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Artichoke to Zucchini (Alice Oehr, Scribble) 

Tuesday, 5 September 2023
If you’re looking for an A–Z book with a twist, Alice Oehr’s Artichoke to Zucchini: An alphabet of delicious things from around the world is it. From ubiquitous bananas to...

Epic: Adventures across Aotearoa (Ray Salisbury, Exisle) 

Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Covering 10 iconic journeys around and across Aotearoa New Zealand, Ray Salisbury retells each adventurer’s inspiring and often harrowing trek, working from first-hand accounts in blogs and books to bring...

Richell Prize 2023 longlist announced

Logo for the Richell Prize, featuring a swooping bird Tuesday, 5 September 2023
The Emerging Writers’ Festival, Hachette Australia, and the Richell family have announced the 2023 longlist for the Richell Prize for emerging writers. Selected from over 700 entries, the 20 longlisted...

Nib Literary Award 2023 shortlist announced

Monday, 4 September 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the Huxley family (Alison...

Ned Kelly Awards 2023 winners announced

The winning book covers from the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards: The Lemon Man, Wake, Exiles and Betrayed Monday, 4 September 2023
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards. The 2023 winners are: Best debut crime fiction Wake (Shelley Burr, Hachette) Best crime...

Davitt Awards 2023 winners announced

Monday, 4 September 2023
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2023 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The winning titles in each category are: Adult novel All...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 4 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.

We Come With This Place sold to UK 

Friday, 1 September 2023
Echo Publishing has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Debra Dank’s We Come With This Place to Footnote Press. Earlier this year, We Come With This Place won...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 30 August 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold simplified Chinese character rights to The Economy of Algorithms: Rise of the digital minions (Marek Kowalkiewicz, La Trobe University Press) to Hangzhou Blue Lion...

UQP acquires second novel from Siang Lu 

An author photograph of Siang Lu, who is looking directly at the camera, while standing in front of some trees. Wednesday, 30 August 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to Siang Lu’s second novel, Ghost Cities, via Brendan Fredericks of BFredericksPR. Ghost Cities is ‘inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China’. Described by...

A Life Song (Jane Godwin, illus Anna Walker, Puffin) 

Tuesday, 29 August 2023
The latest masterpiece by dream team Jane Godwin and Anna Walker, A Life Song is a gentle rhyming picture book that ponders growing up and finding your place in the world. ‘When you are...

The Vanishing Point (Andrea Hotere, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Journalist and researcher Andrea Hotere has put her investigative skills to work in The Vanishing Point: a dual-timeline historical mystery novel concerning Diego Velázquez’s 1656 royal portrait, Las Meninas. In 17th-century...

The Things We Live With (Gemma Nisbet, Upswell) 

Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Gemma Nisbet is a writer and journalist who holds onto things, but this book isn’t about hoarding. It’s not even a self-help antidote to ‘Marie Kondo-ing’ your stuff. In this...

UQP sells North American rights to ‘Personal Score’ 

A cover image of Personal Score by Ellen van Neerven, featuring the book's title and author over a hexagonal patterned background Monday, 28 August 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Ellen van Neerven’s nonfiction book Personal Score: Sport. Culture. Identity to Eric Obenauf at Ohio publisher Two Dollar Radio....

Zhan wins 2023 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize

On the left of this combined image is a blue square containing the text ‘Kill Your Darlings Creative Non-Fiction Essay Prize’. On the right is an author photograph of Xiaole Zhan. Monday, 28 August 2023
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Xiaole Zhan as the winner of the 2023 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize for their essay ‘Think an Empty Room, Moonly with Phone Glow’....

Winn awarded Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023

Monday, 28 August 2023
In the UK, Alice Winn has won the £5000 (A$9815) Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for In Memoriam (Viking), reports the Bookseller. In Memoriam traces a love story between two First World...

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Monday, 28 August 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.

 

 

 

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