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Hachette acquires Hampton, Daniher picture books 

A photograph of Taylor Hampton and Jacinta Daniher and their family in an outdoor environment Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Hachette has acquired world rights to two picture books celebrating First Nations culture by Taylor Hampton and Jacinta Daniher via Rochelle Fernandez at Alex Adsett Literary. According to the publisher,...

Vale Jim Hart

Photograph of Jim Hart Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Jim Hart, a former company director and co-owner of Lonely Planet, editor at Rigby, and former vice-president of the Small Press Network, died on Monday 15 January. Lonely Planet founder...

Hogan wins 2024 ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize 

Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Australian poet Dan Hogan has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for their poem ‘Workarounds’. Hogan receives $6000, while the other four shortlisted poets—Judith Nangala Crispin,...

Vale Frank Thompson

Black and white photo of a young man, Frank Thompson, on steps outside a building with BOOKSHOP on the wall behind him Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Publisher Frank Thompson died on 1 January, aged 91. The Australian Publishers Association (APA) writes: On the first of January 2024, esteemed publisher Frank Thompson AO passed away at the...

Rights round-up 

Cover of Bluey: Trains Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Sales Nonfiction Rockpool Publishing has sold Spanish translation rights for Resurrection Oracle (Jena Dellagrottaglia); and Bulgarian translation rights for Spellbound (Lucy Cavendish). Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold seven titles to...

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Wednesday, 24 January 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.

Look Me in the Eye (Jane Godwin, Lothian) 

Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Look Me in the Eye is the latest young adult novel by award-winning author Jane Godwin. The story centres around Bella, a 13-year-old girl who leads quite a wholesome, drama-free...

Circles of Life (Gregg Dreise, Puffin) 

Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Circles of Life is a picture book in verse that shares the tradition, beauty and importance of Thank You Circles, or Gabayindah Guroos. These artworks are painted in layers to...

The Rewilding (Donna M Cameron, Transit Lounge) 

Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Jagger Eckerman, the scion of a corrupt construction mogul and protagonist of Donna M Cameron’s second novel, blows his life up one morning by sending a fateful email whistleblowing the...

The Independent Pea (Maree Coote, Melbournestyle) 

Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Maree Coote’s love of vegetables, indulged vibrantly in her 2023 picture book Letters for Lunch!, gets another airing in The Independent Pea. This time, it’s an invigorating story about the...

Shining Like the Sun (Stephen Orr, Wakefield) 

Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Stephen Orr's Shining Like the Sun is like an Australian version of A Man Called Ove, with the same qualities of grit and humanity that made the Swedish novel so...

S&S acquires Aston’s ‘The Chairman’s Lounge’ 

An author photograph of Joe Aston Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to The Chairman’s Lounge, an ‘explosive work of narrative nonfiction’ with 'fresh interviews and revelations' about Qantas’s handling of the Covid-19...

Australian Romance Readers Awards 2023 finalists announced

Friday, 19 January 2024
The finalists for the 2023 Australian Romance Readers Awards have been announced. Ten authors have been shortlisted for the favourite Australian romance author category. They are: Alissa Callen Amy Andrews...

ANZ authors among 2024 Dublin Literary Award longlistees

Friday, 19 January 2024
Several books by Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the €100,000 (A$166,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work...

DANZ Children’s Book Award longlists announced

DANZ logo Thursday, 18 January 2024
The longlists for the inaugural DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Picture books Echo (Lisa...

Rights round-up 

Photograph of Barbara Sumner Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has sold Portuguese rights to You’re Fabulous As You Are (Sophie Beer) to Penguin Random House Portugal. Scholastic has sold Chinese simplified rights to...

HarperCollins acquires Dalgarno novel 

Photograph of Paul Dalgarno in front of a wooden fence Wednesday, 17 January 2024
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to The Travelling Library by Paul Dalgarno, in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary. The Travelling Library is 'a tender coming-of-age story...

Indie Book Awards 2024 shortlists announced

logo for the Indie Book Awards Wednesday, 17 January 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Indie Book Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books, have been announced. The titles shortlisted in each category are: Fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth...

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Wednesday, 17 January 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.

Cool Water (Myfanwy Jones, Hachette) 

Cover of Cool Water Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Myfanwy Jones’s Cool Water is a cross-generational novel about the inheritance of toxic masculinity. When Frank Herbert returns to Tinaroo for his daughter’s wedding, he can’t stop thinking about his...

Thanks for Having Me (Emma Darragh, JOAN) 

Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Emma Darragh’s debut novel, Thanks for Having Me, is an intergenerational familial story that offers a glimpse into the lives of three women: Mary Anne, Vivian and Evie. It’s a non-sequential...

 

 

 

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