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A&U acquires Schmitz debut novel 

Thursday, 19 September 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Toby Schmitz’s debut novel, The Empress Murders, via Edwina Stuart at HLA Management. The publisher described The Empress Murders as a...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Sales Nonfiction Scribe has sold Indonesian rights to Life Skills for a Broken World (Ahona Guha) to Bhuana Ilmu Populer; and Greek rights to 12 Rules for Strife (Jeff Sparrow...

Echo acquires Maynard novels 

Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to two novels by debut author Anna Maynard, via Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency. The first novel, Dancing with Bees, is described by...

Hachette acquires Mansour-Nahra debut novel 

Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s debut novel, with a working title of The Farm, in a five-way auction, in a two-book deal via Marina de Pass...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 18 September 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.

Down the Rabbit Hole (Shaeden Berry, Echo) 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
In Shaeden Berry’s mystery debut, Down the Rabbit Hole, the lives of three women unravel in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 2015, Alice Montgomery goes missing. Seven years later,...

Vegan Italian Food (Shannon Martinez, Hardie Grant) 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Prolific vegan chef and restauranteur Shannon Martinez’s fourth cookbook, Vegan Italian Food, is anything but conventional, but she promises she’s not out to shock your nonna. Martinez is a Spanish Australian...

Molly (Rosalie Ham, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Molly is a riveting prequel to The Dressmaker from much-loved Australian author Rosalie Ham, and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel. Set in the inner-city suburbs of Melbourne in...

Wood shortlisted for 2024 Booker Prize

Cover of Stoneyard Devotional Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U). The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$97,828) prize are: Creation Lake (Rachel...

National Book Award longlists announced 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
In the US, the longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards have been announced. Longlisted fiction and nonfiction titles include: Fiction Ghostroots (’Pemi Aguda, Virago) Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar, Picador) The...

Melbourne Books acquires Tania debut cookbook 

Monday, 16 September 2024
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Christy Tania’s first cookbook, Imagine: Creating Desserts with Christy Tania. The publisher said that the cookbook features over 50 base recipes for ‘adventurous and...

Riveted Press acquires Teow illustrated book series 

Monday, 16 September 2024
Riveted Press has acquired worldwide rights to five picture books in the series The Book of Kin by author/illustrator Tamlyn Teow, beginning with the book SoXiety. In this ‘almost-wordless’ picture...

New prize for humour writing added to VPLAs

VPLA logo Monday, 16 September 2024
A new award category, the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing, has been added to the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs), named in honour of satirist, writer and actor John...

Wainwright Prize winners announced

Monday, 16 September 2024
In the UK, the 2024 winners of the Wainwright Prize for nature and conservation writing have been announced. The nature writing prize was awarded to Late Light: The Secret Wonders...

Danger Awards 2024 winners announced

Monday, 16 September 2024
The 2024 winners of the Danger Awards have been announced. Winners in each category are: Fiction The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin) Debut fiction   Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder (Kerryn Mayne,...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 12 September 2024
Creative Australia has announced the winners of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.  The winners in each category, chosen by an expert independent panel of judges from shortlists announced in...

British Academy Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 12 September 2024
The British Academy has announced the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,156). The shortlisted titles are: Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and...

Atlantic acquires new Dettmann novel 

Black and white photograph of Jessica Dettmann Thursday, 12 September 2024
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin (A&U), has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Jessica Dettmann, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown....

Vale Louise Thurtell

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Former Allen & Unwin publisher Louise Thurtell, who also worked at HarperCollins, Transworld and Random House, has died. Thurtell worked in the Australian book publishing industry for more than 30...

Tim Bowden remembered

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Broadcaster, journalist, oral historian and author Tim Bowden has died, aged 87. Rebecca Kaiser, Bowden’s publisher across 10 books at Allen & Unwin, writes: Over the nearly 25 years that we were...

Smith Street acquires Davies cookbook 

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Smith Street Books has acquired world rights to a new Japanese cookbook by Emiko Davies, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. Davies is an Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer, author...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold traditional Chinese rights to Treasure & Dirt, The Tilt and The Seven (all Chris Hammer, A&U) in Taiwan; and rights to Green Dot (Madeleine Gray,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 11 September 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.

 

 

 

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