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Finding My Bella Vita (Pia Miranda, Hachette)

Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Pia Miranda’s memoir, Finding My Bella Vita, is like a long phone call with a friend. Based in Melbourne, Miranda is an actor best known for her role as Josie...

Pantera acquires Price debut

Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Perfect Candidate, a debut work of nonfiction from Lucinda Price (also known as Froomes), via Claire Harrison at Creative Representation. Pantera Press described...

Ned Kelly Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Monday, 7 August 2023
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlisted titles for the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlists for the awards’ four categories include the following titles: Best true...

NSW Premier’s History Awards 2023 shortlists announced

Monday, 7 August 2023
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2023 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian history prize Elizabeth and John:...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 7 August 2023
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Ultimo acquires de Monchaux’s debut novel

Friday, 4 August 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Annie de Monchaux's debut novel Audrey's Gone AWOL, via Sarah McKenzie at Sarah McKenzie literary management, which it describes as ‘a charming story...

‘The Idea of Australia’ to become doco

Thursday, 3 August 2023
A documentary series based on The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation (Julianne Schultz, A&U) has received funding from Screen Australia. The four-part SBS series...

Pantera acquires Glenn debut thriller in two-book deal

Thursday, 3 August 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for Susannah Glenn’s Between Husbands and Wives, a ‘gripping’ domestic thriller set in Far North Queensland, in a two-book deal. Between Husbands and Wives...

Vale Bella Green

Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Author, comedian and sex worker Bella Green has died, aged 38. Green developed a stand-up and sketch comedy routine around her life as a sex worker called ‘Bella Green is...

Nash’s ‘All the Words We Know’ acquired by A&U, US rights to Atria in pre-empt

Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to All the Words We Know by Bruce Nash, with Simon & Schuster's Atria Books acquiring North American rights to the title in...

Queensland Literary Awards 2023 shortlists

Wednesday, 2 August 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance We Come with...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Sales Children’s/YA Affirm Press has sold North American rights to Pasta! (Felice Arena, illus by Beatrice Cerocchi) to Source Books and Portugese rights to Life Lessons for Little Ones: You...

Booker Prize 2023 longlist announced

Wednesday, 2 August 2023
The longlist for the 2023 Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$96,700) prize are: A Spell of Good Things (Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Canongate) Old God’s...

Johnson and Ryckmans create new agency; Vincent appointed TWC CEO; new diverse children’s book award

Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Lou Johnson and Jeanne Ryckmans have set up a new literary agency; the Wheeler Centre has appointed ABC journalist and producer Erin Vincent as its new CEO, replacing Caro Llewellyn;...

In Times of Bushfires and Billy Buttons (Steven Herrick, Ford St)

Tuesday, 1 August 2023
With his parents in jail for drug dealing, high-school student Ethan goes to live with his Aunt Helen, a supermarket stacker who dreams of the Greek Islands. He gets by...

Summer of Blood (Dave Warner, Fremantle)

Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Ned Kelly award-winning author and musician-songwriter Dave Warner revisits characters from his 1999 novel Big Bad Blood. Set two years after the events of that book, in 1967, Summer of...

Me, Her, Us (Yen-Rong Wong, UQP)

Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Yen-Rong Wong’s Me, Her, Us encapsulates the Asian female body experience in a post-pandemic world. Wong oscillates between belonging and unbelonging in this bold-yet-anxious slice of Asian-Australian diaspora experience. The work is broken...