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Indie Book Awards 2023 longlists announced

Thursday, 8 December 2022
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica...

Hay wins 2022 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 

Thursday, 8 December 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Ashley Hay as the winner of the $20,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship for her manuscript ‘The Running Dream’. Selected from a shortlist of...

New category added to WA Prem’s awards

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards has added a new category for the 2023 awards. The Premier's Prize for Book of the Year Award, worth $15,000, will be sponsored by...

Ultimo acquires Knight memoir

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Strange Little Girl by Melbourne-based writer, performer and zine maker Jess Knight. Described by the publisher as a ‘heart-warming, unapologetic and...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Sales  Children’s/YA Scholastic Australia has licensed Slovenian and Arabic rights to The Bad Guys Episode 1, Episode 2: Mission unpluckable and Episode 3: The furball strikes back (Aaron Blabey); and...

Vale Antigone Kefala 

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Sydney writer Antigone Kefala has died, aged 92. According to Neos Kosmos, Kefala was born in the Greek diaspora settlement Brăila, Romania in 1935, and moved to Greece and then...

Sea Glass (Rebecca Fraser, Wombat Books) 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Rebecca Fraser is a vibrant voice in Australian junior fiction. Her novel Sea Glass is the beautifully executed story of 11-year-old Cailin, a pre-teen who is stuck with her mother...

Shirley (Ronnie Scott, Hamish Hamilton) 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Ronnie Scott’s second novel marks the beginning of a great remembering—in which artists reflect on the summer of 2019-20, a summer that we previously thought was going to be marked...

The Hotel Witch (Jessica Miller, Text) 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
With a cast of larger-than-life characters that almost pop off the page, The Hotel Witch is the wonderfully imaginative new adventure from Jessica Miller, who previously brought us The Republic...

A Routine Infidelity (Elizabeth Coleman, Pantera)

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Small-time private investigator Edwina ‘Ted’ Bristol spends her days serving court documents and exposing cheating spouses, but she longs for the dangerous and exciting kind of high-profile crime case that...

Viking Women (Lisa Hannett, Thames & Hudson) 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Literature academic and speculative fiction author Lisa Hannett has written an evocative account of the varied lives of women during the Viking era. Hannett uses her vast knowledge of Vikings...

Resistance (Jacinta Halloran, Text) 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Resistance is the fourth novel by the award-winning author of Dissection and Pilgrimage, Jacinta Halloran. Narrated by family therapist Nina, it follows the Agostino family, mandated to see Nina after...

UWAP acquires Akhurst YA novel 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired ANZ rights to Graham Akhurst’s young adult novel Borderland, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Set in Brisbane and the fictional rural town of...

Ross wins first prize in 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards

Monday, 5 December 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. ‘Tuesday Jocks’ by Fin J Ross won first prize ($2000); last year’s winner Hayley Young won...

Text acquires new Lohrey novel 

Monday, 5 December 2022
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to Amanda Lohrey's new novel The Conversion, via Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management. The Conversion follows Zoe, who leaves Sydney for a small...

A&U acquires Bolton debut ‘Life Itself’ 

Monday, 5 December 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Trish Bolton’s debut novel Life Itself. Rights were acquired by A&U publisher Jane Palfreyman and executive editor Genevieve Buzo. Life Itself...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 5 December 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.

HarperCollins acquires Whitlam biography by Bramston 

Friday, 2 December 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired Troy Bramston’s biography of former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam. The currently untitled work will be a ‘thorough, highly readable’ biography drawing on newly discovered archival...

Pantera acquires James book on human sexuality 

Friday, 2 December 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Kinky History: The stories behind our intimate lives, past and present by Esmé Louise James. Drawing on James’s popular online lecture series Kinky...

NZ PM’s Awards for Literary Achievement winners announced

Friday, 2 December 2022
Creative New Zealand has announced the recipients of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$56,000) each. In recognition of their contribution to New Zealand literature, Stephanie...

Two Brabon novels to Ultimo 

Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ and UK rights to two new novels by Katherine Brabon, in a deal via Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. In Body Friend, the narrator leaves...

Vale Margaret Hamilton

Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Australian publisher and author Margaret Hamilton has died, aged 81. Brian Cook of The Authors’ Agent, Hamilton's friend and a former publisher, writes: 'It is with a huge amount of...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Sales Fiction Zeitgeist Agency has sold rights to The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding to five territories: France (Fayard), UK (Legend Press), Romania (Humanitas), Finland (Minerva) and Russia (MTS Library). ...

Higher Education (Kira McPherson, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Kira McPherson’s debut novel Higher Education portrays the turbulence of early adult life. Twenty-year-old student Sam is juggling a lacklustre university degree and family tensions. Troubled by her family’s alcohol-fuelled...

 

 

 

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