Category: Announcements

Kate McCaffrey has won her second Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature for her latest novel, Crashing Down.

Alan Carter’s success in Germany continues. Last week we were delighted to hear from our European publishing friends that Edition Nautilus had sold the pocketbook rights for Alan Carter’s Prime Cut to Droemer Knaur, one of Germany’s biggest publishers.

Perth-born musician and Before It Breaks author Dave Warner has been named a Western Australian State Living Treasure.

Peter Docker just happened to be visiting the Byron Bay Festival for a friend’s book launch when the 2015 Ned Kelly Awards were announced. The Sweet One author was genuinely surprised to find his own crime novel on the list.

Sydney-siders have just two more days to view the Rothschild Prayer Book at the National Library of Australia before it moves to Melbourne.

Popular children’s book The Last Viking will be read at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, Washington, this November as part of a Nordic Stories series.

A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey turned 35 on Anzac Day 2015. First published by Fremantle Press and now licensed to Penguin, the bestselling memoir has gone on to have a long and (need I say it?) ‘fortunate’ life. This week Whoa Flamingo purchased the option for this Aussie classic with a view to producing […]

Whoa Flamingo has optioned the film and television rights to Fremantle Press children’s titles Mystery at Riddle Gully and Riddle Gully Runaway, both by Jen Banyard.

 A selection of Fremantle Press titles are set to reach new audiences following recent rights acquisitions by two Spanish publishers.

The Fremantle Press board is concerned by the recent federal government decision to remove $104.8 million from the Australia Council’s budget over the next four years and redirect it to a newly created fund, to be called the National Programme for Excellence in the Arts.

Life in publishing is never dull – especially when it’s your job to find new writers and new stories. But sometimes it’s the old, and not the new, that makes working in this industry exciting. That was the case when I had the privilege of viewing an incredibly precious example of illuminated art. The Rothschild […]

Fremantle Press poet Kevin Gillam has won the Lorikeet Centre’s Open Your Mind poetry competition for his poem ‘clockwise is off’. This is the second 2015 win for the acclaimed poet, orchestra conductor, music teacher and freelance cellist who was awarded the Sawtooth Writing Prize for Poetry in February.

Two more Fremantle Press novels are heading to the UK. The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt by Tracy Farr and The Weaver Fish by Robert Edeson will be published by Aardvark Bureau.

The latest update from CEO Jane Fraser. Acclaimed artist and Fremantle Press illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft is one of two Australian nominees for the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award.

The Last Viking Returns is a finalist in the 2014 Aurealis Awards. The popular children’s book, written by Norman Jorgensen and illustrated by James Foley, is one of six titles shortlisted in the Best Children’s Fiction category.

In a first for WA children’s books Ambelin Kwaymullina’s Caterpillar and Butterfly is one of two Indigenous titles turned into apps suitable for Android and iOS tablets.

Madelaine Dickie is the winner of the City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. The 28-year-old Broome resident won the award for her manuscript Troppo, a work of fiction focusing on Australia’s relationship with Indonesia.

Over 120 people dragged themselves away from a Dockers home game to attend the launch of Bad Seed by Alan Carter at New Edition Bookshop this month. It was a great celebration for the third book in the Cato Kwong series and one which coincided with the launch of Alan’s Prime Cut in Germany. Published […]

Lighthouse Girl and Light Horse Boy are two of the books featured in the new Remembering Gallipoli collection launched by iBooks on Friday 13 February.

Three Fremantle Press books and two creators have been chosen to represent Australia at the 2015 Hello! From Australia exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Italy.

Crashing Down by Kate McCaffrey and The Last Viking Returns by Norman Jorgensen and James Foley are on the shortlist for the 2015 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards.

A new iPad application featuring picture books from Fremantle Press has been launched by local company Sumo. The Quality Time app will connect families whose parents are working away from home by allowing them to download picture books and read them together in real time.

After a year of waiting we were very excited this month to receive the German translation of Dianne Touchell’s debut novel, Creepy & Maud. The teen novel, which was published by Königskinder (an imprint for YA titles), is sure to connect with a German audience and will hopefully lead to other opportunities for translation. Last […]

Five authors are contenders for the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award. Louise Allan, Madelaine Dickie, Portland Jones, Mihaela Nicolescu and Nicole Sinclair are in the running for a cash prize of $12,000 plus a publishing contract with Fremantle Press.