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The Dragon’s Treasure (Mark Greenwood, Fremantle) 

Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Buried treasure? Check. Old shipwrecks? Check. Mark Greenwood’s latest nonfiction book, The Dragon’s Treasure, begins his new History Hunter series and pulls together historical evidence to tell the story of...

The Honeyeater (Jessie Tu, A&U) 

Cover of The Honeyeater Tuesday, 28 May 2024
The Honeyeater is the second novel by Jessie Tu, acclaimed author of A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing. The story centres around Fay, an academic and emerging translator who works on...

Murder in Punch Lane (Jane Sullivan, Echo) 

Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Jane Sullivan’s third novel, Murder in Punch Lane, transports readers to the grizzly underbelly of 1860s Melbourne. Actress Lola Sanchez doesn’t believe her best friend, theatre star Marie, died by...

A&U acquires Rielly’s ‘Fridays with Blanche’ 

Blanche d'Alpuget and Derek Rielly Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Fridays with Blanche by Derek Rielly, via Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary Management. Fridays with Blanche is based on Rielly’s weekly...

Inaugural ABR Inglis Fellowship announced

ABR logo Tuesday, 28 May 2024
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced a new fellowship program—the $5000 ABR Inglis Fellowship. The inaugural year-long program will give one fellow the opportunity to write three review essays...

Text Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 28 May 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, worth $10,000, has been announced. Shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘The Feathers of Farwood’ by Jayne McIntyre (middle grade),...

‘Solenoid’ wins 2024 Dublin Literary Award

Monday, 27 May 2024
Solenoid by Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu (Deep Vellum Publishing), translated by US translator Sean Cotter, has won the €100,000 (A$163,706) international Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize...

Bacon awarded 2024 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence

Photograph of Eugen Bacon Monday, 27 May 2024
African Australian speculative fiction author Eugen Bacon has been named the 2024 University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer-in-Residence, worth $30,000. Eugen will use the Hobart residency, which consists of three months writing, working...

Text acquires Stanley’s ‘Consider Yourself Kissed’ 

Photograph of Jessica Stanely Thursday, 23 May 2024
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to London-based Australian novelist Jessica Stanley’s Consider Yourself Kissed, via Lizzy Kremer at David Higham Associates. Kremer also sold US rights to Sarah McGrath...

Affirm acquires Art Simone anthology 

Thursday, 23 May 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Drag Queens Down Under, an anthology curated by Art Simone. The anthology is described by the publisher as ‘a glorious celebration of life...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold North American and UK rights to Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective (Kelly Gardiner & Sharmini Kumar) to Harper Via, HarperCollins US and HQ HarperCollins UK; and...

S&S acquires Behrendt novel 

Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) imprint Bundyi has acquired world rights to a new commercial novel by Larissa Behrendt. Friends for nearly four decades, Behrendt and Bundyi publisher-at-large Anita Heiss...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 22 May 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 Last Trace (Petronella McGovern, A&U) 

Tuesday, 21 May 2024
The Last Trace by award-winning author Petronella McGovern (The Liars) is true to her usual form, simmering with mystery and psychological twists. We meet Lachy, who should be enjoying an...

Big Time (Jordan Prosser, UQP) 

Cover of Big Time Tuesday, 21 May 2024
I’m not sure what’s going on at UQP, but they seem to have developed a passion for speculative fiction, and I’m here for it. Their latest offering, Big Time, is...

Aurealis Awards 2023 winners announced

Tuesday, 21 May 2024
The winners of the 2023 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing published last year in Australia, have been announced. Among longer-form winners, chosen from shortlists announced...

S&S acquires Murphy memoir ‘Madam’

Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Antonia Murphy’s forthcoming memoir, Madam, at auction, via Alice Tasman and Cole Hildebrand at Jean V Naggar Literary...

Michael Gifkins Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Monday, 20 May 2024
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...

Walker acquires Marr, Speechley picture book

Monday, 20 May 2024
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to the picture book One Day, written by Shirley Marr and illustrated by Michael Speechley, in a two-book deal. One Day introduces a...

Huang wins Blake Poetry Prize

Monday, 20 May 2024
Coco X Huang has won the 68th Blake Poetry Prize, worth $5000, for her poem 'Three Lessons'. Huang is a Chinese-Australian writer, musician and scientist, who creates interdisciplinary works that...

 

 

 

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