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Observational humour: Remy Lai on ‘Fly on the Wall’

Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Remy Lai's middle-grade graphic novel Fly on the Wall (Walker, September) follows 12-year-old Henry Khoo, who goes on a solo international flight to Singapore without the knowledge of his overprotective family....

Fly on the Wall (Remy Lai, Walker) 

Wednesday, 8 July 2020
When Henry Khoo isn’t trolling his school as anonymous cartoonist ‘Fly on the Wall’, he is being babied at home by an overprotective family. To correct this, Henry devises a...

Bluebird (Malcolm Knox, A&U) 

Wednesday, 8 July 2020
A shaggy array of characters populate Malcolm Knox’s ambitious novel, with 50-year-old Gordon Grimes at the centre. An erstwhile journalist and estranged husband, Gordon is determined to preserve a rundown...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 8 July 2020
Acquisitions Nonfiction Text has acquired ANZ rights to Scottish sports broadcaster Andrew Cotter’s book Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with my Canine Companions. Cotter's videos of him commentating...

Johnson wins 2020 PEN Pinter Prize

Wednesday, 8 July 2020
In the UK, poet and reggae artist Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Prize judge Claire Armitstead said: ‘Once we had laid our nominations on...

Furphy Literary Award 2020 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 7 July 2020
The shortlists for the inaugural Furphy Literary Award has been announced. The six shortlisted stories and writers in the open category are: 'Ando Gets Plastered' by Cate Kennedy 'Awakening' by...

‘Taking Tom Murray Home’ optioned for screen

Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Sydney-based production company Soft Tread Enterprises has optioned Tim Slee's novel Taking Tom Murray Home (HarperCollins) for the screen. Taking Tom Murray Home was the inaugural winner of the Banjo...

UQP acquires new Chong poetry collection

Monday, 6 July 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired Eileen Chong’s poetry collection A Thousand Crimson Blooms. Chong is the author of nine books, including her most recent poetry collection Rainforest, which...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 6 July 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.

Write-ability fellowships 2020 recipients announced

Thursday, 2 July 2020
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of its 2020 Write-ability fellowships. The organisation this year awarded two additional fellowships: a poetry fellowship supported by an anonymous donor, and a one-off...

KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award 2020 longlist announced

the logo for kill your darlings Thursday, 2 July 2020
The longlist for the 2020 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted authors and their works are: 'Mood' by Roz Bellamy (nonfiction) 'Abomination' by Ashley Goldberg...

Heiss on the surge in sales of Indigenous books

Wednesday, 1 July 2020
‘This increase in passion, in the desire to learn, to understand, to be part of the necessary process of change that requires ALL of society’s citizens to participate—that passion is...

The Burning Island (Jock Serong, Text) 

Wednesday, 1 July 2020
To read The Burning Island is to feel, very often, ‘all at sea’. Much of the novel takes place on the ocean, sure, but more than that, it can be...

The Mother Fault (Kate Mildenhall, S&S) 

Wednesday, 1 July 2020
This gripping and thoughtful novel offers a spine-tingling vision of a future Australia—eerie in its potential realism—in which citizens’ movements are tracked and climate change has decimated the country, flooding...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Acquisitions Children's/YA Text Publishing has acquired world rights to four manuscripts that were shortlisted for the 2020 Text Prize: Red-Bottomed Boat (Charlie Archbold), The Museum of Broken Things (Lauren Draper),...

Colin Roderick Award 2020 longlist announced

Tuesday, 30 June 2020
The longlist for the 2020 Colin Roderick Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Turn Left at...

Papertalk Green wins 2020 ALS Gold Medal

Tuesday, 30 June 2020
Charmaine Papertalk Green has won the 2020 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for her poetry collection Nganajungu Yagu (Cordite). Papertalk Green’s work was chosen from a shortlist that included...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 29 June 2020
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