That Cat (Jacqueline Harvey, illus by Kate Isobel Scott, Puffin)
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Cat lovers and nonsense lovers, this is the book for you. Jaqueline Harvey, bestselling author for children, plays on words that rhyme with ‘cat’ in order to make a list...
Pearly and Pig and the Great Hairy Beast (Sue Whiting, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Pearly Woe is not your average 10-year-old. She can speak 27 languages, talk to and understand most animals and, in this tale, travels to Antarctica. However, this is no holiday....
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Monday, 10 January 2022
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Monday, 20 December 2021
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Monday, 13 December 2021
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The Sorrow Stone (Kári Gíslason, UQP)
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
In the wintery and unforgiving wilds of pre-medieval Iceland, a widow named Disa and her young son are running in fear of their lives. Disa has committed a bloody act...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Sales Fiction Penguin Random House Australia has sold UK rights (world English-language ex ANZ) to The Rabbits (Sophie Overett) to Gallic Books; Slovakian translation rights to The Eighth Wonder (Tania Farrelly) to...
Paterson to lead Atlantic Books Australia, VPLAs shortlists
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Pan Macmillan publishing director Cate Paterson is leaving the company to lead Atlantic Book Australia, a new division of Allen & Unwin. In other moves news, Louise Adler will leave...
Sadvertising (Ennis Ćehić, Vintage)
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
In this debut collection of short stories, Ennis Ćehić uses deeply flawed characters to cleverly reflect the absurdity of late-stage capitalism. Sadvertising identifies obsession, narcissism and neuroses as reasonable responses...
When You’re Older (Sofie Laguna, illus by Judy Watson, A&U Children)
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
There are many picture books that look at life with a new sibling from the perspective of a young child, probably because these books are regularly requested in bookshops and...
Moth in a Fancy Cardigan (Charlotte Lance, illus by David Booth, Berbay)
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
This illustrated middle-grade novel is a cute and quirky story about self-expression and the courage to be seen, told from the perspectives of a shy moth and a popular butterfly....
This is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch (Tabitha Carvan, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
When Tabitha Carvan suddenly falls in love with the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who she has never met, she doesn’t know what to make of it. Her growing obsession simultaneously puzzles,...
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Monday, 6 December 2021
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Engaged readers driving book sales, latest awards news
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
A new survey by Australia Reads has found that engaged readers were driving the growth in book sales during the pandemic. In other news, ADS has announced it is working...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Acquisitions Fiction Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the historical novel The Natural History of Love by Caroline Petit, via Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary Agency, to be...
Tik Merauke: An epidemic like no other (John Richens, MUP)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
In the early 1900s the sexually transmitted infection donovanosis ravaged the Marind of New Guinea. Through the lens of this disease, known as tik Merauke to the native people, doctor...
Only a Monster (Vanessa Len, A&U)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Joan is enjoying her summer in London with her eccentric family and dream job at the historic Holland House. After unexpectedly losing several hours out of her day after a...
A Great Hope (Jessica Stanley, Picador)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
When ACTU boss John Clare falls to his death from the roof of the family home, a note found on him makes it seem like suicide. But is that the...
The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Matt Ottley, Dirt Lane)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
An author, visual artist and composer, Matt Ottley has combined his talents in his latest work to create a multi-modal sensory feast that merges words, art and music. Bold and...
The Islands (Emily Brugman, A&U)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
It’s the 1950s and the Finnish migrants who have made their home on the ruthless terrain of Little Rat Island are accustomed to surviving harsh landscapes, both emotional and physical....
The Power of Podcasting: Telling stories through sound (Siobhán McHugh, UNSW Press)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
It’s strange to think that ‘less than a decade ago, most people had never heard of podcasting’, as Siobhán McHugh points out in The Power of Podcasting. In this part...
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Monday, 29 November 2021
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NZ book sales up, National Book Award winners
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Since Auckland and Waikato emerged from lockdown, New Zealand print book sales are up 4% on value on the same time in 2020, while year-to-date sales are up 17%. The...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Portuguese translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Univers Dos Livros. Nonfiction HarperCollins has sold Thai translation rights to Complete Self-Help...
Big World, Tiny World: Forest (Jess Racklyeft, Affirm)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Jess Racklyeft will already be a familiar name to readers of picture books, and Big World, Tiny World: Forest is just as lovely as her earlier works. The book begins with a...
The Grass Hotel (Craig Sherborne, Text)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
A woman suffering from dementia speaks to her son in her own idiosyncratic, damaged voice—her ‘wiring’ is gone. The mother-narrator's son is introverted and perhaps on the autism spectrum: he...
The Furies (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
A woman in a small Australian town is haunted. Death is all around her: she is still grieving her murdered sister, Mallory, while the spectre of her mother’s arrest and...
South Flows the Pearl (Mavis Gock Yen, ed by Siaoman Yen & Richard Horsburgh, SUP)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Over the 80s and 90s, Mavis Gock Yen (1916–2008) collected the stories of her contemporaries—Australian Chinese people whose memories and experiences spanned the late 1800s through to almost the end...
The Cane (Maryrose Cuskelly, A&U)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Award-winning nonfiction writer Maryrose Cuskelly’s first leap into fiction is set in a small Australian town where an unsolved crime turns the community upside down. It’s the 1970s and it...
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Monday, 22 November 2021
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