Australian market news: Publishers welcome survival of key online bookseller
Thursday, 26 September 2024
As the Australian book trade approaches the crucial Christmas bookselling period, publishers do so with some relief that a key local channel to market has survived to sell books in...
Australian fiction and poetry at Frankfurt
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Australian publishers are excited to pitch a wide range of fiction titles this year, including major award winners, debuts and follow-ups, in genres ranging from complex literary works to page-turning...
Nonfiction at Frankfurt
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Australian publishers are heading to Frankfurt with plenty of nonfiction titles on offer, from poetic memoirs to vibrant art books. Below, they share highlights they look forward to pitching at...
Australian CYA at Frankfurt
Thursday, 26 September 2024
An array of books—from those for young children to those on the cusp of adulthood, and with subjects ranging from axolotls to ultra-villains—are set to feature among publishers' CYA pitches...
Australian bestsellers 2024 YTD
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Top 10 Australian adult fiction titles YTD Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 68k Boy Swallows Universe* (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 56k What Happened to Nina? (Dervla McTiernan,...
Australian authors recommend
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Australian creators tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Michelle de Kretser won the Miles Franklin twice, for The Life to Come and Questions...
Latest acquisitions: Fiction and poetry
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Among the new Australian fiction signed this year are books from familiar names, debut works, manuscript prize winners, titles signed at competitive auctions, and a good dose of romantasy. Fiction...
Latest acquisitions: Nonfiction
Thursday, 26 September 2024
First Nations reportage, moving memoir, cooking, sport and Drag Queens Down Under—read all about Australian publishers’ recent nonfiction acquisitions. S&S imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to...
Latest acquisitions: Children’s and YA
Thursday, 26 September 2024
See what Australian publishers have been signing recently in children's and YA. Animals Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to Bindi Irwin’s debut picture book, titled You Are a...
Award winners to look out for
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Fiction Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) won the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the $60,000 Stella Prize, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) fiction book award...
Meet the Australian publishers at this year’s fair!
Thursday, 26 September 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) stand at Frankfurt this year will feature 14 publishers, with an additional seven to appear on the APA Virtual Australian Collective Stand. Appearing on the...
Bigfoot vs Yeti
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
The Bigfoot and Yeti have been enemies for as long as anyone can remember, living on opposite sides of an enormous rift—too wide to cross—too deep to fathom. But when...
After the Great Storm
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Forty-year-old Alice Kaczmarek has lost so much. She wants a baby, but her husband, Daniel, is serving a life sentence, accused of orchestrating an accident on Sydney’s new transport system....
Why Are We Like This? An Evolutionary Search for Answers to Life’s Big Questions
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Some questions have nipped at humanity’s heels for as long as we’ve been … well, humans. Why do we care? Why do we have sex? Why do we get cancer?...
Australian titles with international appeal
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Discover the latest rights opportunities from Australian publishers participating in the Australian Collective Stand at Frankfurt. View the stand catalogue here, featuring a range of fiction, nonfiction and children’s titles...
Dirrayawadha (Anita Heiss, S&S)
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Dirrayawadha is a work of searing historical fiction set during the Wiradyuri wars in 1820s Bathurst and centring on a love story between a young Wiradyuri woman and an Irish...
Adventures Unlimited: The Land of Lost Things (Andy Griffiths, illus Bill Hope, Pan Australia)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Adventures Unlimited is the latest series from middle-fiction superstar Andy Griffiths, with the first instalment, The Land of Lost Things, full of the wacky, exuberant, imaginative shenanigans fans have come...
The Honeyeater (Jessie Tu, A&U)
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
The Honeyeater is the second novel by Jessie Tu, acclaimed author of A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing. The story centres around Fay, an academic and emerging translator who works on...
Big Time (Jordan Prosser, UQP)
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
I’m not sure what’s going on at UQP, but they seem to have developed a passion for speculative fiction, and I’m here for it. Their latest offering, Big Time, is...
A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador)
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Dylin Hardcastle’s tender and steamy third novel, A Language of Limbs, follows two sapphic young women (Limb One and Limb Two) on different paths through the febrile 1970s and beyond...
Fragile Creatures (Khin Myint, Black Inc.)
Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Debut author Khin Myin’s Fragile Creatures is a remarkable memoir in many ways. Myin’s writing is gracious and honest; at its core, his life story is devastatingly sad. The opening chapter reveals...
Every Last Suspect (Nicola Moriarty, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Nicola Moriarty’s latest novel combines the domestic drama she’s known for with a compelling hook that will draw in mystery and thriller readers. Harriet Osman lies dying on the floor,...
Australian titles with international appeal
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Explore the latest rights opportunities from Australian publishers participating in the Australian Collective Stand at Bologna. View the Stand Catalogue here, featuring over 70 children’s and YA titles with international...
Six Summers of Tash and Leopold
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Leopold and Alytash – Leo and Tash – are neighbours who used to be best friends, but aren't anymore, for reasons that Leo doesn't entirely understand. But now it's the...
Who from Australia is at Bologna? Come and say hello at the Australian Stand party
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
In this Bologna Book Fair issue of Think Australian, we introduce you to Nicola Robinson, who will be attending Bologna for the first time, representing the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. See...
Australian publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Australian publishers Affirm Press, Fremantle Press and Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing have been shortlisted for this year’s Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania...
Australian children’s and YA bestsellers for 2024 YTD
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
While the children’s category in Australia, which represents 29% of the market, fell by 4.4% in 2023 compared to 2022, according to Nielsen, this came after a significant boom courtesy...
2023 Australian market overview
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Overall, the book market was down in Australia in 2023 by 2.1% in value and 1.7% in volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookData’s BookScan service. However, sales in 2023...
Nonfiction children’s titles on offer at Bologna
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
From Walker Books, I Wonder ‘explores how curiosity leads us to knowledge’ in a book by Philip Bunting, ‘the master of inviting us to ponder questions without definitive answers’. Other...
Picture books being pitched at Bologna
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
First Nations publisher Magabala, winner of the 2023 Bologna Prize for the Oceania region, is excited: ‘The release of a book by bestselling and award-winning author Gregg Dreise is always...
