News sections | Books+Publishing

Jhalak Prize 2023 shortlists announced

Thursday, 20 April 2023
The shortlists for the UK’s Jhalak Prize and the Jhalak Children’s and Young Adult Prize for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers have been announced. The titles shortlisted for...

ABIA 2023 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 19 April 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category, including the new category of social impact book of the year,...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Sales Fiction Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia and Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown Books UK have sold US/UK rights to Eliza Henry-Jones's 2022 novel Salt and Skin (Ultimo) to...

International Booker 2023 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 19 April 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90,950), has been announced. The shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist announced in March, are: Still Born (Guadalupe Nettel, trans by...

Walker Books announces manuscript prize, Age Book of the Year shortlists revealed

Wednesday, 19 April 2023
This week, children's publisher Walker Books announced the establishment of a new biennial manuscript prize to coincide with the company's 30th anniversary in Australia, while the 12 books shortlisted for...

Monsties #1: The Lost Bunny (Zanni Louise & Kyla May, HGCP)

Tuesday, 18 April 2023
The first in a new series, Monsties: The Lost Bunny will no doubt be literary candy for its target readership of 5–8-year-olds. The story is a frothy concoction of zany,...

We Need to Talk About Ageing (Melissa Levi, Hachette)

Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Melissa Levi is a clinical psychologist who intended to specialise in paediatric medicine. It’s a happy accident that she ended up helping the ageing instead. With We Need to Talk...

Vale Harry Hart

Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Dymocks Bendigo franchise holder Harry Hart has died. Dymocks writes: 'It is with great sadness that we share the news of Harry Hart’s passing, after a battle with oesophageal cancer....

Holland-Batt poetry collections sell to Bloodaxe UK

Tuesday, 18 April 2023
UQP has sold UK rights to Sarah Holland-Batt’s three poetry collections to UK poetry publishing house Bloodaxe, in a deal brokered by Rights Manager Hayley Tomlinson. Bloodaxe acquired rights to...

Christmas Press acquires Carrington’s ‘Leaf Letters’

Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Christmas Press has acquired world rights to Leaf Letters, a junior fiction title by author-illustrator Lorena Carrington. The interactive short novel for young readers is about nine-year-old Hazel Bird, who...

Age Book of the Year 2023 shortlists announced

Monday, 17 April 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Every Version of You...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 17 April 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.

Papertalk Green wins 2023 Red Room Poetry Fellowship

Friday, 14 April 2023
Charmaine Papertalk Green has won the Red Room Poetry Fellowship for her project Jugarnu Wangga Migamanmanha (Older woman making talk). Chosen from 50 applications and a shortlist of 10 poets,...

Echo acquires Kell historical novel

Thursday, 13 April 2023
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Katrina Kell’s first novel for adults, via Fiona Smith at Beyond Words Literary Agency. The book is inspired by the French nude portrait...

De Kretser longlisted for Ondaatje Prize

Thursday, 13 April 2023
In the UK, Michelle de Kretser has been longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's (RSL) Ondaatje Prize, for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). Scary Monsters is one of nine books longlisted...

Johnson joins Ultimo, new Master of Publishing scholarship for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, LBF rescheduled

Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Ultimo Press has appointed Andrea Johnson as marketing and community manager, and the University of Sydney is offering a new scholarship in the Master of Publishing postgraduate degree for Aboriginal...