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Bundyi acquires Stan Grant memoir 

An author photograph of Stan Grant, pictured in front of a bookshelf Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) imprint Bundyi has announced that it has acquired world rights to A Song of Time, a memoir by author, media commentator and public intellectual Stan Grant....

Ena Noël Award 2024 shortlists announced

Monday, 12 February 2024
The shortlists for the biennial Ena Noël Award has been announced by the Australian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). The shortlisted authors and illustrators are:...

Affirm acquires Micallef anthology 

Monday, 12 February 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Slivers, Shards and Skerricks, a comedy anthology from television personality and author Shaun Micallef. The publisher described Micallef’s forthcoming anthology as ‘a spectrum...

Rippin appointed Australian Children’s Laureate 2024–25

Wednesday, 7 February 2024
The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) has named Sally Rippin as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2024–25. Rippin has written over 100 books for children and young adults, including the...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Sales Fiction Hachette has sold Russian rights to Bird (Courtney Collins) to Azbooka, via the Zeitgeist Agency. HarperCollins has sold Russian rights to The House That Joy Built (Holly Ringland)...

Larrikin acquires Betoota Advocate series 

Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled nonfiction series from satire publication the Betoota Advocate. The publisher said the series, which is for readers aged 8 to 12,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 7 February 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.

The Cave (Victor Kelleher, Eagle Books) 

Tuesday, 6 February 2024
In Victor Kelleher’s upper-middle-grade prehistoric adventure novel The Cave, young Irian—one of the few survivors after the Beast (a sabre-toothed tiger) attacks the cave where he lives—is traumatised into muteness...

How to Knit a Human (Anna Jacobson, NewSouth) 

Tuesday, 6 February 2024
The contents of Anna Jacobson’s memoir How to Knit a Human are the stuff of nightmares: a young, award-winning artist and poet has a psychotic break, is involuntarily hospitalised and...

Amma (Saraid de Silva, Moa Press) 

cover image for Amma Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Annie Fernando has flown to London to meet her estranged uncle Suri. So begins the captivating tale of family, love and secrets told through the lives of three generations of...

Pheasants Nest (Louise Milligan, A&U) 

Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Pheasants Nest is a thriller about every journalist’s nightmare—that they, too, will be reduced to clickbait headlines and long-form reflective true crime essays. There may be no more fitting journalist...

Upswell sells Ekhō to Soft Skull Press 

Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Upswell Publishing has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Ekhō (Roslyn Orlando) to Soft Skull Press. The deal was brokered between Sophy Williams, publisher and international director at Black Inc....

McKenzie wins Victorian Premier’s History Award

Monday, 5 February 2024
Carmel McKenzie received the 2023 Victorian Premier’s History Award for the book St Kilda 1841–1900: Movers and shakers and money-makers (Manneton Publishing). St Kilda 1841–1900 explains how St Kilda was...

Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlist announced

The logo for Overland, with the word written in green font. Monday, 5 February 2024
Overland has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Shortlisted stories are: ‘Ad Nauseam’ by Gillian Hagenus ‘Committal’ by Bridget Webster ‘Fledgling’ by Madison Godfrey ‘Mandarin...

Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist announced

The logo for Overland, with the word written in green font. Monday, 5 February 2024
Overland has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Shortlisted poems include: ‘Because a Wind Blazes’ by Dženana Vucic ‘Celestial Tree’ by Andrew Brooks ‘Febrile’ by William...

Yee wins 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs

Cover of Chines Fish Friday, 2 February 2024
Grace Yee has won Australia’s single richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her poetry collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo) at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs)....

Ockham 2024 longlists announced

Thursday, 1 February 2024
The longlists for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction (NZ$65,000) Audition (Pip Adam,...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Sales Nonfiction Rockpool Publishing has sold Swedish rights for Seasons of the Witch, Samhain Edition (Juliet Diaz & Lorriane Anderson), to go along with previous French, Spanish and German translation sales....

Forrest wins Newcastle Short Story Award

Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Western Sydney writer Patrick Cruz Forrest has taken first place in the 2023 Newcastle Short Story Award for his short story ‘Kuya’. The winners, which will be published in an...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 31 January 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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