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SPN Book of the Year shortlist announced

Thursday, 6 October 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year (BOTY) Award has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Friends and Dark Shapes (Kavita Bedford, Text) No...

Forthcoming debut ‘The Wakes’ to be adapted for TV 

Wednesday, 5 October 2022
Television rights to forthcoming debut novel The Wakes by Sydney author Dianne Yarwood (Hachette, March) have been acquired by production company Made Up Stories and film and television studio Fifth...

Text acquires Neill memoir 

Wednesday, 5 October 2022
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to the memoir Did I Ever Tell You This? by actor Sam Neill. Born in Northern Ireland in 1947, Neill emigrated to New Zealand...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 5 October 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Ukrainian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to The Old Lion Publishing House.  Giramondo Publishing has sold North American rights to...

Sydney: A biography (Louis Nowra, NewSouth) 

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
Melbourne-born Louis Nowra moved to Sydney as an adult and has never lost his passion for his adopted home. Whether he’s describing the city’s mercurial weather, its elegant convict-designed colonial...

An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb (Louise Wolhuter, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
‘Twisty mystery’ is the delightfully accurate descriptor on the AI sheet for this character-based drama. Yet before its mysterious elements begin unspooling, the characters and setting are firmly established, endearing...

Ampersand Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Ampersand Prize for unpublished young adult and middle-grade manuscripts. The winner receives an advance and publishing contract from...

Aus Political Book of the Year 2022 longlist announced

Monday, 3 October 2022
The longlist for the inaugural Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced. The longlisted titles, selected from over 35 nominations by judging panel Laurie Oakes, Laura Tingle,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 3 October 2022
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.

Lim wins 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award

Friday, 30 September 2022
S L Lim has won the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award for Revenge: Murder in three parts (Transit Lounge). The $50,000 award, which is administered by the Australian Society of Authors,...

Jaireth wins ACT Book of the Year

Friday, 30 September 2022
Canberra writer Subhash Jaireth has won the 2021 ACT Book of the Year for his essay collection Spinoza’s Overcoat: Travels with writers and poets (Transit Lounge). Chosen from a shortlist of...

Historical Novel Prize 2022 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 28 September 2022
Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize, worth a total of $100,000. The titles shortlisted in the adult category are: Horse...

Nib Literary Award 2022 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 28 September 2022
The shortlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium (Tim Bonyhady, Text) Signs and...

Vale Hilary Mantel

Wednesday, 28 September 2022
British writer Hilary Mantel died last week, aged 70. Best known for her 'Wolf Hall' historical fiction trilogy, Mantel won the Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall and its sequel...

The Teal Revolution (Margot Saville, Hardie Grant) 

Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Australia's 2022 federal election brought a major upset: six independent female candidates—colloquially known as ‘the teals’ for the signature colour they adopted (a blend of green and Liberal blue)—catapulted into...

Vizard wins Banjo Prize for ‘The Love Contract’

Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Steph Vizard has won HarperCollins's Banjo Prize, for her unpublished manuscript ‘The Love Contract’. Chosen from a shortlist of five, Vizard’s novel is described by the publisher as ‘an enemies-to-lovers...

Parker-Chan wins two British Fantasy Awards

Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Australian writer Shelley Parker-Chan has won two categories at the 2022 British Fantasy Awards. Parker-Chan took out both best fantasy novel and best newcomer for She Who Became the Sun...

UQP acquires Plozza middle-grade novel

Tuesday, 27 September 2022
UQP has acquired ANZ rights to Meet Me at the Moon Tree, a new middle-grade novel by Shivaun Plozza. Meet Me at the Moon Tree follows 10-year-old Carina grieving the...

PANZ Book Design Awards 2022 winners announced

Monday, 26 September 2022
The winners of the 2022 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Gerard Reid Award for Best Book Conversātiō...

PRH acquires Kirsten Holocaust memoir 

Monday, 26 September 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to US-based Australian author Karen Kirsten’s Holocaust memoir Irena’s Gift, via Chris Bucci and Vanessa Kerr at Aevitas. Irena’s Gift tells the story of...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 26 September 2022
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.

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Sales Fiction Sally Bird at Calidris Literacy Agency has sold world rights to Without Question (Evelyn Cronk, 2023) to US publisher Level Best Books (see news). Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...

Vale Hilary Linstead

Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Agent Hilary Linstead, who represented writers for stage, screen and publication, died on 6 August 2022 at the age of 83. Author Louis Nowra writes: 'Hilary Linstead was a force...

 

 

 

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