NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 winners announced
Monday, 24 March 2025
The winners of the 2025 NZ Booklovers Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Best Adult Fiction Book The Space Between (Lauren Keenan, Penguin) Best Lifestyle Book Kai Feast: Food...
Melbourne Books acquires Cochrane art book
Monday, 24 March 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Living Art: Papua New Guinea by Susan Cochrane. According to the publisher, the book will feature over 400 full-colour images of Papua New Guinean artists...
Two Carter crime series optioned for television
Monday, 24 March 2025
Tasmania-based crime author Alan Carter's Cato Kwong series and Nick Chester series (both Fremantle Press) have been optioned for television by Magnetic Stories. Production company Magnetic Stories launched last week...
UQP acquires Kemp debut novel ‘Soft Serve’
Thursday, 20 March 2025
UQP has acquired world rights for Soft Serve, the debut novel of playwright and actor George Kemp. The novel is 'set over one day almost exclusively in a regional McDonald’s as...
Atria acquires Koay romantasy debut
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Atria Books Australia has acquired world rights for romantasy novel A Curse Carved in Ink by Tzeyi Koay, in a two-book, six-figure deal with Charlotte Trumble at Simon & Schuster...
IPEd announces ‘Rosie’ shortlist
Thursday, 20 March 2025
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award. The shortlisted editors are: Kimberley Davis for Under the Weather: A Future Forecast...
Brooks memoir tops chart at 2025 Adelaide Writers’ Week
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Attendance at Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) – which ran 1–6 March 2025 as part of the Adelaide Festival – broke records in its 40th year, according to the festival. Themed...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
The Wheeler Centre has announced the winners of the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs). Nukgal Wurra author-artist Wanda Gibson has won the overall Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000,...
Local authors on 2025 British Book Awards shortlists
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Local authors Madeleine Gray, Oliver Jeffers and Sarah A Parker have been shortlisted as part of the 35th British Book Awards (also known as The Nibbies). Works by Gray and...
Text acquires ‘Snake Talk’
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Text Publishing has acquired world rights for Snake Talk: How the World’s Ancient Serpent Stories Can Guide Us by Tyson Yunkaporta and Megan Kelleher. The publisher describes Snake Talk as an...
QBD Books to open Greensborough store, adds Kepler Analytics technology
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Bookselling chain QBD Books will open a new store at Greensborough Plaza in the northeast of Melbourne on 22 March. The new store will be the first QBD store to...
Loveridge, Stephens launch Perentie Press
Monday, 17 March 2025
Wombat Books founder Rochelle Stephens and teacher and author Bethany Loveridge have announced the establishment of new publishing venture Perentie Press. Loveridge and Stephens said the press will be ‘a...
Woollahra Writers’ Festival, StoryFest announce 2025 programs
Monday, 17 March 2025
The Woollahra Writers’ Festival will run 29–30 March as part of the Woollahra Festival in Sydney. Program curator Nicole Abadee told Books+Publishing the last interviews with writers in the neighbourhood...
Larrikin acquires McDonald picture book
Monday, 17 March 2025
Larrikin House has acquired world English rights to Rainbow Street by RWR McDonald, illustrated by Kelly Canby. The picture book introduces Rainbow Street, ‘where every neighbour is family, every celebration is...
Wynn-Williams blocked from promoting ‘Careless People’
Monday, 17 March 2025
In the US, an emergency arbitrator has ‘temporarily prohibited Meta’s former director of global public policy and author of the memoir Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams, from promoting or further distributing...
Tasmania Reads 2025 events announced
Monday, 17 March 2025
Tasmania Reads will be held in libraries and partner organisations across the state 23–29 March 2025, and will include the launch of a new Writers’ Room at the State Library...
Murdoch Books acquires Fashion Critical title
Monday, 17 March 2025
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to a ‘satirical red-carpet fashion bible’ from anonymous social media influencer and comedian Fashion Critical (FC). ‘Fashion Critical is the brainchild of an anonymous...
A&U acquires Gold’s ‘My Name Is Elli’
Monday, 17 March 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) Aotearoa New Zealand has acquired world rights to the historical novel My Name Is Elli from author Doug Gold. Set in wartime Holland, My Name Is...
Auckland Writers Festival announces 2025 program
Monday, 17 March 2025
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi O Tāmaki has announced its 2025 program, to be held in Tāmaki Makaurau 13–18 May. Close to 50 international participants and more than 170 Aotearoa New...
BookPeople launches 100 best books reading guide
Monday, 17 March 2025
BookPeople has released '100 Best Australian Books of the 21st Century', a reading guide featuring titles selected by member booksellers. The guide, which covers adult fiction and nonfiction categories, is...
Fox’s ‘Fire with Fire’ to be adapted for screen
Monday, 17 March 2025
Candice Fox's 2024 thriller Fire with Fire (Penguin) is being adapted for television by US television studio NBC, reports Deadline. Television writer and producer Wendy Mericle (Arrow, Desperate Housewives) is...
Penguin Literary Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘The Fear of Empty Spaces’ by Rachel Bowman (Brisbane, Qld) –...
Harvey, Winterson, Rankin, Keyes among 2025 SWF headliners
Thursday, 13 March 2025
The program for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs 19–27 May under the theme In This Together, has been announced. The program includes more than 40 international guests...
HarperCollins acquires Armitage debut ‘The Heir Apparent’
Thursday, 13 March 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage. HarperCollins head of fiction Catherine Milne acquired the book from Gaby Naher of the Naher Agency with...
PRH acquires new series by Johns and Mercer
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to The Number One Insta Detectives Agency and The Love Bomber by co-writers Rachael Johns and Mercedes Mercier. Rights were acquired...
Hussein named 2025 Kat Muscat Fellow
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Express Media and the Kat Muscat Custodial Committee have announced Adalya Nash Hussein as the 10th and final Kat Muscat Fellow. Selected from a shortlist of three, Hussein is a...
Gender pay gaps revealed for book sector
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
The Australian Government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has published data on gender pay gaps for the second year in a row through its Data Explorer, indicating that many large publishing...
Oldfield leaves SWF
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Benython Oldfield has left the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF). Oldfield was the SWF media manager for 11 years, and is the co-director of Zeitgeist Agency with Sharon Galant. 'It’s time...
Scholastic acquires two Greive series for young readers
Thursday, 6 March 2025
Scholastic Australia has secured world rights to two new series for young readers by Bradley Trevor Greive, in deals brokered by Belinda Bolliger at Key People Literary Management. In Death...
Morton wins 2025 UQP Quentin Bryce Award
Thursday, 6 March 2025
UQP has announced Rachel Morton as the winner of the 2025 UQP Quentin Bryce Award, worth $5000, for her novel The Sun Was Electric Light. The award, which recognises The...
