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Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 5 June 2023
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

MidnightSun acquires Brewin YA 

Friday, 2 June 2023
MidnightSun Publishing has acquired world rights to a new YA novel by Melbourne author Emily Brewin. The Two Sides of Grace tells the story of 16-year-old Grace who’s living alone...

UQP sells US rights to two picture books by Soweol Han 

Friday, 2 June 2023
UQP has sold North American rights to debut picture book Tiny Wonders forthcoming follow-up Nightsong (Sally Soweol Han) to Bloomsbury US. Sally Soweol Han is a Korean-Australia author-illustrator, currently shortlisted...

Scribe acquires Darling novella 

Thursday, 1 June 2023
Scribe has acquired ANZ and UK rights to Thunderhead by Miranda Darling. ANZ rights were acquired at auction from Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary, and UK rights were acquired from John Ash,...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold Dutch rights to The Swan Book (Alexis Wright) to Uitgeverij Orlando and Norwegian rights to Barley Patch (Gerald Murnane) to Samlaget, to be translated by International Booker Prize finalist Jon Fosse....

Shortlists announced for James Tait Black prizes

Wednesday, 31 May 2023
In the UK, the shortlists for the James Tait Black prizes have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Bitter Orange Tree (Jokha Alharthi, trans by Marilyn...

Timefire (Nean McKenzie, MidnightSun) 

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Nean McKenzie is the author of two previous middle-grade novels. Her latest, Timefire, interweaves a story about bushfires in Australia with supernatural and time-travel elements. Gilbert Black is drawn to...

Mistakes and Other Lovers (Amy Lovat, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
In Amy Lovat’s Mistakes and Other Lovers, El O’Reilly finds herself involved in a circle of Christian friends and their complex, tense social dynamics as she navigates the aftermath of...

One Song (A J Betts, Pan Australia) 

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
A J Betts’s latest book One Song is a delightful and emotionally intelligent YA novel. Our protagonist Eva is in Year Twelve and is desperate to win Triple J Unearthed...

Canelo acquires McKenzie crime series 

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
British publisher Canelo has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to a three-book crime series by Dinuka McKenzie, reports BookBrunch. Rights were acquired via Bill Goodall Literary Agency on...

ALS Gold Medal 2023 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted works are: We Come With This Place (Debra Dank, Echo) Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Iris (Fiona...

black&write! fellowships 2023 recipients announced

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
The 2023 black&write! fellowships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been awarded to Dakota Feirer and Jacob K Gallagher. Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes editorial development...

Transit Lounge acquires Cranston debut novel 

Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Belinda Cranston’s debut novel Not Like Mr Benn. The author ‘beautifully captures the pluck and longing as well as the sadness and bewilderment of...

ABDA announces 2023 award winners, new paid internship

Monday, 29 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. ABDA has also announced the establishment of the 'Baseline' Book...

Ismail, Stewart awarded $50k Marten Bequest scholarship

Monday, 29 May 2023
Rafeif Ismail and Emily Stewart are among the seven recipients of the 2023 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000. Ismail, who received the prose scholarship, is an emerging award-winning...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 29 May 2023
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

Vale Mark Raphael Baker

Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Writer Mark Raphael Baker died on 4 May. He was the author of The Fiftieth Gate: A journey through memory, about his parents’ experience during the Holocaust, and the memoir Thirty...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Sales Children’s/YA Exisle has sold English rights to the smart pen edition of Where The Heart Is (Irma Gold & Susannah Crispe) to China; English rights to the smart pen edition...

Lowbridge (Lucy Campbell, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 23 May 2023
In Lowbridge, Lucy Campbell’s debut crime thriller, the people in the sleepy small town of Lowbridge seem to have moved on with their lives after the tragic events of the...

 

 

 

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