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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold Russian rights to Last Shot and Last Breath (Emma Pignatiello, Penguin); and Swedish rights to Love & Rome and Venetian Lessons in Love (Jenna Lo...

BookPeople Awards 2025 shortlists announced

2025 BookPeople Award Shortlist tile. Wednesday, 23 April 2025
BookPeople has announced the 2025 shortlist for the BookPeople Awards. The shortlisted titles for the awards are: BookPeople BookData Adult Fiction Book of the Year Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Juice (Tim...

HarperCollins acquires ‘Frosty’

'Frosty' by Mark Winterbottom with James Phelps cover page. Wednesday, 23 April 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to Frosty, a memoir by motor-sport athlete Mark Winterbottom. The memoir will be co-written with James Phelps. 'From his emergence from the suburbs of...

Vale Howard Pedersen

Black and white portrait of Howard Pedersen. Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Author Howard Pedersen has died. Stephen Kinnane and Edie Wright from Magabala Books write:  Magabala Books, along with hundreds of friends and community members across the Kimberley are deeply saddened...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 23 April 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.

An Academic Affair (Jodi McAlister, S&S) 

Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Jodi McAlister, who has previously written for young adults, made her adult rom-com debut with the Marry Me, Juliet trilogy. Continuing in this genre, An Academic Affair introduces us to...

A Beautiful Family (Jennifer Trevelyan, A&U) 

Tuesday, 22 April 2025
The narrator of Jennifer Trevelyan’s debut, A Beautiful Family, is 10-year-old Alix, a likeable and perceptive child. When her family arrive at their summer holiday house, she and her new friend Kahu...

Foreign Country (Marija Peričić, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 22 April 2025
In Marija Peričić’s lyrical and haunting third novel, the foreign country is the site of dislocation and alienation wrought by migration, grief and trauma. Croatian-Australian nurse Eva, who resides in...

Gone (Michel Streich, T&H) 

Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Writer and illustrator Michel Streich tackles the sensitive subject of loss and the mysteries surrounding death in his accessible and poignant picture book, Gone. The story centres on a child who...

Golden (Jade Timms, Text) 

Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Jade Timms’s affecting debut novel, Golden, shortlisted for the 2023 Text Prize, is a charming book about friendship, first love, and reclaiming happiness after a devastating trauma. Seventeen-year-old Eddie’s cheerful...

2025 Publishing Triangle Awards Winners announced 

The Publishing Triangle logo. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
In the US, the Publishing Triangle, an association of LGBTQ+ people in publishing, has announced winners for the 2025 Publishing Triangle Awards. The awards honour 'the best LGBTQ+ books published...

Books Alive expands to Palmerston North 

Sasha Eastwood and Aland Dingley from Books Alive. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
This year, Books Alive will expand to Palmerston North, the fourth regional centre to participate in the Aotearoa New Zealand program. The one-day event currently runs in Christchurch, Wellington and...

Local authors on 2025 CWA Daggers longlists 

The Crime Writers' Association Daggers Award logo. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Several Australia-based and Aotearoa New Zealand-based authors have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s (CWA) 2025 Dagger Awards. The local longlisted authors are: Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Sanctuary...

A&U acquires The Australian Wars

Henry Reynolds, Mina Murray, Rachel Perkins and Stephen Gapps portraits. Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Australian Wars, edited by Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds. The book will be drawn from Blackfella...

Bacon wins Nebula 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award

a portrait of Eugen Bacon Thursday, 17 April 2025
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced Eugen Bacon as winner of the 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. Created in 2008, the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award is...

Echo Publishing announces new Heather Morris novel

a portrait of Heather Morris Thursday, 17 April 2025
Echo Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to The Wish, a contemporary novel by Heather Morris. The Wish is Morris's first contemporary novel, and introduces Jesse, a young teenager who, despite...

Rights round-up 

the cover for White Tears Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Sales Fiction Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold French rights to Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Picador) to L’Archipel, in conjunction with the Lora Fountain Agency. Nonfiction Wolf Literary and Alex...

Hardie Grant acquires Wankernomics

a portrait of Charles Firth and James Schloefel Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Wankernomics by comedians James Schloeffel and Charles Firth. Wankernomics is ‘the hilarious must-have handbook for anyone who has ever had to endure the buzzwords,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 16 April 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 Pull of the Moon (Pip Smith, UWAP) 

Tuesday, 15 April 2025
In this bold, brave and boundary-pushing young adult novel, author Pip Smith (Half Wild) draws on her experience teaching asylum seekers and years of research to explore complex social themes....

 

 

 

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