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Saturday, November 8th, 2008Collaboration is the name of the game for these sisters whose sharing of experiences provides the groundwork for their literary creations says Jane Scott of the Brisbane News. Kris: My sense is that Kathy and I have always been really good friends, but I am sure there are times when we weren’t. My parents maintain [...]
Pan Macmillan commissions
series from Phillip Gwynne
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Pan Macmillan Australia are so happy with Phillip Gwynne’s first crime novel, The Build Up, that they’ve commissioned him to write two more novels in the series. He has already started work on book two, Capital of the Second Chance. And German rights to The Build Up have just been bought by the effervescent Maria [...]
Life in Seven Mistakes gets another great review
Friday, September 19th, 2008Another great review for Susan Johnson’s Life in Seven Mistakes: Nicole Lindsay, in the lead review in the The Herald Sun calls it ‘a rare gem: a novel about modern family life that keeps the pages turning and makes you think at the same time’: Susan Johnson’s beautifully structured novel poses many almost unanswerable questions [...]
Good first review for The Minivers
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008From The Australian Bookseller & Publisher: The Minivers: On the Run (Natalie Jane Prior, Puffin, $14.95 pb, ISBN 9780143303664, September) Rosamund, in her sequinned dress, acknowledges her fans as she arrives at a hotel for her 14th birthday party. What girl reader would not be entranced by this opening scene? Rosamund and Emily are Minivers, [...]
Rave reviews roll in for The After Life
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Kathleen Stewart’s wonderful memoir — The After Life — is continuing to attract rave reviews, and here are some excerpts: ‘…disturbing and compulsively readable. …This is an extraordinarily powerful book. …It will tear at your heart.’ Michael Duffy, Sydney Morning Herald ‘The After Life is dark and troubled but so well done it is hard [...]
Edrei Cullen & Gregory Rogers: Four stars for Flitterwig
Saturday, July 19th, 2008From Good Reading, July 2008. Are your feet too big, your ears slightly pointy on the top and do you have a weakness for sugar? Perhaps you’re a Flitterwig: someone who is part human, part magical. The day Ella meets an emotionally unstable yet passionately loyal pixie, and discovers that she is part-Elf, her life [...]
Stephen Michael King: 5-star review for Leaf
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008The first review of the new picture book by Stephen Michael King, Leaf, which is published in Australia by Scholastic Press. US rights have just been bought by Neal Porter of Roaring Brook Press.
Catherine Jinks: Starred review from Kirkus
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008The first US review for the second novel in Catherine Jinks’s Genius trilogy, Genius Squad is in — and its another starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Computer prodigy Cadel’s belief that he’s escaped the clutches of his nemesis/supposed father Prosper English proves sadly mistaken in this pulse-pounding sequel to Evil Genius (2007). Chafing under constant [...]
The Memory Room attracting excellent reviews
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Christopher Koch’s wonderful new novel, The Memory Room, published earlier this month, has already reprinted twice, and is attracting excellent reviews. Here are some excerpts: ‘Koch is both painter and poet — an acute observer of detail with a lanaguage so distilled in its purity as to create the illusionthat the reader is also the [...]
Catherine Jinks: More accolades for Genius Squad
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007More good news for Catherine Jinks with Evil Genius, which has been named by Amazon as one of its best books for 2007: Teens. And Editora DCL have bought the rights to publish a Portuguese language edition to be published in Brazil.
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