Andromache Between Worlds (Gabriel Bergmoser, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Andromache Between Worlds is the middle-grade fiction debut from prolific adult and young adult writer Gabriel Bergmoser. Andromache is the 14-year-old daughter of two celebrity adventurer journalists whose escapades have...
Birdy (Sharon Kernot, Text)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
In Birdy, a compelling YA verse novel by CBCA award-winning author Sharon Kernot (The Art of Taxidermy), we meet Maddy, who began experiencing selective mutism and anxiety after an unnamed...
A Thousand Wasted Sundays (Victoria Vanstone, Pantera)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Since quitting alcohol in 2018, Queensland-based writer Victoria Vanstone has been sharing sobriety advice as a blogger and as co-host of the Sober Awkward podcast. Now, in her memoir, A...
Kintsugi (Marie O’Rourke, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Marie O’Rourke’s book of memoir essays, Kintsugi, shortlisted for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, takes its title from the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer mixed...
Gawimarra: Gathering (Jeanine Leane, UQP)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
In Gawimarra: Gathering, Wiradjuri poet and educator Jeanine Leane expresses her Country with poetry that overflows with celebrations of culture and acts of Blak resistance. Arranged into three sections, the...
We All Lived in Bondi Then (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
We All Lived in Bondi Then is the last publication of new work by Georgia Blain. This collection comprises nine previously unpublished stories written between 2012 and 2015, before Blain’s...
Nova’s Missing Masterpiece (Brooke Graham, illus Robin Tatlow-Lord, EK Books)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
It’s Nova’s dad’s birthday, and she has made him a special masterpiece drawing as his present. It’s nearly time for the party, but she can’t find the drawing! (‘Where is...
The Great Undoing (Sharlene Allsopp, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Imagine a completely digital future, with people connected via nanotechnology, attaining ultimate convenience at the price of absolute surveillance—good for people who like where they are, bad for those who...
The Beehive (Megan Daley, illus Max Hamilton, Walker)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
The Beehive is a new informational picture book by teacher-librarian and author Megan Daley and CBCA-shortlisted illustrator Max Hamilton. The two have combined their talents to create a charming and...
Arnott wins 2023 Voss Literary Prize
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Robbie Arnott has won the 2023 Voss Literary Prize for his novel Limberlost (Text). Arnott’s third novel, Limberlost is a coming-of-age story that centres on Ned, who experiences a formative summer...
Affirm acquires Mupotsa-Russell debut thriller
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to A Hitwoman’s Guide to Reducing Household Debt, the debut thriller from Mark Mupotsa-Russell, via Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. Mupotsa-Russell's manuscript was one of...
Rzechowicz wins first prize in 2023 Scarlet Stiletto Awards
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Sisters in Crime Australia announced the winners of the 2023 Scarlet Stiletto Awards in a 30th anniversary event in South Melbourne on Saturday night. Canberra author Romany Rzechowicz won the...
MacDonald wins $50,000 Best Australian Yarn
Monday, 27 November 2023
Jacqueline MacDonald has won first prize, worth $50,000, in the national short story competition, The Best Australian Yarn. MacDonald, from the Tasmanian seaside town of Penguin, won the award for...
‘Against Disappearance’ wins SPN 2023 Book of the Year
Monday, 27 November 2023
The Small Press Network (SPN) 2023 Book of the Year (BOTY) has been awarded to Against Disappearance: Essays on memory, edited by Leah Jing Mcintosh and Adolfo Aranjuez, and published...
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Monday, 27 November 2023
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Fourth Wing wins 2023 Dymocks Book of the Year
Friday, 24 November 2023
Fourth Wing (Rebecca Yarros, Hachette Australia) has been named Dymocks 2023 Book of the Year, and Come Together: Things every Aussie kid should know about the First Peoples (Isaiah Firebrace,...
The Palestine Laboratory wins 2023 Walkley Book Award
Friday, 24 November 2023
Antony Loewenstein has won the 2023 Walkley Book Award for The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world (Antony Loewenstein, Scribe). Loewenstein's book beat shortlisted works Ghosts of...
Woollahra Digital Literary Award 2023 winners announced
Thursday, 23 November 2023
The winners of the 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards have been announced. The winning works in each category are: Fiction ($2500) 'The Life of a Folk Devil' (Michael Mohammed Ahmad,...
Ultimo acquires Makereti novel ‘The Mires’
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Tina Makereti's novel The Mires, in a deal brokered by Charlotte Seymour at Johnson & Alcock in London. The publisher described the novel...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold Dutch rights to Body of Lies (Sarah Bailey) to Uitgeverij Marmer, via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. Bold Type Agency has sold...
Catton shortlisted for UK’s inaugural Nero Book Awards
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
In the UK, Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted in the fiction category of the inaugural Nero Book Awards for her novel Birnam Wood (Granta). The other titles shortlisted for the...
2023 Australian Business Book Award winners announced
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
The winners of the Australian Business Book Awards 2023 have been announced. The winners are: Book of the year Time Magic (Melissa Ambrosini & Nick Broadhurst, HarperCollins) Communications and sales...
Hachette acquires Klim memoir
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired the memoir of Australian Olympic swimming champion Michael Klim. Klim, to be published by Hachette senior nonfiction publisher Scott Henderson, charts the life of the Polish-born...
Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners, Baillie Gifford Prize winner, inaugural Hope Prize calls for submissions
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
The 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award winners were announced this week. Meanwhile, the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) presented the ASA Medal and the O'Donnell Essay Prize during the Colin...
Love, Just In (Natalie Murray, A&U)
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Following a panic attack while reporting on live TV, Josie is eager to prove that she can still make it as a full-time Sydney newsreader. However, after her dead-air debacle,...
The Health Habit (Amantha Imber, Penguin Life)
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
There are books about health and books about habits, but rarely are the two combined as they are in The Health Habit: Shape up, sleep better, feel amazing, a practical...
The Invocations (Krystal Sutherland, Penguin)
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Emer Byrne, Zara Jones and Jude Wolf are young women who have led completely different lives until one thread of commonality brings them together—magic. Zara believes in magic because she’s...
Whenever You’re Ready (Trish Bolton, A&U)
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Trish Bolton’s debut is a reckoning with grief. An exploration of ‘those feelings [that are] impossible to separate, a great tidal wave of loss and remorse, of love and longing’....
Darkness Runs Deep (Claire McNeel, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Gerandaroo, 1993: population 723, winner of 24 football premierships since 1899. A place where AFL is a non-negotiable part of life and where everyone is a friend—until an act of...
Your Brain Is a Lump of Goo (Idan Ben-Barak, illus Christopher Nielsen, A&U Children)
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Your Brain Is a Lump of Goo is a colourful and lively exploration of the brain from Idan Ben-Barak, the bestselling and award-winning author of Do Not Lick This Book....
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