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ASAL announces book awards finalists

Thursday, 26 May 2022
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the finalists for several literary awards that the organisation oversees. Magarey Medal ASAL and the Australian Historical Association have...

Vale Caroline Jones

Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Broadcaster, television journalist and writer Caroline Jones has died, aged 84. Jones, who presented the ABC radio program The Search for Meaning, authored several books based on the program, as...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has sold Spanish and Catalan rights to Naughty Dragons Fire Up! (Natalie Jane Prior, illus by Simon Howe), and Icelandic rights to The Baby Bird, The Best...

Lui acquires first three books for Joan imprint 

Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced the first three titles to be published under its new Nakkiah Lui-curated Joan imprint, acquiring ANZ rights to debuts by Brooke Boney, Sarah Firth...

Enclave (Claire G Coleman, Hachette)

Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Born of social media algorithms and convenience culture, with a biting critique of modern tribalism, Enclave, Claire G Coleman’s third novel, is Brave New World with every conceit flipped for...

Grounded (Alisa Bryce, Text) 

Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Considering that we are such very clever land-based mammals it’s puzzling how little most of us know about soil—upon which we live, from which we (probably) come, and unto which...

The Unbelieved (Vikki Petraitis, A&U) 

Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Having already collected Allen & Unwin's in-house crime fiction prize, The Unbelieved is set to launch with a splash as Vikki Petraitis gathers her considerable storytelling experience into an impressive...

Hydra (Adriane Howell, Transit Lounge) 

Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Adriane Howell’s debut novel Hydra is unsettling and dreamlike. In its folds, the strange and unflinching Anja becomes the reader’s friend—because we’re privy to her thoughts, because she tolerates our...

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 longlist announced

Tuesday, 24 May 2022
The longlist for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 12 longlisted novels are: The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) After Story...

A&U acquires Gray debut novel ‘Green Dot’ 

Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Green Dot by Madeleine Gray, in a pre-empt deal brokered by Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. UK rights...

ABIA 2022 shortlists announced

Monday, 23 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: General fiction book of the year When Things Are Alive...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 23 May 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 Press acquires Swindell fiction debut 

Friday, 20 May 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to comedian Carolyn Swindell's debut novel We Only Want What’s Best, via Sandy Wagner Creative Agents. Described by the publisher as 'a tense examination...

UQP acquires Saleh debut poetry collection

Wednesday, 18 May 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to the debut poetry collection The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazel el-Banat by Arab-Australian writer and activist Sara M Saleh. Described...

ABA 2022 Bookseller of the Year shortlists announced

Wednesday, 18 May 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlists for the 2022 ABA Bookseller of the Year awards. The awards recognise an individual bookseller for their outstanding achievement in the...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Sales Fiction Fremantle Press has sold Turkish language rights to The Last Bookshop (Emma Young) to Yeditepe Yayınları. Nonfiction Pantera Press has sold simplified Chinese rights to Killer Thinking (Tim Duggan) to Cheers,...

Willa and Woof (Jacqueline Harvey, Puffin)  

Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Jacqueline Harvey’s new series Willa and Woof follows a smart eight-year-old girl, Willa, and her ‘best four-legged friend’, Woof. In this first instalment, following in the tradition of other spirited...

Rita’s Revenge (Lian Tanner, A&U) 

Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Rita’s Revenge is the companion book to Lian Tanner’s debut crime book A Clue for Clara (2020), and is set in the same small town of Little Dismal. Rita the...

Women I Know (Katerina Gibson, Scribner) 

Tuesday, 17 May 2022
A solitary camper at a beach observes the families playing in the surf; a lonely woman laments her fractured relationship with her reclusive teenage son; a young marine biologist privately...

August & Jones (Pip Harry, Lothian) 

Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Meet Jones and August: Jones’s family have had to sell their farm and relocate to Sydney because of the drought, while August’s quirky personality means he feels isolated both at...

 

 

 

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