Naked Ambition (Robert Gott, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Gregory Buchanan is an up-and-coming state politician with a healthy dose of self-regard. A blithe spirit, he commissions career artist Sophie White to capture his portrait. The sitting takes an unusual...
S&S Australia acquires Ho debut nonfiction
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by writer and influencer Alyssa Ho. Ho began writing publicly for her blog after finishing high...
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Monday, 27 February 2023
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S&S acquires Sales nonfiction
Friday, 24 February 2023
Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner Australia has acquired world rights to a new work of nonfiction by Leigh Sales. Storytellers: Questions, answers and the craft of journalism will contain 10...
HarperCollins acquires Woods debut in two-book deal
Thursday, 23 February 2023
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel After the Forest by Kell Woods, in a two-book pre-emptive deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers and Tor Books. After...
‘Ghost Bird’ receives funding for feature film development
Thursday, 23 February 2023
Lisa Fuller’s young adult novel Ghost Bird (UQP) has received funding from Screen Australia to develop the book into a feature film. The funding is part of Screen Australia’s First...
Affirm acquires VPLA 2023 unpublished manuscript winner
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to One Divine Night by Mick Cummins, the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (VPLA) for an unpublished manuscript, in a deal...
Linwood Messina sells ‘The Dreaming Path’ to HarperOne
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Gregory Messina of Linwood Messina Literary Agency has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) to Paul Callaghan’s The Dreaming Path: Indigenous thinking to change your life written with Uncle Paul...
Racklyeft awarded 2023 SCBWI Bologna Scholarship, Aus authors longlisted in Walter Scott Prize, Nielsen Books and Consumer pilot report
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
In the lead-up to the Bologna Book Fair, Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft has won one of the two Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators International Bologna Scholarships...
Vale Pam Horsey
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Pam Horsey, member of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (Victorian Branch) Executive Committee, has died. Horsey worked at HarperCollins as the education manager, and was an active and longstanding...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Sales Fiction Puncher & Wattmann has sold German language rights to Bird (Adam Morris) to Edition Nautilus. Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold world French rights to The Certainty Myth: how...
Non-Essential Work (Omar Sakr, UQP)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Omar Sakr’s work is polished to a razor-sharp point in his third poetry collection. As expected, Non-Essential Work contends with notions around identities outside the white and heteronormative. But rather...
The Garden at the End of the World (Cassy Polimeni, illus by Briony Stewart, UQP)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
After Isla discovers a unique seed pod, readers accompany her and her mother to the Global Seed Vault in Norway. The Garden at the End of the World is the...
I Had a Father in Karratha (Annette Trevitt, Upswell)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
When her father dies, Annette Trevitt spends two-and-a-half years organising the detritus of his life in a remote WA mining town. I Had a Father in Karratha is a memoir...
Little Treasure (Chanelle Gosper, illus by Jennifer Goldsmith, Lothian)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Little Treasure is a beach story, for ages two to five, but it’s so much more than that. A mother and child are at the beach, playing in the sand,...
Dragons of Hallow #1: Spellhound (Lian Tanner, illus by Sally Soweol Han, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Lian Tanner is well known for her middle grade fantasy series, including The Keepers and The Rogues. Her latest is the first in a new series, set in the intriguing...
Big Cat (Jess Racklyeft, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Organised Catherine loves to investigate things, and when she hears rumours about the Big Cat sightings, she is intrigued and sets out to solve the mystery. The Big Cat that...
West Side Honey (Claire Christian, Text)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Claire Christian’s novel West Side Honey serves up everything you’d want from a bingeable, indulgent rom-com, all the while remaining original and exciting. When she and her ex-husband start a...
Between You and Me (Joanna Horton, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Numerous authors have invited comparisons to Sally Rooney, and Between You and Me undoubtedly will too. Similar to Frances and Bobbi in Rooney’s breakthrough debut Conversations with Friends, 25-year-old best...
Five Australian publishers shortlisted for 2023 Bologna Prize
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Australian publishers Affirm Press, EK Books, Magabala Books, Starfish Bay and Wilkins Farago have been shortlisted in this year’s Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the...
McFarlane, Serong longlisted for 2023 Walter Scott Prize
Monday, 20 February 2023
Two Australian authors have been longlisted for the UK’s £25,000 (A$43,750) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Fiona McFarlane was longlisted for her second novel The Sun Walks Down (A&U),...
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Monday, 20 February 2023
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Racklyeft wins 2023 SCBWI Bologna Scholarship
Friday, 17 February 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft has been awarded a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarship to attend this year’s Bologna book fair. Racklyeft and...
Walker acquires Kate and Angourie Rice YA romance novel
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to YA romance novel Stuck Up and Stupid, the first book by mother and daughter writing team Kate and Angourie Rice, via Benython...
Ultimo acquires Yankovich debut book on friendship in ‘heated auction’
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired UK/Commonwealth rights to Gyan Yankovich’s debut work of nonfiction Just Friends. Rights were acquired in a ‘heated auction’ in a deal agented by Rach Crawford at...
Transit Lounge acquires Cameron literary thriller
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Rewilding, the second novel by Donna M Cameron, via Fiona Johnson at Beyond Words Literary Agency. ‘The Rewilding captures the essence of...
Reid departs PRH, Five Mile Press in administration, MUD Literary Prize shortlist
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Penguin Random House’s launch title director Karen Reid has resigned from the company after 30 years; Five Mile Press owner Regency Media has entered administration; and the MUD Literary Prize...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Lithuanian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words and Polish rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (both Pip Williams) to Liutai Ne Avys and...
Aphrodite’s Breath (Susan Johnson, A&U)
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Author Susan Johnson, now in her early 60s, is drawn back to a place she travelled to as a young woman: Kythera, the most southern of the Ionian islands and...
Logan’s Big Move (Logan Martin with Jess Black, illus by Shane McGowan, Puffin)
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Freestyle BMX Olympic gold medalist and X Games legend Logan Martin culminates his journey to riding success in this action-packed and inspiring picture book. Co-authored by Jess Black and illustrated...
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