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Dorrie (Tanya McCartney, HarperCollins) 

Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Award-winning Tanya McCartney’s Dorrie is a personable, narrative-style biography of author Dorothy Wall and how she came to write the Blinky Bill stories. It’s filled with young Dorrie’s irrepressible energy...

Grace Notes (Karen Comer, Lothian) 

Tuesday, 29 November 2022
A verse novel taking place as Coronavirus takes a grip on Melbourne, Karen Comer’s debut Grace Notes is a lyrical exploration of how two teenagers experience exceptional times. Crux, an...

The New Rulebook (Chris Cheers, Harper by Design) 

Tuesday, 29 November 2022
In an era when psychologists’ waiting lists are months long, navigating mental health can be overwhelming. The New Rulebook by psychologist Chris Cheers is a godsend for those of us...

Fegan wins 2022 Catalyse Nonfiction Prize

Monday, 28 November 2022
Express Media and Deakin University have announced Sar Fegan as the winner of the Catalyse Nonfiction Prize, formerly the Deakin University Nonfiction Prize. Fegan won for their piece 'A Fiery...

Piper wins 2022 SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition

Monday, 28 November 2022
Tessa Piper, a 37-year-old public servant from Melbourne, has won this year's SBS Emerging Writers' Competition, worth $5000. Piper's winning story 'The Usual' was selected by judges Alice Pung and...

Jackson wins 2022 SPN Book of the Year Award

Monday, 28 November 2022
Eleanor Jackson has won the 2022 Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year Award for her poetry collection Gravidity and Parity (Vagabond Press). The winner was chosen from a...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 28 November 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.

Affirm acquires Daley anthology about teachers 

Friday, 25 November 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a forthcoming anthology about teachers, to be edited by Megan Daley. The anthology will showcase educators who nurture, inspire, champion and create change, in...

Kefala wins 2022 Patrick White Award

Thursday, 24 November 2022
Sydney-based author Antigone Kefala is the winner of this year’s $15,000 Patrick White Literary Award. The award recognises Kefala’s achievements as a poet, and a writer of fiction and nonfiction....

Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2022 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 2022 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship shortlist. The shortlisted applicants, chosen by authors Shankari Chandran and Jennifer Mills, are: Ashley Hay for ‘The...

Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2022 winners

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
The winners of the 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Fiction ($2500) ‘The Golden Bracelet’ (Deniz Agraz, Meniscus Literary Journal) Nonfiction ($2500) ‘Not...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Sales  Fiction Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days (Alice Pung) to HarperVia, in a deal made by Black Inc. international director Sophy Williams...

Crows Nest (Nikki Mottram, UQP)

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Crows Nest is the absorbing debut crime thriller by Nikki Mottram. Following the breakdown of her marriage, social worker Dana Gibson takes a job interstate, fleeing north to Toowoomba. While...

A Man of Honour (Simon Smith, Echo) 

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
When debut novelist Simon Smith was a child he was told, ‘Someone in our family shot a prince.’ That man was Henry James O’Farrell, whose failed attempt in 1868 to...

The Good Death Through Time (Caitlin Mahar, MUP) 

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Historian Caitlin Mahar’s The Good Death Through Time joins previous works exploring euthanasia—see, for example, Assisted by Stefanie Green—but it is unique in its approach to the story. Mahar’s book is an account of...

Running with Ivan (Suzanne Leal, HarperCollins) 

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Having previously won the Nib People's Choice Prize for her historical adult novel The Deceptions, Suzanne Leal tackles a similar era in her first book for younger readers, a time...

Black Inc. sells ‘One Hundred Days’ to HarperVia 

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days by Alice Pung to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia. The deal was made by Black Inc. international director Sophy...

National Trust WA INSPIRE residency recipients announced

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
The successful applicants to the 2022 INSPIRE Writer in Residence initiative, offered by the National Trust of Western Australia in partnership with the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural...

QBD 2022 Books of the Year announced

Monday, 21 November 2022
QBD has announced the chain’s 2022 Books of the Year. The winning titles are: Fiction Lying Beside You (Michael Robotham, Hachette) Nonfiction My Dream Time: A memoir of tennis and...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 21 November 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.

 

 

 

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