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Debut buzz: new authors attract major deals  Archive

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
A number of debuts have been picked up by Australian publishers in recent months amid significant buzz. Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to two crime novels by Canberra debut...

Uplit dominates recent fiction acquisitions  Archive

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to two uplifting ‘family dramedies’ by Toni Jordan, author of numerous award-winning, bestselling novels, including Addition, Nine Days and Our Tiny, Useless Hearts (all...

Uplit, environment trending ahead of Frankfurt  Archive

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
While Frankfurt returns as an in-person fair this year, Australian rights managers and literary agents will be participating virtually once again as international travel remains difficult for those of us...

Meet literary agent Martin Shaw  Archive

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Since moving from Australia to Germany in 2015, former book buyer Martin Shaw has established himself as a literary agent, first as ‘an understudy’ to Alex Adsett, and subsequently as...

Evie and Rhino  Archive

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
When Evie finds a fully-grown rhinoceros washed up on a beach, she feels an immediate connection and knows she has to help him. When Rhino wakes, he knows that the...

How We Love  Archive

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. This lyrical memoir explores love in...

Gustav and Henri: Volume #1  Archive

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Opposites attract in this humorous graphic novel series about best friends Gustav and Henri. Gustav is a goofy, optimistic and naively enthusiastic pig. Henri is a grounded, pragmatic and quietly...

Career path: Cate Blake  Archive

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Cate Blake began her publishing career at Penguin Random House Australia as an editorial assistant. In 2018 she was nominated for the inaugural ABIA Rising Star Award for her role...

Danged Black Thing  Archive

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa,...

Text acquires Nick Cave book  Archive

Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Faith, Hope and Carnage is an intimate and honest conversation about big ideas including faith, art, music and grief. Co-written by Nick Cave and Observer journalist Sean O’Hagan, this new...

McKay wins Arthur C Clarke Award  Archive

Tuesday, 28 September 2021
The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe) has won the UK's Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction. McKay’s debut novel was selected from a shortlist of...

Nib Literary Award 2021 shortlist announced  Archive

Monday, 27 September 2021
The shortlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Only Happiness Here: In search of Elizabeth...

Performing arts bookshop relaunches online  Archive

Monday, 27 September 2021
Stage Whispers magazine has purchased performing arts specialist bookshop Book Nook, saving the business from closure and launching it as a new online store. Founded over 35 years ago, Book...

No Daily tomorrow  Archive

Thursday, 23 September 2021
Due to the public holiday in Victoria, there will be no Daily newsletter tomorrow, Friday, 24 September. Books+Publishing's weekly round-up of books mentioned in forthcoming media will be available via...

Stivens wins 2022 Ray Koppe Fellowship  Archive

Thursday, 23 September 2021
Sarah Stivens has won the Australian Society of Authors' (ASA) 2022 Ray Koppe Young Writers Fellowship for her poetry manuscript ‘Therapeutic Discomfort’. ‘Therapeutic Discomfort’ is a work of 10 poems...

 

 

 

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