Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Thai rights to The Shortest History of China (Linda Jaivin) to Paragraph Publishing House. Thames & Hudson has sold Chinese rights to The Age...
Vale Gabrielle Carey
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Gabrielle Carey, the author of multiple works of fiction and nonfiction, including Puberty Blues, co-written with Kathy Lette, and the Prime Minister's nonfiction award-winning Moving Among Strangers, has died, aged...
Fagan resigns, MUP to replace Hollier; Winton, Berryman inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Melbourne University Publishing CEO Nathan Hollier has left the publisher, and Allen & Unwin has announced publisher Kelly Fagan has resigned. Author Tim Winton and HarperCollins children's publisher Lisa Berryman...
Barren Grounds (B Michael Radburn, Pantera)
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Joseph ‘Joe’ Capello, the decorated detective at the centre of B Michael Radburn’s fifth novel, Barren Grounds, is haunted by The Cloakman and The Jeweller, two forces of evil who...
Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures (Jason Pamment, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Jason Pamment follows up his stellar debut graphic novel, Treasure in the Lake, with the stunningly unique Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures. Tiny Ember is the size of...
Australia: Country of Colour (Jess Racklyeft, Affirm)
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft celebrates Australian flora, fauna and landscapes through the lens of the colour wheel in Australia: Country of Colour. This beautifully illustrated nonfiction...
The Watchful Wife (Suzanne Leal, A&U)
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
The Watchful Wife is the latest novel by the author of The Deceptions and The Teacher’s Pet, Suzanne Leal. It follows the life of its narrator, Ellen Wells, the daughter...
Wifedom (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton)
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
When researching a new book on George Orwell, powerhouse writer Anna Funder noticed an interesting omission—Eileen Orwell, George’s first wife, was curiously absent. The basis of Wifedom is six newly...
The Gargoyle (Zana Fraillon, illus Ross Morgan, Lothian)
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
From critically acclaimed author Zana Fraillon and fine artist and illustrator Ross Morgan, The Gargoyle is a picture book that leaves a lasting impression of hope and kindness for our...
The Shot (Naima Brown, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Kristy Shaw wants to win back her first true love, Max. Desperately. She will go to any lengths, including unwittingly signing up to appear on the new reality TV show...
Winton, Berryman to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Author Tim Winton and HarperCollins children's publisher Lisa Berryman will be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Hall of Fame at the 2023 ABIA awards ceremony on 25...
Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
In the US, the winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was jointly awarded to Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver for Trust (Picador)...
Fogarty Literary Award shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts are: Katherine Allum for ‘The Skeleton House’ Prema Arasu for ‘The Anatomy of...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...
Dorothy Hewett 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well as manuscript development and a...
Mary Gilmore Award 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 May 2023
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the shortlist for the annual Mary Gilmore Award for the best first book of poetry. The shortlisted collections are:...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 8 May 2023
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Arnott, Mahood win Age Book of the Year awards
Friday, 5 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. Robbie Arnott won the fiction award for Limberlost (Text) and Kim Mahood won the nonfiction prize for...
New Draper YA to Pan Mac, HarperTeen
Friday, 5 May 2023
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new YA novel by Lauren Draper via literary agent Annabel Barker, with world English rights (ex ANZ) going to HarperTeen US,...
Vallance wins 2023 Rosie Award
Thursday, 4 May 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) senior editor Cathy Vallance has won the Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie, for her editorial work on Zana Fraillon’s middle-grade verse novel...
Stella, Calibre and Thomas Shapcott winners, Fagan files suit, Open Book recipients
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Sarah Holland-Batt has won the 2023 Stella Prize, worth $60,000, for The Jaguar (UQP), Tracy Ellis has won the 2023 Australian Book Review (ABR) Calibre Essay Prize for her essay...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Sales Nonfiction Blank Inc. has sold Swedish translation rights and Arabic rights to The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Sheila Fitzpatrick) to Lind & Co and Jarir Bookstore respectively....
Upswell acquires Boland essay collection
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Brooke Boland’s first collection of essays. Gulp, Swallow reflects on the uncertainty of identity in a young woman’s life, ‘when who we...
Vale John Tranter
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Poet, editor and critic John Tranter has died, aged 79. The Copyright Agency writes: 'We’re saddened to hear of the passing of John Tranter, renowned Australian poet, editor, critic, reviewer,...
Local authors on Daggers longlist
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
In the UK, the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) has announced the longlists for its Dagger Awards. Authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand are among those longlisted for the annual...
Vale Jock Zonfrillo
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Scottish-born chef and MasterChef host Jock Zonfrillo has died, aged 46. Simon & Schuster published Zonfrillo's autobiography Last Shot in 2021. S&S commercial nonfiction publisher Emma Nolan writers: 'Jock was...
Vale Barry Humphries
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Australian comedian, actor, and author Barry Humphries has died. He was the author of numerous books, including two autobiographies and two novels. Hachette Australia said staff are saddened to hear...
Mother Earth (Libby Hathorn, illus Christina Booth, Lothian)
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Libby Hathorn and Christina Booth are the respected creators of the timely and beautiful poetry anthology for children Mother Earth: Poems to celebrate the wonder of nature. This volume is...
The Drowning Girls (Veronica Lando, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
As the summer holidays draw to a close, disgraced teacher Nate Bass arrives in an impoverished northern Queensland fishing town, begrudgingly ready for a job teaching all of Port Flinders’...
New York City Glow (Rachel Coad, Upswell)
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
The first book by Margaret River-based artist and comic maker Rachel Coad, New York City Glow is an old-school action-packed romp through 1970s American counterculture. Mixing fact and fiction, the...
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