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Transit Lounge acquires Hooper’s debut novel

Friday, 25 August 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Matthew Hooper’s debut novel A Cold Season. ‘This pitch-perfect novel is rich in voice, character and landscape and unlike anything I have read...

S&S acquires Di Lorenzo gut repair title in four-book deal

Friday, 25 August 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to four new titles by nutritionist Sarah Di Lorenzo. The first book in the new deal will be a four-week gut repair...

Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Thursday, 24 August 2023
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Readings Young Adult Book Prize. This year’s six shortlisted books are: Dancing Barefoot (Alice Boyle, Text) Spice Road (Maiya Ibrahim, Hodderscape) Completely...

NewSouth acquires Clift autobiographical novel

Thursday, 24 August 2023
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Charmian Clift’s unfinished novel The End of the Morning, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. The autobiographical novel about a young woman coming of...

117% increase in sales for NZ CYA Book Awards titles

Thursday, 24 August 2023
Nielsen BookScan figures showed a 117% increase in sales of shortlisted books from the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in the week of the winner announcement,...

Readings Children’s Book Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 23 August 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Readings Children’s Book Prize has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: The Bookseller’s Apprentice (Amelia Mellor, Affirm) The Eerie Excavation (An Alice England...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Sales Fiction/poetry Giramondo has sold Spanish language rights to Last Letter to a Reader (Gerald Murnane) to Gris Tormenta for publication in Latin America, and to Minúscula for publication in...

Hachette acquires Terakes short story collection

Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to a debut short story collection from Australian actor Zoe Terakes, to be titled Eros: Queer myths for lovers. The collection, which will feature...

Redundancies at PRHNZ, CBCA Awards, Langshaw named 2023 Rising Star

Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Fiction publisher Harriet Allan is among three redundancies of senior staff announced at Penguin Random House New Zealand, according to Newsroom.co.nz; Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has announced its full...

The Rust Red Land (Robyn Bishop, Spinifex)

Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Set in country New South Wales beginning in 1890, The Rust Red Land follows Matilda as she comes of age through to the 1930s. She does all that is expected of her as...

Unfinished Woman (Robyn Davidson, Bloomsbury)

Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Robyn Davidson is perhaps best known for her novel Tracks and has a writing career spanning over 40 years. Her latest, Unfinished Woman, is a nomadic memoir that details the author’s traumatic childhood,...

Stubbs wins 2023 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award

Monday, 21 August 2023
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Jenny Stubbs as the 2023 recipient of the Nan Chauncy Award. Named after the Tasmanian children’s author, the biennial Nan Chauncy...

Inaugural TikTok Book Awards winners

Monday, 21 August 2023
In the UK, Bolu Babalola's Honey & Spice (Headline Review) has won the BookTok Book of the Year prize at the inaugural TikTok Book Awards, reports the Bookseller. Babalola won...

KYD announces 2023 Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize shortlist

Monday, 21 August 2023
Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 KYD Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize. Eight essays appear in this year’s shortlist: ‘Here We Go Round’ (Anna Burns) ‘The...

Fremantle Press, Alphabet Soup Books to collaborate on new middle-grade poetry collection

Monday, 21 August 2023
Fremantle Press and Alphabet Soup Books will co-publish a collection of poetry for middle readers, Right Way Down and other poems. Alphabet Soup Books is a new independent publisher in...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 21 August 2023
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CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced

Friday, 18 August 2023
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Book of the Year Awards. The winning books in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in...

Educational Publishing Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Friday, 18 August 2023
The titles shortlisted for the 2023 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The shortlisted categories include: Primary: Student Resource—English (Literacy/Literature/Language) Australian Primary Oxford Integrated Dictionary & Thesaurus 4E...