The Disorganisation of Celia Stone (Emma Young, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Emma Young’s second novel, The Disorganisation of Celia Stone, explores the demands of modern life and how they affect women living in a world with unrealistic expectations. Celia Stone has it...
Inaugural UK BookTok awards shortlists announced
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
In the UK, the shortlists for the inaugural TikTok Book Awards UK and Ireland have been announced, reports the Bookseller. In contention for BookTok book of the year are Honey...
Hore wins inaugural Marilyn Lake Prize
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Academic Jarrod Hore has won the inaugural $2000 Marilyn Lake Prize for Australian Transnational History for Visions of Nature: How landscape photography shaped settler colonialism (University of California Press). Judges...
Waterstones debut fiction prize shortlist announced
Monday, 17 July 2023
In the UK, the shortlist for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, worth £5000 (A$9570), has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The six titles shortlisted for the award are: Wandering Souls...
UQP acquires creative nonfiction work by Holland-Batt
Monday, 17 July 2023
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to an as yet untitled 'brave, moving work' of creative nonfiction from Stella Prize winner Sarah Holland-Batt, from Clare Forster...
National Biography Award 2023 shortlist announced
Monday, 17 July 2023
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works, selected from 94 entries, are: Unknown: A refugee’s story...
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Monday, 17 July 2023
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Pantera acquires Daddo nonfiction book on confidence
Friday, 14 July 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to a nonfiction book by actor, presenter and singer-songwriter Cameron Daddo via Cathy Baker at CMC Talent Management. Part memoir and part roadmap to...
‘Paper Cage’ sells to UK, US
Thursday, 13 July 2023
Rights to Michael Gifkins Prize-winning novel Paper Cage (Tom Baragwanath, Text) have been sold to the US and UK, reports the Bookseller. In the UK the book will be published...
Country Town (Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway, illus Louise Hogan, Ford St)
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Country Town is the first picture book for both historical novelist Isolde Martyn and Aboriginal Studies teacher Robyn Ridgeway. From a fusion of interesting factoids about real Australian towns, Martyn...
Hachette withdraws police memoir; Groom appointed Writing NSW CEO; CWF 2023 program announced
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Hachette Australia has withdrawn a memoir by retired former officer Christophe Glasl after Victoria Police raised concerns about its accuracy; Writing NSW has announced the appointment of Sophie Groom as...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold North American rights to Head & Heart (Kirstin Ferguson); Japanese and Bulgarian rights to Scrublands (Chris Hammer); French language rights to Green Dot...
Affirm signs Tuohy memoir
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a memoir by AFL Geelong Cats defender Zach Tuohy, to be co-written by ABC sports journalist Catherine Murphy. Tuohy, who has played 120...
A Different Dragon (Nick Gill, illus Luma Wildish, HGCP)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
A little dragon named Donny knows that dragons are meant to do one thing: breathe fire. But he has trouble getting the hang of it, unlike his friends, who shoot...
The Visitors (Jane Harrison, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
It’s 1788 in Gadigal country. Seven Aboriginal Elders gather from different clans to discuss the large ships in the harbour. Who are these visitors? Why are they here? How did...
Aggie Flea is Not a Liar! (Tania Ingram, illus A Yi, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Aggie Flea is greatly misunderstood. Her teacher, Mrs Fossy, definitely doesn’t like her and regularly sends her to the principal’s office. Aggie loves the fictitious Princess Zombie books about a...
Something Bad is Going to Happen (Jessie Stephens, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
When Jessie Stephens’s debut novel opens, protagonist Adella is almost 30 and spending New Year’s Eve in a psychiatric hospital. Something bad, it seems, has happened. The novel rewinds to...
Good Morning, My Deer! (Mel Amon, illus Sophie Beer, Scribble)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Hare or hair, pear or pair, son or sun—abounds in a glorious new picture book from author Mel Amon, illustrated by national treasure Sophie Beer. Good Morning, My Deer! is...
This Camp is Doomed (Anna Zobel, Puffin)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
In her first upper-primary novel, Anna Zobel turns her knack for writing emotionally intelligent, likeable, mildly eccentric, diverse characters to the task of creating an engrossing adventure-mystery story for imaginative...
Hoodie Economics (Jack Manning Bancroft, Hardie Grant)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Hoodie Economics is not your regular economics book. In his book, Jack Manning Bancroft, founder and CEO of the mentoring program AIME, pulls apart what ‘people in suits’ might think...
Full Coverage: A History of rock journalism in Australia (Samuel J Fell, Monash University Publishing)
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
While blogs and websites thrive, Australia’s print music press is now largely a thing of the past. But what a past! Built around extensive interviews with many of the key...
Wakefield to publish First Nations anthology
Monday, 10 July 2023
Adelaide publisher Wakefield Press will publish an as yet untitled anthology of works by First Nations writers, supported by funding from the Australia Council for the Arts. The anthology will...
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Monday, 10 July 2023
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Scrivenor wins CWA New Blood Dagger
Friday, 7 July 2023
Hayley Scrivenor’s Dirt Town (Macmillan) has won the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for debut fiction in the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2023 Dagger Awards. CWA judges described Scrivenor’s...
S&S acquires Le’s ’36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem’
Friday, 7 July 2023
Simon & Schuster (S&S) imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the book-length work of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le via Fiona Baird...
Hachette Australia acquires Armstrong picture book series
Thursday, 6 July 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to the first two picture books in a new series by Gamilaroi man, ABC television presenter and former AFL player Tony Armstrong. The George...
APA Rising Star 2023 shortlist announced; BookUp program revealed
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Rising Star award. The five shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years,...
Dank’s ‘We Come with This Place’ wins ALS Gold Medal
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
The winner of the Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal is Debra Dank for We Come with This Place (Echo). The judges called the book ‘a generous, moving gift to...
Forster awarded 2023 Reading Australia Fellowship
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
The Copyright Agency has named Bridget Forster, a Victorian teacher with over 20 years of experience, the 2023 Reading Australia Fellow for Teachers of English and Literacy and teacher librarians....
HarperCollins settles and apologises after defamation case; Booktopia ends Nash agreement, Traurig to resign
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
HarperCollins Australia has settled a long-running defamation suit brought against it by John Gill, a former doctor from the defunct Chelmsford psychiatric hospital in Sydney; Booktopia has announced it will...
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