamish Hamilton)
Thursday, 28 January 2021
It’s 1969 in small-town Australia and new mother Louise can barely leave her own house or step beyond the shadow of her controlling mother, Gladys. With a constantly crying baby,...
The Edge of Thirteen (Nova Weetman, UQP)
Thursday, 28 January 2021
The Edge of Thirteen is the latest offering by acclaimed middle-grade author Nova Weetman. Following the characters from Weetman's 'The Secrets We Keep' series, yet working as a standalone story,...
Return to Uluru (Mark McKenna, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 28 January 2021
‘Perspective is everything,’ writes historian Mark McKenna in Return to Uluru, his mesmeric history–true crime hybrid. When starting the book, McKenna expected to tell an expansive history of central Australia,...
The Believer (Sarah Krasnostein, Text)
Thursday, 28 January 2021
The people who populate The Believer are remarkably different from one another. There are, among others, a convicted murderer, a ‘death doula’, paranormal investigators, and Christian researchers who have dedicated...
9 Things to Remember (and one to forget) (Alison Binks, Berbay)
Thursday, 28 January 2021
This picture book opens with a girl relaxing on a hammock somewhere in the forest, along with the words, ‘If you sleep outside remember that birds wake up very early...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 28 January 2021
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold the following rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate): UK English-language rights to Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Czech translation rights to Argo; Danish translation...
Oz Day honours, Perth Festival program and more
Thursday, 28 January 2021
A handful of book industry figures have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. The full line-up for the 2021 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program—which runs from 8–28...
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