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The Port City of Fremantle is set for a literary takeover with the inaugural Totally Lit Festival taking place from 26 September to 10 October. Two-time Miles Franklin Award winner Kim Scott will open the festival on Friday 26 September with a keynote presentation at the WA Maritime Museum. Also joining the lineup includes Fremantle […]

Join LEGO® Masters winners Jackson Harvey and Alex Towler, along with author Cristy Burne, for a Q&A and book signing as they share a LEGO® book like no other. Hosted by Kirsty Lightfoot. This special event takes place during the free Birthday Book Adventure Family Day at the State Library of Western Australia on 23 August. This is the […]

Dive into breathtaking Ningaloo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to a diverse range of biodiversity. In these teaching activities, inspired by the captivating Ningaloo by Tim Winton and Cindy Lane, invite your students to become marine scientists. Investigate the fascinating creatures that call Ningaloo home, and spark a conversation about conservation and ocean […]

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'Who lives in Ningaloo?'

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RELICS: A New World Rises opens on 16 August 2025 at the Australian Museum in Sydney. Venture into a brick-filled future at the Australian Museum in Sydney. RELICS: A New World Rises is an extraordinary exhibition created by LEGO® Masters winners Jackson Harvey and Alex Towler, and the inspiration behind A New World Rises: Tales […]

Join award-winning author Brooke Dunnell (The Glass House and Last Best Chance) for a writing workshop at the historic Fremantle Arts Centre, aimed at honing your craft. Starting 5 August: Develop Your Writing Practice A six-week creative writing workshop, where each week will bring you writing prompts to explore, and exercises designed for both fiction […]

Join Bron Bateman for the launch of her newest poetry collection, Love Like This Isn’t Harmless. Launched by Caitlin Maling, the event will be hosted by Scott-Patrick Mitchell, along with readings and speeches from Georgia Richter, Javier Bateman, Lisa Collyer, Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon and Alan Fyfe. This is going to be a wonderful event, and will […]

In the middle of the night, in a remote part of Western Australia’s goldfields, the thud of a mallet on a marker peg sets off a chain reaction that unearths secrets long buried … You’re invited to the launch of Hot Ground, a new police procedural from Kalgoorlie lawyer Lisa Ellery. Lisa will be in […]

An amateur sleuth living with a disability. Her dead secret lover. A mystery begging to be solved. The Ghost Walk is launching on Thursday 14 August and you’re invited! Join Karen Herbert and Josephine Taylor at Planet Books Cottesloe for an engaging in conversation. Light refreshments will be provided, and copies of the book will […]

In Karen Herbert’s broody new crime novel, The Ghost Walk, protagonist and amateur sleuth Ruby Rose Gillespie lives with cystic fibrosis. As she sets out to solve the murder of her secret lover, she starts to wonder whether she really knew him at all. In this interview, Karen tells us more about writing a disabled […]

Fremantle Press is delighted to announce that children’s publisher Cate Sutherland has won the George Robertson Award. Named after George Robertson, the founder of Angus & Robertson, the annual awards recognise long and distinguished service to the Australian publishing industry. CEO of Fremantle Press Alex Allan said Cate was a valuable member of the publishing […]

Cristy Burne knows how to write action-packed outdoor adventures – while also throwing in a science fact or two! Her collection of environmental stories, Into the Blue, Beneath the Trees, Off the Track and To the Lighthouse, will transport kids into the wilderness, inspiring them to get outside and connect with the natural world around […]

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'Ship to Shore'

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Sunday 17 August, 10.30–11.30 am. AH Bracks Library + Creative Space Join author Clodagh Starr and illustrator Alison Mutton for a morning of storytelling, sing-alongs and activities to celebrate the launch of Crunch! Kaboom! It’s going to be big, loud and fun – much like the mighty mining machines themselves! Copies of Crunch! Kaboom! will […]

Step into the future and think visually in two new free teaching activities inspired by A New World Rises by Alex Towler, Jackson Harvey and Cristy Burne! In activity one, students can draw their own futuristic scene with bricks and minifigures, complete with an eye-catching headline worthy of the Post-Human Times. In activity two, have […]

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Pygmy Possum is so small! All the other animals think she’s too little to go out on her own in Katie Stewart’s new picture book, You’re Too Little. In this new activity, students will research the pygmy possum and other Australian animals, document their sizes, then colour them in. Free teaching notes are also available […]

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'How big am I?'

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CHUGGA-SPLOOSH! Mighty mining machines make lots of noise. In this activity, inspired by Crunch! Kaboom!, students match the sound to the machine. Check out our free teaching notes for more activities like:

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'What's that sound?'

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On the surface, it seemed as though each panel during the Big Day of Books on 28 June at ABC Radio Studios Perth was going to be vastly different from each other. But as the conversations unfolded, a common theme linked them together: storytelling as connection. This seems fitting, not only because we currently live […]

After an immediate sell-out success last year, the Festival of Fiction is back with an even bigger program: two enormous days, two theatres and 70 authors. We’re excited that Fremantle Press authors Alan Carter, Karen Herbert, Emily Paull, Chemutai Glasheen, Brooke Dunnell, Henry Farnan, Jo Taylor, David Allan-Petale, Dave Warner, Chenée Marrapodi, Holden Sheppard, Deb […]

On Sunday 27 July, Stories from the West will celebrate the authors shortlisted for the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, and it’s a perfect way to get familiar the shortlisted books. There will be three panels taking place at the State Library of WA: Bringing Your Book to the World with Khin Myint, Emily […]

Chickensaurus is the fourth children’s graphic novel in the S.Tinker Inc. series and available now! The series follows the world’s foremost inventor under twelve, Sally Tinker, as she navigates through some sticky situations with her friends and baby brother by her side. The Escape the Hedge Maze activity sheet is a great resource for improving […]

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'Escape the hedge maze!'

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Two Fremantle Press titles, Say Hello by Renae Hayward and Rebecca Mills and Into the Blue by Cristy Burne, are shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award. This is the second year running that Renae Hayward and Rebecca Mills have been shortlisted. Artist Rebecca Mills said she was happy to hear […]

Fremantle Press and CircusWA are excited to announce the purchase of the historic SEC Substation at 10 Parry Street, Fremantle. The move will secure a much-needed permanent home for each organisation, while preserving and activating an underutilised heritage building in the soon-to-be reinvigorated East End of the port city. This ambitious plan is made possible […]

Writers in the Library is the City of Mandurah’s regular series where readers can enjoy author talks, book signings and morning tea. We’re thrilled that two Fremantle Press authors will be joining the series in July: Emily Paull, author of the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award shortlisted The Distance Between Dreams, will be speaking on 5 […]

Hark! Hath we the event for you! Join author Patrick Marlborough for the launch of their outrageous and funny new novel, Nock Loose. Shortlisted for the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award, Nock Loose is Game of Thrones meets Wake in Fright meets Kill Bill meets The Simpsons. The launch takes place at the Buffalo Club Fremantle […]

Bring the family to this special NAIDOC event with Jayden Boundry and Tyrown Waigana, the creators of Boodja Barna. On Sunday 13 July at AH Bracks Library, celebrate culture and connection to Country with plenty of stories and illustrations about our native land animals. You might even learn a few new Noongar words! The event […]