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Book Club – this month’s reads

Friday, 10 October 2025
Looking for your next great group read? Our monthly Book Club rounds up new release titles that are perfect for sparking conversation and perhaps even some debate. From compelling fiction to...

Cleary wins A&U NZ Fiction Prize

Thursday, 9 October 2025
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand (A&U NZ) has announced Tauranga writer Anne Cleary as the winner of the 2025 Fiction Prize for her entry Apple Man. According to the...

Gillard to judge Women’s Prize for Fiction

Thursday, 9 October 2025
In the UK, the Women’s Prize Trust has announced former prime minister of Australia Julia Gillard will chair the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction judging panel. Gillard will be joined...

Bakers Lane Books acquires McLean’s nonfiction

Thursday, 9 October 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to The Town Like No Other by Robert McLean. The Town Like No Other tells the story of Broken Hill, a ‘world-class mining centre that...

Perpustakaan Jakarta Cikini: Communities need a library

Thursday, 9 October 2025
With libraries, their work, and free access to information under increasing threat around the world, B+P and the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office reached out to libraries in other designated cities of...

Cuthbert to leave B+P

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Kate Cuthbert has resigned as publishing director at Books+Publishing. She began the newly created role in January. Her last day will be 30 October.

Windeyer awarded 2025 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Writing NSW has announced Kirsty Windeyer as the winner of its 2025 Varuna fellowship for her novel manuscript ‘You Fix It’. Judges praised Windeyer's work for its ‘compelling synopsis, gripping...

The Bookshop Darlinghurst to close; Garner shortlisted for Baillie Gifford; EWF shares 2025 report

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
In Books+Publishing (B+P) news this week, Kate Cuthbert has resigned as publishing director. Her last day will be 30 October. In B+P features this week, Emily Baulch shared her research...

A&U acquires Bailey’s sixth novel

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Click, the sixth novel from Sarah Bailey, in a deal brokered by Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. ‘Click is a taut...

Nature Writing Prize shortlist revealed

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Literary journal Island has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Nature Writing Prize. Shortlisted writers and their pieces are: Frankey Chung-Kok-Lun for ‘Menura Novahollandiae’ Rosalee Kiely for ‘Habitat’ Bridget Webster for ‘Like...

HarperCollins acquires new Heyman fiction

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Circle of Wonders, a novel by Kathryn Heyman. The novel follows Roni over the course of a lunar month. ‘Roni has lived with breast...

A Love Letter to Whiskey

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
This is not your typical love story. It’s a story of almosts and could-have-beens.Of friendship that teeters on the edge of something more.Of passion so intoxicating, it burns. Sometimes, love...

Leading with passion! Five inspiring books for sport, life and leadership from Wilkinson Publishing

Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Garner shortlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize

Tuesday, 7 October 2025
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Australian author Helen Garner (Text) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction in the UK. Selected from a...

Colouring makes reading stick: Emily Baulch on the under-valuing of branded and interactive texts in children’s literacy

Tuesday, 7 October 2025
BookUp’s inaugural research day was held on 8 August this year. As part of this full day dedicated to book industry research, Emily Baulch shared some of her findings on...

Better Reading Top 100 announced

Monday, 6 October 2025
Better Reading has announced its 2025 top 100 list, ‘a true reflection of what Australians read’. Voted on by readers, the number one spot went to Boy Swallows Universe by...

Stella Day Out announces new Sydney event

Monday, 6 October 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced a second Stella Day Out event in Sydney, set to take place on 21 October at Quest Chatswood, NSW. The evening event will offer drinks...

The Bookshop Darlinghurst to close

Monday, 6 October 2025
The Bookshop Darlinghurst in Sydney will close down on Christmas Eve 2025. Owner Charles Gregory said the closure was due to ‘repeated delays’ in the redevelopment of Oxford & Foley...

Ventura acquires Simon debut novel

Monday, 6 October 2025
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Susan Simon’s debut novel The Secrets of St Jude’s, a ‘private school noir and commercial thriller’. The Secrets of St Jude’s follows the story...

Junior Book Club – this month’s reads

Friday, 3 October 2025
Searching for your next great read to share with kids? Our Junior Book Club highlights 10 new titles each month that are perfect for classrooms, libraries and family reading time....

EWF 2025: ‘tending to and forging of community’

Thursday, 2 October 2025
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) had its ‘most successful’ festival since 2018, according to organisers. In 2025, the festival hosted 240 artists in 79 events over 8 days, almost doubling...

ASA announces 2025 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist

Thursday, 2 October 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2025 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist. Chosen from over 70 applicants, the shortlisted authors are: Lenny Bartulin for ‘A Calendar of Vandemonian...

Magabala Books acquires Cusack new adult debut

Thursday, 2 October 2025
Magabala Books has acquired world rights to The Dangers of Just One Person, a ‘funny, queer, regional’ novel by Skye Cusack. The novel ‘follows the intertwined stories of two young,...

Nottingham Women’s Library: ‘Staying true to community roots’

Thursday, 2 October 2025
With libraries, their work, and free access to information under increasing threat around the world, B+P and the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office reached out to libraries in other designated cities of...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards; Sovereign Texts journal; Magabala publisher Rachel Bin Salleh on Charmaine Papertalk Green

Wednesday, 1 October 2025
This week, Writing Australia announced the winners of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, which included Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text); Mean Streak (Rick Morton, Fourth Estate); Critical Care: Nurses...

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