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The Mother Fault (Kate Mildenhall, S&S) 

Wednesday, 1 July 2020
This gripping and thoughtful novel offers a spine-tingling vision of a future Australia—eerie in its potential realism—in which citizens’ movements are tracked and climate change has decimated the country, flooding...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Acquisitions Children's/YA Text Publishing has acquired world rights to four manuscripts that were shortlisted for the 2020 Text Prize: Red-Bottomed Boat (Charlie Archbold), The Museum of Broken Things (Lauren Draper),...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 29 June 2020
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Miles Franklin shortlist, White leaves UWAP and more

Wednesday, 24 June 2020
The six titles shortlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award have been revealed, ahead of the winner’s announcement on 16 July. In other awards news from the past week,...

Data is integral to promoting the value of books

Wednesday, 24 June 2020
'Data, and reliable credible data, is critical to being able to talk to policy makers and politicians. Particularly when talking about the economic and cultural value of the book industry....

Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) 

Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Martha is sick. She’s been sick since she was 17 years old, and a cocktail of pills in varying doses has never made a difference to the lows that leave...

The F Team (Rawah Arja, Giramondo) 

Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Tariq is a smart kid, he just lacks the motivation to achieve his full potential. At least, that’s what he has always been told, living in Punchbowl, Western Sydney, where...

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Monday, 22 June 2020
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Sunflower (Ingrid Laguna, Text) 

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
When Jamila’s oldest friend is granted a visa to move from Iraq to Australia with her family, Jamila is over the moon. But Mina’s arrival is more complicated than Jamila...

New Magabala First Nations cadetship, latest awards and more

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Magabala Books has announced a new cadetship for First Nations publishing professionals, which includes on-the-job training, professional development and sustainable employment, with mentorship from Magabala publisher Rachel Bin Salleh. Meanwhile,...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK Commonwealth (excluding ANZ) rights to The Beat of Life: A surgeon reveals the secrets of the heart (Reinhard Friedl, February 2021) to Hero,...

How to Win an Election (Chris Wallace, NewSouth) 

Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Journalist and historian Chris Wallace’s How to Win an Election can be read two ways. Firstly, as an autopsy of Labor’s shock 2019 defeat, and secondly as a witty Machiavellian...

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Monday, 15 June 2020
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The Labyrinth (Amanda Lohrey, Text) 

Thursday, 11 June 2020
Devastated when her son is convicted of negligent homicide, Erica Marsden cuts all ties to her former life and retreats to a lonely coastal hamlet near his prison. Moving into...

Man in Armour (Siobhan McKenna, Fourth Estate) 

Thursday, 11 June 2020
Man in Armour is a slice-of-life novel about Charles, a successful cog in the machine of the financial sector who has climbed his way up the corporate ladder to an...

The Erasure Initiative (Lili Wilkinson, A&U) 

Thursday, 11 June 2020
Lili Wilkinson is a versatile, intelligent writer, and takes the psychological thriller to new heights in The Erasure Initiative. Cecily wakes up on a self-driving bus with six other people....

Rights round-up 

Thursday, 11 June 2020
Acquisitions Fiction Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency has sold world rights to Elodie Cheesman’s debut novel to Pan Macmillan. Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold world rights...

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Tuesday, 9 June 2020
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