Pantera acquires nonfiction by Pickering, Ramo
Thursday, 30 September 2021
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to The Mother of All Shocks by Karen Pickering, via Jacinta di Mase. The book was acquired by publisher Lex Hirst. The Mother of...
Wakefield acquires McAlister YA rom-com
Thursday, 30 September 2021
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to Jodi McAlister’s YA rom-com Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending, via Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Literary. Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending...
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...
HarperCollins acquires Molloy’s ‘You Made Me This Way’
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to You Made Me This Way by journalist Shannon Molloy, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson of Curtis Brown. Propelled by Molloy’s own...
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...
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...
Scribner acquires Pearson’s ‘Chasing Wrongs and Rights’
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Scribner Australia has acquired world rights to Chasing Wrongs and Rights, a work of nonfiction by Elaine Pearson, the Australia director at global organisation Human Rights Watch. The book was...
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...
Shah Idil awarded $10k Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship
Monday, 27 September 2021
Aisyah Shah Idil is the inaugural winner of the Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship for Writers. Awarded by Perth’s Centre for Stories, the fellowship is for mid-career writers ‘in recognition of their...
Books in the media this weekend
Friday, 24 September 2021
In a new weekly feature for booksellers, Books+Publishing rounds up the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Believe in Me (Lucy Neave,...
Readings to open new Melbourne CBD shop
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Melbourne independent bookselling chain Readings has announced it will open a new, ‘light-filled’ shop in the Emporium shopping complex in Melbourne’s CBD. ‘It has been a tumultuous 18 months for...
No Daily tomorrow
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Due to the public holiday in Victoria, there will be no Daily newsletter tomorrow, Friday, 24 September. Books+Publishing's weekly round-up of books mentioned in forthcoming media will be available via...
Stivens wins 2022 Ray Koppe Fellowship
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Sarah Stivens has won the Australian Society of Authors' (ASA) 2022 Ray Koppe Young Writers Fellowship for her poetry manuscript ‘Therapeutic Discomfort’. ‘Therapeutic Discomfort’ is a work of 10 poems...
‘Gustavo the Shy Ghost’ wins 2021 Klaus Flugge Prize
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Flavia Z Drago has won the £5000 (A$9400) Klaus Flugge Prize for most promising newcomer to children’s picture book illustration for Gustavo the Shy Ghost (Walker Books). The book is...
APA Indies Roadshow adds children’s/YA presentation
Thursday, 23 September 2021
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) will run its Indies Roadshow online again this year, on Wednesday, 29 September at 4.30pm AEST, following the inaugural virtual event held in response to...
$100k Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The novels shortlisted in the adult category are: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, River of Dreams (Anita Heiss,...
PRH acquires Weldon debut novel ‘Sixty-Seven Days’
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to Sixty-Seven Days by Yvonne Weldon, in a deal brokered by Selwa Anthony of Selwa Anthony Author Management Agency. According to...
Dohle assures agents of competitive bidding between PRH, S&S
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) CEO Markus Dohle has told literary agents in a Zoom chat that, following the acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S), editors at PRH and S&S will...
HGCP acquires ‘UnMonumental’ picture book
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired world rights to UnMonumental, a hardback picture book by artists James Tylor and Matt Chun based on their Instagram project of the same...
Willson appointed Murdoch Books publisher
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Murdoch Books has announced the appointment of Jane Willson as publisher. Willson, who will be based in Melbourne, joins Murdoch from Hardie Grant, where she was publishing director for six...
Freya Blackwood on ‘The Boy and the Elephant’
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Freya Blackwood is a Greenaway Medallist and seven-time CBCA winner whose picture books are beloved for her warm and perceptive drawings. Her latest book, The Boy and the Elephant (HarperCollins, November) is a tender, wordless picture book...
Bowen appointed ILF CEO
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
The board of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced the appointment of Ben Bowen as the organisation's new chief executive officer. ‘Ben is a proud Aboriginal man, a descendent...
Hardie Grant acquires debut novel ‘The Eulogy’
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights (ex US) to The Eulogy, the debut novel by Jackie Bailey. Drawing on Bailey’s family’s stories of intergenerational trauma, the autofictional novel follows...
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