‘The Underdogs’ series sells to North America
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has sold North American rights to ‘The Underdogs’ series by Kate and Jol Temple (illus by Shiloh Gordon) to Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random...
Hammer, Jubelin joint 2021 Danger Prize winners
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Trust (Chris Hammer, A&U) and I Catch Killers (Gary Jubelin with Dan Box, HarperCollins) have jointly won the 2021 Danger Prize. Administered by the BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival, the...
Tik Merauke: An epidemic like no other (John Richens, MUP)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
In the early 1900s the sexually transmitted infection donovanosis ravaged the Marind of New Guinea. Through the lens of this disease, known as tik Merauke to the native people, doctor...
Only a Monster (Vanessa Len, A&U)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Joan is enjoying her summer in London with her eccentric family and dream job at the historic Holland House. After unexpectedly losing several hours out of her day after a...
A Great Hope (Jessica Stanley, Picador)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
When ACTU boss John Clare falls to his death from the roof of the family home, a note found on him makes it seem like suicide. But is that the...
The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Matt Ottley, Dirt Lane)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
An author, visual artist and composer, Matt Ottley has combined his talents in his latest work to create a multi-modal sensory feast that merges words, art and music. Bold and...
The Islands (Emily Brugman, A&U)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
It’s the 1950s and the Finnish migrants who have made their home on the ruthless terrain of Little Rat Island are accustomed to surviving harsh landscapes, both emotional and physical....
The Power of Podcasting: Telling stories through sound (Siobhán McHugh, UNSW Press)
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
It’s strange to think that ‘less than a decade ago, most people had never heard of podcasting’, as Siobhán McHugh points out in The Power of Podcasting. In this part...
Ultimo acquires new Henry-Jones novel
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Eliza Henry-Jones’s latest novel Salt and Skin, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson of Curtis Brown. Salt and Skin follows a troubled...
Young wins first prize in Scarlet Stiletto Awards 2021
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2021 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. Canberra-based, first-time crime writer Hayley Young won first prize and receives $1500 for her outback police...
Angry Robot acquires Gold Coast BookTokker debut
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
UK publisher Angry Robot has acquired world, translation and audio rights to Ledge, the adult fantasy debut by Australian BookTokker Stacey McEwan, via Amy Collins of Talcott Notch Literary Agency....
SPN Book of the Year 2021 winners announced
Monday, 29 November 2021
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the joint winners of the 2021 SPN Network Book of the Year Award (BOTY). The winning books, both essay collections, are: Echoes (Shu-Ling...
‘Still Life’ named Dymocks 2021 Book of the Year
Monday, 29 November 2021
UK author Sarah Winman’s novel Still Life (Fourth Estate) has been named Dymocks Book of the Year for 2021. In 1944, over one night in a ruined wine cellar of...
S&S acquires Wright biography
Monday, 29 November 2021
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired world rights to the biography of Australian surfer Owen Wright. In 2015 Wright was on the brink of a world title only to have...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 29 November 2021
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Walkley Book Award 2021 longlist announced
Friday, 26 November 2021
The Walkley Book Award longlist for 2021 has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Toxic: The rotting underbelly of the Tasmanian salmon industry (Richard Flanagan, Penguin) Red Zone: China’s challenge...
Aus picture books chosen for IFLA catalogue
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Ten Australian picture books have been selected for the third edition of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Picture Books exhibit, which will be launched at...
‘Amnesia Road’ wins 2021 Nib Literary Award
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Luke Stegemann's book Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory (NewSouth) has won Waverley Council’s $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. Amnesia Road is a literary examination of historic violence...
NZ book sales up, National Book Award winners
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Since Auckland and Waikato emerged from lockdown, New Zealand print book sales are up 4% on value on the same time in 2020, while year-to-date sales are up 17%. The...
Hardie Grant acquires Age Against the Machine book
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print, ebook and audio rights to journalists Melissa Doyle and Naima Brown’s book How to Age Against the Machine, in a deal negotiated by...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Portuguese translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Univers Dos Livros. Nonfiction HarperCollins has sold Thai translation rights to Complete Self-Help...
Vale Brian Wilder
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Leading Australian publisher Brian Wilder has died in Sydney, aged 82. Wilder's career in the Australian publishing industry spanned almost 40 years. He was the former managing director of Harper...
Vale Wendy Giese
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Former Hardie Grant sales rep Wendy Giese has died. The team at Hardie Grant write: 'At Hardie Grant we had the pleasure of knowing and working with Wendy Giese for...
Vale Stuart Macintyre
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Australian historian Stuart Macintyre has died, aged 74. Macintyre edited Cambridge University Press's The Cambridge History of Australia and was the author of books including Cambridge's A Concise History of...
Big World, Tiny World: Forest (Jess Racklyeft, Affirm)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Jess Racklyeft will already be a familiar name to readers of picture books, and Big World, Tiny World: Forest is just as lovely as her earlier works. The book begins with a...
The Grass Hotel (Craig Sherborne, Text)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
A woman suffering from dementia speaks to her son in her own idiosyncratic, damaged voice—her ‘wiring’ is gone. The mother-narrator's son is introverted and perhaps on the autism spectrum: he...
The Furies (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
A woman in a small Australian town is haunted. Death is all around her: she is still grieving her murdered sister, Mallory, while the spectre of her mother’s arrest and...
South Flows the Pearl (Mavis Gock Yen, ed by Siaoman Yen & Richard Horsburgh, SUP)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Over the 80s and 90s, Mavis Gock Yen (1916–2008) collected the stories of her contemporaries—Australian Chinese people whose memories and experiences spanned the late 1800s through to almost the end...
The Cane (Maryrose Cuskelly, A&U)
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Award-winning nonfiction writer Maryrose Cuskelly’s first leap into fiction is set in a small Australian town where an unsolved crime turns the community upside down. It’s the 1970s and it...
Ober wins 2021 French HiP prize
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Jules Ober has won the 2021 Histoires Photographiques (HiP) prize for best photography book in the youth category with the French version of Jacqueline: A soldier’s daughter (Le Seuil Jeunesse)....
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