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Booker Prize 2022 longlist announced

Wednesday, 27 July 2022
The longlist for the 2022 Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$86,650) prize are: Glory (NoViolet Bulawayo, Viking) Trust (Hernan Diaz, Picador) The Trees...

Down wins Miles Franklin, Henderson joins Hachette, Kennedy wins 2022 Furphy Literary Award

Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Jennifer Down has won the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel Bodies of Light; Hachette Australia has appointed Scott Henderson as senior nonfiction publisher, starting 1 September;...

Kenwood’s ‘Unnecessary Drama’ sells to US

Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Text has sold North American rights to Nina Kenwood’s second YA novel Unnecessary Drama to Sarah Barley at Flatiron Books, in a deal brokered by David Forrer at Inkwell Management....

The Tower (Carol Lefevre, Spinifex Press)

Tuesday, 26 July 2022
The Tower follows Carol Lefevre’s well-received 2021 Christina Stead Prize–shortlisted novella Murmurations. Set in Australia and England, The Tower is exquisitely sophisticated in imagery and form. It is structured around...

Tulips for Breakfast (Catherine Bauer, Ford Street)

Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Tulips for Breakfast follows teenager Lena, who has settled into her new life in a Dutch town after she and her parents fled Germany as one of many Jewish families...

Davitt Awards 2022 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2022 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult crime novel...

UQP acquires inaugural Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award–winning novel

Tuesday, 26 July 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to the debut novel Roseghetto by Kirsty Jagger, inaugural recipient of the Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award for a writer from a background of social and...

Kennedy wins 2022 Furphy Literary Award

Monday, 25 July 2022
The winners of the 2022 Furphy Literary Award have been announced. Cate Kennedy won first place in the open category for her short story ‘Art and Life’, receiving $15,000 and...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 25 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.

Furphy Literary Award 2022 shortlist announced

Thursday, 21 July 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Furphy Literary Award has been announced. The winner of the short story competition receives $15,000, making the award one of the richest prizes for a...

Down wins 2022 Miles Franklin for ‘Bodies of Light’

Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Jennifer Down has won the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her second novel Bodies of Light (Text). At 31 years old, Down is one of the youngest authors...

A&U acquires Lim middle-grade novel

Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ, Oceania and non-exclusive Asia rights to a new middle-grade novel by Rebecca Lim, Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky, via the Annabel Barker...

Affirm acquires two Robinson novels

Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to two new novels by Alice Robinson. The first title, Blueshifts, is a literary/speculative fiction novel set both 100 years into the future and...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold Polish and Portuguese rights in Brazil to The Happiness Trap (2nd edition) (Russ Harris). Children’s/YA Allen & Unwin Children’s has sold North American rights...

Nash to step down from Booktopia executive role, National Biography Award shortlist, Sidnam wins 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize

Wednesday, 20 July 2022
The board of Booktopia Group has given founder and CEO Tony Nash notice to step away from executive management, appointing current CFO Geoff Stalley as interim CEO. The State Library...