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Shaw wins 2023 Michael Gifkins prize

Monday, 24 July 2023
Author and editor Tina Shaw has been awarded the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of five, Shaw wins...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 24 July 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.

Hodge awarded 2023 Marion fellowship

Thursday, 20 July 2023
Lardil and Yangkaal writer Maya Hodge has been awarded the inaugural Marion fellowship for 2023, the ACT writing organisation has announced. Marion said Hodge’s ‘writing practice is not just a...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Sales Fiction UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ) to Fanatic Heart (Thomas Keneally, Vintage) have been acquired by Faber associate publisher Louisa Joyner and commissioning editor Libby Marshall from Sam Copeland...

Pantera acquires Matthiesson debut 

Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel Together We Fall Apart by Sophie Matthiesson from Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. The publisher described the debut as 'a compelling...

Vale Richard Parslow

Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Richard Parslow, former HarperCollins sales and marketing director, died on Sunday, 9 July. All are welcome to attend a celebration of his life to be held at the Patonga Community Hall...

Everyone and Everything (Nadine J Cohen, Pantera) 

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Nadine J Cohen’s debut novel, Everyone and Everything, opens with 34-year-old Yael Silver swimming at a women-only ocean pool following a recent suicide attempt. The pool, built deep into a cliff...

The Hummingbird Effect (Kate Mildenhall, Scribner) 

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Kate Mildenhall’s latest novel, The Hummingbird Effect, follows the struggles of four women in a world completely transformed by time. The book follows four protagonists; in 1933, Peggy adjusts to life in a...

Sunbirds (Mirandi Riwoe, UQP) 

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
In West Java, towards the end of 1941, war is looming. Whispers of a Japanese invasion weigh heavily on the minds of the van Hoorn family, who are throwing their...

Every Night at Midnight (Peter Cheong, Affirm) 

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Up-and-coming author-illustrator Peter Cheong casts a magnificent glow with Every Night at Midnight, his heart-warming picture book about finding friendship in unexpected places. With the repetitive refrain, ‘Every night at...

Ordinary Gods and Monsters (Chris Womersely, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
For 17-year-old Nick Wheatley and his long-time best friend and next-door neighbour, Marion Perry, school has finished for good, adulthood beckons and their lives are nudging them in different directions....

Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer (Amy Doak, Penguin) 

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Amy Doak’s debut, Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer, is a young adult mystery novel for aspiring detectives. Eleanor thinks of herself as an unexceptional person with medium hair, skin, height and...

Inaugural UK BookTok awards shortlists announced

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
In the UK, the shortlists for the inaugural TikTok Book Awards UK and Ireland have been announced, reports the Bookseller. In contention for BookTok book of the year are Honey...

Hore wins inaugural Marilyn Lake Prize

Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Academic Jarrod Hore has won the inaugural $2000 Marilyn Lake Prize for Australian Transnational History for Visions of Nature: How landscape photography shaped settler colonialism (University of California Press). Judges...

Waterstones debut fiction prize shortlist announced

Monday, 17 July 2023
In the UK, the shortlist for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, worth £5000 (A$9570), has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The six titles shortlisted for the award are: Wandering Souls...

UQP acquires creative nonfiction work by Holland-Batt 

Monday, 17 July 2023
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to an as yet untitled 'brave, moving work' of creative nonfiction from Stella Prize winner Sarah Holland-Batt, from Clare Forster...

National Biography Award 2023 shortlist announced

Monday, 17 July 2023
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works, selected from 94 entries, are: Unknown: A refugee’s story...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 17 July 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.

Pantera acquires Daddo nonfiction book on confidence 

Friday, 14 July 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to a nonfiction book by actor, presenter and singer-songwriter Cameron Daddo via Cathy Baker at CMC Talent Management. Part memoir and part roadmap to...

‘Paper Cage’ sells to UK, US 

Thursday, 13 July 2023
Rights to Michael Gifkins Prize-winning novel Paper Cage (Tom Baragwanath, Text) have been sold to the US and UK, reports the Bookseller. In the UK the book will be published...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold North American rights to Head & Heart (Kirstin Ferguson); Japanese and Bulgarian rights to Scrublands (Chris Hammer); French language rights to Green Dot...

Affirm signs Tuohy memoir 

Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a memoir by AFL Geelong Cats defender Zach Tuohy, to be co-written by ABC sports journalist Catherine Murphy. Tuohy, who has played 120...

 

 

 

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