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17 April 2025

B+P Easter publishing schedule

Due to the Easter long weekend, the Books+Publishing newsletter will not be published tomorrow, Friday, 18 April or Monday, 21 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements in the next... Read more
 
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a portrait of Eugen Bacon

 

Bacon wins Nebula 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced Eugen Bacon as winner of the 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. Created in 2008, the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award is... Read more
 
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Newcastle Short Story Award 2024 tile.

 

Winners announced, anthology launched for 2024 Newcastle Short Story Award

The Hunter Writers’ Centre (HWC) has announced Omar Musa and Lisa Lang as the winners of the 2024 Newcastle Short Story Award. Omar Musa, a Bornean-Australian author, visual artist, rapper... Read more
 

a portrait of Rachel Bonnar and Lawrence Parmenter

 

2025 Faber Writing Academy inaugural alumni award winners announced

Faber Writing Academy (FWA) has announced Rachel Bonnar and Lawrence Parmenter as the inaugural winners of the 2025 FWA Alumni Award. In total, six graduates of FWA programs will win... Read more
 

a portrait of Heather Morris

 

Echo Publishing announces new Heather Morris novel

Echo Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to The Wish, a contemporary novel by Heather Morris. The Wish is Morris’s first contemporary novel, and introduces Jesse, a young teenager who, despite... Read more
 

 

Books in the media this weekend, 19–20 April x

A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper Foxglovewise (Ange Mlinko, Faber) I Am Nannertgarrook (Tasma Walton, Bundyi) Uprising (Stephen Gapps,... Read more
 
 

The Great Chocolate Caper (Heist #1)
Joel McKerrow, Penguin, April 2025, reviewed by Clare Millar
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The Great Chocolate Caper is the first in the middle-grade Heist series by performance poet Joel McKerrow. Andy McGee is struggling to fit in and make friends in his first... Read more

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How to Sail Somewhere
Ashleigh Barton, Lothian, April 2025, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
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In a coastal holiday town where ‘the land kisses the sea and the children grow up with salt in their hair’, Bea, a lonely only child who has never set... Read more

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Library Dreams (Luna's World #1)
Hayley Gannon, illus Michelle Conn, Affirm, April 2025, reviewed by Katie Haydon
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Library Dreams is the first book in Hayley Gannon’s debut junior fiction series, Luna’s World. It centres around 10-year-old Luna and her main goal to become the library monitor for... Read more

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The Paperbark Tree Committee
Karys McEwen, Text, April 2025, reviewed by Charlotte Callander
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The Paperbark Tree Committee, Karys McEwen’s second middle grade novel following All the Little Tricky Things, is a tender, compassionate story about navigating transitions and finding support in unexpected places.... Read more

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The Thylacine and the Time Machine
Renee Treml, A&U Children's, April 2025, reviewed by Erin Wamala
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In The Thylacine and the Time Machine, 12-year-old Violet is completing a project on the de-extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger. Working late into the night, Violet falls asleep at her... Read more

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Tim Tie-Your-Shoelaces (Something Terrible #1)
Sally Barton, illus Christopher Nielsen, Walker, April 2025, reviewed by Brenton Cullen
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‘Tim, tie your shoelaces – or something TERRIBLE will happen!’ Tim Mulligan hears this all the time – from his mum and dad, the neighbours, the crossing guard and even... Read more

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Desert Tracks
Marly Wells & Linda Wells, Magabala, April 2025, reviewed by Karys McEwen
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Desert Tracks is a young adult time travel novel set in central Australia and written by daughter-mother duo Marly Wells, a proud woman of Warlpiri and white Australian descent, and... Read more

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Skin
Deborah Kelly, Rhiza Press, April 2025, reviewed by Nadia Heisler
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Skin is a powerful reminder of how heavily appearances and beauty standards influence us during our teenage years and beyond. Multi-award-winning author Deborah Kelly (The Mosaic) delivers an easy-to-read yet emotionally... Read more

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