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PRH acquires Hayes memoir 

Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to the memoir of Darren Hayes, the former frontman of pop duo Savage Garden. Hayes, a singer, songwriter, music producer, composer...

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 20 June 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The six longlisted novels, chosen from a longlist of 11 announced in May, are: Hopeless Kingdom (Kgshak...

Crozier wins 2023 Text Prize

Monday, 19 June 2023
Lauren Crozier has won the $10,000 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel The Best Witch in Paris. Text said the novel was 'a dazzling adventure loaded with larger-than-life characters,...

ACT Notable Book Awards 2023 shortlists

Monday, 19 June 2023
The shortlist for the ACT Notable Book Awards, which highlight and celebrate the excellence and talent of writers in and around the ACT region, have been announced. The shortlisted works...

BookPeople 2023 Book of the Year winners announced

Cover of Limberlost Monday, 19 June 2023
BookPeople has announced the winners of the 2023 Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards, and the Bookseller of the Year awards. The winning titles and booksellers...

Iltners wins 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award

Monday, 19 June 2023
Kirsty Iltners has won the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her entry Depth of Field. Iltners, a writer and freelance photographer living in Brisbane, receives a...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 19 June 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.

‘Immaculate’ wins 2023 Vogel

Friday, 16 June 2023
Immaculate by Meanjin/Brisbane-based actor and writer Anna McGahan has won this year's $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Described by...

Penguin Literary Prize 2023 winner announced

Thursday, 15 June 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced Jade and Emerald by Michelle See-Tho as the winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. Jade and Emerald is the story of a...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Sales Fiction Melanie Ostell has sold world English (ex ANZ) and French rights to Michelle Prak’s debut thriller The Rush (S&S) on behalf of the author. French rights were sold to HarperCollins...

The Caretaker (Gabriel Bergmoser, HarperCollins) 

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Gabriel Bergmoser’s The Hunted and its series follow-up, The Inheritance, has earned the award-winning playwright and bestselling author a reputation for writing savage and compelling thrillers. His new stand-alone thriller...

But the Girl (Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, Vintage) 

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Set in the ‘undecided and hazy spring’ when MAS370 disappeared, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel But the Girl transports us to London, where an Australian narrator of Chinese Malaysian...

Granbad (Penny Tangey, illus Peter Baldwin, UQP) 

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Grandad is a rebel who breaks so many rules the family call him ‘Granbad’. He gives his grandchild lollies instead of healthy food, reads stories way past bedtime and flouts...

Carnage (Mark Dapin, S&S) 

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Having just completed a book on criminals, author Mark Dapin wasn’t looking to write another. When he received a phone call from Jack Karlson, a man he’d never heard of,...

The Sitter (Angela O’Keeffe, UQP) 

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
There is a sentence halfway through Angela O’Keeffe’s second novel, The Sitter, that says: ‘A character, when they enter a story, must be willing to drop their preconceptions of what...

The Shrinking Nation (Graeme Turner, UQP) 

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Few would disagree that the Australian cultural and political landscape has undergone a seismic shift since the Howard era. In his new book, Graeme Turner argues that the result has...

Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award shortlist announced

Tuesday, 13 June 2023
The shortlist has been announced for the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award 2023, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. The shortlisted titles are: ‘Don’t They Know...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Tuesday, 13 June 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.

Transit Lounge aquires Holland novel 

Friday, 9 June 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Patrick Holland’s fifth novel, Oblivion.   ‘I was transfixed by the atmospheric story of a diplomat drifting through Asia's business world and aspiring to...

Creative Vic latest Creators Fund recipients announced

Thursday, 8 June 2023
The latest round of the Creative Victoria Creators Fund has been announced. Among the 25 recipients across various artforms are: Susan Anderson ($28,950) Poet and nonfiction author Susan Anderson will undertake...

Aurealis Awards, NZ CYA awards, Text Prize shortlist

Wednesday, 7 June 2023
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has partnered with State Library of Queensland to support its black&write! editor internship program, and provide free membership to black&write! intern editors for the...

 

 

 

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