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S&S acquires MAFS star Robinson’s memoir 

Thursday, 7 July 2022
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to the memoir of lifestyle personality, businesswoman and podcaster Jules Robinson. Robinson rose to fame following her appearance on Married at...

Royal Societies of ANZ partner on $10,000 writing award

Wednesday, 6 July 2022
The Royal Societies of Australia and New Zealand Te Apārangi have announced a new partnership with the Creative Force Foundation, co-founded by author and environmentalist Bruce Piasecki. Under the partnership,...

Hachette acquires Dunn debut novel

Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to Dirt Poor Islanders, the debut novel by Winnie Dunn. Dirt Poor Islanders explores growing up in a blended Tongan family in Western Sydney...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to China Science and Technology Press Co. Children’s/YA Affirm Press has sold...

People Who Lunch (Sally Olds, Upswell) 

Wednesday, 6 July 2022
People Who Lunch is the much-anticipated first book by Melbourne-based writer Sally Olds. Known among a devoted coterie of fans for her long-form standalone essays, Olds’ first full collection focuses...

A Message for Nasty (Roderick Fry, Awa Press)

Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Roderick Fry’s debut novel is the harrowing wartime story of a family fighting to reunite amid the destruction of the Second World War. The plot follows a married couple, Marie...

Melanie La’Brooy on ‘The Wintrish Girl’

Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Melanie La'Brooy's The Wintrish Girl (UQP) is the first book in her 'Talismans of Fate' fantasy trilogy for middle-grade readers. Featuring magical creatures and new friendships, the book uses tropes...

The Wintrish Girl (Melanie La’Brooy, UQP) 

Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Melanie La’Brooy’s The Wintrish Girl is an exciting middle-grade fantasy debut. Penn is an outsider in the strict world of Aralyia, a slave to the princess Seraphine, who is orphaned...

The Tree at Number 43 (Jess McGeachin, Puffin) 

Tuesday, 5 July 2022
Jess McGeachin has fast established himself as an exciting and skilled creator of picture books, drawing on his work at Melbourne Museum to celebrate the beauty of the natural world...

Jackson’s ‘Human Looking’ wins ALS Gold Medal

Tuesday, 5 July 2022
The Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been awarded to Andy Jackson for his book of poetry Human Looking (Giramondo). The judges praised Human Looking, chosen from a shortlist of six, as...

Ned Kelly Awards 2022 shortlists announced

Monday, 4 July 2022
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best debut crime fiction Sweet Jimmy (Bryan...

Inaugural Deep Creek residency recipient announced

Monday, 4 July 2022
Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills, in partnership with Writers SA and Ultimo Press, has announced Corrie Hosking as the winner of the inaugural Deep Creek Residency Fellowship for a...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 4 July 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.

Vale Frank Moorhouse

Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Frank Moorhouse, the author of 18 books including the 'Edith Trilogy', has died aged 83. Penguin Random House Australia writes: Born in Nowra, Frank Moorhouse worked in newspapers and arts...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold Spanish translation rights to The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley to HarperCollins Iberica S A, and Turkish translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg...

Where You Left Us (Rhiannon Wilde, UQP) 

Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Rhiannon Wilde’s second YA novel, Where You Left Us, is as bewitching as her Glendower Award–winning debut Henry Hamlet’s Heart. It follows the two Prince sisters, Cinnamon and Scarlett, who...

Bon and Lesley (Shaun Prescott, Giramondo) 

Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Shaun Prescott continues his existential explorations of modern life in his second novel, which follows his 2017 debut The Town. In the opening pages of Bon and Lesley we meet...

 

 

 

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