Norcliffe announced as 2023 Margaret Mahy Medal winner
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Children's book author and poet James Norcliffe has won the 2023 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, presented annually for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to New Zealand children’s literature. Norcliffe is...
Women’s Prize 2023 longlist announced
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
The longlist for the 2023 International Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced. The 16 titles longlisted for the award are: Black Butterflies (Priscilla Morris, Duckworth Books) Children of Paradise...
‘Grimmish’ removed from NSW Prem’s shortlist, Stella longlist announced, Lien wins MUD prize
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
BookPeople has released its industry sustainability report, Towards a Sustainable Bookselling Future, outlining key areas of concern for booksellers including carbon emissions from freight and printing, as well as issues related specifically...
Crew, Ottley nominated for 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Awards
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Writer Gary Crew and illustrator Matt Ottley have been nominated by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Australia as the Australian candidates for the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen...
Magabala wins 2023 Bologna Prize, Oceania region
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Magabala is the 2023 Oceania winner of the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publisher of the Year. 'This is such an honour as the voting is by our peers...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Hungarian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Alexandra Kiadócsoport, and German rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams) to...
A Friend for George (Gabriel Evans, Puffin)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
George is accustomed to being alone. All he wants is a friend. Is that so much to ask? Someone to frolic in the sea and go on boat rides with....
Royals (Tegan Bennett Daylight, S&S)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
This compelling, character-driven novel is Tegan Bennett Daylight’s first foray writing for teens. Through 16-year-old Shannon’s perspective, we follow the day-to-day minutiae of six teens (and one baby) who have...
The Letterbox Tree (Rebecca Lim & Kate Gordon, Walker)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
In The Letterbox Tree, two acclaimed children’s writers have teamed up for the first time to write a platonic, cli-fi version of The Lakehouse, crafting a tense and pacy story...
The Sydney Harbour Fairy (Deborah Frenkel, illus by Cate James, Affirm)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Set on Sydney Harbour and its surrounds, The Sydney Harbour Fairy revolves around a clever play-on-words between ‘fairy’ and ‘ferry’. Nanna has organised a Girls’ Day Out with her granddaughter...
After the Rain (Aisling Smith, Hachette)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Aisling Smith’s debut novel, After the Rain, is the melancholic and moving winner of the 2020 Richell Prize. The story begins with Malti, a woman who moved from Fiji to...
Obsession (Nicole Madigan, Pantera)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
When journalist Nicole Madigan starts dating single dad Adam, it seems like the beginning of an exciting new chapter for her and her children. But as the relationship progresses, something...
The Rush (Michelle Prak, S&S)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
The Rush by Michelle Prak gives new meaning to the words gripping and horrifying. Take Jane Harper’s The Lost Man, add some sinister Wolf Creek, and you’re on the right...
Tsao wins US PEN Translation Prize
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Sydney-based writer and translator Tiffany Tsao won the US$3000 (A$4450) PEN Translation Prize for her translation of People from Bloomington (Budi Darma, Penguin Classics). The translation prize was one of...
S&S acquires Reid debut novel
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired world rights to a debut novel by Teela Reid, a Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman and co-founder of Instagram account @Blackfulla_Bookclub, via Jane Novak. Legally...
Echo to publish new Morris novel in two-book deal
Monday, 6 March 2023
Echo Publishing’s parent company has acquired world all-language rights to Heather Morris’s forthcoming novel Sisters under the Rising Sun. Margaret Stead, publisher at Zaffre and Manilla Press at Bonnier UK,...
‘Grimmish’ removed from Christina Stead shortlist
Monday, 6 March 2023
The novel Grimmish, self-published by author Michael Winkler in 2021 and published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2022, has been removed from the shortlist for the Christina Stead prize for...
‘All That’s Left Unsaid’ wins 2023 MUD Literary Prize
Monday, 6 March 2023
Tracey Lien’s novel All That’s Left Unsaid (HarperCollins) has won the sixth annual MUD Literary Prize. Presented each year for the best debut literary novel by an Australian writer, the...
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Monday, 6 March 2023
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Stella Prize 2023 longlist announced: ‘pathos, rage, and wild, joyful swagger’
Thursday, 2 March 2023
The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The longlisted books are: The Furies (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette) Every Version of You (Grace Chan,...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Thursday, 2 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Changes to the awards this year include the $30,000 Indigenous Writers’ Prize now being offered annually; the...
CBCA 2023 Notable Books announced
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2023. The list acts as the longlist for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards....
Record year for S&S Australia, ‘A Kunwinjku Counting Book’ recognised in US
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia recorded a ‘record year of sales, profit, and market share’ in 2022, with print sales were up 35.5%, ebooks up 21.6% and audio up 51%. A...
Kat Muscat Fellowship 2023 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Express Media and the Kat Muscat Fellowship Committee have announced the shortlist for the 2023 Kat Muscat Fellowship, which offers support and development to a young Australian writer or editor...
Neil, the Amazing Sea Cucumber (Amelia McInerney, illus by Lucinda Gifford, Affirm)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Expect to be giggling, chortling then guffawing through Neil, the Amazing Sea Cucumber. Amelia McInerney writes a mockumentary-style picture book, taking a creative risk that pays off in abundance, and...
Hunger of Thorns (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Lili Wilkinson’s new YA novel is a dark and twisting tale that draws on a history of persecution and celebrates the power of women, even as it interrogates society’s fear...
Etta and the Octopus (Zana Fraillon, illus by Andrew Joyner, Lothian)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
What should we offer a newly independent reader who is ready for a book with more text than a picture book but still needs plenty of support from the illustrations?...
Love Letter to Lola (Carmel Bird, Spineless Wonders)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Carmel Bird was the recipient of the 2016 Patrick White Literary Award and is a respected author of fiction and nonfiction. Love Letter to Lola, a compilation of 18 short...
The Collected Regrets of Clover (Mikki Brammer, Viking)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
The Collected Regrets of Clover is the heartwarming debut novel by Australian author and journalist Mikki Brammer. Set in New York, the book centres on Clover Brooks, a socially isolated...
Between Worlds (B D Lovell, UWAP)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
While often overlooked, science fiction poetry, or speculative verse as it’s sometimes called, has a distinguished pedigree, with contributions from such luminaries as Ursula K LeGuin and Brian Aldiss, as...
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