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Fremantle Press extends its deepest sympathy to Marie Wilson and all the family and friends of Bruce Wilson. Bruce passed away on Boxing Day 2024.  Bruce made an extraordinary, largely unseen and unsung, contribution to Fremantle Press. As co-owner of 25 Quarry Street, Bruce spent much time and energy maintaining our space – particularly the […]

The life of beloved children’s author Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction – and she draws on all her power as a storyteller to turn a life of intense headlines into a wild, marvellous tale. Author Julia Lawrinson was always a creative kid with a knack for theatricality, and in this final episode of the […]

This annual adult literature event, hosted by the City of Mandurah Library & Heritage Services, will be held at Seashells Mandurah from 16–18 January. It promises an exciting weekend filled with literary discussions and events.

by Alessia Carbonaro As clichéd as it may sound, I believe that some stories find their way to us at exactly the right moment. For me, Salt River Road was one of those stories. Drawn by its cover and title, I first picked it up from the New Releases shelf of my local library in […]

Get ready to step out of the garden and into the library as celebrity gardener Sabrina Hahn visits Success Library to celebrate Library Lovers’ Day!

Award-winning author, musician and screenwriter Dave Warner is taking his latest novel, When It Rains, on tour around the East Coast this autumn. The newest instalment in his acclaimed Dan Clement series, When It Rains, begins with a hand tied to a post in the crocodile-infested waters of Broome, Western Australia. Dave Warner shared, ‘With […]

… make an honest platform of story in your mind, like a raft, using the sound timber of everything you’ve loved and read. As with any raft, it may sometimes feel unsteady; it may falter under the weight it must carry, and, over time, it will need repair. It may not withstand the sea for […]

In this adorable activity, based on Helen Milroy’s latest picture book Bush Bubs, students can colour in Australian baby animals, then work on their comprehension by matching the name to the image. Other fun learning activities include: You can download the activity sheet here and, for more teaching activities, download the free teaching notes here.

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'Bush Bubs Teaching Activity'

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Life looked a little different during the 1892 gold rush, especially when you compare it to life today! Using this comprehensive crossword and some of Clara’s experiences in the novel, students can expand their knowledge about the goldfields and the gold rush era. After the crossword, why not try some of these other critical and […]

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'Goldfields Girl 2025 Teaching Activity'

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In November, the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) held their state conference at Deakin University to the theme of ‘English at the Intersection: Reclaiming Our Stories’. Fremantle Press sponsored a teacher to attend the conference to hear from a variety of education and literary experts on connection and language in the classroom. […]

The life of beloved children’s author Julia Lawrinson is stranger than fiction – and she draws on all her power as a storyteller to turn a life of intense headlines into a wild, marvellous tale. In the penultimate episode, memoirist Julia Lawrinson discusses the notion of rootlessness by taking a look at her peripatetic childhood […]

From the high country of Victoria to the desert sand of Egypt, from the waters off Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, The Last Light Horse is the extraordinary story of Sandy, the only returning warhorse. ‘The idea for this book was sparked over ten years ago when I was researching Light Horse Boy,’ says […]

Join us as we launch Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady, the inspirational story of Robin Miller, a pioneering nurse and pilot who flew life-saving polio vaccines to remote communities across Western Australia in the 1960s.

Meet new friends with little Boab in The Boab Tree. This free video features Helen Milroy, author and illustrator of The Boab Tree, reading a story of friendship, resilience, and the Stolen Generation. Little Boab is lost and far, far from home. Surrounded by tall, unfriendly trees, he feels all alone. But the friendship of […]

Join David Whish-Wilson and his gripping new thriller, Cutler, at one of these special evening of conversation with Australian crime writer Michael Trant. Get a sneak peek into the world of two fantastic Australian crime writers.

Chenée’s love of words is rivalled only by her love of dance. Combining the two, Breaking Pointe is her second novel. In this video, author Chenée Marrapodi walks us through the latest instalment in the ballerina series. Teaching activities and teaching notes are also available.

Barking Gecko Arts will stage a theatre production of James Foley’s iconic and award-winning book Stellarphant. Artistic Director Sam Longley will bring the book to life in a season currently scheduled for January 2026. Announced at the launch of House, the picture book and theatre production by Dan Giovannoni and Charlotte Lane, CEO of Fremantle […]

Paul Kelly, Nick Cave and now… Kylie Minogue! In Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist, edited by Angela Savage and Kirsten Krauth, 24 Australian authors write their take on a Kylie song, covering genres of crime, memoir, speculative fiction, poetry and science fiction. In this article, Angela and Kirsten share their experiences behind curating the latest […]

Join editors and curators Angela Savage and Kirsten Krauth for a special launch of Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist! This supersized event features fourteen of the anthology’s contributing authors, including Christos Tsiolkas, Lucy Treloar and Nicholas Gadd.

I Am the Mau and other stories by acclaimed debut author Chemutai Glasheen is one of five Australian books on The White Ravens: A Selection of International Children’s and Youth Literature books for 2024. Selected by the International Youth Library‘s children’s literature experts, they represent literary and pictorial excellence with a particular focus on books […]

Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes has won the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for የተስፋ ፈተና / Trials of Hope. Written in English and Amharic poetry and prose, this fascinating autobiographic work shares Yirga’s journey from boy shepherd in Ethiopia to human rights academic at Curtin University. Yirga is a writer, researcher and poet from Lalibela, […]

Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes is one of four writers shortlisted for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award and in the running to win a $15,000 cash prize from the City of Fremantle, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a writing fellowship at the Centre for Stories. We asked Yirga to tell us more about […]

In this fascinating podcast Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes talks about ‘Teret Teret’ – the ceremonial phrase for introducing stories in Ethiopian culture – and the importance of poetry to the act of storytelling itself. Yirga says, ‘I like to write about the sacred places, holy people and beautiful stories from my country. This for me is […]

Nedingar: Ancestors, a dual-language picture book in Noongar and English by Isobel Bevis and Leanne Zilm, has won the Karajia Award by the Wilderness Society of Australia. Isobel Bevis – a Wilman, Ballardong Noongar writer who was born and raised in Collie in the south-west of Western Australia – said she was thrilled a book about […]