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Seven Wherewithal Way
Ferdinand fell out of the sky on the hottest day of the year, while Celeste and Esmerelda Barden were on the front porch eating ice-cream. Celeste is having the worst summer ever. Her parents …
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'Bedtime Sorted!' by Jimmy Rees and Illustrated by Briony Stewart
Who said bedtime was hard? Dad’s got bedtime sorted! Lenny and the twins have a bath without water spilling over, brush their teeth without toothpaste spraying onto the mirror, and go to sleep straight …
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Social Queue
I thought I was nobody’s teen crush, but turns out I was just missing the signs. Zoe Kelly is starting a new phase of her life. High school was a mess of bullying and …
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How We Love: Notes on a life
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. There is love in this place, just like …
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Brian and Hardy shortlisted in Speech Pathology Awards
Speech Pathology Australia announced their Shortlist for Books of the Year Awards 2021 and we have Janeen Brian and Renée Treml’s Look Baby! in the ‘Birth to Three Years’ category AND, How To …
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Ellie O'Neill signs with Allen & Unwin
Author Ellie O’Neill has signed a two-book deal with legendary publisher Annette Barlow from Allen & Unwin. First book – The Matchmakers – is a charming novel with a lightness of touch …
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New Adult Catalogue for July - September 2021
Check out our Catalogues page for the latest on all our titles!
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'The Silent Listener' has been optioned for screen by Deanne Weir of WeirAnderson Films
WeirAnderson.com has made direct investments in various Australian feature films, including I Used to Be Normal, BabyTeeth, Miss Fisher & The Crypt of Tears and I Am Woman. The newest projects, under the WeirAnderson …
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Rachel Ang sells graphic novels to Drawn & Quarterly in Canada
D+Q to publish Rachel Ang Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly have acquired world English-language, and ex-ANZ rights to two books by Melbourne-based cartoonist Rachel Ang. A short story collection provisionally titled …
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Danielle Binks' 'The Year the Maps Changed' sells to North America
Alyssa Miele at HarperCollins/Quill Tree has bought The Year the Maps Changed, the middle grade debut by Australian author Danielle Binks, based on the real-life Operation Safe Haven, which in 1999 relocated thousands …
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Clementine Ford’s ‘Fight Like a Girl’ Set as TV Series at Aquarius Films
Australian indie producer Aquarius Films is to develop and produce a comedy drama series adapted from the acclaimed feminist manifesto book “Fight Like A Girl.” Aquarius is planning a six-part TV series adaptation with …
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Jenna Guillaume to release Australia Reads novella
Australia Reads has announced four new Australia Reads Special Editions publishing in late 2021 to coincide with Australian Reading Hour on Tuesday, 14 September. One of those special edition novellas is The Deep End by …
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'The Deep End' by Jenna Guillaume
It was a new level of loserdom, even for me When Rosie humiliates herself in front of the whole school at the swimming carnival, she vows she’ll never step foot in the water …
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JDM authors are Australia Reads Ambassadors
We are just delighted to see a number of JDM authors putting their hands up to be Australia Reads Ambassadors this year! “Australia Reads is a unique Australian book industry collaboration (between authors, booksellers, libraries …
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'Slowly! Slowly!' by T.M. Clark, illustrated by Helene Magisson
Slowly, slowly, you catch a monkey… Bongani wants to go to school but he is too young. To prove to his family that he is big and strong just like his cousins, he tries to …
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