If you’ve ever wanted to listen to this iconic novel – the first by an Indigenous author to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award – you now can, thanks to Wavesound. From one of Australia’s most revered storytellers, Benang sheds light on the ongoing struggle for cultural preservation and is an epic and beautiful story […]

Personal Logistics details the poet’s experiences and observations of life in Kununurra and the East Kimberley, as someone who has worked as a farmhand and as a stay-at-home dad. Coursing through the collection, in both the wet season and the dry, are the dual themes of naturally flowing water and hydroelectricity, without which Kununurra would […]

Mark Greenwood is a history hunter. He enjoys searching for lost explorers and glittering treasure, delving into baffling mysteries and investigating famous cold cases. In this piece, he shares his passion for the unexplained and how that resulted in a new series of books. Why these mysteries in particular? I’m hooked on mystery, history and […]

Events

Anchors Away at South Coast Readers & Writers Festival 2024 with editor of Avast! Michael Earp

   July 13, 2024
   11.30am—2.10pm
   Thirroul District Community Centre & Library

Get your day or weekend pass to the South Coast Readers & Writers Festival and visit Fremantle Press author and editor of Avast! Pirate Stories From Transgender Authors, Michael Earp.

Holding a published copy of One Wrong Turn in my hands was a dream come true. I never entertained the idea of there being a sequel and the fact that it now exists is largely thanks to the enthusiasm of Australia’s dance community and of course, the wonderful team at Fremantle Press! Dance has been […]

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Chenee Marrapodi takes the dance party to Victoria with a book launch at Readings Kids, Carlton

   July 13, 2024
   2.00pm—4.00pm
   Readings Kids, Carlton

Author Chenée Marrapodi is about to put the pep in your step in the heart of Melbourne with the launch of Breaking Pointe, the thrilling sequel to One Wrong Turn.

As Australia’s last great unregulated waterway, the Martuwarra Fitzroy River represents potential untapped revenue for government, farmers and industry. It has both Western Australian Aboriginal Cultural and National Heritage listings – and is a venerated Living Ancestor who must be protected. Tossed Up By the Beak of a Cormorant: Poems of Martuwarra Fitzroy River is […]

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James Foley, Deb Fitpatrick and Renae Hayward at Telling Tales in Balingup

   July 6, 2024
   8.00am—4.00pm
   Balingup - Various Locations

Join children’s authors Deb Fitzpatrick, James Foley and Renae Hayward down south this weekend at the children’s festival Telling Tales in Balingup, proudly sponsored by the Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup.

The Fogarty Literary Award

Libby Book Club for WA: Brooke Dunnell

   July 17, 2024
   7.00pm—8.00pm
   Zoom

Last Best Chance is the perfect choice for book club members seeking material relating to motherhood and the emotional journey of fertility.

We were excited to hear Kim Scott and Tony Birch discuss their bodies of work and how writing fiction is a way to speak to and dismantle the past.

Say Hooray by Renae Hayward and Rebecca Mills has been identified as one of the best Australian books to help children get the most literate start in life. Judged by a panel of Certified Practising Speech Pathologists with specific knowledge and skill in children’s language and literature development, the Speech Pathology Book of the Year […]

Nedingar: Ancestors, a bilingual picture book by Isobel Bevis and Leanne Zilm, has been shortlisted for the Karajia Award by the Wilderness Society of Australia. Launched in 2022, the Karajia Award for Children’s Literature celebrates the First Nations authors illustrators who create children’s books that honour a connection to Country and tell stories exploring land, […]

The 2024 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced this evening at the State Library of Western Australia, with debut novelist Michael Thomas winning in the emerging writers’ category worth $15,000. In his speech Michael said he was extremely proud to win an award for a book that was based on his forebears. Michael said, […]

As one of the Fogarty Literary Award judges, I am delighted to present to you our third Fogarty Literary Award winner’s book: The Skeleton House. This book caught my attention from the very first sentence. I rode the waves of foreboding and revelation with my heart in my mouth. It is one of those books […]

Tell us about Avast! What’s unique about it? Avast! is the first anthology of its kind to be traditionally published in this country! It’s fiction entirely written by transgender authors, each exploring the prompt of pirates. Why pirates? Why not?! When we were offered the chance to choose a theme ourselves, we wanted something playful but […]

Children’s publisher Cate Sutherland says, ‘When we first shortlisted Father of the Lost Boys for the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, we didn’t know then what we know now – that the book would be embraced by readers and that working with Yuot would be such a delight. Both are great reasons for us to […]

Children’s publisher Cate Sutherland said she loves working with Kelly Canby. Cate said, ‘Kelly’s work is nuanced and always evolving. She deals with sophisticated human emotions with subtlety and empathy, simplifying them so that young readers can understand themselves and others.’ Tell us about your latest book and why you wrote it. My latest book […]

What do good illustrators and authors do when they sit down to write a book? Sally Tinker, the leading character of Brobot: now available in colour, ponders this question with her author and creator James Foley. James’s new edition of Brobot: now available in colour is available in all good bookshops and online. Gastronauts: now available in colour is due for release […]

Events

Book launch: Fremantle Press presents the Great Big Book Club with a new edition of If I Should Lose You

   July 24, 2024
   6.45pm—8.00pm
   AH Bracks Library + Creative Space

Join New York Times-bestselling author Natasha Lester on 24 July at 6.00 pm as she discusses the captivating new edition of If I Should Lose You with fellow author Emily Paull.

Michael Earp will be appearing at Supanova Comic Con & Gaming and looks forward to meeting all of their fans in Sydney in June 2024.

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Williamstown Literary Festival Launch: Avast! Pirate Stories From Transgender Authors

   June 12, 2024
   6.00pm—7.00pm
   The Pirates Tavern, Williamstown VIC

Get ready to set sail with a crew of rebels and misfits as Maddison Stoff and editor Michael Earp launch Avast! Pirate Stories From Transgender Authors a thrilling anthology of pirate tales by seven trans and non-binary writers.

Permission to come aboard! Celebrate the launch of Avast! Pirate Stories from Transgender Authors an exciting new anthology edited by Michael Earp and Alison Evans.

Events

Brooke Dunnell in conversation with Tess Woods for Love to Read Local Week

   June 9, 2024
   11.00am—12.00pm
   Peter Cowan Writers Centre

Join Brooke Dunnell as she speaks with Tess Woods about her latest novel, Last Best Chance.

Join us to celebrate the powerful collaboration between award-winning poet Nandi Chinna and Wagaba Nyikina Warra Elder, Professor Anne Poelina, as we launch their new poetry collection, Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant: Poems of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River.