VPLA winners, Webb-Pullman appointed publisher, Blak & Bright full program
Wednesday, 9 February 2022
The winners of the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced, including Veronica Gorrie who took out the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for Black and Blue: A memoir...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 9 February 2022
Sales Fiction Spinifex Press has sold Indian English-language rights to My Sister Chaos (Lara Fergus) to Zero Degree, and Tamil translation rights to Locust Girl (Merlinda Bobis) to Kalachuvadu Publications....
Crumbs (Phil Cummings, illus by Shane DeVries, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
This quiet little tale has the feel of a Pixar short film crossed with a simple folk parable from a bygone era. Young Ella, who has nothing to give to...
The Ghost Locket (Allison Rushby, Walker)
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Allison Rushby’s latest middle-grade offering is a creative, entertaining blend of genres, the supernatural spilling into a historical mystery in a modern-day setting. Twelve-year-old Lolli and her guardian Freya have...
The Burnished Sun (Mirandi Riwoe, UQP)
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Mirandi Riwoe’s The Burnished Sun comprises a series of short stories sandwiched between two novellas, opening with ‘Annah the Javanese’ and closing with Riwoe’s award-winning ‘The Fish Girl’. Despite the...
The Good Mother (Rae Cairns, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Some books come with their own stories, and The Good Mother certainly does: Rae Cairns self-published this book first and gained enough notoriety with reviews and a Ned Kelly Award...
Who Needs the ABC? (Matthew Ricketson & Patrick Mullins, Scribe)
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Governments of all persuasions have had a prickly relationship with the ABC. Some more than others. Labor governments have gritted their teeth and put up with unflattering reporting; Liberal governments...
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Monday, 7 February 2022
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AWW 2022 program, new SA fellowship, WAYRBA, NBCC shortlists
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
In this week’s news, Adelaide Writers’ Week has announced the full program for this year’s festival, with Bruce Pascoe, Grace Tame, Liane Moriarty and Richard Flanagan among the 165 guests...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold North American, French Canadian and Spanish rights to School of Monsters Learn and Play (Sally Rippin, illus by Chris Kennett); North American...
Auē (Becky Manawatu, Scribe)
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Auē is a heartbreaking yet gripping drama about a family living amid intergenerational domestic violence and gang warfare on New Zealand’s South Island. At its heart, the book is the...
Stardiving (Andrew Plant, Ford St)
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Stardiving is the tale of a young sperm whale challenged to open his eyes on an exciting deep-diving adventure. This heartfelt picture book by the author–illustrator of titles including The...
Assisted: A doctor’s story of assisting death and embracing life (Stefanie Green, A&U)
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
There’s something special about reading the story of a person who has found their true vocation—their passion jumps through the page and grabs you. Dr Stefanie Green is a doctor...
Prometheus High: How to make a monster (Stuart Wilson, Puffin)
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Stuart Wilson’s debut middle-grade novel, the first in a series, will appeal to 8–12-year-olds looking for an adventure tale with a macabre edge. Athena Strange, an intelligent yet unruly young...
Dinner with the Schnabels (Toni Jordan, Hachette)
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
In this timely new novel, Toni Jordan lends her signature wit to the story of a dysfunctional yet loving family group. Simon Larsen has lost his business and his home...
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Monday, 31 January 2022
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Uncanny Angles (Sean Williams, Wakefield)
Thursday, 27 January 2022
Since the late 90s Sean Williams has been a prolific contributor to Australian speculative fiction; he’s written award-winning science fiction, post-collapse and young adult books. Part retrospective, part confession, Uncanny...
BRTD enterprise agreement, ABA ICYMI campaign, Newbery, Caldecott winners
Thursday, 27 January 2022
In news this week, following industrial action in November last year, workers and management at Sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead have signed an enterprise agreement, which has been submitted...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 27 January 2022
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold Portuguese translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, 4th Estate) to HarperCollins Iberica S A, and Greek translation rights to Tuscan Rose (Belinda...
Unlimited Futures (ed by Rafeif Ismail & Ellen van Neerven, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Unlimited Futures is a YA anthology of sci-fi and speculative fiction edited by Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven. What makes it so different from other collections like it is...
Orphan Rock (Dominique Wilson, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Five-year-old Bessie is removed from an extended stay at the Protestant Orphan School and returned home to her unstable mother: a woman she doesn’t remember and who is anything but...
Australiana (Yumna Kassab, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
The heart of Australiana is an examination of settler Australia, disrupting the conception of town and rural settings so common in the nation's literary imagination. First Nations writers have significantly...
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Monday, 24 January 2022
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The Imagineer (Christopher Cheng, illus by Lucia Masciullo, NLA Publishing)
Saturday, 22 January 2022
In the vein of Andrea Beaty’s delightful Rosie Revere and friends, Christopher Cheng and Lucia Masciullo’s The Imagineer introduces us to a resourceful, inquisitive and (obviously) imaginative child who is...
New appointments at HarperCollins and Bloomsbury, Hazel Rowley shortlist
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Michelle Weisz as publishing director of HarperCollins Australia’s children’s books division. Weisz replaces Cristina Cappelluto, who has joined Bloomsbury Australia as managing director. The...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Sales Fiction Brandl & Schlesinger has sold North American rights to Mother Tongue (Joyce Kornblatt, September) to Publerati, and Polish rights to The Baker’s Alchemy (John Stephenson) to Dressler Publisher...
Remember Me (Charity Norman, A&U)
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Remember Me begins with a call in the middle of the night, when illustrator Emily is awakened in her London flat. Her father’s health is failing and Emily is the...
The Love That Grew (Sarah Ayoub, illus by Mimi Purnell, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
In the vein of Sam McBratney’s You’re All My Favourites comes a picture book that captures the idea that a mother’s love is unlimited when it comes to her children,...
Hovering (Rhett Davis, Hachette)
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Alice returns to the fictional Australian city of Fraser after 16 years away. The city itself has changed—and continues to change—beyond recognition. Streets, houses and other buildings literally shift and...
Growing Up in Flames (Zach Jones, Text)
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Zach Jones’s debut novel Growing Up in Flames is as gritty as bushfire ash. Written for a doctorate in creative writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast, the novel’s...
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