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My Spare Heart (Jared Thomas, A&U) 

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
There’s a lot to unpack in this YA novel, which covers issues including alcoholism, climate change, divorce and racism. At the centre of it all is 17-year-old Phoebe. She is...

Forty Nights (Pirooz Jafari, Ultimo) 

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Forty Nights is the literary debut of photographer turned lawyer and writer Pirooz Jafari. The novel weaves together three separate timelines, moving between 1360s Sweden, 1980s Iran and present-day Australia—with...

Swimming Home (Judy Cotton, Black Inc.) 

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Judy Cotton is an internationally celebrated visual artist who has work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Australia. Her father, Sir Robert...

WAKE (Shelley Burr, Hachette) 

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
The question of what really happened to Evie McCreery has occupied amateur sleuths in online chat forums for years. But for Mina McCreery, ever since her twin sister was taken...

Molloy wins 2021 Anne Elder Award

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Australian Poetry has announced Audrey Molloy's The Important Things (Gallery Press) as the winner of the 2021 Anne Elder Award for a first book of poetry. According to the 2021 prize...

Local authors longlisted for CWA Daggers

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Several Australia-based authors have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers' Association's (CWA) 2022 Dagger Awards. Jacqueline Bublitz has been longlisted for the Gold Dagger for best novel for her...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Tuesday, 26 April 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.

Rights round-up 

Thursday, 21 April 2022
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian translation rights to The Last Man in Europe (Dennis Glover) and Rose’s Vintage (Kayte Nunn) to MTS Library. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...

UQP acquires van Neerven nonfiction book on sport 

Thursday, 21 April 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to Personal Score, the first work of nonfiction by writer and poet Ellen van Neerven. Described by the publisher as a ‘groundbreaking look at sport...

The Eulogy (Jackie Bailey, Hardie Grant)  

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey is at once sprawling and intimate: it’s a novel of race, disability, trauma, poverty, abuse and maternal rage that takes place over the course of...

Hip Hop & Hymns (Mawunyo Gbogbo, Penguin)  

Cover of Hip Hop and Hymns Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Hip Hop & Hymns is a beautiful and heart-wrenching memoir by Mawunyo Gbogbo, music and pop culture reporter for the ABC. Gbogbo begins her story in Ghana, where her parents...

What We All Saw (Mike Lucas, Puffin)  

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
In a small English country town in the 1970s, four friends make their way to the local quarry, a place where stories of witches and curses are born. Hag’s Drop,...

Lauren Draper on ‘The Museum of Broken Things’

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Lauren Draper's debut YA novel The Museum of Broken Things (Text, June) follows 18-year-old Reece, who finds herself living in a small beachside town. With multiple plotlines, and featuring a cast of...

Publishers Weekly’s 150th anniversary issue 

Wednesday, 20 April 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 150th anniversary issue...

‘Nevermoor’ to be adapted as musical film

Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Jessica Townsend's 2017 middle-grade novel Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) has been acquired by Paramount Pictures to be adapated as a film musical, reports Deadline. The musical adaptation...

ABDA Awards 2022 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 19 April 2022
The shortlists for the 70th Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. Shortlists include: Best designed commercial fiction cover Catch Us the...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Tuesday, 19 April 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.

FALS announces Writing at the Reef Residency recipients

Thursday, 14 April 2022
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS), based at James Cook University (JCU) in Townsville, has announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing at the Reef Residency, sponsored by the...

Walker aquires Foster, Gordon middle-grade novel 

Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to Small Acts, a middle-grade novel by neurodiverse authors Kate Foster and Kate Gordon. Described by the publisher as 'a gentle tale that...

Australian bookshop tour: The Mad Hatters Bookshop 

Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Established in 2015, Brisbane's The Mad Hatters Bookshop was opened with the goal of making 'a magical, family-friendly space for book lovers' and showcasing the talented book creators in its...

Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette)  

Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Four decades after covering horse racing as a cadet reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, award-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks has returned to the track. Her latest book is based on...

 

 

 

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