Wakefield Press

29/12/2025

Bestsellers of 2025
- Children’s Books -

How amazing that our #1 bestselling children’s book for the year of 2025 is from our collection of local authors & illustrators!

Honey Possums Bush Cafe, by Kristin Martin & local illustrator Bianca Richardson took the title of bestseller by a long shot - however their competitor? themselves!
Banjo Frog’s Concert Spectacular was our second bestselling children’s book for 2025. Another note... Honey Possum's Bush Cafe was not only #1 for children's books - it was our #1 across all categories - Kristin & Binaca have done an incredible job at creating these books, we are so excited to see more in the future!

Honey Possum’s Bush Cafe & Banjo Frog’s Concert Spectacular are both available to purchase in store & online at Collins Booksellers Mount Gambier!

Collins Booksellers Mount Gambier,
📍 16 Commercial St, W
☎️ (08)8723 1056
🌐 mountgambier.collinsbooks.com.au
📧 [email protected]
Thank you for choosing to shop & support local 📚

23/12/2025

Lovely piece by Carol Lefevre. Happy to see marvellous Adelaide-based writer/artist STEPHANIE RADOK, author of An Opening, Becoming a Bird, and now Under the Bed, getting the recognition she deserves.

Celia Paul’s extraordinary, art-focused life is captured in two brilliant autobiographies. Stella longlisted Stephanie Radok makes the ordinary special in her art.

23/12/2025

A big thank you to everyone who supported us this year and embraced our 2025 titles!

We still have 30% off books in store if you're able to visit us today 🙌

We’ll be logging off from midday tomorrow, Wednesday 24 December, until Monday 5 January. Orders can still be placed as usual via our website.

Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and New Year, and we look forward to seeing you in 2026! 📚🎉

21/12/2025

This Monday and Tuesday 22 and 23 December, 9 to 5, we’re having an in-store sale. We'll take 30% off books as an early Christmas gift 🎄We’d love to see and serve you!

19/12/2025

HOT OFF THE PRESS ––

After the Fall: the battle to save independent media in the post-Soviet world

By Michael Delahaye

Politics, Travel

It is 1998. After twenty-five years as a BBC TV reporter and producer, Michael Delahaye is sent to Russia as part of a UK/US programme to develop independent journalism in the former Soviet Union. With Boris Yeltsin in power, hopes are high of Russia, along with the other one-time Soviet republics, becoming functioning democracies.

Over the next five years, Delahaye and his fellow media missionaries will criss-cross the vast Russian Federation, south through Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan ... and into Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

After the Fall, a foot-soldier's story, charts Delahaye's realisation of the challenges, both cultural and political, of transition; how, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, the West has repeatedly over-estimated its power to recast other nations in its own image.

19/12/2025

Here are a couple manuals and handbooks we published this year!

That's a wrap on our Showcase for beautiful books we published in 2025. We hope there's a bit of something for everyone!

Head to our website or visit us in store for any last minute gifts 🎁

18/12/2025

Our collection of true stories from our 2025 Showcase!

Our entire range is available online, with free postage on orders of $100 or more*. Or pop into our Mile End bookshop, open until midday on Wednesday 24 December.

18/12/2025

Introducing our 2025 history titles!

18/12/2025

Our collection of art and beautiful books from our 2025 Showcase!

Remember you can shop our entire range online, with free postage on orders of $100 or more*.

For Christmas gifts, please make sure to place online orders with us
no later than Wednesday 17 December to ensure they arrive on time. To discuss express postage costs, please call us on (08) 8352 4455.

For customers based in South Australia, our Mile End bookshop will be open as usual right up until midday on Wednesday 24 December.

12/12/2025

I was recently asked to name my favourite book of 2025 for a poll of SA writers in the InDaily arts section, InReview. I nominated Natalie Harkin's incredibly moving and thought-provoking Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea, for reasons outlined below. It's another Wakefield Press book, and another reason why supporting local publishing houses is so important.

Other writers polled include Pip Williams, Hannah Kent and Molly Murn (note the theme of extraordinary women writers hailing from the Adelaide Hills). You can read the full list here: https://www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/books-poetry/2025/12/11/summer-reading-south-australias-writers-and-readers-share-their-2025-favourites

Huge thanks to Jo Case and InReview for the opportunity.

12/12/2025

Introducing our 2025 Young Adult Showcase!

Shop our entire range online, with free postage on orders of $100 or more*.

12/12/2025

This year, Wakefield Press proudly released more fantastic stories, new and old.
We're thrilled now to present our 2025 Showcase, a collection of all of the titles Wakefield Press released this year.

Take a stroll through our 2025 Fiction and Poetry Showcase, and shop our entire range online, with free postage on orders of $100 or more*.

For Christmas gifts, please make sure to place online orders with us
no later than Wednesday 17 December to ensure they arrive on time. To discuss express postage costs, please call us on (08) 8352 4455.

For customers based in South Australia, our Mile End bookshop will be open as usual right up until midday on Wednesday 24 December.