Tag: Rights

The Stan television series based on Holden Sheppard’s book Invisible Boys has been nominated for two Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts (AACTA) Awards – for Best Miniseries and Best Editing in Television for episode 9. Filmed in Perth and Geraldton, Invisible Boys is an emotional tale of individuality and belonging. Written for the screen by a […]

Australia’s independent booksellers have nominated Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton and Cindy Lane as one of their favourite children’s books of 2026. Leanne Kadaraneu, Head of Books at Leading Edge Retail, said she was thrilled to reveal the longlist, which was chosen by the professionals whose recommendations guided readers every day, ‘This year’s longlist […]

Bigfoot vs Yeti by James Foley has been shortlisted for the 2025 Children’s Peace Literature Award. This biennial prize is awarded to Australian authors for children’s books that encourage peaceful resolution of conflict or promote peace at the global, local or interpersonal level. Administered by Psychologists for Peace (SA), over 100 books were judged by […]

Fremantle Press congratulates Ebony Froome and Leanne Zilm who have won a Whitley Award in the category of Children’s Cultural Zoology for Djinang Bonar: Seeing Seasons. Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder illustrator Cindy Lane was also recognised, taking out best illustrator. Ebony said Djinang Bonar was the first publication of its kind because of the way […]

Fremantle Press congratulates Kelly Canby and Gerard McCann, winners of a WA Premier’s Book Award. Kelly Canby’s A Leaf Called Greaf won Children’s Book of the Year and Gerard McCann’s Anatomy of a Secret won Non-Fiction Book of the Year. The winners of the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced this evening at […]

Cutler has garnered its second shortlisting in as many weeks. The first book in Whish-Wilson’s undercover series has been named in the Crime Fiction category of the 2025 Danger Awards. To be announced on 13 September, the winner will receive $1,000 prize money, a Danger Award Trophy and will be invited to speak at the […]

Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady, Dianne Wolfer’s account of one of Western Australia’s most inspirational women, is shortlisted for the 2025 Young People’s History Prize. Described by the judging panel as a ‘powerful and engaging demonstration of how biography can build historical awareness in young people’, the book was praised for its sound historical research […]

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 […]

Eleven books representing 13 writers are in the running for a Western Australian Premier’s Book Award worth $15,000. With four new categories offering WA authors more opportunities to shine, the Awards recognise and support the State’s literary talent and creative output. CEO of Fremantle Press Alex Allan said she was excited to see the changes […]

With just two days to go before entries for the Fogarty Literary Award close, a book by one of 2023 Fogarty Award shortlisters is in the running for a 2024 Aurealis Award. Jasper Cliff by Josh Kemp is one of six finalists in the Best Horror Novel category. The novel follows Lachlan Bowman as he […]

Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder is a fully-illustrated hardback picture book scheduled for publication in October 2025. As well as being a four-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award and bestselling author, Tim Winton is well known for his environmental activism – particularly for his efforts to preserve the biodiversity of Western Australia’s remarkable Ningaloo region. […]

Fremantle Press has been shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Award for both Small Publisher of the Year and Children’s Publisher of the Year. Fremantle Press CEO Alex Allan thanked both the ABIA and the Australian Publishers Association. Alex said, ‘We’re proud of all the talented creators, freelancers and local ambassadors who make up the […]

A Leaf Called Greaf by Kelly Canby and A Wreck of Seabirds by Karleah Olson are shortlisted for a CBCA Book of the Year Award. Eagerly awaited by creators and children’s literature ambassadors alike, the annual CBCA Book of the Year Awards recognises some of Australia’s most creative people, boosting their capacity to devote time […]

Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton and Aśka made the 2025 Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities. The 2025 selection will be launched in a few days at the 2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair on 31 March, with physical books and a printed catalogue on display throughout the fair. The book will also join the IBBY […]

Magnetic Stories has optioned two Fremantle Press fan favourites for television: Alan Carter’s Cato Kwong series and his New Zealand-based Nick Chester series. Carter said it was a nice start to a year which will culminate in the publication of his third Nick Chester book Franz Josef in October. Carter said, ‘Both series have acquired […]

Fremantle Press has been shortlisted for the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher in the Oceania Region for the second year in a row. Inaugurated in 2013, the prize celebrates publishing innovation, and the creative nature of the editorial choices publishers have made for books published in the previous year. Fremantle Press children’s publisher Cate […]

Adapted from the award-winning novel by Holden Sheppard, the powerful 10-part Stan Original Series Invisible Boys will premiere on 13 February, only on Stan. To celebrate the series, a new edition of Holden Sheppard’s bestselling novel hits bookstores today. Described by reviewers as a ‘groundbreaking new Aussie drama’ and a ‘powerful, soulful and absolutely bang-on […]

by Alessia Carbonaro As clichéd as it may sound, I believe that some stories find their way to us at exactly the right moment. For me, Salt River Road was one of those stories. Drawn by its cover and title, I first picked it up from the New Releases shelf of my local library in […]

Barking Gecko Arts will stage a theatre production of James Foley’s iconic and award-winning book Stellarphant. Artistic Director Sam Longley will bring the book to life in a season currently scheduled for January 2026. Announced at the launch of House, the picture book and theatre production by Dan Giovannoni and Charlotte Lane, CEO of Fremantle […]

I Am the Mau and other stories by acclaimed debut author Chemutai Glasheen is one of five Australian books on The White Ravens: A Selection of International Children’s and Youth Literature books for 2024. Selected by the International Youth Library‘s children’s literature experts, they represent literary and pictorial excellence with a particular focus on books […]

Nedingar: Ancestors, a dual-language picture book in Noongar and English by Isobel Bevis and Leanne Zilm, has won the Karajia Award by the Wilderness Society of Australia. Isobel Bevis – a Wilman, Ballardong Noongar writer who was born and raised in Collie in the south-west of Western Australia – said she was thrilled a book about […]

Nedingar: Ancestors by Isobel Bevis and Leanne Zilm has been recognised for a third time in this year’s awards season. The dual language picture book has already been shortlisted for an Environment Award by the Wilderness Society and has been made a CBCA Notable Book. Now it is in the running for Speech Pathology Australia’s […]

City of Fremantle Hungerford Award winner Molly Schmidt is in the running for The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize for her coming-of age-novel Salt River Road.  Now in its tenth year, and the only award run by an independent Melbourne bookshop, the Readings Prize supports new and outstanding Australian voices with the winners receiving a $5,000 […]

Australia’s most coveted prize for children’s literature has gone to Fremantle Press author Kelly Canby for her 2023 picture book Timeless. The CBCA Picture Book of the Year rewards outstanding books of the genre in which the creators achieve both artistic and literary unity. Children’s publisher at Fremantle Press, Cate Sutherland, said every one of Kelly’s […]