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The Ghost Squad (Sophie Masson, MidnightSun) 

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
This young adult thriller starts as a post-collapse story and then takes a supernatural turn. It begins with ‘the pulse’, a solar flare that shuts down all electronics, pitching the...

Indie Book Awards 2021 longlists announced

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2021 Indie Book Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Tolstoy Estate (Steven Conte, Fourth Estate) All Our...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 7 December 2020
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.

Song wins inaugural Spark Prize

Friday, 4 December 2020
Youjia Song has won the inaugural Spark Prize for her book proposal, ‘The Pursuit of Impossible Dreams’. Song’s proposal was chosen from over 200 entries for the biennial developmental prize...

Mukherjee wins Deborah Cass Prize 2020

Friday, 4 December 2020
Anith Mukherjee has won Writers Victoria's 2020 Deborah Cass prize for his story 'I Am Full of Love'. Chosen from a shortlist of nine, Mukherjee's story was described by the...

UQP acquires new Neave novel 

Thursday, 3 December 2020
UQP has acquired ANZ rights to a ‘stunning’ second novel from Lucy Neave, via Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary. Set between the US and Australia, Believe In Me focuses...

The Speechwriter (Martin McKenzie-Murray, Scribe) 

Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Martin McKenzie-Murray’s fiction debut is a fun but sometimes frustrating book that nevertheless delivers plenty of laughs along the way. The story is told by Toby—an aspiring speechwriter whose hyper-ambition...

Footprints on the Moon (Lorraine Marwood, UQP) 

Wednesday, 2 December 2020
It’s 1969 and Sharnie is entering year seven and finding it difficult to make friends. The world is consumed by the Space Race and the Vietnam War, and Sharnie is...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Sales Children’s Era Publications has sold digital German-language translation rights to the ‘Wings’ series in Turkey, Germany, Spain, Greece and Egypt. Scholastic has sold UK rights to Fartboy: The First Sniff...

Walker acquires Uhlmann picture book 

Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to author and journalist Chris Uhlmann's debut picture book The Useless Tune, via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell agency, Cameron’s Management. The Useless...

‘Honeybee’ named Dymocks Book of the Year 2020

Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Craig Silvey's novel Honeybee (A&U) has been named Dymocks Book of the Year for 2020. Chosen from a shortlist of six, Silvey's novel was voted for by Dymocks booksellers across the country,...

How did picture book sales fare during lockdown? 

Monday, 30 November 2020
In her final op-ed as Books+Publishing’s Junior columnist for 2020, Adele Walsh looks at how the sales of new picture books—the most tactile of reading experiences—fared during lockdown, and recommends a few...

WestWords wins Western Sydney business award

Monday, 30 November 2020
Western Sydney not for profit literary organisation WestWords has won the Excellence in Arts and Culture category in the 2020 Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence. The awards acknowledge the...

Day wins Patrick White Award

Monday, 30 November 2020
Novelist Gregory Day has been named the winner of the $15,000 Patrick White Award for 2020. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of his 1973...

HarperCollins acquires Pung, Ng children’s books 

Monday, 30 November 2020
HarperCollins Children’s Books Australia has acquired world rights to two books by author Alice Pung and illustrator Sher Rill Ng at auction via Clare Forster at Curtis Brown Australia and...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 30 November 2020
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.

Dovey wins 2020 Bragg Prize for Science Writing

Thursday, 26 November 2020
Ceridwen Dovey has won the 2020 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for ‘True Grit’, first published in Wired. Dovey receives $7000. Her winning article explores the unexpected problems...

The Boy From the Mish (Gary Lonesborough, A&U) 

Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Jackson is an Aboriginal teen who lives with his mum and little brother; he has a girlfriend, good mates and the local men’s group. Then his aunty from the city...

The Price of Two Sparrows (Christy Collins, Affirm) 

Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Christy Collins’s The Price of Two Sparrows is an elegantly structured study of migration and community in Australia. A burgeoning Muslim community on the outskirts of Sydney has made plans...

Buried Not Dead (Fiona McGregor, Giramondo) 

Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Outsider art, as critic Roger Cardinal once wrote, is ‘immune to the polarisations of culture and the copycat spirit of cultural art’. It’s fair to say that Fiona McGregor’s new...

 

 

 

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