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Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 10 August 2020
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. This week's features include: 'History...

Bookshops need support during the Covid-19 pandemic

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
'Bookshops are at the heart of our communities, especially in Melbourne, the first and only City of Literature in Australia and the second in the world. Bookshops are also the...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Acquisitions Fiction Transit Lounge has acquired world English-language rights to Travelling Companions (Antoni Jach) (see news). Nonfiction Black Inc. has acquired world rights to We’ve Got This: Parenting with a disability...

Melbourne bookshops close under stage four restrictions, new project to digitise out-of-print works

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Under stage four lockdown restrictions introduced on Sunday, Melbourne bookshops have closed to the public and can only operate online or via the contactless click and collect method. The ASA,...

It’s Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake (Claire Christian, Text)

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Claire Christian’s first adult novel is billed as a contemporary romantic comedy and while there is a delicious romance plot, the true love story is between the eponymous protagonist and...

Soar: A life freed by dance (David McAllister, Thames & Hudson)

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
As both a star principal dancer and tenured artistic director, David McAllister is a reliable chronicler of Australia’s recent ballet history. In his memoir Soar, McAllister records his early years...

Wolfred (Nick Bland, Hardie Grant Egmont)

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy the engaging rhymes, quirky illustration and straightforward messaging of this new tale from popular picture book author Nick Bland. When aspiring writer Wolfred McFlea is...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. This week's features include: 'In...

Debuts make up more than half of the 2020 Booker Prize longlist

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
'It is an unusually high proportion [of debuts], and especially surprising to the judges themselves, who had admired many books by more established authors, and regretted having to let them...

Just Money: Misadventures in the great Australian debt trap (Royce Kurmelovs, UQP)

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Just Money opens with a first-person account of the car crash that left author and journalist Royce Kurmelovs $23,000 in debt. Kurmelovs’ subsequent experience with the opaque mechanisms of debt...

The Tunnel of Dreams (Bernard Beckett, Text)

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
The Tunnel of Dreams is a charmingly breezy middle fiction fantasy novel about identical twins Arlo and Stefan, and their adventure in a parallel, magic-filled world. Author Bernard Beckett wastes...

Death Leaves the Station (Alexander Thorpe, Fremantle Press)

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
In 1927 at Halfwell Station in regional WA, the station owner’s daughter, Ana, discovers a body in the nearby desert. At around the same time, a nameless friar arrives at...

Indigo Owl (Charlie Archbold, Wakefield)

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Scarlet, Dylan and Rumi are new students at the Arcadia Institute, where they will receive the training required to turn them into good citizens of the corpocratic planet Galbraith. But...

Booker Prize longlist, JobKeeper extended and more

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
The Booker Prize longlist—which features writers from the UK, US, Zimbabwe, Ireland and Ethiopia—headlines this week’s awards news. In local awards news, Rodney Hall and Krissy Kneen have received $80,000...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Acquisitions Fiction Transit Lounge has acquired world English-language rights to Travelling Companions (Antoni Jach) (see news). Nonfiction Scribe has acquired world English-language rights to The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 27 July 2020
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. Features include: 'Homeward bound' 'A...

Poly (Paul Dalgarno, Ventura)

Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Spouses Chris and Sarah are trying something new—after years without sex, but still in love and keen to remain a family unit, they’ve agreed to see other people. The confident,...

Tricky Nick (Nicholas J Johnson, illus by Russell Jeffery, Pan)

Wednesday, 22 July 2020
I’m usually suspicious of books written by performers, celebrities or adult writers turning to children’s fiction, but Tricky Nick won me over in the first 20 pages. Magician-turned-author Nicholas J...

Winch wins Miles Franklin, Nielsen predicts book sales rebound and more

Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Tara June Winch has won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel The Yield (Hamish Hamilton), becoming the fourth First Nations writer to win the award in its...

The History of Mischief (Rebecca Higgie, Fremantle Press)

Wednesday, 22 July 2020
The History of Mischief is an exploration of family, grief and the power of stories, with a pseudo-historical twist. Nine-year-old Jessie is struggling with the loss of her parents and...

Publishers need to release more work in Indigenous languages

Wednesday, 22 July 2020
'Having our languages become normalised and celebrated is going to positively affect our future generations. It will psychologically change them. Having a linguistic connection to the past doesn’t just change...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 20 July 2020
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. Features include: Fall children's books...

Book sales down 2% for year to June, ABA Booksellers’ Choice awards winners and more

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Nielsen BookScan data shows that strong sales during the second quarter of 2020 have largely cushioned the local book market from the effects of Covid-19, with sales down by just...

Representation is essential for arts orgs—even during Covid-19

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
'We acknowledge that Covid-19 continues to make the programming and delivery of events extremely challenging. However, the issue of true representation is the civic and professional responsibility of all arts...

The Fire Star (A L Tait, Penguin)

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Maven is a servant girl doomed to a life of servitude and forced to hide how sharp-minded she really is. Reeve is a squire with dreams of becoming a knight...

Dreams They Forgot (Emma Ashmere, Wakefield)

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
The tagline on the title page of Emma Ashmere’s Dreams They Forgot is ‘stories of illusion, deception and quiet rebellion’. This is an apt description of the 25 stories that...

Bunnygirl (Holly Jayne, Berbay)

Wednesday, 15 July 2020
In this adorable junior graphic novel, the main character Bea loves superhero comics, cute things, bunnies and eating cereal. She really wants to become a superhero so that she can...

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