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Fremantle Press has snapped up not one but two more debut books from the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award shortlist. Julie Sprigg and Yuot A. Alaak join winner Holden Sheppard on the Fremantle Press publishing program with books scheduled for release in 2020.

In this episode of the Fremantle Press Podcast, Events Marketing Assistant Tiffany Ko speaks to Amanda Curtin about her new book Kathleen O’Connor of Paris.

With help from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, more than fifty new and emerging Western Australian authors will have the opportunity to network with festival directors, event programmers, librarians and booksellers at the annual Fremantle Press Perth Festival Writers Week Breakfast.

In the latest episode of the Fremantle Press Podcast, presenter Holden Sheppard chats to award-winning author Marcella Polain about how her childhood experiences strongly influenced her new book Driving into the Sun and dealing with grief as a child. As a lecturer in creative writing at ECU, Marcella also talks Holden through some invaluable tips […]

Fremantle Press author Jon Doust has already seen huge success with his novel Boy on a Wire, which garnered a longlisting for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Now he’s bringing this tale of bullying, mental health and coming of age to a different audience with a new YA edition of the book.

Is plot really the uncool cousin no-one wants to associate with? Should aspiring writers abstain from sex in favour of taking a large dictionary to bed? And how do you transform the experience of grief into the positive act of creation? As host of the 2019 Fremantle Press podcast series, Holden Sheppard gets to grips […]

We all spend months and years getting ourselves and our books in front of the ‘right people’, but sometimes it’s just the serendipitous connections you make that open the door to new possibilities. It was during her time as a guest at the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival in the United Arab Emirates that Jen Banyard […]

Never mind ‘love is in the air’, it’s all about the love on the page this Valentine’s Day. Maybe we’re biased (okay, we are!), but we can’t think of anything better than giving the gift of words and stories to someone we truly admire.

Being an author isn’t all about words, and it turns out lots of the Fremantle Press authors are pretty handy with a camera too.

Ever felt like your writing project is taking a little too much time? Fremantle Press author Marcella Polain’s new novel, Driving into the Sun, was 10 years in the making. Here, she offers tips and advice to new and emerging writers about taking your time, maintaining momentum and what writer’s block is really all about.

We’re sure by now you’ll have fallen in love with the Fremantle Press books being serialised in The West Australian.

Cato Kwong is back, and in Heaven Sent, the fourth in the hugely popular series, he’s dealing with a killer who has a very personal vendetta. Award-winning crime writer Alan Carter chats to Jen Bowden about strong female characters, homelessness and keeping it local in the latest episode of the Fremantle Press Podcast.

Fremantle Press editor Armelle Davies offers her six top tips to writers on how to make effective new year resolutions … and how to make sure you stick to them.

DAVE WARNER IS A STAR. I know you all knew that but I just wanted to underline it in bold caps. Not only is his book Clear to the Horizon on the longlist for the International Dublin Literary Award but he’s also just written a swell new crime novel set in the early sixties when […]

With all the books out there, it’s hard to pick the perfect gift for the readers among your family and friends, but luckily we’ve got a wide range of books to suit every bookworm – even the fussy ones. Check out our handy gift guide below.

Award-winning crime writers Alan Carter and Dave Warner are in the running to win the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award, worth 100,000 euros. The pair join 12 other Australian authors and 129 international authors on the prize’s longlist.

Read an interview with City of Fremantle T.A.G Hungerford Award winner Holden Sheppard and an extract from his novel Invisible Boys.

Geraldton-born writer Holden Sheppard has won the 2018 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award for his manuscript Invisible Boys.

2016 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford winner Jay Martin takes us behind diplomatic doors and into the Australian Embassy deep in the heart of Europe. Christmas, she says, will never be the same.

Members of the Emerging Writers Pilot Program will meet for the first time later this month at a workshop run by Fremantle Press and WA Poets Inc.

Hello and welcome to November!

After selling out in less than 48 hours, the City of Melville and Fremantle Press Great Big Book Club Tea Party was packed to capacity on Sunday 21 October at A.H. Bracks Library in Melville.

The historic Albany whaling station that played an integral part in Chris Pash’s book The Last Whale will mark the fortieth anniversary of its closure this month.

Acclaimed landscape photographer Richard Woldendorp’s latest book, The Tree, has just been published by Fremantle Press.