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Pan Macmillan acquires Kerr’s adult fiction debut 

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Kay Kerr’s untitled adult fiction debut, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. In the novel, ‘a burnt-out and unravelling young...

UQP acquires Field’s ‘The Eagle and the Crow’ 

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to J M Field’s book The Eagle and the Crow, which ‘records and provides important insights into Indigenous ways of knowing...

Paragraph Fellowship inaugural shortlist announced

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
The shortlist for the inaugural Paragraph Fellowship has been announced by the new Time to Write initiative. Shortlisted works are: ‘Decadence’ by Hossein Asgari ‘The Heron’ by Jessica Au ‘Reasons...

Promotions at S&S 

Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has announced the promotions of three staff members in the editorial team and one staff member in the finance team, effective this month. Anthea Bariamis...

Jackie French recommends 

Living Art book cover Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History edited by Virginia Hooker [along with Elly Kent and Caroline Turner]—we are having tomorrow’s lunch together. I’m reading it because I’m...

2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry winners announced 

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
At the opening of Durham Book Festival in the UK, four women were announced as winners of the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry, with Victoria Chang’s poetry collection with my...

New Dawn forms audiobook partnership with Bolinda 

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Fantasy and speculative fiction publisher New Dawn has formed an ‘exclusive partnership’ with Bolinda Audio for the audiobook company to publish New Dawn's titles into the trade and library audio...

Marahuyo awarded 2024 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship

J Marahuyo Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Writing NSW has awarded its 2024 Varuna fellowship to J Marahuyo for her poetry manuscript ‘Disclosure of Violence’. ‘Disclosure of Violence’ was described by the judges as a ‘deeply affecting...

UWAP acquires Negri’s YA verse novel 

Monday, 14 October 2024
University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Julianne Negri’s young adult verse novel Hunting Bears, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Hunting Bears is...

A&U acquires ‘Runt’ sequel 

Craig Silvey. Credit Daniel Grant Monday, 14 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping, Craig Silvey’s sequel to Runt, via Lesley Thorne at Aitken Alexander Associates. Runt and the Diabolical...

Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature

Han Kang Monday, 14 October 2024
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’. Han...

A&U acquires second Spencer novel 

Thursday, 10 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Broke Road, the second novel from Matthew Spencer, via Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management Literary Agency. Broke Road is set in the...

Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2024 longlist

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Odd Couple: The Australia-America Relationship (Allan Behm, Upswell) Quarterly Essay...

Kitching, Pickens shortlisted in Laurel Prize

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand poets Megan Kitching and Robyn Maree Pickens are among those shortlisted for the annual UK nature and environmental poetry award, the Laurel Prize. The shortlisted titles are:...

HarperCollins acquires Ablett memoir 

Photograph of Jordan Ablett Wednesday, 9 October 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to ‘inspirational memoir’ One Day at a Time by Jordan Ablett. ‘On a quiet Melbourne afternoon in the eerie early days of the pandemic, young...

US audiobook fiction up 61.8% in July

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that digital audio sales jumped significantly in the month of July, compared to the same time the previous year, based on total sales...

Affirm acquires Brownlee rom-com 

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to Victoria Brownlee’s foodie rom-com novel, Eat Your Heart Out, via Linwood Messina Literary Agency. Eat Your Heart Out follows six competing food writers...

Lewis to leave Hardie Grant 

Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Hardie Grant group director, people and culture Troy Lewis is leaving Hardie Grant after seven years to explore other opportunities. Having joined as maternity cover for then Hardie Grant Books...

Dymocks: Changes to website, loyalty program and flagship store 

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Dymocks will this week roll out ‘a multimillion-dollar new website project’ that will provide ‘stronger search capabilities, a more streamlined check-out process, more delivery options and personalised recommendations,’ reports the...

UK summer paperback fiction sales up 10%

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
In the UK, paperback fiction sales for the 12 weeks from 30 June were up about 10% on the same period in 2023, reports the Bookseller. Bolstered by the success...

Derby wins 2024 CLNZ/NZSA Writers’ Award

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Mark Derby has won the 2024 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Writers’ Award, worth...

Booksellers Aotearoa NZ launches buying group 

Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand is offering members access to a new service—a book buying group. Beginning with 26 members, the buying group provides access to an online ordering portal, which...

 

 

 

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