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BookPeople 2023 Book of the Year longlists announced

Book people logo Wednesday, 5 April 2023
BookPeople has announced the longlists for the 2023 Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Adult fiction book of the...

McFarlane shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize

Wednesday, 5 April 2023
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane (A&U) has been shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, worth £25,000 (A$46,000) and open to novels published in the...

Search History (Amy Taylor, A&U) 

Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Most of us have left some kind of regrettable imprint on the internet. It’s with this discarded online ephemera that anxiety swells about what people may make of it all—including...

Monster Island (George Ivanoff, Puffin) 

Tuesday, 4 April 2023
When Bernie’s mother gets a top-secret new job, it seems too good to be true. So instead of staying behind with his aunt, Bernie decides instead to sneak along—and it’s...

Where I Slept (Libby Angel, Text) 

Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Where I Slept, by award-winning poet and author Libby Angel, is a sharp and sobering piece of autofiction that follows a struggling, unnamed poet/artist living on the margins in 1990s...

Media Monsters (Sally Young, NewSouth) 

Tuesday, 4 April 2023
After breaking through to the mainstream with her 2019 Stella Prize-longlisted book Paper Emperors, academic Sally Young continues to expose the dark interplay between Australian media and politics with Media...

Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton) 

Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Winner of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Anam is a remarkable debut novel exploring memory, family, colonialism and displacement. The narrator, a young Vietnamese-Australian man...

Nib Literary Award prize money doubled  

Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Waverley Council has announced that the prize money for the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award will be doubled from $20,000 to $40,000. Sydney philanthropists Mark and Evette Moran,...

‘The Great Greenwashing’ sells to US 

Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Douglas Richmond at House of Anansi Press has acquired North American rights to The Great Greenwashing by John Pabon. The deal was made with Sophy Williams at Black Inc. on behalf of...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 3 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.

Stella Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Thursday, 30 March 2023
The shortlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The shortlisted books are: We Come With This Place (Debra Dank, Echo) big beautiful female...

Bolinda titles shortlisted in British Book Awards

Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Two titles by Bolinda have been shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year: Fiction at the 2023 British Book Awards. The Seven Moons of Almeida (Shehan Karunatilaka, narrated by Shivantha Wijesinha)...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Danish rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams) to Lindhardt & Ringhof, and Hungarian rights to The Bookseller’s Apprentice (Amelia Mellor) to Lira. Nonfiction...

Desert Jungle (Jeannie Baker, Walker) 

Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Nearly seven years since her last picture storybook, Jeannie Baker returns in top form with Desert Jungle, a breath of fresh air in children’s books, offering a humble and vital...

Reckless (Marele Day, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Accomplished crime writer Marele Day’s memoir Reckless opens in coastal NSW, where the author learns of the death of her French friend Jean. Day had met the charismatic Jean in...

CBCA Awards 2023 shortlists announced

CBCA shortlist Tuesday, 28 March 2023
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Older readers Ask No Questions (Eva Collins,...

Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced

Tuesday, 28 March 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000 (A$162,360), has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr, Scribner) Em (Kim Thuy, trans by Sheila...

De Kretser wins 2023 Folio Prize

Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Australian author Michelle de Kretser has won in the fiction category of the Rathbones Folio Prize, for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). In the award's first year under a new prize...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 27 March 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.

Arnott shortlisted for Dylan Thomas Prize

Cover of Limberlost Friday, 24 March 2023
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has been shortlisted for Swansea University's Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded for the best literary work published in English and written by an author aged 39 or...

ASAL announces pilot fellowship program recipients

Thursday, 23 March 2023
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the recipients of a pilot program of Copyright Agency-funded writers’ fellowships. Luisa Mitchell and Fiona Murphy are the winners...

 

 

 

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