An interview with Maria Papas, shortlisted for the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award

Maria Papas’s stories and essays have appeared in a number of Australian and international journals including Griffith Review, Axon, The Letters Page, The West Australian, SBS online and Review of Australian Fiction. In 2011 her play Arbour Day won the Maj Monologues competition.

New-release crime promotion

This October we’ve got a thrilling crime promotion for you to sink your teeth into. We’ve teamed up with local WA booksellers to give you not one, but two crime books when you shop our new-release crime titles! Visit any of the following participating stores this month and purchase one of our new crime titles – Death Leaves the Station by Alexander Thorpe, Doom Creek by Alan Carter, Over My Dead Body by Dave Warner and Shore Leave by David Whish-Wilson – and you will receive a free copy of one of our selected Fremantle Press crime titles.

Summer is coming and when you're not lazing on the beach you can laze on the lounge: Brian Simmonds shares his new coffee-table creation

For many Australians, the beach is the place where summer weekends begin and end, where meditative winter walks provide sanctuary from the hustle and bustle, and where families, friends and lovers gather to picnic, watch the sunset or walk the dog.

From happy bowels to healthy dogs and cats: in October there's an event to suit everyone

From the Fogarty Award to the Hungerford Award and from the doggie bowl to the toilet bowl, it might be October already but there are still plenty of chances for you to join us at a bookish celebration in person or online.

Tracey Gibbs shares her love of all things botanical in her pop art board book Let's Count Wildflowers

Beautiful, bold Australian wildflowers are the heroes of Let’s Count Wildflowers by botanical pop artist Tracey Gibbs, AKA Lalleuca.

From hopping vampires to rice ball blasters, Shirley Marr chats to Rebecca Higgie about her new adventure for middle readers

Protagonist Mei Ling Pang is kicking her bad luck to the curb and Little Jiang creator Shirley Marr is showing readers how they can do the same.

Celebrate Fremantle Press books and the 30th anniversary of the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award.

What do Dave Warner, Sherlock Holmes and defrosted guinea pigs all have in common? They're all a part of our next Facebook Live event!

Fans of crime fiction, this is your night! Fremantle Press invites you to join Dave Warner and Dani Vee from Words and Nerds Podcast for the second episode of our new online crime series: A Shot in the Dark. From 5.00 pm AWST / 8 pm AEST on Wednesday 7 October 2020, they'll be live on Facebook for a book club chat about Dave's new book Over My Dead Body.

One to watch: Alexander Thorpe gets up close and cosy as he takes us back to the golden age of crime

Fans of crime fiction, if you missed the live edition of the Fremantle Press online crime series: A Shot in the Dark, you haven't missed out entirely.

James Foley has hatched a new book trailer with eggsactly the right number of yolks to make you roar with laughter

Sally Tinker is back with a new adventure in invention! The fourth book from the mind of James Foley in the S.Tinker Inc. graphic novel for junior readers series is out now.