Summit acquires Coper’s “Angertainment”
Thursday, 5 March 2026
Summit Books Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Angertainment: How Social Media Outrange Ruined Everything by political communications specialist Ed Coper. “Rage-bait – the 2025 Word of the Year –...
McConaghy longlisted for 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Thursday, 5 March 2026
Local author Charlotte McConaghy is on the longlist for this year’s UK-based Women’s Prize for Fiction. McConachy’s Wild Dark Shore (Penguin) “expertly conveys the awe-inspiring majesty of the extreme climate...
Victorian and NZ awards announced; Fearless Prize awarded; Sorrento Writers Festival program released
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Awards This week the Wheeler Centre announced the winners of the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards; the shortlists for this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards were announced; Bakers Lane...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin has sold Polish rights to The Angry Wives Club (Gabbie Stroud) to Proszynski Media. Text has sold UK & Comm rights (ex ANZ & Canada)...
French booksellers boycott Paris Book Festival over Amazon
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
The French booksellers’ association, the Syndicat de la Librairie Française (SLF), has pulled out of the annual Paris Book Festival, running 17 to 19 April, in protest over the festival’s...
A&U acquires Moss’s solo YA novel
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to Tamara Moss’s YA murder mystery, Five Voices, in a deal negotiated at auction by Jill Grinberg and Sam Farkas at Jill Grinberg Literary...
Wiley acquires Zahner’s social media critique
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Wiley has acquired world rights to Real: Reconnecting to Yourself in a World of Likes and Lies by Alexis Zahner. Drawing on the author’s own experience as well as psychological research...
Booktopia: “Books have always been more than products”
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
In the lead-up to the 2026 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs), Books+Publishing is inviting the event's major sponsors to share little-known facts about their organisations, their top tips for booksellers...
Transit Lounge acquires Thompson novel
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Karenlee Thompson’s novel Notes from the White Room through NAC Literary Agency. The novel follows Hunter, “a lost soul searching for her missing...
Ockham 2026 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
The shortlists for this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction All Her Lives (Ingrid Horrocks,...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2026
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This Is Where We Say Goodbye (Howard McKenzie-Murray, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
This Is Where We Say Goodbye follows Maud Tarkington over the course of a single unsettling day in Fremantle: the day after her 21st birthday and the day of her...
The Farmer’s Pyjamas (Ruth Paul, Walker)
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Ruth Paul’s The Farmer’s Pyjamas is a playful, light-hearted rhyming story that puts a humorous spin on daily life in the farmyard. After a hard day’s work tending to her...
The Missing Mother (Mali Cornish, A&U)
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
In The Missing Mother, Mali Cornish (Judgement Day) crafts a gripping domestic thriller centred on Elspeth, who returns to Geelong from New York when her mother Simone vanishes. The story...
Phantom Days (Angela O’Keeffe, UQP)
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
“A book comes into the world knowing it is a saviour, of sorts.” So begins Phantom Days, the 3rd novel by award-winning author Angela O’Keeffe (The Sitter, Night Blue), a...
Running in Circles (Shivaun Plozza, UQP)
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
In Running in Circles, Shivaun Plozza (The Worst Perfect Moment, The Boy, The Wolf and the Stars) brings climate science and extraterrestrial speculation together in a coming-of-age suspense novel set...
Cast Away (Francesca de Tores, Bloomsbury)
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Award-winning author Francesca de Tores’s Cast Away is a fascinating and exquisitely detailed fictionalisation of sailor and navigator Alexander Selkirk’s 4 years marooned on a deserted island in the 1700s....
When Words Fail Us: Truth Beyond Time (Stan Grant, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
In When Words Fail Us, Stan Grant steps fully into his role as a philosopher and public thinker after walking away from a long career in journalism. Following the turbulence...
Two Milligan novels optioned for TV
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Allen & Unwin has optioned Louise Milligan’s crime novels Pheasants Nest and Shellybanks (both A&U) for screen adaptation by Ambience Entertainment. Pheasants Nest (2024) follows the abduction of journalist Kate Delaney...
Inaugural Fearless Prize goes to Perkins for “New Growth”
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Bakers Lane Books has awarded its inaugural Fearless Prize to journalist Miki Perkins for her debut novel, New Growth. Perkins receives a $10,000 advance and publication of the novel. The...
Hachette acquires Sunday’s “Kill to Love”
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to the novel Kill to Love by Penny Sunday after a 2-book auction with 5 bidders, in agent Chloe Berry’s first print deal since...
Pantera acquires Coombs Marr’s “Queerstralia”
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Queerstralia, comedian Zoë Coombs Marr’s exploration of Australia’s untold queer history. The book is a companion volume to the 2023 ABC documentary of...
Christmas Press acquires Cullen middle-grade novel
Monday, 2 March 2026
Christmas Press has acquired world rights in The Secret of Panther Valley, a mystery/adventure novel for middle-grade readers by author Brenton Cullen, via Debbie Golvan of Golvan Arts Management. Staying...
“Security Questions” wins Poetry in Translation Prize
Monday, 2 March 2026
Osdany Morales’s Security Questions, translated from the Spanish by Harry Bauld, is the inaugural winner of the Poetry in Translation Prize, co-awarded by Giramondo. Shortlisted under the translated title of...
Sorrento Writers Festival program launched
Monday, 2 March 2026
Described as “Victoria’s biggest literary event”, Sorrento Writers Festival has launched a 155-session program across 10 venues in the Victorian beachside towns of Sorrento and Portsea from 23 to 26...
Trans Book Festival program launched
Monday, 2 March 2026
The full program has been launched for the second annual Trans Book Festival, which focuses on “uplifting and celebrating trans and gender diverse (TGD) literary excellence in all narrative forms.”...
Larrikan acquires Galatola picture book
Monday, 2 March 2026
Larrikan has acquired world rights to Jess Galatola’s The Witch Who Couldn’t Spell, illustrated by Lu Baker. The book follows the adventures of Wanda Spelled, “a little witch with a...
HarperCollins acquires Fineberg novel
Monday, 2 March 2026
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Warren Fineberg’s novel A Boy from Buchenwald in a deal negotiated by Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. According to the publisher, “A Boy...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2026 winners announced
Thursday, 26 February 2026
The Wheeler Centre has announced the winners of the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Goorie and Koori poet and academic Evelyn Araluen has won the overall Victorian Prize for Literature,...
Larrikin acquires Purcell novel
Thursday, 26 February 2026
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to John Purcell’s novel The Amateur’s Guide to Killing Bad Guys. The novel begins on the “worst day” of entrepreneur Matthew Burton’s life. “The...
