Nonfiction acquisitions: memoirs galore
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Among the most recent nonfiction acquisitions by Australian publishers are a plethora of memoir titles, including actor Sam Neill’s memoir Did I Ever Tell You This?, for which Text acquired...
The children’s hour: Children’s rights sales in the Australian book market
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
With children’s books driving book sales locally, Jackie Tang looks at how children’s rights sales are performing for Australian publishers. Children’s books are dominating the Australian market, with children’s and...
Australian publishers prepare for Frankfurt
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Each year, Australian publishers big and small travel to the Frankfurt Book Fair to meet face to face with their international counterparts. To find out which Australian publishers will be...
Introducing Henry Rosenbloom
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Henry Rosenbloom is the founder and publisher of Melbourne’s Scribe Publications, which specialises in ‘narrative and literary nonfiction on important topics, and the best of local, international and translated fiction’....
‘Extinctions’ wins prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Josephine Wilson has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, for her novel Extinctions, published by Western Australia–based small press UWA Publishing. The judging panel described...
‘Colombiano’, ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top the Australian charts
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Australian fiction bestsellers: August Topping the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for August is the novel Colombiano—‘a heart-thumping journey into the violent and unpredictable world of post-Escobar Colombia’—from the author of...
S&S Australia selects ‘sweeping literary novel’ to launch Scribner Australia imprint
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Simon & Schuster Australia will launch the literary imprint Scribner in Australia and New Zealand in 2018 with a new novel by Kristina Olsson (pictured), author of the award-winning Boy,...
Screen stories: Australian books adapted for film and TV
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
An increasing number of Australian books are being turned into films or television series, reports Jackie Tang. The past five years has seen a significant rise in Australian books adapted...
The market down under
Friday, 30 September 2016
Book sales edged up in Australia for the second year in a row as the market continues its recovery after several years of decline. Brad Jefferies presents an overview of...
#LoveOzYA gathers momentum
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
A grassroots campaign to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles has been gathering momentum, writes Sophie Teague. In 2015, a group of authors, teachers and...
The rights stuff 2016
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
For the 14th year in a row, Think Australian has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading and book exports. Andrew Wrathall...
Selling strong: Australian publishers’ rights highlights
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Books+Publishing asked a range of Australian publishers to share their recent rights successes ahead of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. This article first appeared in Think Australian. Allen & Unwin Kate Morton...
Two thirds of Australian rights managers and literary agents report income growth, according to survey
Monday, 12 October 2015
The rights market has taken a positive turn over the past year, according to Books+Publishing’s annual survey of Australian literary agents and rights managers, published in its Frankfurt Book Fair...
Reilly, Ponting top Australian bestsellers charts 2013-14
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) and Ricky Ponting’s memoir Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers chart for July 2013 to...
Fox, Griffiths and Marsden top Australian children’s bestsellers charts 2013-14
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
For the fourth year in a row, books by Mem Fox, Andy Griffiths and John Marsden have topped the Australian picture book, children’s fiction and YA bestsellers charts, according to...
The Rights Stuff 2014: Survey of Australian rights trading
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
For the 12th year in a row, Think Australian has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading and book exports. Andrew Wrathall...
Fox, Griffiths, Marsden top Australian children’s bestsellers charts 2012-13
Friday, 2 August 2013
For the third year in a row, books by Mem Fox, Andy Griffiths and John Marsden have topped the Australian picture book, children’s fiction and YA bestsellers charts for July...
Courtenay, Hay top Australian bestsellers charts 2012-13
Thursday, 1 August 2013
Bryce Courtenay’s final novel Jack of Diamonds (Viking) and Donna Hay’s Fresh and Light (HarperCollins) have topped the Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers chart for July 2012 to June 2013, according...
Inside ‘Think Australian 2010’: Market overview and annual rights survey results
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
As the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair kicks off the eighth annual edition of Bookseller+Publisher's guide to Australian publishing, Think Australian, is reaching publishers, agents and scouts from around the world....
