We Were Not Men (Campbell Mattinson, Fourth Estate)
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Campbell Mattinson’s We Were Not Men charts the story of twin brothers Jon and Eden in an episodic exploration of male kinship. Told from Jon’s perspective, the book begins with the...
The Covered Wife (Lisa Emanuel, Pantera Press)
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
When young lawyer Sarah meets the smart, handsome Daniel, the attraction is instant. Influenced by the charismatic Rabbi Menachem Lev and his wife Chani, who take the new couple under...
Creative NZ Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary recipient announced
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Emma Hislop has been named the recipient of of Creative New Zealand's 2021 Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary, valued at NZ$11,000 (A$10,200). Hislop is a Taranaki-based writer whose work has...
S&S acquires Mahoney’s ‘Currently Between Husbands’
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a book by writer and podcaster Cathrine Mahoney, host of So, I Quit My Day Job and co-host of Not...
Macky, Ballantyne to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; ABIA business awards shortlists announced
Monday, 19 April 2021
Bookseller Mandy Macky and children's publisher Maryann Ballantyne will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) on Wednesday, 28 April. Macky will...
PRH acquires Crabb and Sales ‘Chat 10 Looks 3’ book
Monday, 19 April 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to Well Hello by Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales. In the book, journalists Crabb and Sales, who started their popular podcast...
Zable honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Monday, 19 April 2021
Arnold Zable has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, which ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an outstanding...
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Monday, 19 April 2021
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ABC Books acquires Om memoir
Friday, 16 April 2021
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to ABC 7.30 reporter Jason Om’s debut memoir All Mixed Up, via Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist Agency, to be published under the ABC Books...
Australians, New Zealander shortlisted for 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Four Australians and one New Zealander are among the finalists for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The Australian and New Zealand authors shortlisted are: A N King for ‘The...
Jeffrey wins 2020 Anne Elder Award for ‘Dead Bolt’
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Australian Poetry has named Ella Jeffrey as the winner of the 2020 Anne Elder Award for her debut poetry collection Dead Bolt (Puncher & Wattmann). 'Ella Jeffery’s Dead Bolt is an...
‘As Fast as I Can’ wins Readings Children’s Book Prize 2021
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Penny Tangey's middle-grade novel As Fast as I Can (UQP) has won the 2021 Readings Children's Book Prize. Readings bookseller and prize judge Clare Millar writes that the judging panel were...
Who Gets to be Smart (Bri Lee, A&U)
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Who Gets to be Smart opens with a walking tour of Oxford. Author Bri Lee is at the university to visit her friend, a freshly minted Rhodes Scholar. As the...
Pan Mac sells ‘Heartsick’ to US, UK
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Pan Macmillan Australia has sold US and UK rights to debut nonfiction title Heartsick (Jessie Stephens) after ‘a highly contested auction’. US rights were sold to Henry Holt in a...
ABIA shortlists; PRH revenue, earnings up
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
The shortlists for this year’s ABIAs have been announced, as has the shortlist for the ABIA Rising Star of the Year Award. In other news, Clunes Booktown is returning with...
PRH acquires Higgins memoir
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired a memoir by Brittany Higgins. Higgins, whose decision to speak publicly about her alleged rape in a ministerial office was one of the...
Kunyi (Kunyi June Anne McInerney, Magabala)
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Kunyi, an illustrated memoir of Kunyi June Anne McInerney’s childhood, collects snapshot moments and stories of her life, told in her own words and accompanied by her paintings. The lively...
100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze (Clayton Zane Comber, HarperCollins)
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Xander Maze’s best friend is his Nanna. When she is diagnosed with stage four cancer and asks him to write a list of 100 Remarkable Feats for him to achieve...
A Pair of Pears and an Orange (Anna McGregor, Scribble)
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
A pair of pears are good friends who like to spend their days together, playing games that are just right for the two of them. When Orange appears, Little Pear...
Hardie Grant acquires book on Australia–US relations
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights in debut nonfiction work Our Exceptional Friend: Australia's fatal alliance with the United States by Melbourne academic Emma Shortis, via Martin Shaw at...
Magabala sells Janson’s ‘Benevolence’ to HarperVia
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Magabala Books has sold US and UK rights in Benevolence by Julie Janson to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia, in a deal negotiated by Natasha Solomun at The Rights Hive. ‘Benevolence is...
ABIA 2021 shortlists announced
Monday, 12 April 2021
The shortlists for the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year The Dictionary of Lost Words...
Clifford moves to Ultimo with third crime novel
Monday, 12 April 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Aoife Clifford's third novel When We Fall, via Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. Set in the the small Australian coastal town of Merritt, When...
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Monday, 12 April 2021
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ABIA Rising Stars 2021 shortlist announced
Friday, 9 April 2021
The shortlist for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2021 Rising Star of the Year Award has been announced. The Rising Star Award is given to an emerging talent in...
Rights round up
Thursday, 8 April 2021
Sales Fiction Affirm has sold The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to the following territories: Japanese translation rights to Shogakukan and Czech translation rights to Argo. The title has...
Black Inc. acquires Plibersek biography
Thursday, 8 April 2021
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to a biography of Tanya Plibersek to be written by Margaret Simons, via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. ‘This book will tell the...
RISE funding recipients, ABDA shortlists
Thursday, 8 April 2021
The Australian Publishers Association, and the Melbourne and Blue Mountains writers festivals are among the latest recipients of the federal government’s RISE funding. In awards news, the shortlists for the...
Rowe named New York Public Library Cullman Center fellow
Thursday, 8 April 2021
Australian writer Josephine Rowe has been named one of the 2021–2022 fellows of New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Rowe is one...
One Hundred Days (Alice Pung, Black Inc.)
Thursday, 8 April 2021
Is there a right way to love? Karuna feels suffocated by her mother—and her entrapment multiplies when her dad leaves and she’s forced to move away from private school and...
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