Top 10 Australian YA fiction Cruel Is the Light (Sophie Clark, Penguin) 5.0K I Am Not Jessica Chen (Ann Liang, Harlequin Teen) 2.0K Immortal Dark (Tigest Girma, Lothian) 1.8K My Family and Other Suspects (Kate Emery, A&U Children’s) 1.2K Tom Appleby, Convict Boy (Jackie French, HarperCollins) 1.1K Comes the Night (Isobelle Carmody, A&U Children’s) 1.1K…

Overall, the book market was down in Australia in 2024, by 3% in value and 1.2% in volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookData’s BookScan service. Nielsen’s 2024 snapshot, which covered 31 December 2023 to 28 December 2024, showed the Australian market for the period was worth A$1.29 billion in value, down from A$1.33 billion in…

Debuts, literary heavyweights and genre standouts: Australian fiction publishers bring a wide-ranging list to LBF. International Anneliz Marie Erese Black Inc. March 2027 Rights contact: Sophy Williams at Black Inc. Black Inc. publisher, international director Sophy Williams said International by Anneliz Marie Erese is “an outstanding debut novel, deftly written and poetic”.The story is about…

By Think Australian Trent Dalton’s 2018 debut novel Boy Swallows Universe has topped the Nielsen BookScan’s Australian fiction chart for the year to date, having sold more than 80,000 copies in 2020. Literary, historical and crime fiction are all represented in the top 10, including a number of bestsellers from 2019 or earlier—indeed, only two of the…

Each year, Think Australian’s sister publication Books+Publishing surveys publishers to see how Christmas matched up with their expectations and what they expect from the year ahead. This year, while one third of publishers reported sales were up for Christmas 2024 and another third reported they were down, Christmas 2024 sales were nonetheless ‘close to expectations’…

Readers of fiction and poetry will be keen to learn what’s been happening here in Australia through a visit to the Australian stand. Threads of romance and humour weave through this year’s publisher recommendations, as debuts and familiar names meet on the shelves, often travelling through time and space (and not just to get to…

Australian publishers at Bologna name the picture books they have the highest hopes for at the fair. Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke, founder, managing director and publishing director at Berbay Books, will be attending Bologna for the 12th time in 2025. The book she’s most excited about? ‘Sea, the new picture book by John Canty – an extraordinary…

Australian publishers nominate the graphic novels and picture books they have high hopes for at Bologna.  Anders and the Mountain Gregory Mackay Allen & Unwin Children’s April 2026 Graphic novel Rights contact: Carey Schroeter Rights held: World Allen & Unwin rights and international sales manager Carey Schroeter said, “Anders and the Mountain by Gregory Mackay…