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I Shot The Devil (Ruth McIver, Hachette)

Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Richell Prize-winner Ruth McIver’s debut crime thriller is a powder-keg with a slow burning fuse that has you racing to figure out which of the shadowy, unreliable suspects ‘did it’—and...

Garner on being inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame

Wednesday, 29 April 2020
'When I was first starting out there were still people here who would think it was almost not worth publishing a book if it was not first published in London....

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Sales Fiction Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Doom Creek (Alan Carter, forthcoming) to Suhrkamp Verlag. HarperCollins has sold a renewal of Polish translation rights to Complete Self-Help for...

‘The Yield’ sweeps NSW Prem’s Awards, publishers postpone pub dates and more

Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Over the weekend, Tara June Winch’s The Yield took out a hat-trick at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, scooping Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and...

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Monday, 27 April 2020
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APA condemns unauthorised distribution of Turnbull memoir

Wednesday, 22 April 2020
‘This disappointing, blatant and unforgiving act of piracy comes at a time when the Australian publishing industry—in fact the whole arts industry—is working tirelessly to support communities access content in...

Hardie Grant reaches settlement with PM staffer who distributed Turnbull memoir, Kruimink wins 2020 Vogel and more

Wednesday, 22 April 2020
The big story this week was the unauthorised distribution of Malcolm Turnbull's memoir A Bigger Picture, allegedly by a staffer in the Prime Minister's Office, which Hardie Grant chief executive Sandy...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Sales Nonfiction Pantera Press has sold North American rights for Space is Cool as F*ck (Kate Howells et al) to Andrews McMeel, and will publish a small-format edition concurrently with...

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Monday, 20 April 2020
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Jess Hill on why we need to openly discuss domestic abuse

Thursday, 16 April 2020
'Part of the Australian story has been our struggle to face the difficult truths of our recent history. To me this is a book about what happens when there’s nothing...

Lonely Planet shutters Melbourne office, industry adapts to lockdown and more

Thursday, 16 April 2020
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic made itself known this week, with the news Lonely Planet reduced its publishing operations with immediate effect, including essentially shuttering its Melbourne and...

Rights round-up

Thursday, 16 April 2020
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Czech translation rights to The Love That I Have (James Moloney) to JOTA, and Slovak translation rights to Fortuna Libri. Shaw Literary has sold US...

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Tuesday, 14 April 2020
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Covid-19 reveals crisis in arts funding

Wednesday, 8 April 2020
'Covid-19 is an opportunity to ask ourselves as a nation why we take our artists and cultural organisations for granted. Why, even in an emergency, can’t we find the money...

Publishers roll out redundancies, reduced working hours; funding bodies restructure financial support; ABDA shortlists and more

Wednesday, 8 April 2020
This week Hardie Grant and Scribe became the first Australian publishers to announce redundancies in response to Covid-19. Other publishers, including Thames & Hudson Australia and Allen & Unwin, have...