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Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to The Island (Antigone Kefala) to Transit Books. Nonfiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to Sydney Journals (Antigone Kefala) to Transit Books. Black...

Derby wins 2024 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Mark Derby has won the 2024 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Writers’ Award, worth...

Hachette acquires Harry middle-grade verse novel 

Photograph of Pip Harry Monday, 7 October 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Pip Harry’s middle-grade verse novel Drift, via agent Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. According to the author, Drift tells the story of Nate and...

HarperCollins acquires three Ringland books 

Photograph of Holly Ringland Monday, 7 October 2024
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to three new books by Holly Ringland, via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. The first book scheduled for release under the deal is a...

A&U acquires Gorry memoir 

Thursday, 3 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Katrina Gorry: A Matildas Hero’s Story of Football, Motherhood and Breaking Down Barriers, written by Katrina Gorry with Robert Wainwright, in...

Goldsmiths Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 3 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize, worth £10,000 (A$19,268), has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: All My Precious Madness (Mark Bowles, Galley Beggar Press) Tell...

Vale Stephen Matthews

Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Publisher Stephen Matthews has died, aged 78. Matthews founded the independent publisher Ginninderra Press in 1996 in Canberra, later moving to Adelaide. He received an Order of Australia Medal (OAM)...

Rights round-up 

Photograph of Jessica Stanely Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Scholastic has sold French rights to Spy Academy books 1 and 2 (Jack Heath); English language rights within Korea to Zoo School (Heath McKenzie); Croatian rights to Bad Guys...

ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced

Wednesday, 2 October 2024
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Shortlisted titles, selected from longlists announced last month, are: Adult The Unearthed (Lenny...

Paice wins ACU Poetry Prize

Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Kiama-based poet and author Christine Paice has won the $10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Poetry for a poem about the death of her mother. The winning poem, ‘Gabriel...

FT Business Book of the Year shortlist announced

Wednesday, 2 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the Year. The shortlisted titles are: The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost)...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 2 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.

Black Convicts (Santilla Chingaipe, Scribner) 

Tuesday, 1 October 2024
In recent years, historians have increasingly shown that the past, especially in the West, was more multicultural than the monoculture so often portrayed. In Australia, where colonial history has consistently...

Noble Fragments (Michael Visontay, Scribe) 

Tuesday, 1 October 2024
Noble Fragments examines the nature of value and the role of perspective in shaping it, as journalist and author Michael Visontay weaves together two interrelated stories. The first is about...

Thunderhead (Sophie Beer, A&U Children’s) 

Tuesday, 1 October 2024
Thunderhead is the debut middle-grade novel by award-winning author and illustrator Sophie Beer. Thunderhead (the titular character’s online username—their name isn’t revealed until the end of the book) is an...

Casati wins Glass Bell Award for ‘Clytemnestra’ 

Tuesday, 1 October 2024
In the UK, Costanza Casati has won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for Clytemnestra (Michael Joseph). Clytemnestra is Casati’s debut historical novel, described by the publisher as ‘an epic feminist...

Polari Prize 2024 shortlists announced

Monday, 30 September 2024
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2024 Polari Prizes for LGBTQ+ literature have been announced. Shortlisted titles include: Book prize (£2000, A$3867) Blue Hunger (Viola Di Grado, trans by...

Matuku wins inaugural NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award

Monday, 30 September 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) (NZSA) has announced Steph Matuku as the inaugural winner of the $5000 NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award....

Wolfson History Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 26 September 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize, worth £50,000 (A$97,650), has been announced, reports BookBrunch. The shortlisted books are: Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Joya Chatterji,...

Ned Kelly Awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 26 September 2024
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards winners. The winning works in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in August, are: Best crime fiction Darling...

Vale Barbara Mobbs

Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Literary agent Barbara Mobbs has died, aged 81. Jane Novak, of Jane Novak Literacy Agency, writes: Barbara Mobbs was a giant of our industry. A formidable agent, she had worked...

 

 

 

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