Taking Tom Murray Home (Tim Slee, HarperCollins)
Thursday, 30 May 2019
This debut novel and winner of HarperCollins’ Banjo Prize is based on the ingenious premise of a funeral-protest that raises awareness of the pressures facing dairy farmers from banks, supermarkets...
Something to Believe In (Andrew Stafford, UQP)
Thursday, 30 May 2019
This memoir is rock journalist Andrew Stafford’s first book since his 2004 milestone Pig City, which mapped Brisbane music ‘from the Saints to Savage Garden’. Named after a Ramones song,...
Screen rights to Nix’s ‘The Keys to the Kingdom’ series sold
Thursday, 30 May 2019
Herschend Entertainment Studios has acquired film and television rights to Garth Nix’s seven-book fantasy series ‘The Keys to the Kingdom’ (A&U), reports Deadline. Jill Grinberg Literary Management sold rights on behalf...
2019 ‘Griffith Review’ Novella Project winners announced
Thursday, 30 May 2019
The winners of the Griffith Review’s 2019 Novella Project competition have been announced. The winning authors and their works are: 'Cleave' by Keren Heenan 'Spectrums' by Allanah Hunt 'Annah the Javanese'...
Bruce Pascoe on the reception to ‘Dark Emu’
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
'I had a feeling this book would reach a wider audience. It just goes to show that Australia is changing its mind about its own history—there’s a conversation going on,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold screen rights to Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) to Anonymous Content, Chapter One, Hopscotch Features and Joel Edgerton (see news); and stage adaptation...
Finalists for 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism announced
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism, as part of its Mid-Year Celebration. The finalists are: Rosemary Neill for 'Shooting stars: exposing...
Publicity round-up
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Books+Publishing’s weekly publicity round-up covers forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Fiction Candice Carty-Williams (Queenie, Trapeze) will be...
Lee Kofman’s ‘Split: True Stories of Leaving, Loss, and New Beginnings’
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
'The emotional range, honesty and deep introspection make Split read like a map of the human heart. While the subject matter is separation and loss, an equally strong theme is...
Faber Writing Academy course
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
From the writing school inside Australia’s leading independent publishing house comes Your Brilliant Writing Career, a new symposium designed for early career writers. Symposium leader Fiona Wright, author of four...
Book buyer spotlight: Gleebooks’ Morgan Smith
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Morgan Smith has worked for Sydney’s Gleebooks for close to 25 years, and is currently the manager and book buyer at Gleebooks’ Dulwich Hill store. She spoke to Books+Publishing for our...
54 bookshops to receive Puffin grants
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Puffin has announced the 54 Australian bookshops that will receive a share of $100,000 in funding for children’s reading programs. The winning bookshops each receive funding between $500 and $5000...
Davitt Awards 2019 longlists announced
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the longlists for the 2019 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. A total of 127 titles have been longlisted, including...
Scribe acquires new Allington novel
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Scribe has acquired world rights to Rise and Shine, a novel by Adelaide writer Patrick Allington. According to the publisher, the book is 'a Kafkaesque fable of hope about a future where eight...
‘Half the Perfect World’ to be adapted for film
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Cascade Films has acquired the film adaptation rights to Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell’s Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 (Monash University Publishing). Half the...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ to be adapted for stage in 2020
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Queensland Theatre has acquired the stage adaptation rights to Trent Dalton’s bestselling Boy Swallow Universe (Fourth Estate). The adaptation will be produced in partnership with the Brisbane Festival and premiere...
Affirm acquires debut thriller; UK, US rights also sold
Monday, 27 May 2019
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to author Anna Downes’ debut thriller The Safe Place in a two-book deal, with US and UK & Commonwealth rights to the title already...
Sheppard wins $15,000 Kathleen Mitchell Award; Dunk wins $15,000 Dal Stivens Award
Monday, 27 May 2019
Holden Sheppard has been announced as the winner of this year’s Kathleen Mitchell Award, presented biennially to the author aged 30 or under for an outstanding novel or novella. Sheppard...
Shortlist announced for 2019 UK Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Monday, 27 May 2019
In the UK, the shortlist for the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, recognising the best science books for children, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: 100 Things to...
Charts this week
Monday, 27 May 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Author Imprint 1 Everything Is F*cked Mark Manson HarperCollins 2 Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton Fourth Estate 3 Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid Jeff Kinney...
The ‘new Australian sensibility’: Literary agent Barbara J Zitwer on discovering Australian writers
Friday, 24 May 2019
New York-based literary agent Barbara J Zitwer represents writers including Man Booker International Prize-winner Han Kang, and recently sold rights on behalf of her Australian authors Jamie Marina Lau and...
Peter Carey Short Story Award 2019 shortlist announced
Friday, 24 May 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Peter Carey Short Story Award has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Elisabeth Kubler Ross’ by Paige Clark ‘Place, Lost’ by Laura Elvery ‘Sketch in...
Copyright Agency announces inaugural Reading Australia Teacher Fellow
Friday, 24 May 2019
The Copyright Agency has announced the inaugural Reading Australia Fellow for a teacher of English and literacy. Alex Wharton, from Carinya Christian School in Gunnedah, NSW, receives $15,000 for a...
MWF schools’ program 2019 announced
Friday, 24 May 2019
The program for the 2019 Melbourne Writers Festival schools’ program has been announced. More than 60 writers, artists and performers will feature in over 70 events from 2–5 September, with...
Higgie wins inaugural Fogarty Literary Award for ‘The History of Mischief’
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Rebecca Higgie has won the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript for her novel The History of Mischief. Higgie receives a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ to be adapted for TV
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe (Fourth Estate) will be adapted as an international television drama, reports Deadline Hollywood. Screen rights to Dalton’s bestselling debut, negotiated on behalf of HarperCollins Australia,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold the following translation rights to Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton): Russian-language rights to AST; Hebrew-language rights to Kinneret Zmora; and Turkish-language rights to Egitim Yayinevi....
The value of sensitivity readers
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
‘A science fiction writer needs to know how an object moves in zero gravity, or what a black hole looks like ... a cis, white, able bodied writer should be...
IPEd conference 2019: pay rates, copyright discussed
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
More than 300 delegates attended this year's National Editors Conference in Melbourne in May, under the theme ‘Beyond the page’. Run by the Institute for Professional Editors (IPEd), the peak...
Kathryn Lefroy’s ‘Alex and the Alpacas Save the World’
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
'Readers will easily relate to strong and courageous Alex, who also carries her own set of personal doubts and grudges as she navigates relationships and grows as a person in...
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