Where You Left Us (Rhiannon Wilde, UQP)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Rhiannon Wilde’s second YA novel, Where You Left Us, is as bewitching as her Glendower Award–winning debut Henry Hamlet’s Heart. It follows the two Prince sisters, Cinnamon and Scarlett, who...
Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell (Tobias Madden, Penguin)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Noah and Eli play an online computer game together most nights. They take down swamp goblins and drink virtual flagons of ale for hours at a time, but they still...
Bon and Lesley (Shaun Prescott, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Shaun Prescott continues his existential explorations of modern life in his second novel, which follows his 2017 debut The Town. In the opening pages of Bon and Lesley we meet...
Birdbrain (Kelli Anne Hawkins, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
In her return to middle-grade fiction, Kelli Anne Hawkins delivers another madcap caper for 10- to 12-year-olds that has puns aplenty and some genuine chuckles. Hadley Boggs is 11 and...
Paper Cage (Tom Baragwanath, Text)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Paper Cage is a thrilling whodunnit and the winner of the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize. The story centres on Lorraine, a records clerk at a small-town police department. She’s bright...
Naturopolis (Deborah Frenkel, illus by Ingrid Bartkowiak, Storytorch Press)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
The narrative nonfiction genre of children’s books—particularly those exploring the natural world—seems to be growing, and it can be hard to get right, since the audience for the ‘story’ component...
Curlews on Vulture Street (Darryl Jones, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
A fascination with birds and wildlife took hold early for Darryl Jones. Now a professor of ecology at Griffith University, he first noticed the creatures who shared his landscape as...
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Monday, 27 June 2022
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‘The Dogs’ removed from Miles Franklin longlist, ACCC approves Opus acquisiton of Ovato, WA Premier’s Book Awards winners
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
John Hughes’ novel The Dogs (Upswell) has been removed from the Miles Franklin longlist following instances of plagiarism found by the Guardian, which has since uncovered further examples, while Upswell...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian rights to Angel’s Share (Kayte Nunn, Nero) to MTS Library. Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold US rights to Wall (Jen Craig)...
Dirt by Sea (Michael Wagner, illus by Tom Jellett, Puffin)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
When Daisy mishears the lyrics of the national anthem, Dad declares a road trip in Mum’s Kombi to show her that Australia is an island, girt by sea, even if...
Honour Among Ghosts (Sean Williams, A&U)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Honour Among Ghosts is a high-action historical mystery set in a small Irish village where there are sorcerers, moralistic ghosts and spell-scribbling scribes. When 12-year-old Penny’s working-class father is thrown...
Dancing Barefoot (Alice Boyle, Text)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Dancing Barefoot brings a warm and uplifting queer contemporary romance to the #LoveOzYA, #AusQueerYA and #OwnVoices scenes. Winner of the 2021 Text Prize, Alice Boyle’s debut novel follows Patti ‘Patch’...
Be Careful, Xiao Xin! (Alice Pung, illus by Sher Rill Ng, Working Title Press)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
The bilingual picture book Be Careful, Xiao Xin! shows us how hard it can be for a young child to move towards independence and for a family to keep their...
Wildflowers (Peggy Frew, A&U)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
When we first meet 37-year-old Nina Atkins, the protagonist of Peggy Frew’s Wildflowers, she’s going through a strange time: she’s packing all her possessions into boxes, stealing clothes from the...
Farm: The making of a climate activist (Nicola Harvey, Scribe)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Is it possible to be a meat-eating environmentalist? How do you spend months bonding with your heifers, seeing them as they truly are—curious, playful and happy sentient beings—just to send...
Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls (Anne Casey-Hardy, Scribner)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Office assistants team up to steal leftover food from corporate meetings; teenage girls deal with uninvited boys during a schoolies camping trip; children play under the sinister branches of a...
Desi Girl (Sarah Malik, UQP)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Desi Girl is a collection of memoir-style essays by Pakistani-Australian journalist Sarah Malik. The essays primarily chronicle Malik’s university years, taking the reader through pivotal moments during this time before...
The Accident (Katie McMahon, Echo)
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
In this second general fiction offering from the author of The Mistake, Katie McMahon provides a tangled web of 30- and 40-something characters, with overt crumbs leading to a trail...
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Monday, 20 June 2022
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Rights round-up
Thursday, 16 June 2022
Sales Fiction Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold US rights to Wall (Jen Craig) to Zerogram Press (see news). Children’s/YA Berbay Publishing has sold Spanish-language rights to Can You...
ABIA, ABA awards winners, Affirm to launch national sales team, Hughes apologises for plagiarism in ‘The Dogs’
Thursday, 16 June 2022
Affirm Press has announced the launch of its own national sales team which will be fully operational from January 2023, while the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has reported its members...
The Only Child (Kayte Nunn, Hachette)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
The Only Child is historical fiction-cum-murder mystery by Kayte Nunn. The novel follows two timelines and the reader is tasked with piecing together the connection between them. In the first...
A Little Spark (Barry Jonsberg, A&U)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
A Little Spark is the latest middle-grade novel from author Barry Jonsberg. Known for his novels My Life as an Alphabet and A Song Only I Can Hear, Jonsberg again...
This Devastating Fever (Sophie Cunningham, Ultimo)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Alice Fox has been struggling for years with her novel. Her agent, Sarah, has misgivings. Does anyone really want to read about Virginia Woolf’s husband, Leonard Woolf? Alice claims that...
Our Dreaming (Kirli Saunders, illus by Dub Leffler, Scholastic)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
This isn’t the first time that Gunai writer, poet and activist Kirli Saunders and Bigambul illustrator Dub Leffler have created something incredible together. It’s no surprise after the success of...
The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall (Karen Herbert, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
On the picturesque grounds of Harewood Hall, a retirement village in Perth’s western suburbs, something is afoot. Actually, a variety of things are afoot, and the residents of Harewood Hall...
The Book of Wondrous Possibilities (Deborah Abela, Puffin)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
The Book of Wondrous Possibilities starts with a bang and doesn’t let up. Arlo lives a quiet life with his uncle and pet mouse Herbert above their bookshop, until the...
Growing in to Autism (Sandra Thom-Jones, MUP)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Sandra Thom-Jones had a successful life before she knew she had autism. Or, more specifically, before she had a diagnosis of autism. A well-respected researcher in her 50s, Thom-Jones knew...
Nimblefoot (Robert Drewe, Hamish Hamilton)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
In Nimblefoot, Robert Drewe imagines the second act in the life of Australian historical figure Johnny Day, an international star in the 19th-century sport of pedestrianism at age 10 and...
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