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PANZ Book Design Awards 2023 winners announced

Friday, 22 September 2023
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has announced the winners of its Book Design Awards 2023. The winners in each category are: Gerard Reid Award...

Booker Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Friday, 22 September 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$95,756) prize are: Study for Obedience (Sarah Bernstein, Granta) If I Survive You (Jonathan Escoffery,...

HarperCollins acquires Serong novel 

Thursday, 21 September 2023
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Jock Serong's novel Cherrywood, in an auction brokered by Melanie Ostell of Melanie Ostell Literary. The publisher called the novel ‘an imaginative delight', and...

NewSouth acquires Jacobson memoir 

An author photograph of Anna Jacobson, who is pictured in front of a garden with a range of flowering plants Thursday, 21 September 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to How to Knit a Human, a memoir from poet, writer and artist Anna Jacobson. Described by the publisher as a lyrical memoir about ‘Jacobson’s...

Vale Chris McKimmie

Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Award-winning writer, illustrator and artist Chris McKimmie has died, aged 77. For many years the convenor and originator of the illustration program at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, McKimmie...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Sales Fiction Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold world Spanish rights to Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Piacador) to Seix Barral, an imprint of Group Planeta. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...

Upswell acquires Dominic Gordon debut 

Book cover image for Excitable Boy by Dominic Gordon, featuring a photograph of a boy standing on a garden path with a cigarette in hand Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Excitable Boy: Essays on risk, a debut book of essays by Melbourne writer Dominic Gordon. The publisher said that the book 'tracks the...

Affirm acquires King debut novel 

Author photograph of Rhianna King Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Birds of a Feather, a debut novel from Rhianna King, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. Described by Fernandez as ‘a gorgeously...

The In-Between (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U) 

Tuesday, 19 September 2023
Christos Tsiolkas’s The In-Between begins with Perry, a man past his youth, preparing to go on a date. He’s nervous about meeting Ivan, the stranger he will have dinner with,...

A Brilliant Life (Rachelle Unreich, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 19 September 2023
A Holocaust story is never an easy read, but A Brilliant Life has such a harrowing prologue that it throws the reader right into the thick of it, so be prepared....

Fluff: Bullies Beware (Matt Stanton, ABC Books) 

Tuesday, 19 September 2023
Gilbert Morris lives with his mum and sister in a caravan park. After his dad goes missing in outer space, Gilbert’s mum gives him Fluff, a comfort toy, to squeeze...

Wright honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature

Photograph of Alexis Wright Monday, 18 September 2023
Alexis Wright has won the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, which ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an...

Ultimo acquires Goode debut novel

Monday, 18 September 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Melissa Goode’s debut novel Ordinary Human Love. Ordinary Human Love follows Mardi McKee, prodigal daughter, who returns to her father’s home in Lithgow...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 18 September 2023
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.

Ultimo acquires new Snoekstra novel 

Friday, 15 September 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to The Ones We Love by Anna Snoekstra, after rights were pre-empted in the US and the UK by Dutton, a division of Penguin...

ARA Historical Novel Prize longlists announced

ARA Historical Novel Prize 2023 logo Thursday, 14 September 2023
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlists for the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Featuring ‘a vast tapestry of settings and eras’, this year’s longlisted titles are:...

Varuna announces 2024 residential fellowships

Varuna, the National Writers House logo Thursday, 14 September 2023
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the Varuna residential fellowships for 2024, including seven flagship fellowship recipients. The writers and their projects are: Eleanor Dark flagship...

Rights round up 

Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold volume rights to Digging Up Dirt (Pamela Hart, HQ Fiction) to Level Best Books and Portuguese translation rights to The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley,...

Ultimo acquires Chandran novel 

Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Safe Haven, the new novel from the winner of the 2023 Miles Franklin award, Shankari Chandran, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia....

Women & Children (Tony Birch, UQP) 

Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Tony Birch’s latest novel, Women & Children, is a thoughtful and profound story of a working-class family doing their best to resist a system that’s geared against them. In 1965...

 

 

 

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