A&U acquires Clutton novel in two-book deal
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the ‘uplit’ novel The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains by Sarah Clutton, via Melanie Ostell from the Melanie Ostell Literary Agency,...
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Wednesday, 4 September 2024
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Pictures of You (Emma Grey, Penguin)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Emma Grey’s second adult romance, Pictures of You, follows her successful debut, The Last Love Note, and shares similar themes of love, grief and hope, while weaving in mystery and...
Words to Sing the World Alive (ed by Jasmin McGaughey and The Poet’s Voice, UQP)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Words to Sing the World Alive, edited by Torres Strait Islander and African American author/editor Jasmin McGaughey and organisation The Poet’s Voice, collects stories from 40 First Nations contributors as they...
All the Beautiful Things (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Approaching her fourth World War II novel, All the Beautiful Things, I feared Katrina Nannestad may have run out of stories to tell, but this book was as compelling and...
The Power of Two (Lisa Messenger & Sarah Megginson, Pantera)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Co-authoring a book is an intimate venture, but for Lisa Messenger and Sarah Megginson, The Power of Two is just the latest in a series of incredibly personal journeys the...
A Secret Garden in Paris (Sophie Beaumont, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Sophie Beaumont’s latest novel, A Secret Garden in Paris, follows three women whose lives intertwine in Paris. The women are each at a substantial crossroads in their lives: Emma has...
Meerkat Mayhem (Mem Fox & Judy Horacek, Puffin)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Mem Fox and Judy Horacek, the dream team behind the popular picture book Where Is the Green Sheep? (now celebrating its 20th anniversary), have a new collaboration that is also...
S&S acquires Dix memoir
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to The Promise, the memoir of Arnold Dix, an international barrister, scientist and engineer who spearheaded the rescue of 41 trapped...
Indigenous Literacy Day 2024 to include launch of three bilingual titles
Monday, 2 September 2024
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has called for registrations ahead of its annual Indigenous Literacy Day, which is running this Wednesday, 4 September, and will feature a film, a livestreamed...
Simon & Schuster acquires Cottle YA series
Monday, 2 September 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to two books in a new YA series by debut author Ruby Jean Cottle, via agents Lou Johnson and Belinda Bolliger...
‘The Meaning of Singleness’ wins 2024 Australian Christian Book of the Year
Monday, 2 September 2024
The Meaning of Singleness: Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church (Danielle Treweek, InterVarsity Press Academic) has been named 2024 Australian Christian Book of the Year. The $3000 prize...
Murdoch acquires Goh solo cookbook
Monday, 2 September 2024
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to the first solo cookbook by Helen Goh, Baking and the Meaning of Life. The publisher described the book as a ‘brilliant modern-day baking...
Davitt Awards 2024 winners announced
Monday, 2 September 2024
Sisters in Crime has announced the winners of the 2024 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced...
Inaugural Shalom Australian Jewish Book Award 2024 winners announced
Monday, 2 September 2024
The inaugural Shalom Australian Jewish Book Award winners were announced at the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival, which ran 21 to 25 August. Michael Gawenda won the Leslie and Sophie Caplan...
Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 2 September 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, which celebrates ‘the best popular science writing from across the globe’, has been announced, reports BookBrunch....
Readings chair to run new festival, Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival program launched
Monday, 2 September 2024
A new Carlton-based writers’ festival and the 2024 Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival will both take place this November. Readings chair Mark Rubbo is launching a new literary festival, to be...
Atlantic acquires Zorn novel ‘Better Days’
Thursday, 29 August 2024
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin, has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Better Days by Claire Zorn, in a deal brokered by Grace Heifetz at Left Bank...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 28 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction HarperCollins has sold Dutch language rights to Even More Basics to Brilliance (Donna Hay, HarperCollins) to Uitgeverij Unieboek. Children’s HarperCollins has sold Brazilian Portuguese language rights to Bunny and Bird: How...
S&S acquires Affirm, Booktopia trading again, Books+Publishing to produce 2025 ABIAs
Wednesday, 28 August 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) and Affirm Press announced this week that Affirm will become part of S&S; Booktopia’s website is up and running once more, following the sale of the...
NLA acquires Wallman’s ‘All Out! Pink Bans and Blue Collars’
Wednesday, 28 August 2024
National Library of Australia (NLA) Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to All Out! Pink Bans and Blue Collars by comics-journalist, cartoonist and labour activist Sam Wallman. As the NLA’s 2023 Creative...
Epic Salads (Jessica Prescott, Hardie Grant Books)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
If you’re ready to ditch the pre-made salads from your local supermarket, Jessica Prescott’s Epic Salads: For every mood, craving and occasion is a must-have for your cookbook collection. Prescott...
Stepping Sideways (ed by Emily Larkin & Lynne Stringer, Rhiza Edge)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
An Irish water sprite takes on human form with dire consequences, young people without professional prospects are farmed out to sadistic circuses, and a clockwork pneumatic contraption becomes sentient. These...
The Whale’s Last Song (Joanne Fedler, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Joanne Fedler’s spellbinding The Whale’s Last Song is set in a time known as ‘The Great Forgetting’, when a plague ravages the medieval hamlet of Villingraz. While the wealthy hide...
This Kingdom of Dust (David Dyer, Penguin)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
In his sophomore novel, David Dyer skilfully blurs history and fiction to pose the question: What if the Apollo mission had failed to return from the Moon? This Kingdom of...
The Burrow (Melanie Cheng, Text)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
A triumph of restrained and tender storytelling, Melanie Cheng’s The Burrow follows a Melbourne family living on autopilot five years after a senseless tragedy. Amy, Jin and Lucie have since...
Everywhere We Look (Martine Kropkowski, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Everywhere We Look is the debut novel by Martine Kropkowski, a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, who has also written about the ethics of true crime and crime...
Tardigrades (Anne Morgan, illus Jennifer Falkner, CSIRO Publishing)
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Tardigrades: Nature’s toughest survivors is the latest nonfiction picture book from Anne Morgan, author of the CBCA Notable Book The Way of the Weedy Seadragon. Morgan showcases the remarkable microorganisms...
Dymocks Booragoon/Garden City wins top award at company conference
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Meg Arnold, store manager of the Booragoon/Garden City Dymocks bookstore in Perth, Western Australia, was awarded the Dymocks Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence in 2024 during the bookselling chain’s annual...
A&U acquires Tutt’s children’s books
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Corey Tutt’s children’s titles Caution! This Book Contains Deadly Reptiles (illus by Ben Williams) and Before It Was Called Science, the follow-up to The...
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