Fremantle Press creates anniversary shelving for local bookstores
Fremantle Press has kicked off its 40th anniversary celebrations by fitting out a number of local bookstores with branded shelving. Marketing and communications manager Claire Miller told Books+Publishing that Boffins...
Rights round-up
Sales Children’s—Fremantle Press has sold digital recording rights to The Last Viking (Norman Jorgensen, illus by James Foley) and My Superhero (Chris Owen, illus by Moira Court) to Story Box...
Fremantle Press sells film option to ‘Riddle Gully’ series
Film and TV rights to Jen Banyard’s children’s books Riddle Gully Runaway and Mystery at Riddle Gully (Fremantle Press) have been optioned by Australia-based production company Whoa Flamingo. Fremantle Press CEO...
Verse by verse: Sally Morgan on ‘Sister Heart’
Sally Morgan is the author and illustrator of multiple books for adults and children. Sister Heart (Fremantle Press) is her first verse novel, about a young Aboriginal girl taken from...
Madelaine Dickie wins 2014 T.A.G. Hungerford Award
Broome resident Madelaine Dickie has won the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award for her unpublished manuscript Troppo.Dickie received a $12,000 cash prize and a publishing contract with Fremantle...
New app lets travelling parents share picture books with kids
A new Australian-made app that lets parents read books with their children when they’re away from home launched on the Apple iTunes store in late December.The Quality Time app, which is available for iPad, with...
Radio NZ to broadcast reading of ‘The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt’
Tracy Farr’s novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Fremantle Press) will be broadcast as a 12-part reading on Radio New Zealand (RNZ), beginning on 29 October.Farr, who was...
Fremantle appoints first patron
Fremantle Press has announced the appointment of Tonya McCusker as the inaugural Fremantle Press patron. Fremantle Press chairperson Ian Lilburne said McCusker’s role would focus on raising the Press’s profile in...
Words from the west: Deb Fitzpatrick on ‘The Break’
Deb Fitzpatrick’s first novel for adults explores human drama in the ‘picturesque setting of Margaret River’. ‘The Break [Fremantle Press, September] will resonate with fans of Tim Winton, as Fitzpatrick...
A family affair: Kate McCaffrey on ‘Crashing Down’
In Kate McCaffrey’s Crashing Down (Fremantle Press, August), 17-year-old star student Lucy discovers she’s pregnant right after her boyfriend is severely injured in a car crash. Reviewer Meg Whelan writes...
Fremantle Press signs with new Singapore distributor Closetful of Books
Fremantle Press has signed a distribution agreement with a new Singapore-based company called Closetful of Books.The company, which was launched by bookseller Denise Tan, offers distribution and promotional services in...
T.A.G. Hungerford Award secures major sponsor
The City of Fremantle has been named as the new sponsor of the T.A.G. Hungerford Award, with the council to support the award financially for the next six years. The...
‘Cut and Paste Lake’ wins Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2013
Western Australian poet Nandi Chinna has won the 2013 Tom Collins Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Cut and Paste Lake’. Chinna was announced as the winner of the $1000 prize...
Penguin to distribute Fremantle titles in WA
Fremantle Press has announced that Penguin Books will distribute its titles in Western Australia from May 2014.The publisher said in a statement that the move ‘is designed to streamline the...
Something fishy: Robert Edeson on ‘The Weaver Fish’
The Weaver Fish (Fremantle Press, March) is a fiendishly clever puzzle of a book, writes reviewer Tim Coronel. (Read the review here.) He spoke to Robert Edeson. This book is...
Keen for 2014: A preview of forthcoming junior titles
Publishers tell Brad Jefferies about their favourite forthcoming children’s and YA books. Allen & Unwin Redgum’s popular Vietnam War song I Was Only Nineteen (John Schumann, illus by Craig Smith)...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
I dream of genies: Lynda Nixon and Jennifer McBride on ‘Shimmer’
Co-authors and sisters Lynda Nixon and Jennifer McBride have written Shimmer (Fremantle Press, October) for younger readers about a teenage genie who is sent to Earth. They spoke to Dani Solomon. One...
Fremantle Press and Curtin Uni partner on book trailer project
Fremantle Press has partnered with Curtin University to produce book trailers for a number of its new titles. The partnership involved students from the university’s department of film, television and...
On the world stage: Tracy Farr on ‘The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt’
Tracy Farr’s debut novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Fremantle Press, September) tells the story of Lena, a woman from Perth who found international fame after becoming the...