Local author Scott-Patrick Mitchell has been nominated for the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for his poetry collection Clean. Mitchell’s debut book was published by local publishing house Upswell and has already been nominated for a long list of prestigious awards. The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards acknowledge the contribution of Australian literature to the nation’s cultural […]
The Seven by Chris Hammer Allen & Unwin The Seven follows Australian crime writer and journalist Chris Hammer’s previous award-winning books Scrublands and The Tilt, which have now sold 500,000 copies in Australia. His latest epic, which is defined by its geography and its history, takes place over three periods in Australia’s outback. In the […]
Local author Holden Sheppard will host a conversation with acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas to celebrate the launch of his new book The In-Between. The event will be taking place at The Old Courthouse Hotel in Fremantle this November and is hosted by New Edition bookshop. The new novel from Tsiolkas follows two middle-aged men who meet […]
Borderland By Graham Akhurst UWA Publishing Jonathan (Jono) Lane and Jenny Pohatu had just graduated from Brisbane’s St Lucia private high school, and were honoured as the first Aboriginal students to graduate after being supported by the school’s Great Change Scholarship in this Young Adult (13+) coming-of-age fiction. Jenny had more of her father’s Māori […]
Armistead Maupin has a new book on the way, and it’s another instalment of his long running Tales of the City series. The new book, the tenth in the series, is titled Mona of the Manor and focuses on the adventures of Mona Ramsey long after she moved out of 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco. […]
One of Them Shaneel Lal Allen & Unwin Shaneel Lal is not a household name in Australia, but in New Zealand they have been a prominent campaigner against conversion therapy and a leading voice for transgender rights. At 23 years of age, they just published their autobiography detailing their childhood in Fiji, their teenage years […]
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue Picador It was 1805 when Eliza Raine, under the guardianship of her father’s friend, went to an elite boarding school in York. Her recently deceased father was English and her mother was Indian, and probably still alive but not acknowledged because the relationship was seen as being taboo. At […]
Publisher Hachette Australia has announced the acquisition of Eros: Queer Myths for Lovers, a collection of short stories by Australian actor Zoe Terakes. Hachette’s Senior Non-Fiction Publisher Scott Henderson struck the deal with Zoe who was introduced to Hachette via their publishing scout partnership with renowned Australian screenwriter, producer, author, journalist, and broadcaster, Benjamin Law. […]
Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl by Fiona Britton Allen & Unwin Set in Sydney in the 1830s, this novel is reminiscent of the Penny Dreadful publications that were produced in the United Kingdom between 1830 and 1870. Costing one penny, this cheap sensational fiction was far more accessible to the working classes who had […]
The Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud Allen & Unwin Boltford, in Central New South Wales, was like a movie set for a rural drama. It was divided by a bridge – “Housos and Blacks and factory workers on one side. And now refugees too. Everyone else on the other side.” Lionel Merrick had […]