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13 December 2024

Final ‘Books+Publishing’ newsletter for 2024

This Books+Publishing newsletter is the final edition for 2024. The newsletter will return on Monday 13 January 2025. The team at Books+Publishing wishes our readers all the best for the holiday season... Read more
 
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Indie Book Award Longlist Announced

 

Indie Book Awards 2025 longlists announced

The longlist for the 2025 Indie Book Awards has been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Safe Haven (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo) The Valley... Read more
 
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Best of the best books of 2024 x

Across five major ‘best books of 2024’ articles published this December, we counted the most-mentioned Australian books. From end-of-year lists published by the Age/Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Book Review, Guardian... Read more
 

 

Another week with two Maehashi titles in the top 10 x

Top 10 bestsellers RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Big Jim Begins (Dog Man #13) (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) The Voice Inside (John Farnham & Poppy Stockell, Hachette) Guinness World Records... Read more
 

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Combined print and ebook bestsellers for third quarter 2024 x

Top 10 print bestsellers It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover) Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty) Reckless (Lauren Roberts) It Starts with Us (Colleen Hoover) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi) Storm... Read more
 

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Books in the media this week, 14–15 December x

A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper My Glorious Defeats (Barrett Brown, Farrar Straus Giroux) Raging Grace (ed... Read more
 
 

Costa's Garden
Costa Georgiadis, illus Brenna Quinlan, ABC Books, December 2024, reviewed by Bohdi Byles
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Costa’s Garden follows an illustrated Costa Georgiadis as he shares his expansive garden and flowers with a group of children, encouraging them to see the world in a new way.... Read more
 
 

The Five Rules of Friendship
Jess Sanders, illus César Barceló, Affirm, December 2024, reviewed by Emma Pei Yin
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The Five Rules of Friendship by Jess Sanders (Life Lessons for Little Ones: You Are Enough) is a thoughtful and engaging picture book exploring friendship, for readers aged 5+. Sanders... Read more
 
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Revenge of the Toxic Space Potato
First Dog on the Moon, A&U Children's, December 2024, reviewed by Anthony Morris
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Finding a fresh angle on superheroes in 2024 is no easy task—unless you’re the Indefatigable EnviroTeens, who effortlessly revitalise a tired genre with humour, action and underpants pastry. In First... Read more
 
 

Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger
Jackie French, HarperCollins, December 2024, reviewed by Alida Galati
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Jackie French once again showcases her meticulous research in an engaging historical fiction novel that will captivate upper middle-grade readers. In 1859, near the Ballarat goldfields, we meet Tigg, a... Read more
 

 

 

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