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'It Takes A Village To Teach Your Children About Consent' by Jane Gilmore
Consent and respectful relationships education became mandatory across Australia in 2024. Parents and teachers are often struggling to keep up as children and teens come to grips with new concepts about sex, consent, gender, relationships and the online world.
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'Love, Al Dente' by Jenna Lo Bianco
A deliciously tantalising, will-they-won’t-they culinary affair by bestselling Italian-Australian author Jenna Lo Bianco.
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'Might Cry Later' by Kay Kerr
Might Cry Later – a hilarious, romantic, messy, autistic story by Kay Kerr
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Bigna and Wright win at the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards!
So thrilled that two of our creators took home wins at the Queensland Literary Awards 2025!
Congratulations to Sandy Bigna and Clare Wright who won in the Children’s Book Award and Non-Fiction Book Award, respectively.Posted
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'Code of Silence: How Australian Women Helped Win the War' by Diana Thorp
The compelling and as-yet-untold story of the Australian women whose secret work helped to end World War II.
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Grace Chan wins 2025 Paragraph Fellowship
Thrilled to announce that author Grace Chan is the winner of the 2025 Paragraph Fellowship! Announced last night at Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne.
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JdM authors are Queensland Literary Awards 2025 finalists!
Little Bones, Spirit of the Crocodile and Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions are all Queensland Literary Awards 2025 finalists!
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'Poster Boys' by Scott Woodard
A jock, a try-hard and a space cadet. Highview Grammar will rue the day it put ‘History’ on the curriculum – because this unlikely trio is starting a revolution.
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Katherine Collette on The Readings Children's Prize 2025 shortlist!
The Readings Children’s Prize is presented for the best new contribution to Australian children’s literature from an emerging author. And this year, The Girl Who Cried Bird (The Too-Tall Tales of Alma T. Best, Book 2) (HarperCollins Australia) by Katherine Collette is on the 2025 shortlist!
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Briony Stewart illustrates new 2026 Children’s Book Week theme!
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) have announced the 2026 Children’s Book Week theme as ‘Symphony of Stories,’ and Briony Stewart as the 2024 Early Childhood winner for her picture book Gymnastica Fantastica! has illustrated the new theme poster!
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Clare Wright Longlisted in The Australian Political Book of the Year Award
The Australian Political Book of the Year Award recognises the vital part political books play in better understanding Australian politics and public policy. Well researched, balanced and compelling political books that engage Australians are vital to the strength of our democracy.
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Fiona Hardy shortlisted in the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards!
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards, and Fiona Hardy’s Unbury the Dead has been nominated in the Best Crime Fiction category!
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Rachel Ang is a 2025 Ignatz Award Nominee!
Rachel Ang’s debut graphic novel I Ate the Whole World to Find (Drawn & Quarterly) has been recognised in the North American Ignatz Awards, nominated in the Outstanding Collection category!
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UQP acquires debut middle-grade novel by First Nations author Allison Rocca
UQP has acquired a raucous new middle-grade novel by debut First Nations author Allison Rocca. Joey and the Junjardy is a fun and action-packed story about eleven-year-old larrikin Joey who starts at a new school on Country and gains the attention of a Junjardy – a small hairy mischief-maker. When the practical jokes spiral out of control, Joey must figure out what the Junjardy is trying to tell him about being a strong Wakka Wakka boy. The book will be illustrated by Yawuru comic artist Brenton E. McKenna, and publish in July 2026.
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Clare Wright shortlisted in the 2025 NSW History Awards
The NSW History Awards acknowledge the contribution of historical research to our culture and communities, and to society at large. And we are delighted that Clare Wright’s N̲äku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the people of Yirrkala changed the course of Australian democracy (Text Publishing) has been shortlisted in the Australian History Prize category, as well as the accompanying documentary One Mind, One Heart in the Digital History Prize category!
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