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Open Book 2024 interns announced

Photographs of Olivia Garcia, Tayla Goodman and Nashin Mahee Wednesday, 1 May 2024
The successful interns for the 2024 Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship have been announced. Chosen from over 320 applications, the 2024 interns are Olivia Garcia, Tayla Goodman and Nashin Mahee....

T&H celebrates 75-year anniversary

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Thames & Hudson (T&H) is celebrating its 75-year anniversary this year with a series of trade promotions and events. Walter and Eva Neurath founded T&H in 1949 with the ambition...

Upswell acquires Spirovski debut, ‘White Hibiscus’ 

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights for White Hibiscus: A portrait in words, the debut work of visual artist Loribelle Spirovski. Publisher Terri-ann White described the book as ‘a poetic...

Pantera acquires Sursok memoir 

Photograph of Tammin Sursok Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Pantera has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled memoir from Tammin Sursok. Among many other roles—including producing, directing, writing, music, media appearances, and entrepreneurship—Sursok is known as an actor who...

BookPeople 2024 Book of the Year shortlists announced

Book people logo Wednesday, 17 April 2024
BookPeople has announced the shortlists for its Book of the Year awards. The shortlists for each category are: Adult fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) Green Dot (Madeleine Gray,...

Catton shortlisted for 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

Cover of Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000 (A$226,245). The full list of shortlisted titles includes: Birnam Wood (Eleanor Catton, Granta) Daughter (Claudia...

Ambrose joins HarperCollins 

Photograph of Sophie Ambrose Wednesday, 10 April 2024
HarperCollins Australia has appointed Sophie Ambrose to the role of publisher, commissioning nonfiction for the ABC Books and HarperCollins imprints. Ambrose replaces Georgia Frances King, who will leave HarperCollins on...

Huia wins 2024 Bologna Prize, Oceania region

Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Huia Publishers, based in Aotearoa New Zealand, is the 2024 Oceania winner of the Bologna Prize (BOP) for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year. The Māori-owned independent publisher has...

ILF wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2024

Wednesday, 10 April 2024
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has won the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), worth five million Swedish kronor (A$710,000). The ILF was announced as the winner at a live...

Australian publishers headed to Bologna 

Australian Collective Stand banner image Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Thirteen publisher representatives will attend this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair as part of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Collective Stand, which will be managed by APA events manager...

Hachette acquires McNab book on mushroom poisonings 

Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to Recipe for Murder (Duncan McNab). The book, based on the arrest of Erin Patterson over the alleged killing of three people using poisonous mushrooms, was...

Wright shortlisted for 2024 James Tait Black Prize

Cover of Praiseworthy Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has been shortlisted for the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. The works shortlisted for the fiction and biography prizes, each worth...

Walker acquires Zaslavsky nonfiction ‘Splodge!’ 

Photograph of Alice Zaslavsky Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Walker Books has acquired world rights to Splodge!, a middle-grade nonfiction book from cookbook author and media personality Alice Zaslavsky. The publisher said that this book ‘will look at everyone’s...

Wright shortlisted for 2024 Dublin Literary Award

Photograph of Alexis Wright Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Alexis Wright has been shortlisted for the €100,000 (A$166,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction written in or translated into...

Pantera acquires Earp debut novel 

Photograph of Joseph Earp sitting in a chair in front of a window Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Pantera has acquired ANZ rights to Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ve Ever Dated, a debut novel by Joseph Earp, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary...

Booktique to open store in Albury

Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Booktique—an independent bookshop currently operating in Wangaratta, Victoria—is opening a second store in Albury, NSW. Michelle Delle Vergin, who owns both stores with husband Mark Bolsius, said that for the...

Good Thing Productions acquires ‘Cherrywood’ screen rights 

Cover of Cherrywood by Jock Serong Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Screen rights to the forthcoming novel Cherrywood by Jock Serong (Fourth Estate) have been optioned by Good Thing Productions, via Melanie Ostell Literary. Good Thing Productions’ recent screen projects include Nitram and Nude...

The Bookshop Bowral and Kiama to change hands 

Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Marie Fitzpatrick, of The Bookshop Bowral and Kiama, has announced that the bookshops have been purchased by Clare Meldrum, and that the current owners will depart next month. Fitzpatrick said...

 

 

 

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