Wiley acquires Edwards’ The Wardrobe Project
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Wiley has acquired world rights to The Wardrobe Project, a nonfiction title by Emma Edwards. The Wardrobe Project details Edwards' year of buying no clothes. 'She learned that when you stop...
Slashed Beauties (A Rushby, HQ Fiction)
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Slashed Beauties is a lush historical fantasy and an adult debut by A Rushby (The Wish Sisters, The Ghost Locket). The novel is by turns macabre and emotional but always...
Sing to Me (Jelena Curic, WestWords)
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Jelena Curic’s debut novel Sing to Me follows drinking, smoking and womanising anti-hero Pero Petrović on a reluctant hero’s journey to confront family secrets, betrayal and the legacy of his war-torn...
Cannon (Lee Lai, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
In Lee Lai’s latest graphic novel Cannon, a young chef struggles to navigate the stresses of her late twenties while burdened by family obligations and a chaotic workplace. Central to...
A Guide to Falling Off the Map (Zanni L Arnot, Lothian)
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
A Guide to Falling Off the Map is the absorbing YA debut from Zanni L Arnot, who has previously published books for younger children under the name Zanni Louise (Hazel’s...
58 Facets: On law, violence and revolution (Marika Sosnowski, MUP)
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
‘This is a strange book,’ Marika Sosnowski writes in the acknowledgements of 58 Facets, and she isn’t wrong. Part poetic inquiry, part legal ethnography and part dreamscape of inherited trauma,...
The Making of Martha Mayfield (Jo Dabrowski, Affirm)
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
In The Making of Martha Mayfield, Jo Dabrowski (Get Your Act Together Doris Kozlowski) tells the story of 11-year-old Martha and her quest to overcome her shyness ahead of the...
Amplify Lit Festival Live program announced
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand writer and editor Jackie Lee Morrison has announced the program for the inaugural Amplify Lit Festival Live program, running 5–31 July on Instagram and TikTok. The line-up...
Baker named 2025 Reading Australia Fellow
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
The Copyright Agency has awarded ACT teacher librarian Libby Baker the 2025 Reading Australia Fellowship. The annual Reading Australia Fellowship is open to English and literacy teachers and teacher librarians...
BookPeople Roadshow 2025 dates announced
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
BookPeople, the national booksellers' association, has announced dates for its 2025 Publishers' Christmas Product Roadshows. These events provide the opportunity for publishers to present key upcoming titles for the Christmas...
CWA Dagger 2025 winners announced
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
In the UK, the winners of the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards have been announced, reported BookBrunch. Among the winners was Book of Secrets (Anna Mazzola, Orion), praised as...
S&S acquires Ita Buttrose’s memoir
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired memoir Unapologetically Ita by Ita Buttrose. Unapologetically Ita 'reflects on [Buttrose's] time as the chair of the ABC, the changes in the workplace during...
A&U acquires Haddrick’s ‘The Mushroom Murders’
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights for nonfiction title The Mushroom Murders by Greg Haddrick. The book will follow the trial of Erin Patterson, who was convicted this week...
Affirm acquires White’s The Long Night
Monday, 7 July 2025
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Christian White’s upcoming crime novel, The Long Night, via RGM Artists. The story follows Em and Jodie as they negotiate the events of...
PRH acquires Hellmrich’s debut
Monday, 7 July 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to the as-yet unnamed debut by Kelly Hellmrich, via Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. The book will blend 'cultural commentary, personal reflection...
ACT Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Thursday, 3 July 2025
MARION ACT has announced the winners of the 2025 ACT Literary Awards. The winners in each category, chosen from shortlists announced earlier this month, are: Children’s literature Big, Big Love...
PRH acquires Saintilan-Stocks debut
Thursday, 3 July 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights for The Right Hand, the debut political handbook from Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks, in a deal brokered by Kelly Fagan. ‘Chiefs of staff...
Varuna announces 2026 residential fellowships
Thursday, 3 July 2025
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its residential fellowships for 2026, including twelve flagship fellowship recipients. The writers and their projects are: Blue Mountains fellowship Fiona...
Aotearoa NZ Audiobook of the Year Award finalists
Thursday, 3 July 2025
The Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) and Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand have announced the finalists for the 2025 Libro.fm Audiobook of the Year Award. The six...
ABIA winner profile: Allen & Unwin
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Following on from the Australian Book Industry Awards in early May, Books+Publishing reached out to the industry winners to ask them about their challenges, their goals and what the win...
Writing Australia Council members; APA Rising Star profiles; SLV fellowship recipients
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Australian Minister for the Arts Tony Burke launched Writing Australia and announced the Writing Australia Council members this week; QWC launched its new development program, Pitchable – for Australian writers...
Wiley acquires Duggan’s next nonfiction
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Wiley Australia has acquired world rights to Clear in Tension, a nonfiction title by Tim Duggan, in a deal between Wiley publisher Lucy Raymond and Lou Johnson at Key People...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Sales Fiction Arndell, an imprint of Keeperton, has sold Portuguese rights to eight book titles by T L Swan (Stanton Adore, Stanton Unconditional, Stanton Completely, Stanton Bliss, Mr Masters, Mr...
Murdoch Books acquires ‘Eat!’ cookbook by Sooshi Mango
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to Eat!, a debut cookbook by the comedy trio known as Sooshi Mango – Joe Salanitri, Carlo Salanitri and Andrew Manfre. Sooshi Mango has...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
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Whispers and Roars (Patrick Guest, illus Jonathan Bentley, Little Book Press)
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Whispers and Roars reunites Patrick Guest and Jonathan Bentley, the creative duo behind the bestselling picture book Windows. Their latest collaboration is a thoughtful story about a young girl dealing...
Robo-teacher (Charlotte Barkla, illus Gabriella Petruso, Larrikin)
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
When Miss Horrid cancels the Fun Park excursion, it’s the last straw for Class 5H in Robo-teacher by Charlotte Barkla (All Bodies Are Good Bodies). Led by the industrious 10-year-old...
The Man Who Planted Canberra (Robert Macklin, NLA)
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
The Man Who Planted Canberra examines the life and legacy of Charles Weston, an Englishman whose extraordinary foresight and dedication transformed the landscape of Australia’s capital city through planting three...
The Farm (Jessica Mansour-Nahra, Hachette)
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Atmospheric and quietly unnerving, The Farm is a haunting debut by Jessica Mansour-Nahra. The psychologically taut novel steadily draws the reader into its isolated setting and the protagonist’s unravelling reality....
Fierceland (Omar Musa, Penguin)
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Fierceland is a spellbinding novel by multi-hyphenate artist Omar Musa (Killernova), following his widely acclaimed and Miles Franklin–longlisted debut, Here Come the Dogs. In this self-proclaimed ghost story set across...
