Frankfurt expecting up to 800 international delegates
Thursday, 30 September 2021
The Bookseller reports that Frankfurt Book Fair organisers are expecting between 700 and 800 international delegates to attend this year’s event, which runs from 20–24 October. The number is down...
‘Magical Australian light’: Rights successes and recent titles from Australian illustrated nonfiction publishers
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Australia’s leading publisher of books on the visual arts, Thames & Hudson Australia, has been publishing—and exporting—local titles for many years. ‘We find there is a real thirst for Australian...
Exploring the natural world: Australian picture books and children’s nonfiction with an environmental theme
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Australian artist and mother of three Kat Macleod was inspired by the challenge of entertaining small children during lockdown to create her first picture book for Thames & Hudson Australia....
YA, graphic novels among recent international sales
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Lisa Fuller’s multi-award-winning YA novel Ghost Bird (UQP), which previously won the David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer, has been sold to UK independent publisher Old Barn Books...
Debut buzz: new authors attract major deals
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
A number of debuts have been picked up by Australian publishers in recent months amid significant buzz. Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to two crime novels by Canberra debut...
‘Ginnie & Pinney’ educational children’s series optioned for TV
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Big Sky Publishing’s educational children’s series Ginnie & Pinney, Learn & Grow has been optioned for development as a television series by Australian animation studio Moody Street Productions. Created by...
Modern families, joy and koalas: latest nonfiction acquisitions
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
A new acquisition at NewSouth Publishing offers a ‘meticulously researched and highly accessible deep-dive’ into 21st-century families. The publisher has acquired ANZ rights to Kin: Family in the 21st century...
Williams, Pape, Bluey top Australian bestsellers 2021 YTD
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams has topped the Australian fiction bestsellers for the year to date (YTD), selling more than 66,000 copies in 2021 so far, edging...
Uplit dominates recent fiction acquisitions
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to two uplifting ‘family dramedies’ by Toni Jordan, author of numerous award-winning, bestselling novels, including Addition, Nine Days and Our Tiny, Useless Hearts (all...
Lohrey wins Miles Franklin Literary Award for seventh novel
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Amanda Lohrey has won Australia’s prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award for her seventh novel The Labyrinth (Text), ‘the work of a major novelist at the peak of her powers’, according...
Uplit, environment trending ahead of Frankfurt
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
While Frankfurt returns as an in-person fair this year, Australian rights managers and literary agents will be participating virtually once again as international travel remains difficult for those of us...
The bigger picture: Australian books respond to climate change
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
It’s hard to find a theme more urgent in publishing today—and one that unites fiction and nonfiction—than climate change. Australian independent publisher Black Inc. has been particularly active in publishing...
Meet literary agent Martin Shaw
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Since moving from Australia to Germany in 2015, former book buyer Martin Shaw has established himself as a literary agent, first as ‘an understudy’ to Alex Adsett, and subsequently as...
Evie and Rhino
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
When Evie finds a fully-grown rhinoceros washed up on a beach, she feels an immediate connection and knows she has to help him. When Rhino wakes, he knows that the...
How We Love
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. This lyrical memoir explores love in...
Gustav and Henri: Volume #1
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Opposites attract in this humorous graphic novel series about best friends Gustav and Henri. Gustav is a goofy, optimistic and naively enthusiastic pig. Henri is a grounded, pragmatic and quietly...
Career path: Cate Blake
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Cate Blake began her publishing career at Penguin Random House Australia as an editorial assistant. In 2018 she was nominated for the inaugural ABIA Rising Star Award for her role...
New Readings shop, McKay wins Arthur C Clarke Award
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Melbourne bookseller Readings will open a new shop—the chain’s eighth—in the Emporium shopping complex in the Melbourne CBD. In other retail news, performing arts specialist Book Nook has been saved...
Crime novel ‘The Whispering’ wins 2021 Banjo Prize
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
HarperCollins Australia has announced Veronica Lando as the winner of the 2021 Banjo Prize for her ‘hauntingly atmospheric mystery’ manuscript The Whispering. Lando’s crime novel was selected from a shortlist...
Voss Literary Prize 2021 longlist announced
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
The longlist for the 2021 Voss Literary Prize, awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the previous year, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Rain Heron...
Jennings wins British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Kathleen Jennings has won the Best Newcomer category in the 2021 British Fantasy Awards for her Australian gothic novel Flyaway (Picador). Jennings’ debut novel, chosen out of a shortlist of...
Danged Black Thing
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa,...
Text acquires Nick Cave book
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Faith, Hope and Carnage is an intimate and honest conversation about big ideas including faith, art, music and grief. Co-written by Nick Cave and Observer journalist Sean O’Hagan, this new...
OUP launches new branding for digital transformation
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Oxford University Press (OUP) has launched new branding to support its ongoing digital transformation. Under the new branding, the publisher will continue producing materials in its three core markets of...
MidnightSun announces book cover design competition
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
MidnightSun Publishing has announced a new book cover design competition for two of its forthcoming novels, Random Acts of Unkindness by Anna Mandoki and The Rider on the Bridge by...
McKay wins Arthur C Clarke Award
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe) has won the UK's Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction. McKay’s debut novel was selected from a shortlist of...
US$75k Cundill History Prize shortlist announced
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Cundill History Prize, which rewards ‘the best history writing in English’, has been announced. The shortlisted books are: The Loss of Hindustan: The invention of...
Nib Literary Award 2021 shortlist announced
Monday, 27 September 2021
The shortlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Only Happiness Here: In search of Elizabeth...
FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2021 shortlist announced
Monday, 27 September 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: The World for Sale:...
Performing arts bookshop relaunches online
Monday, 27 September 2021
Stage Whispers magazine has purchased performing arts specialist bookshop Book Nook, saving the business from closure and launching it as a new online store. Founded over 35 years ago, Book...
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