Aotearoa New Zealand authors recognised in New Year’s Honours List
Thursday, 16 January 2025
New Zealand Aotearoa authors are among those recognised in the 2025 New Year’s Honours List. Fiction writer and poet Lee Murray has been appointed an Officer of the New Zealand...
Local authors on Dublin Literary Award 2025 longlist
Thursday, 16 January 2025
Several works by authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have been longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$165,236). The Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand longlisted titles...
Singleton on 2024 Novel Prize shortlist
Thursday, 16 January 2025
Publishers Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced the 2024 shortlist for the Novel Prize. Local author Hollen Singleton is among those shortlisted for the prize, for their novel...
Green wins 2025 Margaret Mahy Medal
Thursday, 16 January 2025
The Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki has announced poet Paula Green as the 2025 recipient of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal. Said Publishers Association of New...
UQP acquires first work of adult fiction by Abdel-Fattah
Thursday, 16 January 2025
UQP has acquired world rights to a first work of adult fiction by writer and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah. The Occupation is set during Israel’s May 2021 bombing of Gaza, and...
UK 2024 book sales down as indie bookstore numbers decline
Thursday, 16 January 2025
In the UK, there was a ‘small decline’ in the number of independent bookstores in 2024, from 1063 to 1052, reports the Bookseller. The decline continues the previous year’s downward...
Indie Book Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Indie Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Cherrywood (Jock Serong, Fourth Estate) The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm)...
Lucy Sussex recommends
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville, which captures the female Australian voice and experience so well – just like Mary Fortune.
Megan Brown recommends
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Natasha Lester’s The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard. I really enjoyed it because it weaves fact and fiction together, but not in a forced way or in a way that tries...
NLA announces 2025 Fellows
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced its 2025 Fellows, awarded to local and international scholars. The recipients and their research projects are: NLA Fellowships Alexis Bergantz, ‘Whose Pacific?...
New independent publisher Spoor Books launches
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Erena and Balamohan Shingade have launched Spoor Books. Spoor Books is ‘an independent publisher, a community-oriented platform, and a bookshop featuring radical publishers from India and...
Gizzi wins 2024 TS Eliot Prize
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
In the UK, Peter Gizzi has won the 2024 TS Eliot Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,319), for Fierce Elegy (Penguin), reports Book Brunch. Fierce Elegy was chosen from a shortlist of...
Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex on ‘Outrageous Fortunes’
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex bring Mary Fortune, one of Australia’s most prolific yet overlooked woman crime writers, and her criminal son, George, to light in their book Outrageous Fortunes...
Pearce wins PF Rowland Manuscript Development Grant
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
James Cook University's Foundation for Australian Literary Studies has announced Lilian Pearce as the recipient of the second $5000 PF Rowland Manuscript Development Grant. The grant is offered in partnership...
S&S launches audio-first imprint
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
In the US, Simon & Schuster has launched Simon Maverick, an audio-first imprint, under the guidance of Jason Pinter, the imprint’s vice-president and editorial director. Publishers Weekly (PW) reported that...
Aotearoa New Zealand market down 6.6% in value
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the book market in 2024 was down by 6.6% in value and 3.2% in volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookScan NZ. Nielsen’s 2024 snapshot for...
HarperVia acquires two Tsao novels
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Alexa Frank at HarperVia has acquired world English rights to two novels by 2023 PEN Translation Prize winner Tiffany Tsao, in a pre-empt deal from Daniel Lazar at Writers House...
How were your Christmas sales? Let us know in our annual survey
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. We are accepting submissions until Wednesday 22 January. Booksellers...
Text Prize discontinued
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Text Publishing has announced that the Text Prize has been discontinued. In a statement, the publisher said it had ‘made the reluctant decision’ that Caroline Stills’ A Gift from the...
Inaugural Varuna Trans and Gender Diverse Fellowship announced
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced a new fellowship program – the Varuna Trans and Gender Diverse Fellowship. Varuna described the fellowship as being open to ‘trans and gender...
Authors allege Meta knowingly used pirated books
Monday, 13 January 2025
In the US, a group of authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman is suing Meta for copyright infringement, alleging CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of pirated books to...
Peter Porter Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Monday, 13 January 2025
The shortlist for the 2025 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. Shortlisted poems include: ‘The Orphan’ by Sarah Day ‘Hook, Grandmother, Line, Marlin’ by Jennifer Harrison...
Australian market down 3% in value
Friday, 10 January 2025
The book market in Australia in 2024 was down by 3% in value and 1.2% in volume, according to figures from Nielsen BookData’s BookScan service. Nielsen’s 2024 snapshot, covering 31...
Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025 longlists announced
Friday, 10 January 2025
The longlists for the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards have been announced. Longlisted titles have been announced in four award categories, worth $25,000 each. The books longlisted in each of these...
Creative Australia announces New York Publishers Program 2025 delegates
Friday, 10 January 2025
Creative Australia has announced the delegates for the 2025 New York Publishers Program. The delegates, who will visit New York from 3 to 7 March 2025, are: Sandra Buol, A&U...
Riveted Press acquires middle-grade fantasy trilogy
Friday, 10 January 2025
Riveted Press has acquired worldwide rights to the middle-grade fantasy series Farwood by Jayne McIntyre, in a three-book deal via Debbie Golvan at Golvan Arts Management. The first book in...
Berberovic wins inaugural WestWords Prize
Friday, 10 January 2025
Vahida Berberovic has won the inaugural WestWords Prize for her novel Piggy Tales. Berberovic receives a publication deal with WestWords Books, the adult trade imprint of WestWords. Piggy Tales was chosen...
‘In Too Deep’ is Aotearoa New Zealand’s number-one Christmas bestseller
Monday, 6 January 2025
In Too Deep (Lee Child & Andrew Child, Bantam) is the top Christmas bestseller for Aotearoa New Zealand, selling just under 2500 copies in the week ending 14 December, according...
‘RecipeTin Eats: Tonight’ is Australia’s number-one Christmas bestseller
Monday, 6 January 2025
Nagi Maehashi’s RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Macmillan) has topped the 2024 Australian Christmas bestsellers list, having sold 27,916 copies in Australia in the week ending 14 December, according to data from...
Best of the best books of 2024
Friday, 13 December 2024
Across five major ‘best books of 2024’ articles published this December, we counted the most-mentioned Australian books. From end-of-year lists published by the Age/Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Book Review, Guardian...
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