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Winter wins 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize

Wednesday, 18 September 2024
In the UK, Kate Winter has won the £5000 (A$9736) Klaus Flugge Prize for the book The Fossil Hunter (Puffin). Featuring panoramic fold-out pages and illustrated in watercolour, The Fossil...

Hachette acquires Mansour-Nahra debut novel

Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s debut novel, with a working title of The Farm, in a five-way auction, in a two-book deal via Marina de Pass...

Shannon Martinez on ‘Vegan Italian Food’

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Chef and restaurateur Shannon Martinez is a pioneer in her industry, bringing vegan cooking to the masses through her books and restaurants, including Smith + Daughters. Her latest cookbook, Vegan...

ASA appoints Hayward as CEO

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) board has appointed Lucy Hayward to the role of CEO. Hayward moves up from the position of marketing and communications manager, succeeding Olivia Lanchester,...

Wood shortlisted for 2024 Booker Prize

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U). The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$97,828) prize are: Creation Lake (Rachel...

Affirm Press to distribute Firefly Press

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Affirm Press has made a distribution agreement with independent UK publishing house Firefly Press, beginning in 2025. Firefly Press is an independent children's and YA publisher based in Wales, publishing...

National Book Award longlists announced

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
In the US, the longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards have been announced. Longlisted fiction and nonfiction titles include: Fiction Ghostroots (’Pemi Aguda, Virago) Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar, Picador) The...

Melbourne Books acquires Tania debut cookbook

Monday, 16 September 2024
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Christy Tania’s first cookbook, Imagine: Creating Desserts with Christy Tania. The publisher said that the cookbook features over 50 base recipes for ‘adventurous and...

Riveted Press acquires Teow illustrated book series

Monday, 16 September 2024
Riveted Press has acquired worldwide rights to five picture books in the series The Book of Kin by author/illustrator Tamlyn Teow, beginning with the book SoXiety. In this ‘almost-wordless’ picture...

New prize for humour writing added to VPLAs

Monday, 16 September 2024
A new award category, the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing, has been added to the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs), named in honour of satirist, writer and actor John...

Fogarty Literary Award funding increased

Monday, 16 September 2024
The Fogarty Literary Award for young Western Australian writers has received an increase in funding. In an announcement, Fremantle Press said the Fogarty Foundation increased funding for the award by...

Wainwright Prize winners announced

Monday, 16 September 2024
In the UK, the 2024 winners of the Wainwright Prize for nature and conservation writing have been announced. The nature writing prize was awarded to Late Light: The Secret Wonders...

Hepworth, Griffiths chosen as inaugural LYBD ambassadors

Monday, 16 September 2024
BookPeople has announced that authors Sally Hepworth and Andy Griffiths are the inaugural adult and children’s author ambassadors for this year’s Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) campaign. As ambassadors, Hepworth...

Danger Awards 2024 winners announced

Monday, 16 September 2024
The 2024 winners of the Danger Awards have been announced. Winners in each category are: Fiction The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin) Debut fiction Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder (Kerryn Mayne,...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 12 September 2024
Creative Australia has announced the winners of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The winners in each category, chosen by an expert independent panel of judges from shortlists announced in...

British Academy Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 12 September 2024
The British Academy has announced the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,156). The shortlisted titles are: Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and...

Atlantic acquires new Dettmann novel

Thursday, 12 September 2024
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin (A&U), has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Jessica Dettmann, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown....

Shawline rebrands

Thursday, 12 September 2024
Shawline Publishing has rebranded as New Found Books. A statement on the publisher’s website said the website had been ‘rebranded and redirected for the protection of our authors and quality...

Grainer, Mouhajer awarded Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Affirm Press and Sweatshop have announced Phoebe Grainer and Adrian Mouhajer as the recipients of the 2024–25 round of the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. Grainer is a Kuku...

Smith Street acquires Davies cookbook

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Smith Street Books has acquired world rights to a new Japanese cookbook by Emiko Davies, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. Davies is an Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer, author...

Christie to join Curtis Brown

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Curtis Brown Australia has announced Alexandra Christie will join the business as an agent. Currently rights director at Giramondo Publishing and the editor of HEAT literary magazine, Christie is also...

Audible tests AI voice replica service for narrators

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that Audible is ‘inviting a small group of narrators to participate in a beta test that will enable them to create and monetise...

Michelle de Kretser recommends

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Fiona McFarlane’s Highway 13 is a stupendous collection of stories that imagines the fallout from the crimes committed by a serial killer. It’s a dazzling refraction of the backpacker murders...

Michelle de Kretser on ‘Theory & Practice’

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Two-time Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser’s latest novel, Theory & Practice (November 2024, Text), is a combination of fiction, memoir and essay set in St Kilda, Melbourne, in 1986....

Ultimo acquires Reid’s third novel

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Diana Reid’s third novel, Signs of Damage. In Signs of Damage, 13-year-old Cass goes missing while the Kelly family is holidaying in the...

Laura Harris launches publishing services business

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Former publishing director, young readers, at Penguin Random House (PRH) Laura Harris has launched a children’s publishing services business. Laura Harris Publishing offers editorial and advisory services for children’s book...