Season’s readings: 2018 Christmas highlights
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Sarah Farquharson and Nathania Gilson round up this year’s Christmas highlights. Fiction as you like it This Christmas features new offerings from several bestselling Australian authors: Rosalie Ham returns with...
The Christmas wrap-up: 2018 children’s highlights
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Jackie Tang picks some highlights from publishers’ Christmas lists. Headliners Several high-profile authors have new titles out this Christmas, including national treasure Alison Lester who has three picture books: Tricky’s...
Write on: 2018 fiction preview
Monday, 23 October 2017
New books by Ceridwen Dovey, Kristina Olsson, Melissa Lucashenko, Lloyd Jones and Gerald Murnane, and a number of highly anticipated debuts, are among Australian publishers' local highlights for 2018, reports...
Write on: 2018 nonfiction preview
Monday, 23 October 2017
Andrea Hanke reports on Australian publishers' local nonfiction highlights for 2018. Click here for the fiction highlights and here for the children’s and YA preview. ‘Riffing on the Anh Do...
Reading ahead: 2018 children’s and YA preview
Monday, 23 October 2017
2018 sees the release of a new YA series from Jay Kristoff and a middle-grade series from Amie Kaufman; the re-release of a 10-year-old series from Liane Moriarty; and the...
Stocking up: 2017 Christmas highlights
Monday, 17 July 2017
Andrea Hanke, Brad Jefferies and Sarah Farquharson round up this year’s Christmas releases. Festive fiction Literary fiction fans will be spoiled for choice this Christmas with new novels from many...
Yule rush in: Children’s Christmas highlights
Monday, 17 July 2017
Andrea Hanke seeks out the highlights from publishers’ Christmas lists. Picture books Australian comedian and composer Tim Minchin’s bittersweet song ‘When I Grow Up’ from the musical Matilda has been...
Book bites: In the picture
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Several forthcoming picture books take younger readers on a journey abroad, and around Australia. Scribe’s children’s imprint Scribble has translated two ‘modernist picture-book classics’ from the late 1960s into English....
Book bites: Teen talk
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Nicole Hayes’ previous YA novels The Whole of My World and One True Thing have won her many fans. Her latest, A Shadow’s Breath (Random House, February), begins with a...
Choose your own adventures: 2017 children’s and YA preview
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Publishers tell Jackie Tang about their standout titles for kids and teens in 2017, from plucky new junior-fiction protagonists to YA genre hybrids. Next year will see the launch of...
Booking ahead: 2017 fiction preview
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Several Australian authors make their long-awaited return to publishing next year, alongside some promising debuts. Andrea Hanke and Vicki Stegink round up publishers’ fiction highlights for 2017. (See nonfiction titles here.)...
Booking ahead: 2017 nonfiction preview
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Several Australian authors make their long-awaited return to publishing next year, alongside some promising debuts. Andrea Hanke and Vicki Stegink round up publishers’ nonfiction highlights for 2017. (See fiction titles here.)...
