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8 December 2023

Submit your Christmas closing dates

To be included in Books+Publishing’s annual list of publishers’ and distributors’ trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon, Tuesday, 12 December.... Read more
 
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UQP acquires McSkimming memoir x

University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to Memory is a Nesting Magpie by Josie McSkimming, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary. Written... Read more
 
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Newest Wolf Girl debuts in top 10 x

Top 10 bestsellers The Secret (Lee & Andrew Child, Bantam) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins) Guinness World Records 2024 (Guinness World Records) Iron Flame (Rebecca Yarros,... Read more
 

 

Books in the media this weekend, 9–10 December x

A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper  The Conversion (Amanda Lohrey, Text) Courting: An intimate history of love... Read more
 
 

The Fires Next Time
ed by Peter Christoff, MUP, December 2023, reviewed by Coco McGrath
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The world watched in horror from July 2019 to February 2020 as bushfires raged across Australia. The Black Summer fires directly killed 33 people, while hundreds more died from fire-... Read more

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Frank Moorhouse: Strange paths
Matthew Lamb, Knopf, December 2023, reviewed by Becca Whitehead
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Frank Moorhouse worked relentlessly to refine both his writing and his understanding of himself. The first volume of Matthew Lamb’s biography of Moorhouse—who passed away last year at 83—is a valuable... Read more

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