Family Tree (Josh Pyke, illus by Ronojoy Ghosh, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Family Tree shares the beauty of life through the growth of a tree, one that unites families and communities around the world, spreading joy, love and spirit—and it all starts...
Writers Vic announces 2021 Writeability fellows
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Writers Victoria has announced the 2021 Writeability fellows. The following five writers with disability were awarded Writeability fellowships: Beau Windon for 'A Proud Failure', a hybrid memoir exploring neurodiversity through...
SPN Book of the Year Award shortlist announced
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
The shortlist for the Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year Award has been announced. Formerly the Most Underrated Book Award, the prize was first presented under its new...
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Tuesday, 26 October 2021
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Australians nominated for 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Monday, 25 October 2021
Six Australian authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. The Australian candidates are: Jeannie...
‘Henry Hamlet’s Heart’ sells to US, UQP acquires second Wilde YA novel
Monday, 25 October 2021
UQP has sold North American rights for Rhiannon Wilde's YA debut Henry Hamlet’s Heart to Charlesbridge, and has acquired world rights to Wilde's second novel Where You Left Us. Released...
Serong, Nannestad win $100k Historical Novel Prize
Monday, 25 October 2021
Victorian writer Jock Serong has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize in the adult category for The Burning Island (Text), while Katrina Nannestad has won the $30,000 children and...
S&S signs Spicer book on AI bias
Monday, 25 October 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired a new book by journalist Tracey Spicer on ‘the ways that sexist and racist stereotypes are being embedded into emerging technologies, thus perpetuating...
MUP acquires Quilty’s ‘Fall of Kabul’
Thursday, 21 October 2021
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has acquired world rights to Fall of Kabul: America’s last days in Afghanistan by award-winning photo-journalist Andrew Quilty. MUP acquired rights directly from the author. Quilty...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold UK English-language rights to You Be Mother (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Orion Publishing Group Ltd. Nonfiction HarperCollins has renewed German translation rights to...
Laguna wins Colin Roderick Literary Award, new paid internship recipients
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Sofie Laguna has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award and the H T Priestley Medal for her novel Infinite Splendours (A&U), while the Australia Council released the long-awaited results of...
Scribe acquires Marson nonfiction book
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Scribe has acquired a nonfiction book about sexual violence by ACT-based prosecutor Katrina Marson. World rights (ex North America) were acquired from Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. The as...
Kill Your Brother (Jack Heath, A&U)
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath is a taut thriller brimming with suspense and secrets. In regional NSW, a sister’s desperate search for her missing brother becomes a devious game of...
I Really Dig Pizza! (Candy James, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Australian husband-and-wife team Candy and James are a creative powerhouse whose designs have been stocked at institutions including MoMA. Writing under the pseudonym Candy James, they have now turned their...
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens immerses the reader in the microcosm of the Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home. Against the backdrop of the heartbreaking trauma of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the...
Between the Last Oasis and the Next Mirage: Writing on Australia (Guy Rundle, MUP)
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Guy Rundle lives off his wits. Correspondent-at-large for Crikey, a founding editor of the left-wing journal Arena, former sketch comedy show producer and famed writer of lives, Rundle produces writing...
Arts NT Varuna Fellowships announced
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
The recipients of the 2021 Arts NT Varuna Residency Fellowships have been announced. Presented in partnership with the Northern Territory government, the fellowship gives six writers from the Top End...
Aus international rights sales up by volume and value: new report
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
The Australia Council has released the results of its research into Australian international book rights sales. The original research for the report was based at Macquarie University and supported by...
Pan Mac acquires crime debut in ‘vigorously contested’ auction
Monday, 18 October 2021
Pan Macmillan has acquired ANZ rights to Judgement Day, the debut crime novel by Melbourne author Mali Cornish. The rights were acquired via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary in a...
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Monday, 18 October 2021
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Laguna wins 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award
Friday, 15 October 2021
Sofie Laguna has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award and the H T Priestley Medal for her novel Infinite Splendours (A&U). Laguna’s coming-of-age story of a boy living in...
S&S acquires Weir novel
Friday, 15 October 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a novel set in contemporary Byron Bay, by journalist James Weir. Rights to The Hemsworth Effect—a title referencing the influence...
Hardie Grant acquires ‘Max Gawn Captain’s Diary’
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Max Gawn Captain’s Diary by Melbourne Football Club captain Max Gawn, in a deal negotiated by Anthony McConville at Mac’s Sports Promotions. Gawn’s book...
Vale Eddie Jaku
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Eddie Jaku, Holocaust survivor and author of the bestselling memoir The Happiest Man on Earth (Macmillan), has died in Sydney, aged 101. Born Abraham Jakubowicz in Germany in 1920, Jaku...
Agius to head Welbeck ANZ, NSW bookstores reopen
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Bernadette Agius has been named as the inaugural managing director of Welbeck ANZ, while Juliet Rogers has been appointed managing director of Echo Publishing. After a long lockdown, retail in...
Vale Fergus McCulla
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Peribo account manager Fergus McCulla has died, aged 31. McCulla was diagnosed with a rare and ultimately incurable form of rhabdomyosarcoma in October 2018. He passed away peacefully on 20...
Scribble’s ‘I am the Subway’ wins World Illustration Award
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
I am the Subway by Kim Hyo-eun, translated by Deborah Smith and published in English by Scribble, has won the professional children’s publishing category in the 2021 World Illustration Awards....
Hachette acquires Collier debut memoir
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Hachette has acquired world rights to Inconceivable, a memoir by Alexandra Collier, in a deal brokered by Sharne McGee at Liberty Artist Management. Inconceivable chronicles Collier’s decision to join ‘the...
Buying and Selling the Poor: Inside Australia’s privatised welfare-to-work market (Siobhan O’Sullivan, Michael McGann & Mark Considine, SUP)
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
When Paul Keating put elements of Australia’s ‘welfare to work’ system out to tender in the mid-1990s, he could scarcely have imagined the system we have in place today: one...
Canticle Creek (Adrian Hyland, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
When Daisy Baker’s body is discovered on her outback property the case appears to be straightforward. Daisy’s boyfriend Adam Lawson, new to the Victorian town of Canticle Creek from the...
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