Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Omnibus Books will close on 19 December 2014 and reopen on 5 January 2015

Nice work, Richard Flanagan

The author has donated his $40,000  Prime Minister’s Literary award for fiction to the  Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Both a political act and a generous charitable one.

More praise for Figgy

'I cannot remember when the demise of a goat has ever affected me much, but I felt more than a pang when Kwame exited the pages of Figgy in the World, Tamsin Janu’s début novel of an endearing young heroine and her pet ...' Ruth Starke, ABR

'Figgy is my literary hero for 2014, against very stiff competition.' Emily Gale, The Best Junior Fiction Books of 2014, Readings

You can read more about the promising young author Tamsin Janu here.

Books for Birls and Goys

'Children should have the right to choose their own literature and we should be supporting them to carve their paths of interests instead of narrowing them. It is ignorant, old fashioned and ugly to isolate anybody from the beautiful freedom and escapism of the mind that reading for pleasure brings.' Laura Dockrill in The Guardian

Just some of the non-gendered books and covers we're proud of. Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, Mr Abbott.

'One Night' by Penny Matthews and Stephen Michael King

We're very pleased to see that One Night has made Emily Gale's Christmas reading list over at Readings this silly season. Emily says: 'It’s warm and friendly in both words and drawings; beautifully done.' 

We think so, too!

Holiday activities

Our multi-talented author Tania Ingram has value-added to her already wonderful book Dog on Log with craft activities based on characters from the book. Educational and crafty! Click over and bookmark the page ready for school holidays - they're just around the corner!

Christmas is coming - the editor's getting desperate for a holiday

Just a wee word of warning - our offices will be closing for Christmas on December 19th and will not be reopening until January 5th.  In that time we stop all mail deliveries.  From about the end of November to the end of January we encourage you to hold off sending us your work as there is a higher than average chance it will not be read.
We are delighted by the response to our novel shout out - keep up the good work.

We thought you might like to see our delightful reading room so you can imagine your editor sitting gracefully at her desk, manuscript in hand, glass of wine at the ready.  Yes Virginia, there really IS a Santa Claus.