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Monday, 23 August 2021
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The First Scientists (Corey Tutt, illus by Blak Douglas, Hardie Grant)

Wednesday, 18 August 2021
In The First Scientists, Corey Tutt, founder of the Deadly Science charity and NSW Young Person of the Year 2020, brings us an extremely engaging, informative and at times funny account of...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Slovak rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Motyl. Black Inc. has sold North American rights and UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights...

Lockdowns hit sales, Nielsen ebook sales tracking service

Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Recent lockdowns across several states have led to year-on-year declines in both value and volume of print books, according to Nielsen Book Australia. Nielsen has also launched a new ebook...

Wild Abandon (Emily Bitto, A&U)

Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Emily Bitto’s second novel paints a portrait of a young man as he grapples with love, relationships and his place in the world. In the spring of 2011 Will finds...

The Dancer: A biography for Philippa Cullen (Evelyn Juers, Giramondo)

Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Dead in 1975 at 25 years old, the Australian avant-garde dancer, teacher and artist Philippa Cullen lived a tragically short life. And yet, at the time, her artistic activity cast...

Social Queue (Kay Kerr, Text)

Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Neurodiverse teenager Zoe is undertaking an internship at an online media company when her first assignment, about the struggles of navigating the online dating scene as an autistic person, goes...

A Duck Called Brian (Al Murphy, Scholastic)

Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Brian the duck is unique—unlike all his yellow duck friends, he is bright blue. When Brian wakes up one morning to find he has run out of his favourite cereal,...

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Monday, 16 August 2021
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S&S stands by Zonfrillo, Dyer to step down from AWW

Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Simon & Schuster is standing by celebrity chef Jock Zonfrillo’s memoir Last Shot following a profile of Zonfrillo published in Good Weekend. Jo Dyer will step down as director of Adelaide...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Sales Fiction Big Sky Publishing has sold Hungarian rights to The Music Maker of Auschwitz IV (Jaci Byrne) to 21. Század Kiadó and Hitler's Brothel (Steve Matthews) to IPC; Italian...

My Brother Ben (Peter Carnavas, UQP)

Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Acclaimed Australian children’s writer Peter Carnavas has followed up his wonderful first novel The Elephant with another book equally full of heart. An ode to sibling relationships, growing up and the natural world, My...

Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears (Bernadette Brennan, A&U)

Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Gillian Mears’s comparatively short life is truly a gift for the brave biographer. A fiction writer of immense talent, Mears received a bounty of accolades, grants and awards, but was...

Permafrost (S J Norman, UQP)

Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Permafrost is a decadent, artistic delight, full of sensory pleasure for the reader. S J Norman, a visual and performance artist who won the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Manuscript Award with this collection, makes a...

Bodies of Light (Jennifer Down, Text)

Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Bodies of Light is Jennifer Down’s third book and her best yet. It begins with fierce, ageing Maggie (now living in the US under a new identity) being prompted to revisit...

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Monday, 9 August 2021
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MWF program, latest award winners

Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Melbourne Writers Festival has revealed this year’s program, which runs from 3–12 September. Meanwhile, Writing NSW and the NT Writers Centre, as well as the NSW Central Coast’s Words on...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Sales Fiction Brandl & Schlesinger has sold US and Canadian rights to Mother Tongue (Joyce Kornblatt) to Publerati Maine. Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children's has sold UK and Korean rights to...

How to Make Friends: A Bear’s Guide (Cat Rabbit, Berbay)

Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Bear loves writing, drawing and collecting stickers. But with only the company of her toys, Bear is a bit lonely and would like to make some friends. She sets off...

Dark Rise (C S Pacat, A&U)

Tuesday, 3 August 2021
Will is on the run from the men who killed his mother. When a terrifying artefact is unleashed on the Thames docks, Will finds himself thrust into a hidden world...

Scary Monsters (Michelle de Kretser, A&U)

Tuesday, 3 August 2021
Montpellier, France, 1981. Twenty-two-year-old Lili is teaching English at a local high school and navigating a new experience of displacement in her adopted European home—after emigrating to Australia with her...

The Stoning (Peter Papathanasiou, Transit Lounge)

Tuesday, 3 August 2021
At dawn one Sunday, homicide detective George Manolis is woken with a call: a schoolteacher has been murdered in the outback town of Cobb, and the local police need his...

Out Here: An anthology of Takatāpui & LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa (ed by Chris Tse & Emma Barnes, Auckland University Press)

Tuesday, 3 August 2021
The whakataukī (Māori proverb) ‘ka mua, ka muri’ means ‘to walk backwards into the future’; we look to the past to inform our future. Out Here: An anthology of Takatāpui & LGBTQIA+ writers from...