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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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Monday, 17 January 2022
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PMLA winners, ACCC lodges case against Booktopia

Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Late last year, the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced. Amanda Lohrey, who won the fiction prize for her novel The Labyrinth, was also named the...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Sales Fiction Pantera Press has sold world large print rights to The Scarlet Cross (Lyn McFarlane, April) and A Caravan Like a Canary (Sasha Wasley, April) to Aurora. Nonfiction Black...

Son of Sin (Omar Sakr, Affirm)

Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Son of Sin by Omar Sakr tells the story of growing up queer and Muslim in a constant state of dispossession. The story begins with Jamal as a 14-year-old boy,...

Triple Helix (Lauren Burns, UQP)

Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Lauren Burns received a fork inscribed with the word ‘agitator’ as a present from her boyfriend while trekking through the extreme wilderness of Utah. Burns’s journey as a donor-conceived person...

That Cat (Jacqueline Harvey, illus by Kate Isobel Scott, Puffin)

Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Cat lovers and nonsense lovers, this is the book for you. Jaqueline Harvey, bestselling author for children, plays on words that rhyme with ‘cat’ in order to make a list...

Pearly and Pig and the Great Hairy Beast (Sue Whiting, Walker Books)

Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Pearly Woe is not your average 10-year-old. She can speak 27 languages, talk to and understand most animals and, in this tale, travels to Antarctica. However, this is no holiday....

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Monday, 10 January 2022
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Monday, 20 December 2021
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Monday, 13 December 2021
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The Sorrow Stone (Kári Gíslason, UQP)

Wednesday, 8 December 2021
In the wintery and unforgiving wilds of pre-medieval Iceland, a widow named Disa and her young son are running in fear of their lives. Disa has committed a bloody act...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Sales Fiction Penguin Random House Australia has sold UK rights (world English-language ex ANZ) to The Rabbits (Sophie Overett) to Gallic Books; Slovakian translation rights to The Eighth Wonder (Tania Farrelly) to...

Paterson to lead Atlantic Books Australia, VPLAs shortlists

Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Pan Macmillan publishing director Cate Paterson is leaving the company to lead Atlantic Book Australia, a new division of Allen & Unwin. In other moves news, Louise Adler will leave...

Sadvertising (Ennis Ćehić, Vintage)

Wednesday, 8 December 2021
In this debut collection of short stories, Ennis Ćehić uses deeply flawed characters to cleverly reflect the absurdity of late-stage capitalism. Sadvertising identifies obsession, narcissism and neuroses as reasonable responses...