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Ned Kelly Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Monday, 12 August 2024
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards shortlists. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime fiction Killer Traitor Spy (Tim Ayliffe, S&S) Ripper...

Hammer wins 2024 ACT Book of the Year

Monday, 12 August 2024
Chris Hammer has won the 2024 ACT Book of the Year Award, worth $10,000, for The Seven (A&U). Untethered (Ayesha Inoon, HQ Fiction) and The Measure of Sorrow: Stories (J...

NSW Premier’s History Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 8 August 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian history prize ($15,000) Donald Horne:...

Dunn awarded 2024 Rising Star Award

Thursday, 8 August 2024
Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) distribution director Riikka Dunn has been named the Australian Publishers Association (APA) 2024 Rising Star. Dunn was selected from a shortlist that also included Rebecca Allen...

Nib Literary Award 2024 longlist announced

Thursday, 8 August 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Because I'm Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black...

Rights round up 

Wednesday, 7 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold Thai rights to Good with Money (Emma Edwards) to B2S and Chinese simplified rights to the same title to China Machine Press. Children’s/YA Scholastic...

A&U acquires Oswald novel 

Photograph of Debra Oswald Wednesday, 7 August 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to One Hundred Years of Betty by Debra Oswald, in a deal brokered by Anthony Blair at Cameron’s. One the eve of...

‘In Ascension’ wins 2024 Arthur C Clarke Award

Wednesday, 7 August 2024
In the UK, Scottish writer Martin MacInnes has won this year’s Arthur C Clarke award for In Ascension (Atlantic), reports the Guardian. MacInnes’s third novel, In Ascension follows marine biologist...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 7 August 2024
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.

Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) 

The cover of Robbie Arnott's novel Dusk Tuesday, 6 August 2024
In his fourth novel, Dusk, Robbie Arnott returns to familiar terrain. ‘Dusk’ is the name the highland graziers have given to a puma who has begun to ‘take’ shepherds and...

The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm) 

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
When reading author and screenwriter Christian White’s fourth novel, The Ledge, it’s worth remembering the adage: ‘When you assume, you make an ass of u and me.’ As a seasoned...

Matia (Emily Tsokos Purtill, UWA Publishing) 

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
Emily Tsokos Purtill’s debut novel, Matia, is a generational story that follows the lives of four Greek women in Australia over 125 years. Sia emigrated from Greece to Perth in...

Danger Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Logo for the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival Monday, 5 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Danger Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Debut fiction   Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl (Fiona Britton, A&U)   The...

UQP acquires two Sakr collections 

Photograph of Omar Sakr Monday, 5 August 2024
UQP has acquired two new books by Omar Sakr. The first, The Nightmare Sequence, is a collection of poetry responding to the ongoing situation in Gaza, with a foreword by...

Mulhall awarded 2024 Reading Australia Fellowship

Photograph of Maya Mulhall Thursday, 1 August 2024
The Copyright Agency has named Maya Mulhall, a teacher from Blackburn High School in Victoria, the 2024 Reading Australia Fellow for teachers of English and literacy and teacher librarians. Mulhall...

Queensland Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 1 August 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. In several categories, the awards' value has increased this year, with the total value of the awards now standing...

Taylor wins 2024 Ackerley Prize

Wednesday, 31 July 2024
In the UK, journalist and author Catherine Taylor has won the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize 2024 for The Stirrings (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), reports the Bookseller. Taylor receives £4000 (A$7852). Also shortlisted for...

Wood longlisted for 2024 Booker Prize

Cover of Stoneyard Devotional Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U). The 13 books shortlist for the £50,000 (A$98,124) prize are: Creation...

 

 

 

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