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Sarah Evans (Bernice Barry, Echo) 

Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Sarah Evans is a richly imagined and meticulously researched historical fiction novel based on a true story. The tale begins in grimly Dickensian early 19th-century Clerkenwell, London, where powerful men...

The Best Witch in Paris (Lauren Crozier, Text) 

Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Lauren Crozier won the 2023 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for her middle-grade novel The Best Witch in Paris. With a charm reminiscent of Jill Murphy’s Worst...

Hardie Grant acquires Petracca cookbook 

Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to AFL star and Norm Smith medallist Christian Petracca’s debut cookbook, Christian Petracca’s On Trac Cookbook. A premiership player and midfielder for the...

Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship 2024 recipients announced

Varuna, the National Writers House logo Monday, 29 July 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the three recipients of the 2024 Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship. The recipients are Anna Hickey-Moody, director of the Arts and Humanities Institute at...

Lomer wins 2024 Furphy Literary Award

Monday, 29 July 2024
Kathryn Lomer has won the $15,000 first prize in the 2024 Furphy Literary Award for the short story ‘Nothing about Kissing’. Lomer is a poet, YA author and novelist from...

QWC Varuna fellowship 2024 recipients announced

Monday, 29 July 2024
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced the recipients of its two 2024 residential fellowships to be held at Varuna, the National Writers’ House. Recipients of the 2024 fellowships are...

Lennon wins 2024 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize

Monday, 29 July 2024
In the UK, Ferdia Lennon has won the £5000 (A$9816) Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for Glorious Exploits (Fig Tree), reports the Bookseller. Chosen from a shortlist of six, the winning...

Affirm acquires three Brentos illustrated books 

Monday, 29 July 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to three books by author-illustrator Brentos. Brentos' first children’s book, Australia: From dawn to dusk (Affirm), was shortlisted for the CBCA award for a...

Davitt Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 25 July 2024
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels The...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Berbay has sold simplified Chinese rights to All About the Heart (Remi Kowalski, illus by Tonia Composto), All About the Brain (Gabriel Dabscheck, illus by Kim Siew) and All...

PANZ Book Design Awards 2024 finalists announced

Wednesday, 24 July 2024
The finalists in the 2024 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Best illustrated book The...

HarperCollins acquires Price’s memoir 

Wednesday, 24 July 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s memoir Matters of the Heart, written with Sue Smethurst. Price was elected a Country Liberal Party (CLP) senator for the Northern...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 24 July 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.

Immortal Dark (Tigest Girma, Lothian) 

Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Tigest Girma’s debut novel, Immortal Dark, is the book YA readers of dark academia and romantasy have been waiting for—something with the violence and passion of genre bestsellers such as...

Inheritance (Genevieve Gannon, Pantera) 

Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Inheritance is the latest novel by Genevieve Gannon, bestselling author of The Mothers. In the not-too-distant future, scientists use eugenics to protect the next generation against viruses and diseases. At the same...

The First Friend (Malcolm Knox, A&U) 

Tuesday, 23 July 2024
When a novel begins with historical maps of the Soviet Union, a timeline of events, and character lists, there can be some trepidation about whether the commitment required will be...

Kitchen Sentimental (Annie Smithers, T&H) 

Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Why do we cook, and where do we learn to appreciate food? In her new memoir, Kitchen Sentimental, chef and author Annie Smithers (Recipe for a Kinder Life) tackles these...

Cherrywood (Jock Serong, HarperCollins) 

Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Jock Serong’s Cherrywood obscures time and place, braiding together the fates of his characters through extraordinary ventures and chance meetings. In his latest novel, Serong (The Burning Island, On the...

Griffith Review 2024 Emerging Voices winners announced

Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Griffith Review has announced the five winners of its 2024 Emerging Voices competition: Lily Holloway, Sarah Kanake, Myles McGuire, Kobi Simpson and Emily Tsokos Purtill. Holloway is a powerlifting enthusiast...

Rights round-up 

Cover of The 113th Assistant Librarian Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold Russia and France rights to The 113th Assistant Librarian (Stuart Wilson) in a two-book deal at auction, on behalf of Melanie Ostell Literary. Ultimo Press...

‘Big Time’ sells to UK, Italy and Russia 

Cover of Big Time Wednesday, 17 July 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Jordan Prosser’s debut novel, Big Time, to publishing director Harriet Hirshman at Dead Ink, in a deal brokered...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 17 July 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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