Wakefield acquires Pollock novel ‘Starry Eyed’
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Wakefield Press has acquired ANZ rights to a second novel from Katharine Pollock, provisionally titled Starry Eyed, via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. In Starry Eyed, when Addilyn Acker is...
black&write! 2024 fellowship recipients announced
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced that the recipients of the 2024 black&write! fellowships are poets Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi and Lulu Houdini. Gesa-Fatafehi is a Torres Strait Islander and...
Palmer wins 2024 Ernest Scott Prize
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station (Shannyn Palmer, MUP) has won the 2024 Ernest Scott Prize for History. Award judges Grace Karskens and Frank...
ALS Gold Medal 2024 longlist announced
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. Longlisted works include: Frank (Jordie Albiston, NLA Publishing) The Prize (Kim E Anderson, Pantera) Like to...
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Wednesday, 15 May 2024
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The End and Everything Before It (Finegan Kruckemeyer, Text)
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Moving, profound and deeply layered, The End and Everything Before It is a soulful debut novel from award-winning playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer. Emma arrives in a small harbour after drifting alone on...
Lost & Found (Tim Sharp, Pantera)
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Lost & Found is the latest book by author, speaker and leader of Australia’s positive psychology movement, Dr Tim Sharp (aka ‘Dr Happy’). A self-help guide with a difference, it...
What Do You Call Your Dad? (Ashleigh Barton, illus Martina Heiduczek, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
What Do You Call Your Dad? is a love letter to fathers by writer Ashleigh Barton (Freddie Spector, Fact Collector: Space Cadet) and illustrator Martina Heiduczek (Spies in the Sky), the...
Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra (Cassy Polimeni, illus Hykie Breeze, UWAP)
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra by Cassy Polimeni (The Garden at the End of the World) is a beautifully written junior fiction story exploring themes of animal conservation, friendship...
Personal Logistics (Chris Palazzolo, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Chris Palazzolo is a poet based in the East Kimberley region whose works have previously won the Viva La Novella prize and the ABC Fiction Award. His latest collection, Personal...
The Book Star (Bec Nanayakkara, illus Joanna Bartel, Affirm)
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
The Book Star is a fun and engaging story about the importance of being yourself and following your interests. Centred around Book Week, this picture book offers a relatable situation...
The Mires (Tina Makereti, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Tina Makereti’s latest novel, The Mires, is a masterclass in social realism with just a touch of magic. Opening from the perspective of the swampland of the Kāpiti Coast in Aotearoa...
Yankovich’s ‘Just Friends’ North American rights sold
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
North American rights for Just Friends (Gyan Yankovich, Ultimo) have been sold to The Experiment, via Rach Crawford at Wolf Literary Services. Just Friends—which The Experiment will publish as Friendship...
Aotearoa Booksellers Choice Award shortlist announced
Monday, 13 May 2024
The shortlist for the Aotearoa Book Industry Awards Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The 16 books in the running for the award, which will be voted for by booksellers,...
Pantera acquires Eley’s romantasy ‘The Rule’
Monday, 13 May 2024
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to The Rule by Bronwyn Eley in a two-book deal. The Rule is a fantasy novel following Zinha, a member of the underground assassin...
The Voice to Parliament Handbook wins ABIA book of the year
Thursday, 9 May 2024
The winners of the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced, with The Voice to Parliament Handbook (Thomas Mayo & Kerry O’Brien, HG Explore) taking out the overall book...
UQP sells First Nations Classics series to Bolinda
Thursday, 9 May 2024
UQP has sold world audio rights to the First Nations Classics series to Bolinda, in a 15-book deal brokered by rights and contracts manager Erin Sandiford. In 2023, UQP launched...
Birch, McMullin win 2024 Age Book of the Year awards
Thursday, 9 May 2024
The winners of the Age Book of the Year awards have been announced. Tony Birch won the fiction award for his novel Women & Children (UQP) and Ross McMullin won...
Levitina shortlisted for UK Historical Novel Society’s First Chapters Competition
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Sydney author Julia Levitina has been shortlisted for the UK Historical Novel Society’s (HNS) First Chapters Competition. Levitina was shortlisted in the 20th-century historical fiction category for the opening chapters...
Vale Geoff Selig
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Executive director of IVE Geoff Selig has died. Print21 writes: The print community is reeling, as it mourns the passing of industry titan Geoff Selig, executive chair of IVE, who...
Wright wins second Stella; NSW, WA premiers’ lit awards shortlists; Hachette on Best Places to Work list
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Last Thursday Alexis Wright became the first author to win the Stella Prize twice, with her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (Giramondo), named the winner of the $60,000 award in a ceremony in...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold North American rights to The Paris Cooking School (Sophie Beaumont, Ultimo); Portugal rights to Bound to Happen (Jonathan Shannon, Ultimo); and UK, Portugal and...
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Wednesday, 8 May 2024
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Living Hot (Clive Hamilton & George Wilkenfeld, Hardie Grant Books)
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Living Hot by Clive Hamilton (Silent Invasion) and independent energy consultant George Wilkenfeld, provides a stark assessment of Australia’s response to climate change, emphasising that the inertia behind carbon emissions reduction...
Leaf Letters (Lorena Carrington, Christmas Press)
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Nine-year-old Hazel Bird loves to explore her local area and collect little treasures. When her baby sister is born, she can no longer bring home ‘choke-ables’ and is gifted an...
Return to Sender (Lauren Draper, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
A historical letter-writing mystery and searching for the missing ‘Adder Stone’ are two of the many compelling story arcs in this highly engaging, fast-paced contemporary YA novel. Brodie McKellon (‘The...
A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador)
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Dylin Hardcastle’s tender and steamy third novel, A Language of Limbs, follows two sapphic young women (Limb One and Limb Two) on different paths through the febrile 1970s and beyond...
Raymaŋgirrbuy dhäwu, When I was a little girl (Kylie Gatjawarrawuy Mununggurr, Magabala)
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
This beautiful book is written in dual languages: Dhuwal, also known as Djambarrpuyŋu (widely understood in north-east Arnhem Land), and English. The artworks/illustrations by author Kylie Gatjawarrawuy Mununggurr depict family...
Jade and Emerald (Michelle See-Tho, Vintage)
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize, Jade and Emerald is a portrait of what it means to grow up caught between two cultures. Lei Ling Wen is an Australian-born...
The Infant Vine (Isabella G Mead, UWAP)
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Isabella G Mead’s debut collection, The Infant Vine, speaks to the deeply elemental nature of motherhood. In these poems, the line between what is human and what is animal becomes ever...
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