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Book of Hours (Clare McFadden, Walker) 

Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Book of Hours, written and illustrated by Clare McFadden (The Flying Orchestra), tells a life story in a series of dreamy vignettes. These postcard moments capture memories by the sea—of...

Bright Objects (Ruby Todd, A&U) 

Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Sylvia Knight works at a funeral home—the same one that buried her husband after an unsolved hit-and-run. Two years on, she has given herself ‘permission to finally leave this planet’...

Suddenly Single at Sixty (Jo Peck, Text) 

Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Not long after Jo Peck’s 60th birthday, her husband drops a bombshell—he’s leaving her for a (much) younger woman. She is shocked and heartbroken that the life she’d worked towards—full...

The Lost Letters of Rose Carey (Julie Bennett, S&S) 

Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Inspired by the life of the Australian swimmer and film icon Annette Kellerman, The Lost Letters of Rose Carey follows two heroines: Emma Quinn, in the present time, and Rose Carey, in...

Love & Rome (Jenna Lo Bianco, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Stella Chiaro is an Australian-Italian artist trying to find her place in the eternal city. With a one-way ticket back to Australia and dwindling funds, Stella has six months left...

Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 26 March 2024
In the UK, the Swansea University has announced the shortlist of the 2024 Dylan Thomas Prize. The shortlisted titles, chosen from a longlist announced in January, are: A Spell of...

Murray awarded 2024 Boundless mentorship

Photograph of Kalem Murray Monday, 25 March 2024
Bardi writer Kalem Murray is the winner of the 2024 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship, presented by Text Publishing and Writing NSW with the support of the First Nations Australia Writers...

Sterlin wins Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award

Photograph of Svetlana Sterlin Monday, 25 March 2024
Meanjin (Brisbane) poet Svetlana Sterlin has won the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for her unpublished book-length collection ‘If Movement Were a Language’. Selected from a shortlist of...

Blake Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Monday, 25 March 2024
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, in collaboration with WestWords, has announced the shortlist for the 68th Blake Poetry Prize, worth $5000. The Blake Prize is an open poetry prize that ‘challenges...

Pham named UTS writer in residence

Author photograph of Vivan Pham Monday, 25 March 2024
Vietnamese-Australian novelist, essayist and poet Vivian Pham has been awarded the Copyright Agency–UTS New Writer in Residence fellowship for 2024. Pham is the author of the novel The Coconut Children...

ABIAs 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 21 March 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The APA will announce the business awards shortlists, including the categories of publisher,...

Good Thing Productions acquires ‘Cherrywood’ screen rights 

Cover of Cherrywood by Jock Serong Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Screen rights to the forthcoming novel Cherrywood by Jock Serong (Fourth Estate) have been optioned by Good Thing Productions, via Melanie Ostell Literary. Good Thing Productions’ recent screen projects include Nitram and Nude...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Sales Fiction North American rights to The Heart Is a Star (Megan Rogers, HarperCollins) have been sold in a pre-empt to Central Avenue Publishing by Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency....

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 20 March 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.

Psykhe (Kate Forsyth, Vintage) 

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Kate Forsyth’s latest historical fiction, Psykhe, adds to her substantial body of work (The Crimson Thread, Bitter Greens) as it reimagines the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche. In the novel, Psykhe’s act...

Love Across Class (Rose Butler & Eve Vincent, MUP) 

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
In Love Across Class, researchers Rose Butler and Eve Vincent seek to demystify the complex—and often obscured—role class can play in shaping romantic relationships. As class is often overlooked in social and political conversations (unlike...

Ghost Cities (Siang Lu, UQP) 

Ghost Cities Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Recently fired from his translating job at the Chinese Consulate in Sydney for lying about his translation skills and using Google Translate to do his job, Xiang Lu is a...

 

 

 

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