The Making of Her (Bernadette Jiwa, Bantam)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
The Making of Her is a historical family drama that immediately conjures the sense of a time not so long ago. Spanning the 1960s to the 1990s, this cross between...
Hard Joy: Life and writing (Susan Varga, Upswell)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Susan Varga spent the first half of her life having affairs with inappropriate men, including some of the older leading lights of the libertarian Sydney Push. At the same time,...
Open Your Heart to Country (Jasmine Seymour, Magabala)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Open Your Heart to Country is the stunning fourth picture book from Dharug woman and award-winning author/illustrator Jasmine Seymour. It’s a story of welcome and belonging told in two languages,...
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Monday, 4 April 2022
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ABIA 2022 longlist, Puncher & Wattmann acquires ‘Grimmish’, SWF 2022 program
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
WestWords and Ultimo Press have partnered to offer a new prize for emerging writers ‘with a connection to Western Sydney’; Scribe children’s imprint Scribble and Sydney-based Think+DO Tank Foundation have...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Polish rights to The Natural History of Love (Caroline Petit, May) to Świat Książki. Giramondo Publishing has sold Hebrew translation rights to Inland (Gerald...
How to Be Between (Bastian Fox Phelan, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
How to Be Between is a memoir that takes the reader on a tour of Australian counterculture at the beginning of the 21st century, through queer spaces, art festivals, DIY...
The Way of Dog (Zana Fraillon, UQP)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
The Way of Dog is the latest work from internationally acclaimed author Zana Fraillon. A beautifully written verse novel told through an animal voice, this is an ambitious and absorbing...
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia (Elizabeth Tynan, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
While the atomic atrocities of Maralinga are now a well-known story in Australia, the events of nearby Emu Field have comparatively flown under the radar. Elizabeth Tynan, former science journalist...
Abomination (Ashley Goldberg, Vintage)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Best friends Ezra and Yonatan are students at an ultra-Orthodox Melbourne Jewish school when a teacher is accused of sexual molestation and is quickly squirreled away to Israel, beyond the...
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Monday, 28 March 2022
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Williams to leave SWF, Perth Writers Weekend 2022 wrap, Manga and adult fiction drive 2021 sales
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the 2022 program for its conference, to be held in person 12–13 June at the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park in Sydney, while Perth...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Eczema Detox: The low-chemical diet for eliminating skin inflammation (Karen Fischer) and Your Anxiety Beast and You: A compassionate...
Homesickness (Janine Mikosza, Ultimo Press)
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
‘I can’t escape myself or my past. There’s no way out,’ a character named Janine (‘Jin’) muses to an unknown interviewer near the beginning of artist and writer Janine Mikosza’s...
Sunbathing (Isobel Beech, A&U)
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
After her father dies of suicide, the unnamed narrator of Sunbathing travels from her hometown of Melbourne to the Italian countryside. There, she stays with friends Fabrizio and Giulia in...
All the Little Tricky Things (Karys McEwen, Text)
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
This debut middle-grade novel is a gentle and empathetic story about navigating the period between primary and high school, as well as the complex ways in which adolescent female friendships...
Dirt Town (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor is a complex and multi-layered whodunnit, peppered with red-herrings and shocking revelations. In the rural New South Wales town of Durton, a young girl, Esther,...
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Monday, 21 March 2022
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Penguin Literary Prize shortlist, floods devastate Lismore Library and Book Warehouse, ABDA longlists
Thursday, 17 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors, the Australian Short Story Festival and the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival are among the latest and final recipients of the Restart Investment to...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 17 March 2022
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold German translation rights to The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley) to HarperCollins Germany GmbH, and English rights to The Fossil Hunter (Tea Cooper, HQ Fiction)...
The Greatest Thing (Sarah Winifred Searle, A&U Children’s)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
The Greatest Thing is a graphic novel about friendship and self-actualisation, with a dash of queer romance. Semi-autobiographical in nature, it’s set in America in 2002 where Winifred (Searle) meets...
The Callers (Kiah Thomas, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Publishing simultaneously in Australia and the US, The Callers—Kiah Thomas’s first foray into middle-grade fiction—is a thoughtful, nuanced fantasy adventure in which two young people fight back against a colonising...
Daisy & Woolf (Michelle Cahill, Hachette)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Michelle Cahill’s debut novel tells the story of a struggling writer, Mina, as she expands upon the often disregarded character Daisy Simmons from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Daisy & Woolf...
The Red Witch: A biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard (Nathan Hobby, MUP)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Fifty years after the writer Katharine Susannah Prichard’s death, Nathan Hobby has produced this highly detailed, meticulously researched biography, both a revealing account of Prichard’s thrilling life and a sensitive...
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Tuesday, 15 March 2022
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Stella Count results, ILF moves to Hachette offices, Varuna First Nations Fellowship recipients
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The results of the 2019/2020 Stella Count have revealed gender parity has been achieved for the first time since the count began in 2012. Meanwhile, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation has...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold simplified Chinese rights to Grandparenting Grandchildren (Jane Williams & Tessa Grigg). Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold Korean rights to From My Head...
Root & Branch (Eda Gunaydin, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Root & Branch is the debut essay collection from Eda Gunaydin, Turkish-Australian scholar and writer of academic and creative nonfiction. It examines with spectacular tenacity and wit the real-world impacts that...
Seven Days (Fleur Ferris, Puffin)
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Winner of a Young Australian Best Book Award (YABBA) for her debut YA novel Risk, Fleur Ferris has subsequently built a reputation for dark and compelling YA thrillers. Ferris’s second...
Losing Face (George Haddad, UQP)
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Following the success of his 2016 Viva La Novella Prize–winning Populate or Perish, George Haddad’s Losing Face is an expansive work written in a staunch voice. Fusing the diverse experiences...
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