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UQP acquires Byres mystery novel 

Thursday, 24 October 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to Dead Ends, a ‘darkly funny and sexy’ mystery novel by Samantha Byres, via literary agent Jane Novak. Dead Ends begins as ‘all-round chaos merchant...

‘Language City’ wins 2024 British Academy Book Prize

Cover of Language City Wednesday, 23 October 2024
In the UK, US author writer Ross Perlin has won the £25,000 (A$48,543) British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother...

Whitley Awards 2024 winners announced

Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Royal Zoological Society of NSW has announced the winners of the 2024 Whitley Awards, presented for outstanding publications that profile the unique wildlife of the Australasian region. The Whitley Medal,...

Rights round-up 

Photograph of Amy Taylor standing in front of a tree Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold world English (ex ANZ) rights to Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania (Hamish McDonald) to Hurst Publishers; North America rights to The Shortest History of AI...

Bolinda, A&U acquire new Heath crime series 

Black and white photograph of Jack Heath Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Allen & Unwin and Bolinda Audio have acquired print and audio book rights, respectively, to two titles in a new crime series by Jack Heath. At Bolinda, audio rights and...

Vale George Negus 

Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Broadcaster and author George Negus has died, aged 82. Negus worked as a school teacher, before becoming a newspaper reporter, then moving to television journalism. Specialising in international affairs, Negus...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 23 October 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.

Readings Prize 2024 winners announced

Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Readings has announced the winners of the 2024 Readings Prize in each category and the winner of the Gab Williams Prize. The winning titles are: New Australian Fiction Prize Thanks...

Affirm signs Douglas’s ‘Cosy Vegan’ cookbook 

Photograph of Elizabeth Douglas chopping vegetables Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the cookbook Cosy Vegan by Liz Douglas. Affirm described the book as ‘the ultimate kitchen companion for those wanting to explore a plant-based lifestyle,...

Nix wins best novel at 2024 Ditmar Awards

Tuesday, 22 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 Ditmar Awards were announced on 7 October, as part of the Australian national science fiction convention ‘Conflux 18’ in Canberra. The winning works include: Best novel The...

Kitching, Pickens awarded in Laurel Prize

Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand poets Megan Kitching and Robyn Maree Pickens are among prize recipients for the annual UK nature and environmental poetry award, the Laurel Prize. The 2024 winners are:...

Nakata Brophy Prize 2024 shortlist announced

The logo for Overland, with the word written in green font. Monday, 21 October 2024
Overland journal has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize for the best poem by a young Indigenous writer. The shortlisted works, selected by judges Karen Wyld and Eugenia...

Rossell wins 2024 Albert Ullin Award

Monday, 21 October 2024
Melbourne author and illustrator Judith Rossell is the recipient of the 2024 Albert Ullin Award, worth $10,000. The prize judging panel said: ‘It is Rossell’s profound love for creating stories...

Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards 2024 winners announced

NT Book Award winners Monday, 21 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Hush (Ciella Williams, Playlab Theatre) Nonfiction Living in Tin: The...

Richell Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Logo for the Richell Prize, featuring a swooping bird Thursday, 17 October 2024
Hachette Australia and the Richell family, in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) and Simpsons Solicitors, has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. The...

Transit Lounge acquires Raszewski’s second novel 

Thursday, 17 October 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to For One Visitor at a Time, the second novel by Melbourne-based author Monica Raszewski. For One Visitor at a Time tells the story of...

A&U acquires Chung memoir 

Thursday, 17 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to the memoir Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You by Candice Chung via Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. In describing the memoir, the publisher...

James awarded 2024 ASA Medal

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Ann James is the recipient of the 2024 ASA Medal. Established in 2003, the ASA Medal is awarded annually to an Australian...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Sales Fiction Jenny Darling & Associates has sold rights to Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional (A&U) to Sceptre (UK), Riverhead (US), Seuil (France), Kein & Aber (Germany), Fazi Editore (Italy), Kultur (Turkey), One...

Pan Macmillan acquires Kerr’s adult fiction debut 

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Kay Kerr’s untitled adult fiction debut, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. In the novel, ‘a burnt-out and unravelling young...

 

 

 

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