Australian market report: 2024 book sales down 3% in value
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Overall, the book market was down in Australia in 2024, by 3% in value and 1.2% in volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookData’s BookScan service. Nielsen’s 2024 snapshot, which covered...
What Australian publishers are looking to acquire at Bologna
Thursday, 20 March 2025
We ask Australians attending Bologna this year what they are looking to acquire – and what they are expecting to talk about with fellow attendees. Miriam Rosenbloom, publisher and art...
Publisher picks: Australian picture books
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers at Bologna name the picture books they have the highest hopes for at the fair. Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke, founder, managing director and publishing director at Berbay Books, will be...
Publisher picks: Australian junior and middle-grade fiction
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers at Bologna name the junior and middle-grade fiction titles they expect to gain international interest at the fair. On the eve of Bologna, Annabel Barker Agency announced that...
Publisher picks: Australian YA
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers pick their top YA offerings. Carey Schroeter, rights and international sales manager, books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin (A&U), will be attending Bologna in...
Publisher picks: Australian nonfiction children’s books
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Australian publishers offer not one but two Dogs with Jobs children’s books, among a range of nonfiction titles on offer at Bologna. We suppose publishers must be onto something when...
Australian children’s and YA award winners
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Read on for recent Australian award winners in children’s and young adult literature. Illustrated children’s titles For the first time in the history of the prestigious Victorian Premier's Literary Awards,...
Australian children’s and YA bestsellers YTD
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Top 10 Australian YA fiction Cruel Is the Light (Sophie Clark, Penguin) 5.0K I Am Not Jessica Chen (Ann Liang, Harlequin Teen) 2.0K Immortal Dark (Tigest Girma, Lothian) 1.8K My...
Villain
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Gaming fanatic Jay receives a strange phone call on a school trip to Titanium Tower. The voice on the other end calls himself Z. And he has trapped Jay's classmates...
Australian titles with international appeal
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
You can find the Australian Collective Stand at Bologna at Hall 25, Stand A87. Come visit for the Australia party, to be held on 1 April at 5pm. In the...
Super Epic Dragon Quest #1 The Deadly Fang
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
WANTED: Brave Heroes to find Deadly Fang Arlo is a brave, hard-working farm boy who dreams of doing more than brushing the unibrows of his unicows. Julia's a plucky adventurer...
Back at Bologna in person for networking, insights and ‘the inevitable spritz and gelato!’
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Berbay Books founder and publishing director Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke is set to visit Bologna for the 12th time. ‘Bologna is a key event on our calendar,’ she says. ‘For me, it’s...
Australians are ready to buy, sell, and talk AI at LBF
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Gregory Messina is an American literary agent based in Paris who will be representing more than one Australian author at LBF this year. He’s been attending LBF every year since...
Market report: Australian publishers on Christmas sales trends and the year ahead
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Each year, Think Australian’s sister publication Books+Publishing surveys publishers to see how Christmas matched up with their expectations and what they expect from the year ahead. This year, while one...
‘Why I’ll be at LBF’: Meet the Australians attending in 2025
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Meet the Australian visitors – both seasoned and brand new – attending LBF this year. In her nine years at Australian independent Allen & Unwin, Wenona Byrne (Creative Australia director,...
Publishers’ top picks: Australian fiction
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
A new publisher, a new literary agency and the Australian fiction on offer at LBF. Members of newest Australian literary agency on the block, a4 Literary – for which former...
Publishers’ picks: Australian nonfiction
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Food and family, AI, and escaping a cult: The Australian nonfiction publishers have high hopes for at LBF Sandra Buol, rights and international sales manager at Australian independent Allen &...
Introducing Pink Shorts Press: recent Australian acquisitions
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
With Australia’s independent publisher count recently dropping significantly – thanks to the acquisitions of Pantera Press by Hardie Grant and Text Publishing by Penguin Random House following hot on the...
Winners who keep winning: Australian awards news
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Repeat winners, internationally recognised authors and the latest winners of Australian manuscript prizes As reported in the previous edition of Think Australian, Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) has already won the...
Australian bestsellers in 2024
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Top 10 Australian adult fiction bestsellers Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan), 157K Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 80K Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate)*, 64K...
The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson
Monday, 3 March 2025
The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson is a gothic delight. It tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s friendship with the charming Eugene Chantrelle and the murder mystery that...
Crimson Light Polished Wood
Monday, 3 March 2025
Leonora, a British immigrant, falls in love with Margaret, a fellow female teacher who three years later dies of cancer. While still grieving for Margaret, Leonora meets and befriends Anna...
Vaccine Nation: Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress
Monday, 3 March 2025
While vaccination is arguably the greatest public health achievement in history, the disappearance of many diseases has also seen an increased focus on the side effects of vaccines and the...
Funga Obscura: Photo journeys among fungi
Monday, 3 March 2025
This book is about fungi, and the photography of fungi. The title – Funga Obscura – unites the two. Beginning in elemental landscapes of ice and rock, the book traces...
Invisible Boys
Monday, 3 March 2025
In a small town, everyone thinks they know you: Charlie is a hardcore rocker, who’s not as tough as he looks. Hammer is a footy jock with big AFL dreams,...
The Midnight Chew
Monday, 3 March 2025
When Boofa Boy Jones steals Skippy Gillespie’s very big bone, a marvellous doggy race ensues in the cold and blustery dark, down the street and through the park. But who...
Consider Yourself Kissed (Jessica Stanley, Text)
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Consider Yourself Kissed is a romance set in London against the backdrop of the UK’s escalating political crises of the 21st century: Tory leadership struggles and re-election and Brexit, culminating...
How to Be Normal (Ange Crawford, Walker)
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Ange Crawford’s debut novel, How to Be Normal, is a visceral and compelling read. It centres on Astrid, who is returning to high school after five years of homeschooling. She...
The Colours of Home (Sally Soweol Han, T&H)
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
As the title The Colours of Home suggests, colour plays a central role in this beautiful picture book by Korean-Australian artist Sally Soweol Han (Nightsong, Tiny Wonders). The story follows...
Washpool (Lisa Fuller, Lothian)
Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Lisa Fuller’s Washpool is a fun, heartwarming and insightful exploration of family and kinship that takes the portal fantasy genre to a new level. When Murri sisters Bella and Cienna...
