Who’s at Bologna? Come meet them at the party!
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Publishers attending the Bologna book fair in person on the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Collective Stand are Allen & Unwin, Berbay Publishing, CSIRO Publishing, Five Mile, Hardie Grant Children's...
The Australian publishers shortlisted for the 2023 Bologna Prize
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Australian publishers Affirm Press, EK Books, Magabala Books, Starfish Bay and Wilkins Farago have been shortlisted in this year’s Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the...
2022 Australian Market Overview
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
The Australian book market is trading well above the last pre-Covid year of 2019 after three consecutive years of growth. Sales of books in Australia grew 7.2% last year to...
First Nations YA to look out for
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
A debut young adult title by Lystra Rose, a descendant of the Guugu Yimithirr, Birri Gubba, Erub and Scottish nations, took out the prestigious $25,000 Indigenous writing prize in the...
Junior and middle-grade fiction offerings
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
In junior fiction on offer at Bologna this year, Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has Monsties: The Lost Bunny (Zanni Louise & Kyla May) featuring Orla, Pearl, Mig, Boo and Oops—five...
Pitching pictures at Bologna
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Experiences in nature fill many of the picture books on offer from Australian publishers at Bologna this year. Thank you rain! (Sally Morgan & Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr, Magabala Books) is...
The fascinating truth: Nonfiction titles on offer at Bologna
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
In nonfiction the 'long-awaited' picture book Your Brain is a Lump of Goo from Idan Ben-Barak (A&U), the award-winning author of Do Not Lick This Book, and Christopher Nielsen. It explores...
Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Among the latest children's and YA acquisitions by Australian publishers: Children's Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired two books by Maxine Beneba Clarke. Releasing in June 2023, It’s the...
Baby boom: The growth of children’s and young adult market
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Children’s and young adult (CYA) titles have been driving the growth of the Australian book market in the past year, with titles like Heartstopper, Bluey and The Bad Guys becoming...
Diverse new offerings from First Nations writers
Thursday, 13 October 2022
First Nations poetry has been a standout success in 2022—so let's take a look at what other titles are forthcoming from across the diverse spectrum of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Prize-winners, familiar names, debuts: Australian fiction at Frankfurt
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Among the titles Australian publishers are pitching at Frankfurt this year are two that have been recognised by local awards even before publication. Roseghetto by Kirsty Jagger (UQP, 2023), ‘an...
High-profile memoirs, political books, self-help guides: top nonfiction at Frankfurt
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Memoir and biography Look out for Ash Barty’s memoir My Dream Time (HarperCollins), which reflects on Barty’s tennis career, her family, and ‘finding the path to being the best I...
Middle-grade series, queer YA romances: CYA books Aus publishers are pitching
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Picture books Allen & Unwin Children’s (A&U) is pitching a list of exciting new titles from beloved authors, including the picture book Shadow Catchers by award-winning team Kirsty Murray and...
Australian book market overview: 2022 so far
Thursday, 13 October 2022
The Australian book market posted strong results throughout the Covid-affected years of 2020 and 2021, and has continued this growth in 2022, with overall sales for the year to 18...
Get educated: Introducing Australian educational publishers
Thursday, 13 October 2022
As well as a wealth of trade offerings, Australia boasts a healthy educational publishing sector. Attending in person on the Australia stand at Frankfurt this year will be ATF Press...
Fiction acquisitions: spec-fic, debuts, short story collections
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Among recent fiction acquisitions by Australian publishers are literary speculative fiction books, a plethora of debut authors, and more poetry and short story collections. HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights...
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...
Middle-grade boom: recent Australian CYA acquisitions
Thursday, 13 October 2022
The Australian children’s middle-grade market continues to grow, and recent acquisitions show it won’t be slowing down anytime soon. Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ, Oceania and non-exclusive Asia...
Bologna rights centre to open to adult publishers
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) will expand its current BCBF Agents' Centre to include rights professionals from across the industry, including adult general trade publishers. BCBF director Elena Pasoli said:...
Bios, how-tos, hybrid memoirs: recent nonfiction acquisitions in Aus
Friday, 1 April 2022
A biography of Australian surfer Owen Wright (world rights acquired by S&S Australia) tells the story of the surfer’s recovery after a serious brain injury ahead of the Pipeline Masters...
Koalas, climate and real-life ‘Succession’: Australian nonfiction offerings at LBF
Friday, 1 April 2022
Of all the titles being pitched at LBF, perhap the most instantly recognisable as Australian is forthcoming nonfiction title Koala by biologist Danielle Clode (Black Inc., September), which promises ‘an...
Australian book market overview 2021
Friday, 1 April 2022
After a pandemic-fuelled record year in 2020—during which sales of books in Australia grew 7.8% to A$1.25 billion (unit sales for the year were 67 million) according to Nielsen BookScan—in 2021,...
Fiction acquisitions: debuts, familiar names and plenty of two-book deals
Friday, 1 April 2022
Among recent acquisitions are a spate of two-book deals. MacLehose Press, an imprint of Hachette-owned UK publisher Quercus, has acquired world rights to two new novels by Australian author Peter...
Australian authors recommend
Friday, 1 April 2022
Australian authors tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Hayley Scrivenor is the author of forthcoming crime novel Dirt Town (Macmillan, May). ‘I...
Aus crime wave continues: the fiction publishers are pitching at LBF
Friday, 1 April 2022
Australian publishing continues to ride a literary crime wave, with several local publishers bringing crime offerings to London. ‘We are delighted to share Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone in My Family Has...
Aus YA shows its range
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
From horror to fantasy with some wit and mystery along the way, Australian YA shows its range in several recent deals. Two recent acquisitions by Australian publishers present a similar...
Introducing Gabrielle Wang, Australia’s new Children’s Laureate
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Australian children's author Gabrielle Wang is the new Australian Children’s Laureate for 2022–23. Wang is the award-winning author and illustrator of over 20 books, including The Lion Drummer (illus by...
Aus middle-grade golden age continues
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Australia’s ‘golden age’ of middle-grade fiction doesn’t look it's ending any time soon, with several high-profile fiction acquisitions in the age bracket. Fans of Amelia Mellor around the world will...
Picture this
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
From a nonfiction book about how trees talk to a slam poetry adaptation, Australian publishers are pitching some picture books with a difference at Bologna this year. Jordan Collins’ debut...
In Bologna? Pop by the Australian stand
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
If you’re on the ground in Bologna for this year’s fair, pop by the Australian stand, Hall 25, Stand B78. The Australian Publishers Association stand will be managed by Rome-based...
