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Vale Michael Webster

Photograph of Michael Webster. Credit: Debora Webster-Bain Friday, 31 January 2025
Publisher, editor and academic Michael Webster has died. Webster had a long and distinguished career in the Australian publishing industry, with roles as a publisher, academic, and board member. He...

Ockham 2025 longlists announced

The ockham new zealand book awards logo. Thursday, 30 January 2025
The longlists for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction (NZ$65,000) All That We...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold German rights to Crushing (Genevieve Novak) to Bastei Lübbe; and Ukrainian rights to The Chocolate Factory (Mary-Lou Stephens) to Knigolove. UQP has sold world English (ex ANZ)...

Hardie Grant Books acquires Nat Thaipun cookbook 

a portrait of Nat Thaipun Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print and ebook rights to Thai: Anywhere and Everywhere, the debut cookbook from MasterChef Australia 2024 winner Nat Thaipun, through Ben Liebmann of Understory....

Adelaide Writers’ Week full program announced 

adelaide writers week (aww) logo in blue and white Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Adelaide Writers’ Week director Louise Adler today announced the full program for 2025 Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW), which will mark the 40th anniversary of the event. In a statement, Adler...

UQP sells rights to ‘Edenglassie’ to Oneworld

Edenglassie Wednesday, 29 January 2025
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold world English (ex ANZ) and audio rights to Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie to Oneworld Publications. The deal was struck between UQP rights and contacts...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 29 January 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.

First Name Second Name (Steve MinOn, UQP) 

Tuesday, 28 January 2025
In Steve MinOn’s debut novel, First Name Second Name, the story spans four generations of the Chinese Australian Bolin family, whose roots in Australia date back to the late 19th...

The Buried Life (Andrea Goldsmith, Transit Lounge) 

Tuesday, 28 January 2025
In The Buried Life, Andrea Goldsmith – renowned for her sharp insights into contemporary life and relationships – once again delves into the complexities of human connection. Known for The...

Washpool (Lisa Fuller, Lothian) 

Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Lisa Fuller’s Washpool is a fun, heartwarming and insightful exploration of family and kinship that takes the portal fantasy genre to a new level. When Murri sisters Bella and Cienna...

The Thrill of It (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 28 January 2025
The Thrill of It is the latest crime novel by Mandy Beaumont, author of the Stella Prize–longlisted The Furies. The story follows Emmerson Kerr, whose grandmother was brutally murdered in...

SoXiety (Tamlyn Teow, Riveted Press) 

Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Tamlyn Teow’s SoXiety offers a thought-provoking, immersive experience that mirrors the anxiety of today’s world. Teow’s graphic novel, the first in a new collection called The Book of Kin, is...

Love Unedited (Caro Llewellyn, Picador) 

Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Reading Caro Llewellyn’s debut novel, Love Unedited, is like reading someone’s diary entries on life and love, which is fitting for this story within a story. Set predominantly in New York...

Local author, voice actor among Audie Awards finalists 

Thursday, 23 January 2025
In the United States, the Audio Publishers Association has announced the finalists for the 2025 Audie Awards for audiobooks and spoken word entertainment. Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand finalists include:...

Rights round-up 

Cover of The Lost Book of Magic Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Turkish rights to The Shortest History of Turkey (Benjamin C Fortna) to Say Yayinlari. Rockpool has sold Japanese translation rights for Guardian Angel Oracle (Debbie...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 22 January 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.

Sunny at the End of the World (Steph Bowe, Text) 

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Steph Bowe’s Sunny at the End of the World, published posthumously, provides clear evidence of Bowe’s creative skills levelling up. The book is set across dual timelines in 2018 and...

Geraldine (Andrea Thompson, Fremantle) 

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
In this heartwarming debut novel, spanning the 1960s to the early 2000s, music journalist and artist manager Andrea Thompson tells the story of Geraldine, a fierce protagonist who remains true...

The Last Seed Keeper (Paul Russell, EK Books) 

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
In The Last Seed Keeper, the first in Paul Russell’s cli-fi (climate fiction) trilogy of the same name, not a narrative minute is wasted. Tense action, complex speculative cautionary concepts,...

Best, First and Last (Amy Matthews, S&S) 

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Best, First and Last is a fun romance novel that has everything you could ask for: an unexpected, all-expenses-paid holiday, a charming stranger, a nosy family with no concept of...

Signs of Damage (Diana Reid, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Diana Reid’s third book is an engrossing, meticulously crafted drama that explores memory, trauma, repression and self-preservation, examining how these themes intersect, overlap, are misinterpreted or deliberately distorted to devastating...

 

 

 

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