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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold Korean translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Munhakdongne Publishing Group, and Italian translation rights to The Butterfly Collector (Tea...

Return to Valetto (Dominic Smith, A&U) 

Tuesday, 24 January 2023
This is the sixth novel from Australian-American author Dominic Smith, perhaps best known locally for his 2017 ABIA-winning novel The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. The fictional Valetto, in...

Fed to Red Birds (Rijn Collins, S&S) 

Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Rijn Collins’s novel Fed to Red Birds is beguiling and moody. Our heroine, Elva, is an Australian–Icelandic woman in her mid-20s. She’s living in Reykjavik to learn Icelandic, connect with...

Nightbirds (Kate J Armstrong, A&U Children’s) 

Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Magic is illegal in Simta, punishable by death, but that does not mean it does not exist. Matilde, Æsa, and Sayer are nightbirds: privileged girls who have the ability to...

Online Storytime program ends; 12 most recorded books 

Tuesday, 24 January 2023
The Online Storytime program, which launched as a pilot program in 2020 and was extended a further 12 months to December 2022, has ended. The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA),...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 23 January 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.

Ultimo acquires Smith debut novel in two-book deal 

Friday, 20 January 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Twelve Steps to a Long and Fulfilling Death, a ‘whip-smart comedy’ debut by television drama writer Sarah Smith, in a two-book deal brokered...

Disney wins 2023 Porter Prize

Friday, 20 January 2023
Seoul-based Australian poet Dan Disney has won the Australian Book Review's (ABR) 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘periferal, fantasmal’. Judges Sarah Holland-Batt, Des Cowley and James Jiang described Disney's...

‘Abomination’ wins Jewish Book Award

Friday, 20 January 2023
In the US, Abomination by Melbourne-based author Ashley Goldberg (Vintage) has won the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. Published in May last year, Goldberg's debut novel follows...

ABIAs add new categories

Thursday, 19 January 2023
Three new categories have been added to the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), which will take place in Sydney on 25 May. In addition to the existing industry and...

Enache shortlisted for Novel Prize

Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced the shortlist for the Novel Prize, a biennial international award for a book-length work of literary fiction. The shortlisted writers, selected from...

Vale Jim Molan

Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Australian politician, major general in the Australian army and author Jim Molan has died, aged 72. HarperCollins Australia & New Zealand CEO Jim Demetriou writes: ‘We are deeply saddened to...

Indie Book Awards 2023 shortlist announced 

Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Leading Edge Books has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Indie Book Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette) Seeing...

Vale Shirley Shackleton

Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Shirley Shackleton, author of The Circle of Silence: A personal testimony before, during and after Balibo (Murdoch Books), has died aged 91. Shackleton spent many decades campaigning for justice for...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold large print rights for North America to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Thorndike Press. Jacinta di Mase Management, with Sujin Lena...

Children of Tomorrow (J R Burgmann, Upswell) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
J R Burgmann’s debut novel is an intergenerational story that foresees a century of environmental devastation. We begin in the present day, when one of our protagonists, Arne, bears witness...

The Wakes (Dianne Yarwood, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
When Clare’s husband tells her one night that he’s unhappy, she’s not sure what to do—but helping her new friend Louisa start a funeral catering business is the last thing...

One Illumined Thread (Sally Colin-James, Fourth Estate) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Fans of Sarah Winman and Pip Williams will love Sally Colin-James’s debut novel One Illumined Thread, an intriguing story of three women separated by centuries yet inextricably connected by their...

Judgement Day (Mali Waugh, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Mali Waugh’s debut novel opens with an omniscient narrator observing that there were no signs or omens that family court judge Kaye Bailey was to be murdered that day. Due...

Affirm Press Mentorship Award 2023 winners announced

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Affirm Press and Varuna, the National Writers’ House have announced the winners of the 2023 Affirm Press Mentorship Award. The winners are: Anne Andrew for ‘Blood Quilt’ Zoe Downing for...

 

 

 

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