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Wakefield acquires Parker’s ‘Endo Days’

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to journalist Libby Trainor Parker’s debut nonfiction book, which has the working title Endo Days: Life, love and laughs with endometriosis. Endo Days is...

Black Inc. acquires ‘We’ve Got This’ anthology

Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to We've Got This: Parenting with a disability, an anthology to be edited by journalist and disability advocate Eliza Hull, creator of the ABC...

Murphy receives inaugural IPEd Janet Mackenzie Medal

Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Elizabeth Manning Murphy has won the inaugural Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) Janet Mackenzie Medal. The award, which honours the late founding member of Editors Victoria and lifetime IPEd member...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Tuesday, 4 August 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. This week's features include: 'In...

NZ Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2020 winners announced

Monday, 3 August 2020
The 2020 winners of the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for New Zealand Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror have been announced The winners include: Best novel—adult The Dawnhounds (Sascha Stronach, Little...

Hugo Awards 2020 winners announced

Monday, 3 August 2020
The winners of this year’s Hugo Awards, presented annually by the World Science Fiction Convention, have been announced. Best novel went to A Memory Called Empire (Arkady Martine, Tor); best...

Queensland Poetry Festival awards 2020 winners announced

Monday, 3 August 2020
The winners of the 2020 Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) awards have been announced. The winning poets in each category are: Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript ($2000 and...

Colin Roderick Award 2020 shortlist announced

Monday, 3 August 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Peace (Garry Disher, Text)...

‘Look Up!’ wins Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2020

Friday, 31 July 2020
In the UK, picture book Look Up! (Nathan Byron, illus by Dapo Adeola, Puffin) has won the overall £5000 (A$9010) Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Look Up! was named the winner...

Scribner acquires Watson’s ‘The Passion of Private White’

Thursday, 30 July 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia’s (S&S) Scribner imprint has acquired ANZ rights to a new work of nonfiction by Don Watson, The Passion of Private White. S&S said the book ‘describes...

Debuts make up more than half of the 2020 Booker Prize longlist

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
'It is an unusually high proportion [of debuts], and especially surprising to the judges themselves, who had admired many books by more established authors, and regretted having to let them...

Just Money: Misadventures in the great Australian debt trap (Royce Kurmelovs, UQP)

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Just Money opens with a first-person account of the car crash that left author and journalist Royce Kurmelovs $23,000 in debt. Kurmelovs’ subsequent experience with the opaque mechanisms of debt...

The Tunnel of Dreams (Bernard Beckett, Text)

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
The Tunnel of Dreams is a charmingly breezy middle fiction fantasy novel about identical twins Arlo and Stefan, and their adventure in a parallel, magic-filled world. Author Bernard Beckett wastes...

Death Leaves the Station (Alexander Thorpe, Fremantle Press)

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
In 1927 at Halfwell Station in regional WA, the station owner’s daughter, Ana, discovers a body in the nearby desert. At around the same time, a nameless friar arrives at...

Indigo Owl (Charlie Archbold, Wakefield)

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Scarlet, Dylan and Rumi are new students at the Arcadia Institute, where they will receive the training required to turn them into good citizens of the corpocratic planet Galbraith. But...

The golden age of middle-grade

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
In the four years since Danielle Binks wrote about the under-representation of middle-grade literature, the genre has exploded. Now a middle-grade author herself, Binks follows up with a look at...

Booker Prize longlist, JobKeeper extended and more

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
The Booker Prize longlist—which features writers from the UK, US, Zimbabwe, Ireland and Ethiopia—headlines this week’s awards news. In local awards news, Rodney Hall and Krissy Kneen have received $80,000...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Acquisitions Fiction Transit Lounge has acquired world English-language rights to Travelling Companions (Antoni Jach) (see news). Nonfiction Scribe has acquired world English-language rights to The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s...