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This Camp is Doomed (Anna Zobel, Puffin)

Tuesday, 11 July 2023
In her first upper-primary novel, Anna Zobel turns her knack for writing emotionally intelligent, likeable, mildly eccentric, diverse characters to the task of creating an engrossing adventure-mystery story for imaginative...

Full Coverage: A History of rock journalism in Australia (Samuel J Fell, Monash University Publishing)

Tuesday, 11 July 2023
While blogs and websites thrive, Australia’s print music press is now largely a thing of the past. But what a past! Built around extensive interviews with many of the key...

Wakefield to publish First Nations anthology

Monday, 10 July 2023
Adelaide publisher Wakefield Press will publish an as yet untitled anthology of works by First Nations writers, supported by funding from the Australia Council for the Arts. The anthology will...

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Monday, 10 July 2023
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Scrivenor wins CWA New Blood Dagger

Friday, 7 July 2023
Hayley Scrivenor’s Dirt Town (Macmillan) has won the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for debut fiction in the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2023 Dagger Awards. CWA judges described Scrivenor’s...

S&S acquires Le’s ’36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem’

Friday, 7 July 2023
Simon & Schuster (S&S) imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the book-length work of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le via Fiona Baird...

Hachette Australia acquires Armstrong picture book series

Thursday, 6 July 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to the first two picture books in a new series by Gamilaroi man, ABC television presenter and former AFL player Tony Armstrong. The George...

APA Rising Star 2023 shortlist announced; BookUp program revealed

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Rising Star award. The five shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years,...

Dank’s ‘We Come with This Place’ wins ALS Gold Medal

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
The winner of the Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal is Debra Dank for We Come with This Place (Echo). The judges called the book ‘a generous, moving gift to...

Forster awarded 2023 Reading Australia Fellowship

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
The Copyright Agency has named Bridget Forster, a Victorian teacher with over 20 years of experience, the 2023 Reading Australia Fellow for Teachers of English and Literacy and teacher librarians....

HarperCollins settles and apologises after defamation case; Booktopia ends Nash agreement, Traurig to resign

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
HarperCollins Australia has settled a long-running defamation suit brought against it by John Gill, a former doctor from the defunct Chelmsford psychiatric hospital in Sydney; Booktopia has announced it will...

Let’s Never Speak of This Again (Megan Williams, Text)

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Sixteen-year-old Abby’s life may not be perfect, but it is manageable. With a best friend like Ella, it doesn’t matter that there’s tension between Abby and her mum, or that...

Anxious in a Sweet Store (Anna Jacobson, Upswell)

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Anxious in a Sweet Store is the playful and nostalgic second full-length poetry collection from writer and artist Anna Jacobson. Divided into four parts, each named after a classic sweet...

Engaging China: How Australia can lead the way again (ed by Jamie Reilly & Jingdong Yuan, SUP)

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Alarmism in both the media and popular politics over China has done a disservice to Australia’s relationship with the neighbouring nation. So argues Engaging China, an academic essay collection that...

The Love Contract (Steph Vizard, HarperCollins)

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Winner of the 2022 HarperCollins Banjo Prize for Fiction, Steph Vizard’s debut novel The Love Contract is a tantalising romance set in Melbourne that combines the classic enemies-to-lovers and fake-relationship-turned-real-romance...