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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...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to the forthcoming novel Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, April) and Wright's Miles Franklin winning novel Carpentaria to New York-based independent press New Directions, and...

Vale Ross Gibson

Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Filmmaker and author Ross Gibson has died. Gibson was the author of several books including The Summer Exercises (2009), 26 Views of the Starburst World (2012), Changescapes (2015) and Memoryscopes (2015), all...

The Albatross (Nina Wan, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
It’s widely known that an albatross is a very rare bird. In golf, it’s a move that’s even rarer—one that’s considered lucky, executed with the utmost finesse. And golf is...

Echo Lake (Joan Sauers, A&U) 

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Set in the brooding wilderness of the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Echo Lake is the compelling debut thriller by author and screenwriter Joan Sauers. Sitting on the cosier...

Eta Draconis (Brendan Ritchie, UWAP) 

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Eta Draconis is Brendan Ritchie’s impressive third novel and the winner of the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award. This road trip story centres around two sisters, Elora and Vivienne, who are...

Jess Racklyeft on Bologna 

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft was the winner of one of two Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarships to attend this year’s Bologna Book Fair....

‘Runt’ wins 2023 Indie Book of the Year

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Runt by Craig Silvey (Allen & Unwin) has been named Book of the Year at the 2023 Indie Book Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Horse (Geraldine...

Pantera sells ‘The Deadly Daylight’ to Holiday House 

Monday, 20 March 2023
Pantera Press has sold World English rights (excluding ANZ) to Ash Harrier’s The Deadly Daylight to New York-based independent publisher Holiday House. The first Alice England Mysteries book, The Deadly...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 20 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.

Holland-Batt longlisted for 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize

Thursday, 16 March 2023
Sarah Holland-Batt’s poetry collection The Jaguar (UQP) has been longlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize, worth C$130,000 (A$142,700). The Griffin Poetry Prize is awarded annually for the best collection of poetry...

Giramondo sells US, UK rights to Wright titles 

Thursday, 16 March 2023
Giramondo has sold international rights to several Alexis Wright books. In North America, New York-based independent press New Directions will publish Alexis Wright's forthcoming novel Praiseworthy (April) and her novel...

 

 

 

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