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Fremantle Press is pleased to announce Mabel Gibson will join our team, thanks to an Open Book Australian Publishing Internship. Mabel is one of four aspiring professionals who will work with publishing hosts from around Australia in an initiative that aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to our industry. Administered by the Australian Publishing Association […]

Award-winning crime author Dave Warner recently chatted to Will Yeoman at City of Perth Library about his novel, Sound Mind Dead Body. The recorded conversation is available to listen to on Imagining the Past: a podcast series by the Historical Novel Society Australiasia. Not only does Dave speak, he sings, accompanied by Will on guitar […]

Books in the Brewery hosts regular events across Perth, looking to spark conversation and build friendships over a good book and a good beer. There are plenty of upcoming events featuring Fremantle Press authors, so have a browse below and book in for a wonderful literary time! 18 July, 10.00 am Coffee With Crime Mt […]

Elders, memory, language, hunger, burning, flowering, flight … these are the different cycles around the life of a seed featured in Luisa Mitchell’s collection of poems, Song of the Shadow of a Seed. In this interview, Luisa speaks about writing toward healing, connection and truth-telling, the importance of truth-listening, and the hope that readers might […]

Shortlisted for the 2024 Hungerford Award, I Remember Everything is Fiona Wilkes’s debut novel. Crossing timelines, from Bristol in the 1980s to 2020 London, I Remember Everything takes a poignant look at first love, chosen family and coming out, just as the devastation of the AIDS epidemic looms. In this interview, Fiona reflects on the […]

Join popular Palyku author Helen Milroy as she explores and celebrates the creatures you can see at the beach. From pretty starfish to puffed-up blowfish, this fun and educational early reader picture book is filled with brightly illustrated beach buddies. In this new activity sheet, your young reader can colour in each buddy and write […]

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'Who's your beach buddy?'

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Get to know our worl barna in this free teaching activity sheet! Worl Barna is the third book in a collection of board books by Jayden Boundry and Tyrown Waigana, all about our majestic, native sky creatures. Perfect for little readers, this activity invites them to colour in some winged friends, learn their names in […]

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'Do you know your worl barna?'

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One Day Soon is a new verse novel by Cristy Burne, a powerful and moving insight into a boy’s emotional journey through the diagnosis and loss of an uncle to motor neurone disease, compounded by his father and family’s own 50% risk of inheriting the causative gene. Alex learns to appreciate the smaller, special moments […]

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'Practise writing in free verse'

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This creative literacy activity doubles as an art project! Inspired by interactive poems in the poetry collection for children, If I Could Eat the Stars, this activity sheet invites students to play with words, build descriptive vocabulary and turn their writing into a poem shaped like an animal. Download the activity sheet and let students […]

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'Write your own shape poem'

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Fremantle Press has learned today that Craig Silvey has pled guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material. This is devastating news for the entire community in light of the trust vested in him by readers, schools, bookstores, libraries and colleagues. Fremantle Press ceased to promote Craig Silvey’s work at the time the charges were […]

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Howard McKenzie-Murray’s debut novel This Is Where We Say Goodbye is a quirky, bittersweet story full of vivid characters and energy as twenty-one-year-old protagonist Maud reels in the aftermath of loss. In this interview, Howard speaks about how his background as a playwright shaped his fiction, what writing the novel taught him, and how real […]

Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton with Cindy Lane has been shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award and an Australian Booksellers Association Award in as many days. The ABA Book of the Year Awards are for titles which have captured the hearts of Australian booksellers – those titles they most like recommending. The ABIAs are presented by […]

Fremantle Press farewelled patron Barry McGuire and welcomed two new patrons at its 50-year anniversary celebration on Friday 24 April. Helen Milroy is the Patron of Readers while Annie Fogarty takes on the role of Patron of Writers. Fremantle Press Chair Clair Medhurst said she had enjoyed working with Barry since 2022. Clair said, ‘Barry […]

Fremantle Press is celebrating 50 years of independent publishing with a brand-new home and a place on the Australian Book Industry Awards shortlist. The ABIA Small Publisher of the Year Award recognises publishers whose program demonstrates excellence, thereby contributing to the overall success of the industry. Fremantle Press CEO Alex Allan said the shortlisting was […]

A new way to share Milly Meelyu with your little readers (and to learn alongside them!) Milly Meelyu is a new picture book by Dr Holly Bradley, translated into Badimia by Darryl Fogarty, lovingly illustrated by Corinne Fogarty and filled with themes of family, home and caring for Country. To help you bring the book […]

Learn to fear less, one small step at a time. Enjoy this storytime with Kelly Canby as she reads her new picture book, Fearless. Bea Ware is afraid of everything – from shadows to ladders to trampolines, she is in a constant state of anxiety and trepidation. Her friend, Annie Venture, seems completely carefree, skipping […]

These school holidays, practise fearing less in both big and small ways. In Kelly Canby’s new picture book, Fearless, Bea Ware is afraid of everything – from shadows to ladders to trampolines, she is in a constant state of anxiety and trepidation. Her friend, Annie Venture, seems completely carefree, skipping through life without a single […]

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'Try One New Thing Challenge'

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Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton with Cindy Lane has been shortlisted for the Eve Pownell Award in this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards.  Fremantle Press CEO Alex Allan commissioned Ningaloo from four-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award and bestselling author, Tim Winton, who is well known for his environmental activism in the […]

In Annie and Maeve Are Definitely Not Friends by Olivia Muscat, Maeve loves using her fancy-pants dictionary to look up words. In this activity sheet for ages 12+, students solve the clues and then search for words. For more teaching ideas, why not try: Download our free teaching notes for more ideas on how to […]

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'Annie and Maeve Word Search'

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Rather than focusing on loud or dramatic acts of bravery, Fearless by Kelly Canby explores quieter, everyday moments of courage, such as trying something new or facing uncertainty. In this new, free teaching activity, students can reflect on two things that they fear, and two ways that they can become less fearful of them. Just […]

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'What can I fear less?'

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Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes is scheduled to appear at national and international writers festivals this year thanks to a new travel fellowship supported by the Barton Family Foundation. CEO of Fremantle Press Alex Allan said the fellowship would give festival organisers the freedom to take risks on unknown debut Western Australian authors. She said, ‘Our festivals […]

Thank you for your support and engagement during this very exciting and extremely busy time. Our new address is: 1/10 Parry Street Fremantle. Our phone number is: 08 9430 6331. We no longer have a Post Office Box – all deliveries will now come to our main office address. Please join us at our Open […]

Dave Warner is best known for hard-edged crime fiction, but his latest novel, Sound Mind Dead Body, tips its hat to the Golden Age of mystery. In this interview, he talks Agatha Christie, Art Deco atmosphere, red herrings, and the race between reader and detective to solve the puzzle first. You mostly write police procedurals, […]