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Debut Fiction Shortlist #IndieBookAwards26 📚
Congratulations to the Shortlisted authors and publishers!

Madeleine Cleary @AffirmPress
Stefanie Koens @HarperCollinsAU
Angie Faye Martin HQ Fiction / @HarperCollinsAU
@emmapeiyin @HachetteAus

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We are delighted to announce we have acquired Rebecca Lim’s upcoming novel, The Graduate, which will be published May 2026. Read more here via @BplusPNews : https://t.co/MnhjcX8Irv

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Children's Longlist #IndieBookAwards26 📚
Congrats to the longlisted authors and publishers!
https://t.co/hDdgeF2ywG

@HachetteKidsANZ
@WalkerBooksAus
@AllenAndUnwin
@AffirmPress
@ScholasticAus
@PenguinBooksAus
Thames & Hudson Australia
@Fremantle_Press
#loveOZMG

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Debut Fiction Longlist #IndieBookAwards26 📚
Congratulations to the longlisted authors and publishers!
See the full list: https://t.co/hDdgeF2ywG
Longlisted publishers:
@AffirmPress
Summit Books / @SimonSchusterAU
@HachetteAus
@AllenAndUnwin

HQ Fiction / @HarperCollinsAU

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Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins, hosts The Final Word podcast, were interviewed on ABC's News Breakfast show this morning about all things cricket and their new book, Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics - out now! Watch here:
https://t.co/a474d1Jfza

[Adam Collins @collinsadam]

On (Australian) shelves today. Do yourself a favour.

[Karina Kilmore Author @KilmoreKarina]

Such a joy to interview author #ChristianWhite this week and to help launch his new book #thelongnight for @AffirmPress This is scary dark - just how I like my thrillers!

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Another exciting acquisition announcement from us!
We will be publishing Lauren Keegan's second novel, The Woman in the Seal Skin, in April 2026. Read more here @BplusPNews : https://t.co/N4AFQL8XQi

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We are thrilled to announce we have acquired Hannah Moloney's upcoming release, Why We Garden. We will be publishing Hannah's new book in April 2026.
Read more here @BplusPNews : https://t.co/zDQAudo9WQ

[The Final Word @Final_Word_Pod]

The books have arrived!

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Zanni Louise, author of the new Handbooks for Little Humans series, was interviewed by @GoodReading. Said Zanni: 'Some people think that such topics are too complicated for small children. But I really don’t agree.'
Read more at Good Reading here:
https://t.co/7S2wuHsaPK

[Ky Garvey - Author & Podcaster @Totallylitpodc1]

Check out this fab interview with the amazing Christian White!

https://t.co/t603RPfzBq

[Dwayne Russell @_DwayneRussell]

Big thanks to Carina Bruce for the very kind Killing For Sport review. And thanks to all that have taken the time to read Killing For Sport @AffirmPress please keep the reviews coming!

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Christian White, author of The Long Night, penned a column for @GuardianAus on how confronting imagined terrors is rehearsal for the real ones. Read more here:
https://t.co/vijQoiLJXX

[Dwayne Russell @_DwayneRussell]

Killing For Sport signing tour. Ask for it at your local bookshop, & airports, Dymocks Collins, QBD, Readings! ⁦e-Book and audio book also available! ⁦@AffirmPress⁩

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🚨 LONDON + MELBOURNE BOOK LAUNCH!

Join Adam and Geoff as we launch Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics with @norcrosscricket and @WisdenCricket crew in London (free event, RSVP: [email protected]), then Melbourne at our old home ground, the Commercial Club Hotel.

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Christian White is back with his darkest, most exhilarating thriller yet! Bold, vivid and heart-racingly intense, The Long Night will have you holding your breath until the very last page. Be prepared for a sleepless night. Out now. #TheLongNight #ChristianWhite #thrillerbooks

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Dwayne Russell, author of Killing for Sport, was interviewed by @geelongaddy about turning from footy to fiction! Read here with a subscription: https://t.co/nOA9PnYOXi

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Christian White, author of The Long Night, penned a column for @theage @smh on scary stories (just in time for Halloween!). Read more here with a subscription: https://t.co/La2oNaxfUf

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🚨MELBOURNE BOOK LAUNCH!

We are formally launching Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics at our old home ground, the Commercial Club Hotel, on the evening of 27 November. All the details in the flyer - please do come along, and bring your cricket-loving (and book-buying) mates.