Echo Publishing Australia

11/12/2025

We’re so thrilled to share that Ankami by Debra Dank has been shortlisted for the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Prize for Non-Fiction!

Huge congratulations to Debra Dank and to all the fabulous shortlisted and highly commended authors! 👏

Read what the judges had to say:

Ankami is a powerful, engaging account of Dank’s discovery of the lives of four missing ancestors from her father’s family tree, hidden in the National Archives. Filled with tragic, entertaining and inspiring stories, Dank responds to colonial violence and institutional silencing with verve, wit and grace. Both a vital act of reckoning and an elegy to lost loves, Ankami is a deeply emotional work that speaks a truth that every Australian needs to hear.

📸 The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas

24/11/2025

Join Heather Morris (bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz) in conversation with Katherine Wiles on Wednesday 3 December at Balmain Library.

Heather will be discussing her new novel The Wish, a poignant contemporary story of courage, resilience, and the power of human connection.

Heather will be in conversation with opera singer Katherine Wiles (author of No Autographs, Please!), bringing a unique and nuanced perspective to this special event.

Reserve a free ticket today!

Join bestselling author Heather Morris—renowned for The Tattooist of Auschwitz—as she discusses her new novel, The Wish.

10/11/2025

Read Debra Dank's powerful essay in The Conversation Australia + NZ last week, extracted from her latest book 'Ankami'.

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-debra-danks-grandmother-was-a-drovers-boy-her-stolen-wages-cant-be-recovered-268280

'Ankami' is out now in all good bookstores.

Stella Prize shortlisted author Debra Dank reflects on how her family’s lives were scarred by stolen wages and colonial violence – and on the complexities of apologies.

13/10/2025

We're thrilled to have two awesome Echo authors speak at Kiama Library next month 👏 Join James Dunbar and Tim Ayliffe for an evening of crime conversation with Ryan Butta.

James Dunbar will launch his new gripping thriller, Twisted River, which is set in Kiama!

Tickets available here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1453788

29/09/2025

Join bestselling author Heather Morris on her Australian book tour for The Wish. ✨📚

Head to your local library's website for registration and further information.

Hope to see you along the way! 💫

22/09/2025

Meet Lisa Portolan and Amanda Goff and their new book B***s at Gleebooks next Wednesday, 1 October! And start to answer the age old question: why all the fuss about b***s?

Bookings required:
https://gleebooks.com.au/event/dr-lisa-portolan-amanda-goff-b***s/

15/09/2025

One of our next book club reads is The Wish by Heather Morris , author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz. It's the story of Jesse, a girl in the children’s cancer ward who decides to create a 3D digital version of her life. Along the way, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Alex, a reclusive game designer.

Who’s joining us? Will this be on your reading list? 📚✨



Publishing Australia

10/09/2025

Congratulations to Shaeden Berry - shortlisted for the Emerging Writer Award, WA Premier's Literary Award 2025 for her wonderful debut novel Down the Rabbit Hole! 👏🥳

State Library of Western Australia 📸 SoCo Studios

25/08/2025

📢 Australia and New Zealand, get ready! Just 2 weeks until THE WISH is available in stores near you...

✨ THE WISH by Heather Morris, bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, is out in Australia and NZ on 9 September!

Pre-order now: https://www.echopublishing.com.au/books/the-wish

📖 Teenager Jesse loves her friends, her little brother and her parents – even when they’re both arguing, which they seem to do all the time these days.

And she also loves playing interactive computer games, from her hospital bed in the children’s cancer ward.

So, when Jesse is offered the chance to have her greatest wish fulfilled, she immediately knows what she wants: a digital 3D recreation of her life – something to be there for her friends and family to watch and relive … perhaps without her.

There is only person with the technical skills and creativity to make this happen: the highly talented but reclusive Alex, a visionary 3D CGI video/games designer. Unlike Jesse, Alex doesn’t love a lot of things. To be honest, he’s not really sure he knows how to. He’s in his late twenties, but his troubled past has left him wary of forming any kind of emotional relationship.

But when he enters Jesse’s world, his journey towards connection begins. A beautiful and unexpected friendship blossoms between the desperately ill teenager and the isolated young man, changing both their lives – and those of the people around them – forever.

24/08/2025

We are so thrilled that SHADOW CITY by Natalie Conyer has been shortlisted in the BAD Sydney Danger Awards this year and is up for the People's Choice Award. 👏

Remember to vote for SHADOW CITY before voting closes on 1 September! 🗳 Use this link to vote: https://tinyurl.com/4atzphyp

24/08/2025

Ready for a twisty crime thriller? Here are some of our favourites. How many of these have you read?

Hot Ground by Lisa Ellery
Nemesis by Patricia Wolf
Whisky Valley by Joan Sauers
Present Tense by Natalie Conyer
Mole Creek by James Dunbar
Jasper Cliff by Josh Kemp
One of Us is Dead by Peter James
The Rewilding by Donna M Cameron
The Madness Locker by Eddie Russel
Beyond Year Zero by Lawrence Held

Read our member reviews here: https://bookgirl.beautyandlace.net/tag/crime

We are keeping an eye on our publisher friends for new release crime reads:

Pan Macmillan Australia Bigskypublishing Echo Publishing Australia Allen & Unwin Books Fremantle Press Transit Lounge Publishing

14/08/2025

Catch Jeff Apter at Broadbeach Library Gold Coast Libraries next Wednesday 20 August!

🧡Jeff Apter, the music biographer extraordinaire will be sharing behind-the-scenes tales of rock legend Lee Gordon.
📆Broadbeach Library • 20 August • 6:30pm
👉 https://bit.ly/4ju0M3X