The Very Stinky Fly Hunt (Andrea Wild, illus Karen Erasmus, CSIRO Publishing)
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
The Very Stinky Fly Hunt is a lively and humorous narrative nonfiction picture book inspired by the work of real-life dipterist (fly expert) Keith Bayless. Andrea Wild takes children on an...
Softly Calls the Devil (Chris Blake, Echo)
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Prologues in crime novels are often inscrutable until the climax, but Chris Blake’s Softly Calls the Devil wastes no time and immediately hooks readers with an unexpected shoot-out at a traffic...
This Is Us: Essential Poems for Young People (ed Libby Hathorn & Jude Fell, illus Tull Suwannakit, NLA Publishing)
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
In This Is Us: Essential Poems for Young People, editors Libby Hathorn and Jude Fell bring together writers from around Australia in a companion volume to the enduringly popular This...
Swallow (Alexandria Burnham, WestWords)
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
In Swallow, Alexandria Burnham delivers a compelling work of historical fiction inspired by the documented prison escapes of sailor and petty thief William ‘Swallow’ Walker. Sentenced in 1820 to transportation to...
Provecho: Real Mexican Food at Home (Daniella Guevara Muñoz, Murdoch)
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Author and cook Daniella Guevara Muñoz brings the flavours of her childhood in Mexico City to life in Provecho: Real Mexican Food at Home, with co-writer David Knight. Guevara Muñoz, who runs...
The Transformations (Andrew Pippos, Picador)
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Andrew Pippos’ The Transformations is a reflective and introspective novel for lovers of the written word, tracing the gentle and at times unforgiving arc of a life lived in the...
The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? (ed Natalie King & Iwantja Arts, T&H)
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
To open The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? is to tumble into a kaleidoscopic world of colour, energy and cultural references. Edited by Natalie King and...
PRH acquires Wilson’s ‘I Eat the Stars’
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World by Sarah Wilson. I Eat the Stars is a guide...
Ventura acquires Carrick debut fiction
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Brigid Carrick’s debut commercial fiction, The Belfast Express. Set in Dublin during the 1970s, The Belfast Express is described by the publisher as...
Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Book Awards 2025 winners announced
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
The 2025 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards winners have been announced. Winners, selected from shortlists announced in July, are: Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Nonfiction ($10,000) Jana...
Hachette acquires two new Robotham novels
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired two novels by Michael Robotham, via Mark Lucas at the Soho Agency, in a multi-territory partnership with Little, Brown Book Group in the UK. The first...
Ned Kelly Awards 2025 winners announced
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2025 Ned Kelly Award winners. Winning works in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in August, are: Best crime fiction The Creeper...
A&U acquires new Moule fiction
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to The Mother of All Calamities by Lisa Moule, in a deal brokered by Samuel Bernard at the Zeitgeist Agency. The Mother...
Stella Day Out announces new Melbourne event
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced a second Stella Day Out event in Melbourne. The evening event is set to take place on 28 October at Quest NewQuay in the Docklands,...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
Writing Australia has announced the winners of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Chosen from shortlists announced in August, the winners are: Fiction Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text)...
Vale Abram Goldberg
Monday, 29 September 2025
Author Abram Goldberg has died at the age of 100. Affirm Press writes: Affirm Press is deeply saddened by the passing of Abram Goldberg, author of the heartbreaking and powerful...
Stella Day Out Aireys Inlet program revealed
Monday, 29 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the evening program for its Stella Day Out event in Aireys Inlet, Victoria, to take place on 15 November 2025 at the Aireys Inlet Community Centre....
Bakers Lane Books acquires Drum’s YA novel
Monday, 29 September 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to Don’t Forget to Remember Me, a YA debut by Annie Drum, via Sally Bird of Calidris Literary Agency. According to the publisher,...
Anderson wins 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers
Monday, 29 September 2025
Susie Anderson has won the 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for her short story ‘The Claimant’. Presented by Overland, the award offers a $5000 cash prize and...
Keri Hulme Award 2025 finalists announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
The Māori Literature Trust Te Waka Taki Kōrero has announced the finalists for the 2025 Keri Hulme Award, which recognises ‘the contributions of mid-career Māori writers who exemplify the values...
Queensland Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 29 September 2025
The winners of the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. Amy McQuire has won the $30,000 Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance for Black Witness (UQP)....
MidnightSun Publishing acquires Madsen’s ‘Animal Force’
Thursday, 25 September 2025
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to Animal Force, a junior fiction novel written by Cerise Madsen and illustrated by Sally Heinrich. According to the publisher, Animal Force centres on twins Leo and...
Stella Day Out Ballarat program announced
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the evening program for its Stella Day Out event in Ballarat, Victoria, to take place on 5 November at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute. The first...
Little Big Sky acquires Baker’s picture books in four-book deal
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Little Big Sky has acquired world rights to Calm Your Farm and I Love to Draw by Dale Baker in a four-book deal, marking the imprint's first acquisition since launching this year....
Berbay Travel and Little Smith imprints launched; PANZ Book Design Awards presented; Creative Australia Fellowships announced
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
In local news, children’s publisher Berbay Publishing announced Berbay Travel, a new imprint dedicated ‘to revealing the hidden and unseen elements of destinations around the globe’; while Smith Street Books...
Authors among Creative Australia Fellowship recipients
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Authors Isobelle Carmody, Jennifer Mills and Fiona Murphy are among the 2025 recipients of the $80,000 Creative Australia Fellowships. The fellowships, which last two years, involve the provision of financial...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Sales Fiction University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold Arabic rights to Discipline (Randa Abdel-Fattah) to Dar Al Karma. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Dutch rights to The Shortest History...
Pink Shorts Press acquires Mills, Dovey and Dubosarsky anthology
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Pink Shorts Press has acquired world rights to A Concise Compendium of Wonder, a collection of ‘radical reimagined eco-fairytales’ by Jennifer Mills, Ceridwen Dovey and Ursula Dubosarsky, with illustrations by...
Stella Day Out Perth program released
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Literary organisation Stella has announced the program for an edition of its Stella Day Out event in Perth, to take place on 26 October at the State Library of Western...
HarperCollins acquires de Sousa cookbooks
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to two cookbooks by Steph de Sousa. The deal was brokered by HarperCollins fiction and nonfiction publisher Roberta Ivers and TalentINK Group’s Brooke Taylor...
