Booktopia secures funding for CFC, VPLAs winners, Ockham NZ Book Awards longlists
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
In book retailing news, Booktopia has secured $12 million in funding for the development of its new customer fulfilment centre at South Strathfield which it says will be operational in...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold Czech and Slovakian rights to The Reality Slap: How to survive and thrive when life hits hard (2nd edition) (Russ Harris), and German rights to The...
Thirst for Salt (Madelaine Lucas, A&U)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Madelaine Lucas’s debut novel opens with the unnamed female narrator, now 37 years old, recalling a past lover. Twenty-four years old at the time and holidaying with her mother, the...
Philomella and the Impossible Forest (Doris Brett, HGCP)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Philomella is having a perfectly ordinary terrible day when she stumbles across a door that shouldn’t be there that leads to a library which is, frankly, impossible. Sick of being...
The Half Brother (Christine Keighery, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Psychological thriller The Half Brother is the first adult novel by Christine Keighery, a prolific author of children’s and young adult books. The novel opens with alternating chapters from the...
Doris Brett recommends
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
I have been re-reading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Penguin). I first read, and loved it, as a teenager. It is a sharply written, laugh-out-loud-on-the-tram novel, satirising the doom-and-gloom,...
Pasta! (Felice Arena, illus by Beatrice Cerrochi, Affirm)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Pasta! is a delightfully bright picture book celebrating the world’s favourite food: pasta. Inviting even from the title page, which features a tabby cat sitting in front of an open...
Doris Brett on ‘Philomella and the Impossible Forest’
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Philomella and the Impossible Forest is Doris Brett's first fiction book for children. A 'playful take on the classic quest story' the middle-grade novel follows Philomella who stumbles upon a forest...
Bowerbird Blues (Aura Parker, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Bowerbird Blues follows a feverishly determined bowerbird on a mission to collect not just all the fabulous blue items he can possibly find but also something else he can’t quite...
Country Tells Us When… (Tsheena Cooper, Mary Dann, Dalisa Pigram-Ross & Sheree Ford, ILF)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Country Tells Us When… follows the feelings, smells, sights, tastes and sounds of Yawuru Country changing with each season, written and illustrated by educators Tsheena Cooper, Mary Dann, Dalisa Pigram-Ross,...
The Anniversary (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
The Anniversary is a book that’s hard to describe: the writing is quiet, meandering, full of thoughts on art and the act of creative expression. And yet, it is also...
The Last Daughter (Brenda Matthews, Text)
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
The Last Daughter might be one of the most important books an Australian could read. In particular, it counteracts misconceptions and disinformation about the Stolen Generations. Brenda Matthews, proud Wiradjuri...
NewSouth acquires Tan debut essay collection
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to Cher Tan’s debut essay collection Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, which blends ‘cultural criticism, experimental writing, autotheory, (inter)net writing and literary memoir’, according to the...
Hardie Grant acquires Wong and Kong’s ‘Chopsticks or Fork?’
Monday, 6 February 2023
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print and ebook rights to Chopsticks or Fork? by Jennifer Wong and Lin Jie Kong in a deal negotiated by Benython Oldfield of the...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 6 February 2023
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Arnott longlisted for 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize
Friday, 3 February 2023
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has been longlisted for Swansea University's Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded for the best literary work published in English and written by an author aged 39 or...
ANZ authors among Dublin Literary Award longlistees
Friday, 3 February 2023
Several books by Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the €100,000 (A$155,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work...
Au wins 2023 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Jessica Au has won Australia’s single richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her novel Cold Enough for Snow (Giramondo), at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards...
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 longlists announced
Thursday, 2 February 2023
The longlists for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Better the Blood (Michael...
Echo acquires Murphy debut novel ‘That is All’
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to debut novel That is All by Liam Murphy via the NAC Literary Agency. The novel follows young Australian Mark Ward’s quest for redemption...
De Kretser shortlisted for 2023 Folio Prize
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Michelle de Kretser has been shortlisted for the UK’s Rathbones Folio Prize. De Kretser is shortlisted in the fiction category for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). The titles shortlisted for...
Democracy! (Philip Bunting, Little Hare)
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
In his latest release, prolific children’s author Philip Bunting continues to display his talent for creating engaging and brightly hued nonfiction. In Democracy!, it is firmly asserted that ‘people power’...
Trade welcomes Revive cultural policy; Daleng departs Booktopia; Aus Day honours
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
The federal government revealed its $286 million Revive national cultural policy this week, which includes the establishment of new literature funding body Writers Australia; new arts investment and advisory body...
Vale Edel Wignell
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Author, journalist and poet Edel Wignell has died aged 85. The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) writes: ‘The ASA was profoundly saddened to hear of the passing of acclaimed author,...
PRH acquires Rieden bio of Quentin Bryce
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to an authorised biography of Quentin Bryce by Juliet Rieden in a deal agented by Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown. The...
I Don’t Need Therapy (Toni Lodge, A&U)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Podcaster Toni Lodge has garnered a following for her candid, confessional and always comical videos in conversation with co-host Ryan Jon. Yet, in her memoir, I Don’t Need Therapy (and...
Love & Autism (Kay Kerr, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Apart from the obvious audience—fans of the award-winning TV series Love on the Spectrum—Love & Autism by CBCA nominee Kay Kerr will also appeal to readers who like to be...
A Joyful Life (Rosemary Kariuki with Summer Land, Hardie Grant Explore)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
During the summer break, I had the pleasure of reading A Joyful Life by Rosemary Kariuki in one day. As a woman of colour who has experienced trauma, I was...
Anchored (Debra Tidball, illus by Arielle Li, EK Books)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
A sensitive tale of connection near, far and across the waters, Anchored is a hopeful, heartwarming story demonstrating to young children that no matter the distance between them and a...
The Quiet and the Loud (Helena Fox, Pan)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Helena Fox, author of award-winning debut How It Feels to Float, returns with another powerful, heart-tugging YA novel. Nine years after her dad disappeared under the lake, 18-year-old George is...
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