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A round-up of books being reviewed and discussed in key media this week, updated as information becomes available. National The Bookshelf, ABC Radio National Big Little Truths (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) The Eye of the Crocodile (Val Plumwood, ANU Press) Mine (Adam Ousten, Transit Lounge) The Song of Stork and Dromedary (Anjet Daanje, Scribe) Such Is […]
With the festive season approaching, Australian publishers have highlighted their top titles for the Christmas selling period for the Books+Publishing Christmas Preview. To view their top picks in the biography and memoir category, visit our preview page. We will be adding a new category to the Christmas Preview each day. Among the titles in today’s […]
Publishers have nominated their top Christmas picks in general nonfiction; in Aotearoa New Zealand the winners of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced; the NSW History Awards shortlists have been announced; the Ned Kelly shortlist for best debut crime fiction is out; a local author has won two […]
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2026 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist for best debut crime fiction. The shortlisted titles, selected from 160 entries, are: The Butterfly Women (Madeleine Cleary, Affirm Press) In Bloom (Liz Allan, Sceptre) Melaleuca (Angie Faye Martin, HQ Fiction) The Peak (Sam Guthrie, HarperCollins) The Wolf Tree (Laura McCluskey, HarperCollins) […]
OzLit, the new London festival of Australian writing and ideas, has unveiled its inaugural line-up for the event on 18 October, reports the Bookseller. Authors due to appear include Tim Winton, Alexis Wright, Santilla Chingaipe, Heather Morris, Evie Wyld, Kathy Lette, Intan Paramaditha, Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Laura Elizabeth Woollett. Winton will appear live from Western Australia […]
Australian author Eva Frances has won two Diamond Heart Awards, presented by the Romance Writers of America for her debut novel, The Next Round (self-published). The Next Round won both the Contemporary Romance and Best First Book awards for 2025/2026, announced on 18 July at the Romance Writers of America annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. […]
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2026 NSW History Awards. The shortlisted works across 6 categories, selected from 208 overall entries, are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800–1835: When the Strangers Came to Stay (Annemarie McLaren, Oxford University Press) Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea (Natalie Harkin,…
With the festive season approaching, Australian publishers have highlighted their top titles for the Christmas selling period for the Books+Publishing Christmas Preview. To view their top picks in the general nonfiction category, visit our preview page. We will be adding a new category to the Christmas Preview each day. Among the titles in today’s general […]
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to Belly-Heart, a debut novel by Melanie Skyers, via Jane Novak at Jane Novak Literary Agency. The publisher said that Belly-Heart is “the story of a young woman raised in an isolated commune forced to reevaluate her reality when strangers from the mainland arrive”. Melanie is a writer based […]
The winners of the 2026 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced, with author Sacha Cotter and illustrator Josh Morgan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata) winning the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award for A Guide to Rocks. A Guide to Rocks, which judges described as “storytelling at its finest”, also […]
