Carla Salmon’s YA debut We Saw What You Started has been longlisted for the Davitt Award for Best Young Adult Novel. Hooray Carla!

HERE COME THE COUSINS is the ABA Kids' Reading Guide Children's Book of the Year 2026 winner!⁠ 🏖️☀️🌊🏖️☀️🌊🏖️☀️🌊🏖️☀️🌊 Hooray for this joyful celebration of family and summertime

Winter has arrived in Melbourne ❄️🧤🧣 And we’re looking forward to these exciting new releases... coming soon from our clients ✨ ✨ ✨

Judith Rossell has been selected for the inaugural Greenway Writing Residency. Congratulations Jude!

Congratulations to our wonderful client Jade Timms, who was shortlisted for the The Ethel Turner Prize in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for her debut YA contemporary novel Golden (Text Publishing).

Out now with Thames and Hudson Australia: We Live in a Boat by Dave Petzold.

Out now with Text Publishing: The Wild Unknown by Emily Gale — a gripping adventure set in a near-future world. Hooray!

Out now with Affirm Press: The Graduate by Rebecca Lim ⚖️🖇️ Congratulations Bec!

How great to announce that we are now representing the wonderful Sonya Gellert! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

We are so thrilled to be representing the amazing Ella Mittas 🌟💫

The CBCA shortlist is here! 💫✨💫✨💫✨

Congratulations to our brilliant client Sarah Zweck and Maggie Hutchings on the shortlisting of Here Come the Cousins (Thames and Hudson) in the Australian Book Industry Awards.

Out now with HarperCollins: TINY GOOD THINGS, written by Gabrielle Tozer and illustrated by our client Sophie Beer 🪺🌸🍃

Out now with Hachette: Narm-Jaap: A Flinders Street Station History – an engaging and comprehensive history of Flinders Street Station and the land on which it is built. Written by our wonderful client Melissa-Jane Fogarty and illustrated by Dylan Finney.  

Out now with Allen and Unwin: The Friendship Paradox by Aśka. A graphic novel about friendship and finding your place in a puzzling world 🔬🔎

Now representing: Jade Timms. We are very excited to welcome Jade to Annabel Barker Agency!

Very happy publication to Tiny by Laura Stitzel – the story of a little girl who dreams of growing BIG. Out now with Walker.

A very happy publication to Georgina Chadderton’s graphic memoir OH BROTHER, out now in Australia, the US, Canada and the UK!

Out now: Behind the Screens, written by Dr Niraj Lal, with illustrations by our wonderful client Aśka!

Brand new from Serena Geddes! ELLA FOREVER is the first in a very exciting new graphic novel series starring the beloved character Ella.