This Stays Between Us (Margot McGovern, Penguin)
Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Margot McGovern’s second young adult novel, This Stays Between Us, may have taken seven years, but it’s worth the wait. This gripping thriller, set in the year 2000, is a...
Sunny at the End of the World (Steph Bowe, Text)
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Steph Bowe’s Sunny at the End of the World, published posthumously, provides clear evidence of Bowe’s creative skills levelling up. The book is set across dual timelines in 2018 and...
Geraldine (Andrea Thompson, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
In this heartwarming debut novel, spanning the 1960s to the early 2000s, music journalist and artist manager Andrea Thompson tells the story of Geraldine, a fierce protagonist who remains true...
The Last Seed Keeper (Paul Russell, EK Books)
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
In The Last Seed Keeper, the first in Paul Russell’s cli-fi (climate fiction) trilogy of the same name, not a narrative minute is wasted. Tense action, complex speculative cautionary concepts,...
Outrageous Fortunes (Megan Brown & Lucy Sussex, La Trobe)
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
‘Mary Fortune’ might sound like a pseudonym but it’s the name of one of Australia’s most prolific—if often overlooked—woman crime writers. Outrageous Fortunes is a dual biography of Fortune and...
Unhallowed Halls (Lili Wilkinson, A&U)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Lili Wilkinson’s latest young adult novel, Unhallowed Halls, is a dark academia fantasy about finding your inner strength and accepting who you are. After a tragic incident that ended her...
Gutsy Girls (Josie McSkimming, UQP)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
When Dorothy Porter died in 2008, Australia lost one of its greatest contemporary poets. The author of nine poetry collections and five verse novels, Porter had a lusty, raw and...
Diary of a Marine Biologist (Anita Thomas, illus Sarah Wilkins & Anita Thomas, Walker)
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Did you know that oysters are often called the kidneys of the ocean because they filter a bathtub’s worth of water every two days? Or that marine biologists play a...
Wonders Under the Moon (Tai Snaith, T&H)
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
When the sun goes down, weird and wonderful night-time creatures come out to play. Tai Snaith’s new reference picture book, Wonders Under the Moon: A Collection of Night-Time Creatures, features...
All the Colours of the Rainbow (Rae White, illus Sha’an d’Anthes, Lothian)
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
In All the Colours of the Rainbow, Jem sometimes wants to wear their yellow dress with blue sandals and sometimes blue jeans with orange sneakers. The story invites readers into...
Those Opulent Days (Jacquie Pham, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
At first glance, Jacquie Pham’s debut novel, Those Opulent Days, might appear to be a classic whodunit murder mystery, except the true ‘villain’ is far from the usual suspect. Set...
A Piece of Red Cloth (Leonie Norrington, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Djawa Burarrwanga & Djawundil Maymuru, A&U)
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
The best fiction allows the reader to enter times, cultures and places otherwise inaccessible. Children’s fiction writer Leonie Norrington was commissioned by her adoptive mother, Yolŋu woman Clare Bush, to...
Figuring Out Thirty: Decoding the Decisive Decade (And What Really Matters) (Bridget Hustwaite, Penguin)
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Bridget Hustwaite (How to Endo) is well known as an author and podcaster for her valuable insights into women’s health. Her latest book, Figuring Out Thirty: Decoding the Decisive Decade...
Lexie Moon and the Word Burgling Bungle (Melissa Garside, illus Lauren Mullinder, Riveted Press)
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Lexie Moon and the Word Burgling Bungle is debut author Melissa Garside’s exciting junior novel about a creative and prolific 10-year-old inventor. Lexie has been mentored by her grandfather, but...
Yayoi Kusama (ed by Wayne Crothers & Miranda Wallace, NGV)
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
The book Yayoi Kusama from the National Gallery of Victoria captures the extraordinary 80-year legacy of the enigmatic artist, as showcased in the titular exhibition. This tribute to one of...
Thunderhead (Sophie Beer, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
Thunderhead is the debut middle-grade novel by award-winning author and illustrator Sophie Beer. Thunderhead (the titular character’s online username—their name isn’t revealed until the end of the book) is an...
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?...
