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Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2025 winners announced

Thursday, 27 November 2025
The winners of the 2025 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The winning works in each category are: Fiction ($2500) Nadia Mahjouri for The Miracle (published in Island Magazine) Nonfiction ($2500)...

A&U acquires Hardy’s memoir and novel

An image of Emma Hardy. Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Emma Hardy’s memoir Periodic Bitch and a planned novel, in a two-book deal brokered by Michaela McGuire at a4 Literary. According...

Ticket sales double at Readings’s A Day In Carlton 

'A Day in Carlton' logo, with blue lettering on orange background. Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Readings Bookshop’s annual A Day in Carlton festival (“actually a day and a bit,” said the organisers) was held in Melbourne from 13 to 15 November. Attracting 2800 attendees —...

Rights round-up 

The cover of "Prima Facie" by Suze Miller. Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Sales Fiction Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold Romanian rights to Prima Facie (Suzie Miller) to Niculescu; and Turkish rights to 3 titles by Patrick White (Voss, The Eye of the...

A&U acquires accessible picture book

Nas Campanella and Eliza Hull in front of Richard Dunn's painting, Redbank Gorge, MacDonnell Ranges, c. 1936-37 (after Albert Namatjira), 2002-2010, from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Collection. Copyright The Estate of Richard Dunn, courtesy Charles Nodrum Gallery. Photograph by Tim Harris, Red Antler Photography. Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to All the Ways I See, by Nas Campanella and Eliza Hull, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. Sophie...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 26 November 2025
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.

The Last Resort (Amanda Hewitt, Echo) 

Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Amanda Hewitt’s debut, The Last Resort, opens with Abbey, newly divorced and reeling from the end of her marriage, as she seeks solace in the Maldives. During a late-night swim,...

Thom-Jones takes out top Scarlet Stiletto Award

Winner Sandra Thom-Jones (right) with prize presenter Dinuka McKenzie. Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Author Sandra Thom-Jones has won first prize in Sisters in Crime’s 32nd Scarlet Stiletto Awards for her short story “Der Hölle Rache”. Thom-Jones, who identifies as neurodivergent, said, “I’m still...

HarperCollins acquires new Swann novel

Photo of Leah Swann. Tuesday, 25 November 2025
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Leah Swann’s novel Later, Only Love Remains, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher at the Naher Agency. Described by the publisher as a...

Transit Lounge acquires new Kenway novel

Photo of author Lisa Kenway. Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to East Coast Low, Lisa Kenway’s follow-up to All You Took from Me (also Transit Lounge, 2024). East Coast Low tells the story of...

Beveridge receives lifetime achievement award

A photo of Judith Beveridge. She stands in front of a bookshelf. Monday, 24 November 2025
Poet Judith Beveridge has been named one of this year’s recipients of Creative Australia Awards for Lifetime Achievement. Born in London in 1956, Beveridge moved to Sydney in 1960. Her...

ABC adapts “The Unbelieved” 

Photo of author 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝗸𝗶 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀. Monday, 24 November 2025
Production has commenced on Dustfall, a six-part ABC adaptation of Vikki Petraitis’s 2022 crime novel The Unbelieved (A&U). Allen & Unwin sold film/TV rights to The Unbelieved to UK-based Moonriver TV,...

The Next Chapter 2026 recipients announced

An image of the 2026 Next Chapter recipients. Monday, 24 November 2025
The Wheeler Centre has announced the 2026 recipients of The Next Chapter fellowship program. The fellowships aim to encourage “voices who aren’t getting heard through conventional publishing channels”, according the...

UQP sells UK and Commonwealth rights to “Dead Ink”

A portrait of Jordan Prosser. Monday, 24 November 2025
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada and ANZ) rights to Jordan Prosser’s Blue Giant to Dead Ink Books. According to the publisher, Blue Giant...

2025 National Book Awards announced 

Cover of 'The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)'. Monday, 24 November 2025
In the US, the National Book Foundation (NBF) has announced the five winners of this year’s National Book Awards. The winners are: Fiction The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and...

NewSouth acquires Grant’s latest book

Photo of author Stan Grant in his tsudy. Monday, 24 November 2025
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to author and broadcaster Stan Grant’s When Words Fail Us: Truth beyond time, in a deal brokered by Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. The...

PRH acquires debut Crozier novel

Photo of Lily Crozier. Thursday, 20 November 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to vampire romantasy Vow of Eternal Night by debut author and PRH marketing executive Lily Crozier. PRH rights manager Sarah McDuling...

Spiers Prize winners announced

A photo of Kate Pickard, Zahina Maghrabi, Rebeca Green, and Gail Spiers. Maghrabi and Green hold certificates up. Thursday, 20 November 2025
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the winners of the inaugural Spiers Prize as Zahina Maghrabi for “The Girl, The Calico and The Soldier” (young adult) and Rebeca Green for “A...

Remembering Moya Costello

Photo of Moya Costello. Thursday, 20 November 2025
As a tribute to author, critic and academic Moya Costello, who died recently, a memorial service will be held on 22 November 2025. Costello's former publisher, Spineless Wonders, writes: We...

Shanghai Children’s Book Fair probes a changing market 

Scene at China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair. Thursday, 20 November 2025
The 12th China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) finished its three-day run at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre on 16 November. Co-organised by Ronbo BolognaFiere Shanghai,...

Rights round-up 

Cover of Lily Crozier’s novel, Vow of Eternal Night. Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Sales Fiction Penguin Random House (PRH) has sold world (ex ANZ) rights to Vow of Eternal Night (Lily Crozier) to Entangled Publishing (Amara); Ukrainian translation rights to Everyone in This...

James, Bradley win business book of the year award

Cover of "The Quick Start Guide to Investing". Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Glen James and Nick Bradley have won the 7th Australian Business Book Award for The Quick Start Guide to Investing (Wiley). Founders Michael Hanrahan and Andrew Griffiths announced James, Bradley...

Langton awarded inaugural Rechnitz Memorial Award

Photo of Marcia Langton in university quadrangle. Wednesday, 19 November 2025
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia has announced academic, author and activist Marcia Langton as the inaugural winner of the Rechnitz Memorial Award, which recognises “excellence in research...

Beale named 2026 NZSA President of Honour

Photo of Fleur Beale. Wednesday, 19 November 2025
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (NZSA) has named children’s and YA author Fleur Beale this year’s NZSA President of Honour. The author of more...

HarperCollins acquires new Whiting novel

Photo of Frances Whiting with a pile of books. Wednesday, 19 November 2025
HarperCollins ANZ has acquired world rights to The Nocturnals, a new novel by journalist and author Frances Whiting. According to the publisher, The Nocturnals tells the story of a close-knit group from...

 

 

 

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