AWW 2022 program, new SA fellowship, WAYRBA, NBCC shortlists
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
In this week’s news, Adelaide Writers’ Week has announced the full program for this year’s festival, with Bruce Pascoe, Grace Tame, Liane Moriarty and Richard Flanagan among the 165 guests...
Affirm acquires new Rogers, Badger junior fiction series
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Itty Bitty Kitty, a four-book junior fiction series by Hilary Rogers and Meredith Badger writing under the pen name of Maddy Mara and...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold North American, French Canadian and Spanish rights to School of Monsters Learn and Play (Sally Rippin, illus by Chris Kennett); North American...
Auē (Becky Manawatu, Scribe)
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Auē is a heartbreaking yet gripping drama about a family living amid intergenerational domestic violence and gang warfare on New Zealand’s South Island. At its heart, the book is the...
Stardiving (Andrew Plant, Ford St)
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Stardiving is the tale of a young sperm whale challenged to open his eyes on an exciting deep-diving adventure. This heartfelt picture book by the author–illustrator of titles including The...
Assisted: A doctor’s story of assisting death and embracing life (Stefanie Green, A&U)
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
There’s something special about reading the story of a person who has found their true vocation—their passion jumps through the page and grabs you. Dr Stefanie Green is a doctor...
Prometheus High: How to make a monster (Stuart Wilson, Puffin)
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Stuart Wilson’s debut middle-grade novel, the first in a series, will appeal to 8–12-year-olds looking for an adventure tale with a macabre edge. Athena Strange, an intelligent yet unruly young...
Dinner with the Schnabels (Toni Jordan, Hachette)
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
In this timely new novel, Toni Jordan lends her signature wit to the story of a dysfunctional yet loving family group. Simon Larsen has lost his business and his home...
WAYRBA 2022 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category, including middle-grade, which is a new category being trialled...
Stevenson’s ‘Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone’ optioned by HBO
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Benjamin Stevenson’s third novel Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a ‘stylish and edgy new murder mystery’ to be published locally by Penguin Random House Australia and New Zealand...
Hachette acquires historical crime novel ‘The Only Child’
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ, UK and Commonwealth rights to The Only Child by Kayte Nunn, in a joint deal between Jill Marsal at Marsal Lyon, Hachette head of fiction...
Matilda Bookshop announces new residency for SA writers
Monday, 31 January 2022
Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills, in partnership with Writers SA and Ultimo Press, has announced a new annual residency fellowship for a South Australian writer, the Deep Creek Residency...
Affirm acquires psychological hospital drama ‘Cut’
Monday, 31 January 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Cut, the first novel for adult readers by Sue White. Set against the backdrop of a major Melbourne hospital in the lead up...
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Monday, 31 January 2022
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HarperCollins acquires Johnston’s ‘Tiny Uncertain Miracles’
Friday, 28 January 2022
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired world rights to the novel Tiny Uncertain Miracles and a second nonfiction book by Michelle Johnston. The two-book deal was brokered by Martin Shaw of...
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 longlists announced
Thursday, 27 January 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction A Good Winter (Gigi Fenster,...
Uncanny Angles (Sean Williams, Wakefield)
Thursday, 27 January 2022
Since the late 90s Sean Williams has been a prolific contributor to Australian speculative fiction; he’s written award-winning science fiction, post-collapse and young adult books. Part retrospective, part confession, Uncanny...
BRTD enterprise agreement, ABA ICYMI campaign, Newbery, Caldecott winners
Thursday, 27 January 2022
In news this week, following industrial action in November last year, workers and management at Sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead have signed an enterprise agreement, which has been submitted...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 27 January 2022
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold Portuguese translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, 4th Estate) to HarperCollins Iberica S A, and Greek translation rights to Tuscan Rose (Belinda...
HGCP acquires ‘Little J & Big Cuz’ title ‘The Big Race’
Thursday, 27 January 2022
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired Little J & Big Cuz: The Big Race, the first book in the publishing program based on the award-winning ABC series Little J...
Unlimited Futures (ed by Rafeif Ismail & Ellen van Neerven, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Unlimited Futures is a YA anthology of sci-fi and speculative fiction edited by Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven. What makes it so different from other collections like it is...
Orphan Rock (Dominique Wilson, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Five-year-old Bessie is removed from an extended stay at the Protestant Orphan School and returned home to her unstable mother: a woman she doesn’t remember and who is anything but...
Australiana (Yumna Kassab, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
The heart of Australiana is an examination of settler Australia, disrupting the conception of town and rural settings so common in the nation's literary imagination. First Nations writers have significantly...
Ultimo acquires standalone Gentill novel
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to a new contemporary crime novel by Sulari Gentill, The Woman in the Library, in a deal brokered by Anna Carmichael of Abner Stein....
Booktopia announces FAB shortlist, two new awards
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Booktopia has announced the 10 titles shortlisted in its Favourite Australian Book (FAB) Award, which according to the online retailer has already attracted more than 100,000 votes. Established in 2019,...
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Monday, 24 January 2022
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The Imagineer (Christopher Cheng, illus by Lucia Masciullo, NLA Publishing)
Saturday, 22 January 2022
In the vein of Andrea Beaty’s delightful Rosie Revere and friends, Christopher Cheng and Lucia Masciullo’s The Imagineer introduces us to a resourceful, inquisitive and (obviously) imaginative child who is...
Lawrence wins 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Friday, 21 January 2022
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Anthony Lawrence as the winner of the 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘In the Shadows of Our Heads'. Lawrence receives...
New appointments at HarperCollins and Bloomsbury, Hazel Rowley shortlist
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Michelle Weisz as publishing director of HarperCollins Australia’s children’s books division. Weisz replaces Cristina Cappelluto, who has joined Bloomsbury Australia as managing director. The...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Sales Fiction Brandl & Schlesinger has sold North American rights to Mother Tongue (Joyce Kornblatt, September) to Publerati, and Polish rights to The Baker’s Alchemy (John Stephenson) to Dressler Publisher...
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