Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 6 February 2023
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Arnott longlisted for 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize
Friday, 3 February 2023
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has been longlisted for Swansea University's Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded for the best literary work published in English and written by an author aged 39 or...
ANZ authors among Dublin Literary Award longlistees
Friday, 3 February 2023
Several books by Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the €100,000 (A$155,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work...
Au wins 2023 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Jessica Au has won Australia’s single richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her novel Cold Enough for Snow (Giramondo), at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards...
Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 longlists announced
Thursday, 2 February 2023
The longlists for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Better the Blood (Michael...
Echo acquires Murphy debut novel ‘That is All’
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to debut novel That is All by Liam Murphy via the NAC Literary Agency. The novel follows young Australian Mark Ward’s quest for redemption...
De Kretser shortlisted for 2023 Folio Prize
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Michelle de Kretser has been shortlisted for the UK’s Rathbones Folio Prize. De Kretser is shortlisted in the fiction category for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). The titles shortlisted for...
Democracy! (Philip Bunting, Little Hare)
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
In his latest release, prolific children’s author Philip Bunting continues to display his talent for creating engaging and brightly hued nonfiction. In Democracy!, it is firmly asserted that ‘people power’...
Trade welcomes Revive cultural policy; Daleng departs Booktopia; Aus Day honours
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
The federal government revealed its $286 million Revive national cultural policy this week, which includes the establishment of new literature funding body Writers Australia; new arts investment and advisory body...
Vale Edel Wignell
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Author, journalist and poet Edel Wignell has died aged 85. The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) writes: ‘The ASA was profoundly saddened to hear of the passing of acclaimed author,...
PRH acquires Rieden bio of Quentin Bryce
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to an authorised biography of Quentin Bryce by Juliet Rieden in a deal agented by Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown. The...
I Don’t Need Therapy (Toni Lodge, A&U)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Podcaster Toni Lodge has garnered a following for her candid, confessional and always comical videos in conversation with co-host Ryan Jon. Yet, in her memoir, I Don’t Need Therapy (and...
Love & Autism (Kay Kerr, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Apart from the obvious audience—fans of the award-winning TV series Love on the Spectrum—Love & Autism by CBCA nominee Kay Kerr will also appeal to readers who like to be...
A Joyful Life (Rosemary Kariuki with Summer Land, Hardie Grant Explore)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
During the summer break, I had the pleasure of reading A Joyful Life by Rosemary Kariuki in one day. As a woman of colour who has experienced trauma, I was...
Anchored (Debra Tidball, illus by Arielle Li, EK Books)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
A sensitive tale of connection near, far and across the waters, Anchored is a hopeful, heartwarming story demonstrating to young children that no matter the distance between them and a...
The Quiet and the Loud (Helena Fox, Pan)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Helena Fox, author of award-winning debut How It Feels to Float, returns with another powerful, heart-tugging YA novel. Nine years after her dad disappeared under the lake, 18-year-old George is...
The Prize (Kim E Anderson, Pantera)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
In 1943, artists William (or Bill, as he prefers) Dobell and Joshua Smith are friends and lovers, sharing intimacies at idyllic scenes on Lake Macquarie while working on their art....
Glass Houses (Anne Coombs, Upswell)
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Glass Houses is Anne Coombs’s (Sex and Anarchy: The life and death of the Sydney Push) posthumous final novel. Perched on a ‘neglected hillside’ near the fictional town of Glaston...
Newbery, Caldecott 2023 winners announced
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott medals, reports Publishers Weekly. Debut author Amina Luqman-Dawson...
Richell to S&S in six-figure pre-empt
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired a new novel by Hannah Richell, The Search Party, and a further untitled novel in a six-figure pre-emptive deal struck with Sarah Lutyens and...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 30 January 2023
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Vale Gabrielle Williams
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Acclaimed YA author, Gab Williams, died on Saturday 21 January after suffering a massive stroke the previous Monday. Williams’s books include Beatle Meets Destiny (Penguin), The Guy, The Girl, the...
Perth Fest Literature & Ideas program, new ABIA categories, Nichol joins A&U NZ
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Perth Festival has announced the full line-up for its 2023 Literature & Ideas program; three new categories have been added to the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards; and Tess Nichol...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold Korean translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Munhakdongne Publishing Group, and Italian translation rights to The Butterfly Collector (Tea...
The Rocket-Powered Racing Caravan (C E Hayes, Omnibus Books)
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Endless homework, out-of-touch teachers, imperfect parents, failed first dates and, of course, bullies. Grade Seven is a tough gig! How on earth is Earl Grey going to survive the year?...
Return to Valetto (Dominic Smith, A&U)
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
This is the sixth novel from Australian-American author Dominic Smith, perhaps best known locally for his 2017 ABIA-winning novel The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. The fictional Valetto, in...
Fed to Red Birds (Rijn Collins, S&S)
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Rijn Collins’s novel Fed to Red Birds is beguiling and moody. Our heroine, Elva, is an Australian–Icelandic woman in her mid-20s. She’s living in Reykjavik to learn Icelandic, connect with...
Nightbirds (Kate J Armstrong, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Magic is illegal in Simta, punishable by death, but that does not mean it does not exist. Matilde, Æsa, and Sayer are nightbirds: privileged girls who have the ability to...
Everywhen (ed by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker & Jakelin Troy, UNSW Press)
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Since the colonisation of Australia, representations of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous worldviews created by anthropologists, archaeologists and historians (among other disciplines) have rendered Indigenous subjectivities and ontologies as lesser. Everywhen:...
Online Storytime program ends; 12 most recorded books
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
The Online Storytime program, which launched as a pilot program in 2020 and was extended a further 12 months to December 2022, has ended. The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA),...
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