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She and Her Pretty Friend (Danielle Scrimshaw, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Danielle Scrimshaw’s debut, She and Her Pretty Friend, is a history of queer Australian women. In a light and intriguing tone, Scrimshaw pieces together what little evidence there is—letters, diary entries,...

The Fall Between (Darcy Tindale, Bantam) 

Tuesday, 14 March 2023
The first body is waiting for Detective Rebecca Giles on a property in Muswellbrook, floating in a water trough. Giles is fresh out of a missing-persons case wrapped up in...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Tuesday, 14 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.

Australian Book Design Awards 2023 longlists announced

Friday, 10 March 2023
The longlists for the 2023 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The longlisted titles in the first three categories are: Best...

Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners shortlist announced

Friday, 10 March 2023
In the UK, the shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award—being held to celebrate the prize’s 25th anniversary—has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The annual award, originally known...

Aurealis Awards shortlists announced

Friday, 10 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2022 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the shortlists are: Best Fantasy Novel The Not So...

Penguin Literary Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Thursday, 9 March 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted titles are: 'The Elementals' by Liz Allan, the story of The Bastards, a...

Bell wins Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2023

Thursday, 9 March 2023
Writer and anthropologist Diane Bell has been awarded Writers Victoria’s $20,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of the relationship between Ngarrindjeri woman Louisa Karpany, née Kontinyeri (c1840–1921)...

HarperCollins acquires Taffe novel 

Wednesday, 8 March 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Freida by Marion Taffe, in a deal via Jacinta di Mase of Jacinta di Mase Management Literary Agency. Freida is set...

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards logo Wednesday, 8 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlists titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Better the Blood (Michael...

Norcliffe announced as 2023 Margaret Mahy Medal winner

Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Children's book author and poet James Norcliffe has won the 2023 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, presented annually for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to New Zealand children’s literature. Norcliffe is...

Women’s Prize 2023 longlist announced

Wednesday, 8 March 2023
The longlist for the 2023 International Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced. The 16 titles longlisted for the award are: Black Butterflies (Priscilla Morris, Duckworth Books) Children of Paradise...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Hungarian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Alexandra Kiadócsoport, and German rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams) to...

Royals (Tegan Bennett Daylight, S&S) 

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
This compelling, character-driven novel is Tegan Bennett Daylight’s first foray writing for teens. Through 16-year-old Shannon’s perspective, we follow the day-to-day minutiae of six teens (and one baby) who have...

After the Rain (Aisling Smith, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Aisling Smith’s debut novel, After the Rain, is the melancholic and moving winner of the 2020 Richell Prize. The story begins with Malti, a woman who moved from Fiji to...

Obsession (Nicole Madigan, Pantera) 

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
When journalist Nicole Madigan starts dating single dad Adam, it seems like the beginning of an exciting new chapter for her and her children. But as the relationship progresses, something...

The Rush (Michelle Prak, S&S) 

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
The Rush by Michelle Prak gives new meaning to the words gripping and horrifying. Take Jane Harper’s The Lost Man, add some sinister Wolf Creek, and you’re on the right...

Tsao wins US PEN Translation Prize

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Sydney-based writer and translator Tiffany Tsao won the US$3000 (A$4450) PEN Translation Prize for her translation of People from Bloomington (Budi Darma, Penguin Classics). The translation prize was one of...

S&S acquires Reid debut novel 

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired world rights to a debut novel by Teela Reid, a Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman and co-founder of Instagram account @Blackfulla_Bookclub, via Jane Novak. Legally...

Echo to publish new Morris novel in two-book deal 

a portrait of Heather Morris Monday, 6 March 2023
Echo Publishing’s parent company has acquired world all-language rights to Heather Morris’s forthcoming novel Sisters under the Rising Sun. Margaret Stead, publisher at Zaffre and Manilla Press at Bonnier UK,...

 

 

 

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