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Vale Howard Pedersen

Black and white portrait of Howard Pedersen. Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Author Howard Pedersen has died. Stephen Kinnane and Edie Wright from Magabala Books write:  Magabala Books, along with hundreds of friends and community members across the Kimberley are deeply saddened...

No newsletter on Friday

Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Due to the Anzac Day public holiday, the Books+Publishing newsletter will not be published on Friday, 25 April.

National Family Reading Month

Wednesday, 23 April 2025
NATIONAL FAMILY READING MONTH is an initiative that represents the heart of our business – literacy is the key to learning and achievement. We believe that all children, with the...

Reach Sydney locals with Neighbourhood Media

Neighbourhood Media Logo Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Connect with your community and boost your local profile by featuring your bookshop in Neighbourhood Media’s suburb-specific magazines. Stocked in local hotspots, Neighbourhood Media’s magazines help you engage readers right...

A&U acquires The Australian Wars

Henry Reynolds, Mina Murray, Rachel Perkins and Stephen Gapps portraits. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Australian Wars, edited by Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds. The book will be drawn from Blackfella...

Bacon wins Nebula 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award

a portrait of Eugen Bacon Thursday, 17 April 2025
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced Eugen Bacon as winner of the 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. Created in 2008, the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award is...

Echo Publishing announces new Heather Morris novel

a portrait of Heather Morris Thursday, 17 April 2025
Echo Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to The Wish, a contemporary novel by Heather Morris. The Wish is Morris's first contemporary novel, and introduces Jesse, a young teenager who, despite...

B+P Easter publishing schedule

Thursday, 17 April 2025
Due to the Easter long weekend, the Books+Publishing newsletter will not be published tomorrow, Friday, 18 April or Monday, 21 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements in the next...

Hardie Grant acquires Wankernomics

a portrait of Charles Firth and James Schloefel Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Wankernomics by comedians James Schloeffel and Charles Firth. Wankernomics is ‘the hilarious must-have handbook for anyone who has ever had to endure the buzzwords,...

Fast Fish

Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Fast Fish is the third book in the popular ‘Scales and Tails’ children’s series and is based on a traditional story about the creation of the Murray Cod fish, Yellow...

Publicist, Sydney

Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Echo Publishing Echo Publishing, the Australian arm of the family-owned Bonnier group, is looking for a Publicity Maternity Cover for 9 Months (with opportunity to extend). We publish a focused...

Senior editor, New South Wales

Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Hachette Australia Hachette Australia has an exciting opportunity to join our high-performing and collaborative Editorial team in our Australian Publishing Division as an experienced Senior Editor. This is a permanent...

Reach Sydney locals with Neighbourhood Media

Neighbourhood Media Logo Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Connect with your community and boost your local profile by featuring your bookshop in Neighbourhood Media’s suburb-specific magazines. Stocked in local hotspots, Neighbourhood Media’s magazines help you engage readers right...

Unlock Books+Publishing

Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Unlock Books+Publishing, Australia’s number-one source of news about the book industry, keeping subscribers up to date with the latest book industry news, events, features, interviews, opinion, personnel changes, job advertisements...

PRH acquires Carter middle-grade series

Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights for Reece Carter's new middle-grade series The Nightmare League, in a six-publisher auction brokered by Gemma Cooper from Gemma Cooper Literary....

Atria Books acquires debut Peppernell novel

Image of Courtney Peppernell leaning againt wall. Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Atria Books Australia has acquired world rights (ex North America) to poet Courtney Peppernell's debut novel, The Last Poem.  'Bestselling author and poet Wren Paisley is a mess after the...