The Long Weekend (Fiona Palmer, Hachette)
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Four strangers meet for a weekend writing retreat in an idyllic location south of Perth. While this might sound like a familiar premise for a work of commercial fiction, the individuality of the characters, and the...
My First Book of Aussie Birds (Gordon Winch, illus by Stephen Pym, Catch a Star)
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Bright and colourful, lively and engaging, lift-the-flap board book My First Book of Aussie Birds contains a magical menagerie of unique native birds waiting to be discovered by little hands. Much-loved author Gordon Winch,...
PRH acquires new Toltz novel
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired Here Goes Nothing, the new novel by Steve Toltz. Publisher Nikki Christer acquired ANZ rights from Elizabeth Sheinkman at Peters, Fraser & Dunlop,...
Ultimo acquires Mikosza memoir
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Homesickness, a literary memoir by Janine Mikosza, in a deal brokered by Melanie Ostell at Melanie Ostell Literary. Homesickness investigates the author's own...
Bragg Prize for Science Writing shortlist announced
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: 'The COVID–climate collision’ by Jo Chandler (Griffith Review) ‘Everlasting free-fall’ by...
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Monday, 11 October 2021
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Transit Lounge acquires Meyer’s ‘Moon Sugar’
Monday, 11 October 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Moon Sugar by Melbourne author Angela Meyer, in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary. Moon Sugar is Meyer’s second novel...
Richell Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Friday, 8 October 2021
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the shortlist for the 2021 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers were judged on the first three chapters...
Gurnah awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature
Friday, 8 October 2021
Zanzibar-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, reports Publishers Weekly. Gurnah was named winner at a ceremony at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm...
Balint, Meany win 2021 Viva la Novella prize
Thursday, 7 October 2021
The 2021 Viva la Novella prize has been awarded to Christine Balint for Water Music and Helen Meany for Every Day is Gertie Day. Both novellas have been published by Seizure....
McDaid receives Todd New Writer’s Bursary for ‘dark, funny novel’
Thursday, 7 October 2021
In Aoteoroa New Zealand, Amy McDaid is the recipient of the Todd New Writer’s Bursary, this year worth NZ$23,870 (A$22,730). McDaid will use the bursary to complete a first draft...
Cold Coast (Robyn Mundy, Ultimo)
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
It's 1932. Ivanna ‘Wanny’ Woldstad longs to enter the male-dominated world of hunting and trapping. An independently minded woman, she runs her own taxi in Tromsø, in Northern Norway. A...
Canberra Writers Festival cancelled, Open Book internship pilot to run in 2022
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
After an initial postponement, the Canberra Writers Festival has announced the event will not go ahead in 2021, due to ongoing Covid outbreaks in the ACT. Open Book, a new...
The Freedom of Birds (Stephanie Parkyn, A&U)
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
For the charming, self-absorbed Rémi Victoire and his faithful companion, Pascal, the life of itinerant storytellers allows them to forget the staggering betrayal that first caused them to flee Paris....
The Last Woman in the World (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Inga Simpson’s fourth novel asks who we would choose to become in a catastrophic near-future Australia. Ray, short for Rachel, is a glass artist who sequesters herself deep in the...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Sales Children’s/YA Affirm Press has sold South Korean rights to The Grandest Bookshop in the World (Amelia Mellor) to Booknbean. Fremantle Press has sold Russian language rights to Brobot and...
Transit Lounge acquires Fyfe novel ‘T’
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to T, a novel by Perth-based author Alan Fyfe. T is about ‘people living on the economic margins and the epidemic of meth addiction’....
The Midnight Girls (Alicia Jasinska, Penguin)
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Alicia Jasinska’s The Midnight Girls will be eagerly devoured by fans of her dark fantasy YA debut The Dark Tide. In Lechija, a kingdom much like 18th-century Poland, three witches rely on their...
PRH acquires Dao debut novel ‘Anam’
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to André Dao's debut novel Anam, in a deal agented by Clare Forster at Curtis Brown Australia. UK rights have been...
Affirm acquires Saleh debut novel
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Sara Saleh’s debut novel Songs for the Dead and the Living through the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. Saleh, an Arab-Australian human...
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Tuesday, 5 October 2021
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Ventura acquires Jacoby memoir
Monday, 4 October 2021
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to a memoir by television producer Anita Jacoby, Secrets Beyond the Screen. Jacoby was the producer of television shows including 60 Minutes, The Gruen...
Hereaka awarded 2021 NZSA Beatson Fellowship
Monday, 4 October 2021
Wellington-based novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka has been awarded the 2021 New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship, worth NZ$10,000 (A$9549). Hereaka will use the fellowship...
Aotearoa Book Trade Industry Awards 2021 winners announced
Thursday, 30 September 2021
The winners of the postponed 2021 Aotearoa Book Trade Industry Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Book publisher of the year Mākaro Press Emerging publisher of...
Pantera acquires nonfiction by Pickering, Ramo
Thursday, 30 September 2021
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to The Mother of All Shocks by Karen Pickering, via Jacinta di Mase. The book was acquired by publisher Lex Hirst. The Mother of...
Wakefield acquires McAlister YA rom-com
Thursday, 30 September 2021
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to Jodi McAlister’s YA rom-com Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending, via Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Literary. Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending...
Bluey, Wolf Girl dominate Aus children’s bestsellers YTD
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
The Australian children’s year to date (YTD) charts continue to be dominated by Bluey, so much so that Nielsen Book Australia has provided the children’s data with Bluey titles removed....
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Sales Nonfiction Pantera Press has sold Czech rights to The Jungle Doctor (Chloe Buiting) to Argo, via Kristin Olson Literary Agency. Children’s/YA Hachette has sold US, Canada and Philippines English-language...
New Readings shop, McKay wins Arthur C Clarke Award
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Melbourne bookseller Readings will open a new shop—the chain’s eighth—in the Emporium shopping complex in the Melbourne CBD. In other retail news, performing arts specialist Book Nook has been saved...
HarperCollins acquires Molloy’s ‘You Made Me This Way’
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to You Made Me This Way by journalist Shannon Molloy, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson of Curtis Brown. Propelled by Molloy’s own...
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