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Monday, 26 June 2023
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PRH acquires Ardern memoir
Friday, 23 June 2023
Australian and New Zealand rights to an as-yet-untitled memoir by former New Zealand prime minster Jacinda Ardern have been acquired by Holly Toohey at Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia, and...
Speech Pathology awards 2023 shortlists announced
Thursday, 22 June 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Age Category: Birth to three Baby Lou...
Hardie Grant acquires Janke memoir
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Hardie Grant Explore has acquired world print, ebook and audio rights to a memoir by Wuthathi, Yadhaighana and Meriam woman Terri Janke, founder of the largest and longest running Indigenous-owned law...
Miles Franklin shortlist, Kellow steps down at Ultimo, BookPeople award winners
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced, Ultimo Press managing director James Kellow will step down from the position at the end of June, and...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Japanese rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams to Shogakukan Inc. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Portuguese translation rights to The Laughter Effect: How to...
Love, Dad: Confessions of an anxious father (Laurie Steed, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
In Love, Dad, Laurie Steed reflects on family, mental health, the arts, careers, relationships and, most of all, being a father. It’s an honest and engaging book about being a...
The Cop Who Fell to Earth (Craig Semple, Echo)
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
The title of Craig Semple’s memoir, The Cop Who Fell to Earth, suggests flight and ambition, but it could also be reframed as an earthbound slog through a dark maze...
Mole Creek (James Dunbar, Echo)
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Mole Creek is James Dunbar’s first foray into writing a serious crime and espionage novel. In it, he delivers intriguing dual storylines set 50 years apart. Pete McAuslan, a former...
Letters for Lunch! (Maree Coote, Melbournestyle)
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
File this one under ‘typography/lunchbox inspo/poetry/humour/veggies’—oh, sorry, you don’t have that section on your bookshelves? Well, make one, so you can put Maree Coote’s Letters for Lunch! there. This quirky,...
Last-Place Lin (Wai Chim, illus Freda Chiu, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Last-Place Lin is Wai Chim’s first picture book. Known for her young adult novels (The Surprising Power of a Good Dumping, Freedom Swimmer), Chim was inspired by her experience on...
The Fortune Maker (Catherine Norton, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Catherine Norton’s first book, Crossing, was awarded the 2015 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for children’s literature and was a CBCA Notable book in the same year. The Fortune Maker is...
Jawsome (R J Timmis, Albert St Books)
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
The best graphic novels need to be action-packed with an engaging interplay of text and illustrations. Ideally, they should also be funny. Rebecca Timmis’s Jawsome ticks all these boxes and...
God Forgets About the Poor (Peter Polites, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
God Forgets About the Poor is an endearing chronicle of a migrant mother’s life from 1945 to the present. Vivid descriptions bring the locations to life, from being born amid...
Pilson receives Steph Bowe mentorship
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Ella Pilson has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Steph Bowe Mentorship for Young Writers. Pilson, a recent graduate of RMIT's Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing,...
O’Keeffe wins 2023 UQP Quentin Bryce Award
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Angela O’Keeffe has been named the winner of the 2023 University of Queensland Press (UQP) Quentin Bryce Award for her novel The Sitter. In the novel, ‘two women stand staring...
PRH acquires Hayes memoir
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to the memoir of Darren Hayes, the former frontman of pop duo Savage Garden. Hayes, a singer, songwriter, music producer, composer...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The six longlisted novels, chosen from a longlist of 11 announced in May, are: Hopeless Kingdom (Kgshak...
Crozier wins 2023 Text Prize
Monday, 19 June 2023
Lauren Crozier has won the $10,000 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel The Best Witch in Paris. Text said the novel was 'a dazzling adventure loaded with larger-than-life characters,...
ACT Notable Book Awards 2023 shortlists
Monday, 19 June 2023
The shortlist for the ACT Notable Book Awards, which highlight and celebrate the excellence and talent of writers in and around the ACT region, have been announced. The shortlisted works...
BookPeople 2023 Book of the Year winners announced
Monday, 19 June 2023
BookPeople has announced the winners of the 2023 Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards, and the Bookseller of the Year awards. The winning titles and booksellers...
Iltners wins 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award
Monday, 19 June 2023
Kirsty Iltners has won the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her entry Depth of Field. Iltners, a writer and freelance photographer living in Brisbane, receives a...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 19 June 2023
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Menzies-Pike wins Pascall Prize, Hughes plagiarism coverage wins journalism award
Friday, 16 June 2023
Sydney Review of Books (SRB) outgoing editor Catriona Menzies-Pike has won the 2023 Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism for two SRB book reviews, 'Critic Swallows Book' on Trent Dalton's Boy...
‘Immaculate’ wins 2023 Vogel
Friday, 16 June 2023
Immaculate by Meanjin/Brisbane-based actor and writer Anna McGahan has won this year's $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Described by...
Penguin Literary Prize 2023 winner announced
Thursday, 15 June 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced Jade and Emerald by Michelle See-Tho as the winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. Jade and Emerald is the story of a...
King’s Birthday Honours; Vogel shortlist; Vivendi acquisition approved
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Booksellers and authors were among those recognised in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours; the shortlist for the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award 2023 has been announced; the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Sales Fiction Melanie Ostell has sold world English (ex ANZ) and French rights to Michelle Prak’s debut thriller The Rush (S&S) on behalf of the author. French rights were sold to HarperCollins...
The Caretaker (Gabriel Bergmoser, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Gabriel Bergmoser’s The Hunted and its series follow-up, The Inheritance, has earned the award-winning playwright and bestselling author a reputation for writing savage and compelling thrillers. His new stand-alone thriller...
But the Girl (Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, Vintage)
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Set in the ‘undecided and hazy spring’ when MAS370 disappeared, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel But the Girl transports us to London, where an Australian narrator of Chinese Malaysian...
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