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The Last Encore (Rebecca Heath, Head of Zeus) 

Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Secrets, lies, murder and even love await in Rebecca Heath’s latest psychological thriller, The Last Encore. The remaining members of The Cedrics Band reunite on the fictional Sparrow Hawk Island...

Aston, Morton, Wright shortlisted for Walkley Book Award 

Cover of The Chairman’s Lounge by Joe Aston, with view through aircraft window. Monday, 3 November 2025
The Walkley Foundation has announced the shortlist for this year’s Walkley Book Award. The three books, drawn from a longlist of eight, are: The Chairman’s Lounge by Joe Aston (Scribner) Mean Streak by...

Australian historian wins Cundill History Prize 

Historian Lyndal Roper sitting on a windowsill. Monday, 3 November 2025
Oxford University-based historian Lyndal Roper has won this year’s Cundill History Prize for Summer of Fire and Blood (John Murray), her history of the German Peasants’ War of the 1520s....

Ultimo acquires Ash’s Mantle

Photo of writer Romy Ash in blue shirt. Thursday, 30 October 2025
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to novelist Romy Ash’s new work, Mantle, in a deal brokered by Michaela McGuire of a4 Literary. Mantle is a literary eco-thriller set in...

Priest wins Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship

Photo of Ann-Marie Priest smiling. Wednesday, 29 October 2025
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Ann-Marie Priest as the 2025 recipient of the $35,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship for her biography “Tell It Slant: The Life and Loves...

Rights round-up 

The cover of "Life Drawing" by Emiliy Lighezzolo. Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Sales Fiction UQP has sold world (ex ANZ, Italian and Arabic) rights to Ghost Cities (Siang Lu) to Summit Books (S&S UK) in a significant pre-empt. Poetry UQP has sold...

Bakers Lane Books acquires McGuinness YA novel

A photograph of Bryony McGuinness standing front of a curtain. She has black hair and is smiling. Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to Violet Town, a young adult novel by Bryony McGuinness. Violet Town follows Cate Hawkins, a longstanding resident of Hickory’s Orphanage, as she...

A&U acquires Stroud’s “The Angry Wives Club”

Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Angry Wives Club, a novel by Gabbie Stroud. The Angry Wives Club follows three women “quietly planning a revolution”, said the...

Upswell acquires Curtin novel

Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Six Days by Amanda Curtin. “Six Days creates a character in Daniel, an expat Australian who has lived in Paris for longer than anywhere...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 29 October 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.

The Wardrobe Project (Emma Edwards, Wiley) 

Cover of "The Wardrobe Project" by Emma Edwards. The title text lays over the sketched outline of a person. Tuesday, 28 October 2025
In 2022, Emma Edwards (Good with Money) realised she had a serious wardrobe problem. Not only was she stuck in a pattern of overbuying clothing, but she was also unhappy...

Better than the Real Thing (Brooke Crawford, HQ Fiction) 

The cover of "Better Than the Real Thing" by Brooke Crawford. The title text appears over the colourful painting of a face. Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Brooke Crawford’s debut novel, Better than the Real Thing, is the kind of delightful escapism you’d expect from a Netflix Christmas movie – comforting, heartfelt and brimming with second chances....

Blak & Bright moves to September

An image of the Blak & Bright logo. Tuesday, 28 October 2025
The 2026 Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival will run from 3 to 6 September 2026, organisers have announced. This marks a shift in the timing of the biennial...

Carman named 2025 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellow

A photo of Luke Carman. A man is smiling at the camera and wears a navy blazer over a blue shirt. Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Luke Carman is the recipient of the 2025 Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, receiving $100,000 to support a year-long residency at the Charles Perkins Centre. Based in Western Sydney, Carman is...

HarperCollins acquires Crowe’s nonfiction work

A photo of Ben Crowe. He stands in front of a black brick wall. He wears glasses and a white jumper. Tuesday, 28 October 2025
HarperCollins has acquired Australian rights to Where the Light Gets In, a nonfiction book by Ben Crowe. Where the Light Gets In, a book about personal growth, “explains how 9...

Rix, Cormick win ACT Book of the Year

Warra Warra Wai book cover Monday, 27 October 2025
Darren Rix and Craig Cormick have won the ACT Book of the Year award for their title Warra Warra Wai (Scribner). Rix and Cormick will share the $10,000 prize. Judges praised Warra...

Hardie Grant acquires Joyce memoir

A photo of Alan Joyce smiling. He is wearing a suit and glasses. Monday, 27 October 2025
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce’s memoir, in a deal brokered by Robert Joske at Robert Joske Management. Joyce “will take a reflective...

Inaugural Spiers Prize shortlist

The Spiers Prize logo Monday, 27 October 2025
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Spiers Prize, as well as some changes to the award. The publisher announced that “due to the enthusiastic number of...

2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award candidates

A sketch of a woman's profile under the text "Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award". Monday, 27 October 2025
The nominees for the 2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award have been announced. The Aotearoa New Zealand and Australian nominees are: Alison Lester Gavin Bishop (NZ) Oliver Jeffers Susanne Gervay Ursula...

Janson, van Loon, Vucic awarded Copyright Agency fellowships

Composite photo showing authors Julie Janson, Julienne-van-Loon and Dženana Vucic. Thursday, 23 October 2025
The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has announced the recipients of its 2025 Fellowships for established and emerging Australian writers. Julie Janson, a Burruberongal woman of the Darug Aboriginal Nation and...

Inaugural AusArt Day seeks to support creative work

AusArt Day Thursday, 23 October 2025
Creative Australia’s (CA) inaugural national giving to the arts day, AusArt Day, takes place today, 23 October. The new initiative is “designed to support artists and arts organisations to fundraise...

History Unbound festival launches program

History Unbound logo Thursday, 23 October 2025
The Historical Novel Society Australasia have announced the full program for the History Unbound festival, which will take place from 1 to 2 November in Parramatta. The event marks a...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Sales Nonfiction Rockpool Publishing has sold French rights for the Orien’s Animal Tarot (Ambi San), Mythos Tarot (Helena Elias), Seasons of the Witch Ostara Oracle (Lorriane Anderson), Enchanted Earth Oracle (Jessica Lahoud) and Japanese Gods & Spirits...

Simon reaches finals in BookLife prize

the book cover for The Art in my Palm Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Australian author Luke Icarus Simon has been named a quarter finalist in the Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize – Fiction for his novel The Art in My Palm. In their report, the...

Flame Tree acquires new Bacon anthology

A portrait of Eugen Bacon, an African Australian woman wearing a red dress and standing between two trees Wednesday, 22 October 2025
UK-based publisher Flame Tree Publishing has acquired world rights to Sauuti Terrors, two speculative fiction anthologies co-edited by Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S Ntumy, in a deal brokered...

 

 

 

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