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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 

A black-and-white author photo of Zoe Terakes. They have their hands on their head and are looking into the camera. 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...

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...

Gunflower (Laura Jean McKay, Scribe) 

Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Laura Jean McKay’s Gunflower is a vivid and tantalising short story collection where animals are as seamlessly anthropomorphised as humans are animalised. McKay asks readers to suspend their narrative expectations and blurs...

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,...

The Observologist (Giselle Clarkson, Gecko) 

Tuesday, 22 August 2023
An observologist is someone who makes scientific expeditions every day and notices interesting details in the world around them. This is the first thing we learn in The Observologist by Giselle Clarkson,...

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...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 21 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.

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...

Heath wins 2023 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 

Friday, 18 August 2023
Victorian writer Rowan Heath has won the 2023 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for their piece ‘The Mannequin’. Receiving a prize of $6000, Heath was shortlisted...

HarperCollins signs Drysdale in two-book deal 

Thursday, 17 August 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Hollywood Night by Pip Drysdale in a two-book deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers with Mollie Glick at Creative Artists Agency....

Adaptations to share Screen Australia funding

Thursday, 17 August 2023
Two book adaptations are among 47 projects to share $1.2 million of story development funding from Screen Australia. Funding will go towards adaptations of Jessie Tu’s novel A Lonely Girl...

Langshaw named 2023 Rising Star

Thursday, 17 August 2023
Pantera commissioning editor Tom Langshaw has been named the Australian Publishers Association (APA) 2023 Rising Star. Langshaw was chosen by the selection panel from a shortlist of five that also...

Vale Alf Taylor

Wednesday, 16 August 2023
The author and poet Alf Taylor, whose works include Singer Songwriter, Winds, Long time now, the NSW Premier's award-shortlisted memoir God, the Devil and Me, and Cartwarra or what?, has died. Magabala Books...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Vietnamese rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Bookhunter. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold traditional Chinese rights to Faking It: Artificial intelligence...

Pantera acquires Sharp nonfiction 

an author photo of Dr Tim Sharp, who is standing against a wall with his arms crossed, smiling at the camera Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Lost and Found: How to wander your way to a better life, a new nonfiction book by Tim Sharp, via Simone Landes at...

Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko, UQP) 

Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie is a literary epic that skilfully weaves between the present day, where Grannie Eddie is looked after by her feisty granddaughter Winona and Dr Johnny, and mid-1850s Brisbane, where...

Unholy Terrors (Lyndall Clipstone, Penguin) 

Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Unholy Terrors is an alluring, gothic tale of forbidden love and shifting allegiances in a land of magic and monsters. Everline Blackthorn is not like the other wardens who guard...

 

 

 

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