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Blind Spot (Robyn Dennison, Text) 

Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Robyn Dennison’s debut novel Blind Spot is a sophisticated, challenging novel that explores themes of personal responsibility alongside a duty of care for others. Dale is a ‘nice’ guy who’s...

HarperCollins acquires Hayes memoir 

Tuesday, 23 May 2023
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to I’m Liz Hayes, the memoir of broadcast journalist Liz Hayes. Hayes has spent over 40 years as a reporter and presenter for Nine Entertainment,...

Davies awarded 2023 Janet Mackenzie Medal

Monday, 22 May 2023
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Kerry Davies as the winner of the 2023 Janet Mackenzie Medal for services to editing. Davies has worked in publishing and communications since...

UQP acquires Metcalfe debut memoir 

Monday, 22 May 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to the debut memoir Breath by Carly-Jay Metcalfe, via Jeanne Ryckmans of Cameron’s Management. Breath was the winner of the 2022...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 22 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.

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 winners announced

Thursday, 18 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The fiction prize went to Catherine Chidgey for The Axeman’s Carnival (Te Herenga Waka University Press), a...

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 longlist announced

Wednesday, 17 May 2023
The longlist for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 11 longlisted novels are: Hopeless Kingdom (Kgshak Akec, UWAP) Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cold Enough...

Echo acquires Thomas debut murder mystery

Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Paul Thomas’s debut murder mystery The Beacon, as part of a two-book deal, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. With a career as...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Slovenian translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Ucila International Zalozba and North American English rights to The Butterfly Collector (Tea Cooper, HQ...

Why We Are Here (Briohny Doyle, Vintage) 

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
In a life-altering turn of events, BB loses both her father and the love of her life during the global pandemic. When grief and strict lockdown orders push her to...

Lioness (Emily Perkins, Bloomsbury) 

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Thirty years ago, Therese married Trevor Thorne, a wealthy businessman twice her age. Now middle-aged, she continues to enjoy a life of privilege, running a successful luxury homewares business and...

Audition (Pip Adam, Giramondo) 

Audition Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Alba, Stanley and Drew are giants, sent out into space for reasons unknown to them, in a spaceship called Audition. As they travel through the universe their bodies continue to...

The Pole & Other Stories (J M Coetzee, Text)  

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Aficionados of South African-Australian Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will be delighted with his new short fiction collection, The Pole & Other Stories. It explores philosophy and...

WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: The Western Australian Writer's Fellowship ($60,000) Carolyn Wadley Dowley Madison...

ALS Gold Medal 2023 longlist announced

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
The longlist for the 2023 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The longlisted works are: Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo) Daisy...

Australian authors on Daggers shortlist

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the shortlists for its Dagger Awards. Authors from Australia are among those shortlisted for the annual crime writing awards. Hayley...

NewSouth acquires Kean science book 

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to science writer Zoe Kean’s popular science title Why are we like this? What can scuba diving at Shark Bay uncover about the evolution of...

Every Version of You optioned for film 

Monday, 15 May 2023
Cognito Entertainment, a new independent film and television production company launched last week in the United States, has optioned Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm) for adaptation into an international...

 

 

 

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