‘Still Alive’ sells to Fantagraphics
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Melbourne graphic novel publisher Twelve Panels Press has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) to Safdar Ahmed’s Still Alive to Gary Groth at Fantagraphics, to be published under the Fantagraphics...
Pantera acquires McWilliams debut middle-grade novel
Wednesday, 4 August 2021
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to The Reindeer and the Submarine, the debut middle-grade novel by Beverly McWilliams. Inspired by the true story of a reindeer who lived aboard...
Dark Rise (C S Pacat, A&U)
Tuesday, 3 August 2021
Will is on the run from the men who killed his mother. When a terrifying artefact is unleashed on the Thames docks, Will finds himself thrust into a hidden world...
The Stoning (Peter Papathanasiou, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 3 August 2021
At dawn one Sunday, homicide detective George Manolis is woken with a call: a schoolteacher has been murdered in the outback town of Cobb, and the local police need his...
‘The Labyrinth’ enters top 10 at number two
Monday, 2 August 2021
Amanda Lohrey’s 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner The Labyrinth has entered the top 10 bestsellers chart at number two and is subsequently this week’s fastest moving title, while Anh...
PRH acquires Chadderton middle-grade graphic novel
Thursday, 29 July 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired world rights to the contemporary middle-grade graphic novel Oh, Brother by Adelaide author-illustrator Georgina Chadderton. Rights were acquired in a joint deal between PRH...
Dragon Skin (Karen Foxlee, A&U)
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
Dragon Skin is the much-anticipated new novel by Karen Foxlee, author of cherished modern classics including the internationally successful Lenny’s Book of Everything. Foxlee is skilled at writing brave yet vulnerable young...
Wolf Girl remains at number one
Monday, 26 July 2021
Anh Do’s Across the Sea: Wolf Girl 5 remains at number one on the bestsellers chart for the second week in a row, followed by Aaron Blabey’s Pig the Monster,...
S&S acquires two McAlister rom-coms
Thursday, 22 July 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to two adult novels by Jodi McAlister, author of the YA series 'Valentine', via Alex Adsett from Alex Adsett Literary....
In Moonland (Miles Allinson, Scribe)
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Miles Allinson’s accomplished second novel—the follow-up to his moving and deeply personal 2015 debut Fever of Animals—is an ambitious and gripping story of parenthood, utopias and environmental collapse, told across several interconnected narratives. The narrator of...
Simpson wins 2021 ALS Gold Medal for ‘Song of the Crocodile’
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Nardi Simpson has won the 2021 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for Song of the Crocodile (Hachette). Song of the Crocodile is Simpson's debut novel, and was the winner...
New Wolf Girl reaches number one
Monday, 19 July 2021
Children’s books and adult thrillers dominate the charts for this week. Anh Do’s Across the Sea: Wolf Girl 5 is this week’s fastest moving title, climbing to number one in...
Lohrey wins 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award for ‘The Labyrinth’
Thursday, 15 July 2021
Amanda Lohrey has won the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her seventh novel, The Labyrinth (Text). Lohrey, the second Tasmanian writer to win the Miles Franklin in its 64-year...
UQP sells ‘The White Girl’ to HarperVia
Wednesday, 14 July 2021
UQP has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) for The White Girl by Tony Birch to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia. The deal was handled by UQP rights manager Kate McCormack in...
My Friend Fox (Heidi Everett, Ultimo Press)
Tuesday, 13 July 2021
This memoir from mental health recovery advocate Heidi Everett is a thoroughly real and stunningly evocative retelling of her life as a person with diagnosed mental illness. Everett tells the...
Swan’s ‘So You Think You Know What’s Good For You?’ debuts at number two
Monday, 12 July 2021
On this week’s charts, broadcaster, journalist and doctor Norman Swan’s new health and wellbeing handbook So You Think You Know What’s Good For You? has debuted at number two and...
Bluey replaces ‘She’s on the Money’ at number one
Monday, 5 July 2021
With school holidays in progress across the country (and many cities in lockdown), Bluey: Giant Activity Pad has replaced Victoria Devine’s She’s on the Money at number one. However, the...
Robotham wins CWA Steel Dagger
Friday, 2 July 2021
Michael Robotham has won the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for best thriller for his novel When She Was Good (Hachette). The judges praised Robotham’s...
The Things We See in the Light (Amal Awad, Pantera Press)
Wednesday, 30 June 2021
This book opens with Sahar arriving on her best friend Lara’s doorstep in Newtown, and it’s apparent Sahar has changed a lot since Lara last saw her. Once a shy,...
Hachette acquires Yarwood debut in two-book deal
Wednesday, 30 June 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Sydney author Dianne Yarwood’s debut novel The Wakes in a 'hotly contested' international auction. The six-figure, two-book deal was struck with Catherine Drayton...
An Insider’s Plague Year (Peter Doherty, MUP)
Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Laureate Professor Peter Doherty is one of the most well placed individuals to write a walk-through of the past year and a half of pandemic life. A Nobel Prize-winning immunologist...
‘She’s on the Money’ debuts at number one
Monday, 28 June 2021
Financial self-help is back in Australia’s bestsellers chart with podcaster and financial adviser Victoria Devine’s She’s on the Money debuting at number one and Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor re-entering...
Affirm acquires Berry’s ‘Fearlessly Failing’
Monday, 28 June 2021
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to nutritionist and podcast host Lola Berry’s new personal development book Fearlessly Failing. Affirm said Fearlessly Failing is ‘a guide to embracing challenges and...
‘Fight Like a Girl’ to be adapted for TV
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Aquarius Films has acquired all development and production rights to Clementine Ford’s nonfiction book Fight Like a Girl (A&U), in a deal negotiated by Jacinta Dimase at Jacinta Dimase Management....
Second Clinton novel debuts at number two
Monday, 21 June 2021
Adult fiction continues to dominate the Australian bestsellers chart, making up eight of the top 10 titles. Nora Roberts's Legacy is spending its second consecutive week at number one, while Bill...
Lui wins Russell Prize for Humour Writing, Bunting wins inaugural writing for young people award
Friday, 18 June 2021
Nakkiah Lui has won the $10,000 biennial Russell Prize for Humour Writing for Black is the New White (A&U), the book of her play of the same name. Judges Mark...
Miles Franklin 2021 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 June 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The six shortlisted novels, chosen from a longlist of 12, are: Amnesty (Aravind Adiga, Picador) The Rain Heron (Robbie Arnott,...
Adult fiction dominates chart
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
After months of the Australian bestsellers chart being dominated by children's fiction, the top five books on the chart this week are all adult fiction titles. Nora Roberts's new standalone...
Diverse voices among recent fiction acquisitions
Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to The Matchmaker (2023), a romantic comedy from debut Pakistani–Australian author Saman Shad, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. The novel...
The Happiness Jar
Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Losing her battle with cystic fibrosis, Rachel administers a dose of her notorious wanderlust. She asks her family for one last request: a journey to the exotic and the unknown....
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