What We All Saw (Mike Lucas, Puffin)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
In a small English country town in the 1970s, four friends make their way to the local quarry, a place where stories of witches and curses are born. Hag’s Drop,...
Lauren Draper on ‘The Museum of Broken Things’
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Lauren Draper's debut YA novel The Museum of Broken Things (Text, June) follows 18-year-old Reece, who finds herself living in a small beachside town. With multiple plotlines, and featuring a cast of...
Publishers Weekly’s 150th anniversary issue
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the 150th anniversary issue...
Overland announces Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The shortlist for the 2021 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets has been announced. The eight shortlisted poems are: ‘are you ready poem’ by Ender Baskan...
‘Nevermoor’ to be adapted as musical film
Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Jessica Townsend's 2017 middle-grade novel Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) has been acquired by Paramount Pictures to be adapated as a film musical, reports Deadline. The musical adaptation...
ABDA Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 19 April 2022
The shortlists for the 70th Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. Shortlists include: Best designed commercial fiction cover Catch Us the...
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Tuesday, 19 April 2022
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FALS announces Writing at the Reef Residency recipients
Thursday, 14 April 2022
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS), based at James Cook University (JCU) in Townsville, has announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing at the Reef Residency, sponsored by the...
Walker aquires Foster, Gordon middle-grade novel
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to Small Acts, a middle-grade novel by neurodiverse authors Kate Foster and Kate Gordon. Described by the publisher as 'a gentle tale that...
Australian bookshop tour: The Mad Hatters Bookshop
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Established in 2015, Brisbane's The Mad Hatters Bookshop was opened with the goal of making 'a magical, family-friendly space for book lovers' and showcasing the talented book creators in its...
Publishers report ‘phenomenal’ Bologna fair; ‘Crawdads’ tops Dymocks list; Petraitis wins A&U Crime Fiction Prize
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Australian publishers who attended the 2022 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which wrapped up on 24 March, reported a 'phenomenal' fair; The Lifted Brow has announced a new board with plans...
Our Members Be Unlimited (Sam Wallman, Scribe)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Unionism is about more than your rights at work. It is something greater even than a form of politics at the point of production: union struggle is composed of those...
Daughters of Durga: Dowries, gender violence and family in Australia (Manjula Datta O’Connor, MUP)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
With Daughters of Durga, author, psychiatrist and campaigner Manjula Datta O'Connor has written an impassioned and empathetic treatise on the abuses of a patriarchal system. It may surprise readers to...
Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Four decades after covering horse racing as a cadet reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, award-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks has returned to the track. Her latest book is based on...
A Feather on a Wing (Maria Speyer, UQP)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
The darkness of night is a common fear for many children trying to get to sleep after lights-out. The dark can make you feel alone and separated from everyone, even...
When Only One (Meg Gatland-Veness, Pantera)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Everything changes when Sam’s one-time best friend Emily appears outside his window for the first time in five years. He knows why she’s back and it isn’t good. The story...
HarperCollins announces Barty publishing program
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to two children’s series and a memoir by Australian tennis player Ash Barty, in a deal brokered by Barty’s management team, HarperCollins head of nonfiction...
Petraitis wins inaugural A&U Crime Fiction Prize
Monday, 11 April 2022
Vikki Petraitis is the winner of the inaugural Allen & Unwin (A&U) Crime Fiction Prize for her debut crime fiction novel The Unbelieved. Petraitis, who has been writing true crime...
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Monday, 11 April 2022
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Aurealis Awards 2021 finalists announced
Thursday, 7 April 2022
The finalists for the 2021 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the finalists are: Best horror novel The Bridge (J...
HarperCollins acquires Dalgarno novel
Thursday, 7 April 2022
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Paul Dalgarno's second novel A Country of Eternal Light, in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary. Described by the publisher as...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Sales Nonfiction Spinifex Press has sold French translation rights to Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood (ed by Marie Josèphe Devillers & Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram) to Les Éditions L’échapee. Children’s/YA Berbay...
Nonfiction picture books popular at ‘phenomenal’ Bologna
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
The 2022 Bologna Children's Book Fair wrapped up on 24 March, the first time the event was held in three years. ‘The event was much smaller than before Covid, and...
Stella Prize, CBCA, NSW Prem’s shortlists
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
The London Book Fair, which runs this week, sees several Australian publishers attending in person after more than two years of attending rights fairs virtually, while Canberra Writers Festival has...
The Comedienne’s Guide To Pride (Hayli Thomson, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
The only phrase you’ll need to get this debut into the hands of avid YA readers will be ‘Sapphic rom-com’—but there’s a lot more to this novel that will capture...
Black River (Matthew Spencer, A&U)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
He’s been dubbed the Blue Moon Killer: someone who has been killing young women along Sydney’s Parramatta River whenever the moon is full. Sydney is on edge, and the cops,...
The Making of Her (Bernadette Jiwa, Bantam)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
The Making of Her is a historical family drama that immediately conjures the sense of a time not so long ago. Spanning the 1960s to the 1990s, this cross between...
Hard Joy: Life and writing (Susan Varga, Upswell)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Susan Varga spent the first half of her life having affairs with inappropriate men, including some of the older leading lights of the libertarian Sydney Push. At the same time,...
Open Your Heart to Country (Jasmine Seymour, Magabala)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Open Your Heart to Country is the stunning fourth picture book from Dharug woman and award-winning author/illustrator Jasmine Seymour. It’s a story of welcome and belonging told in two languages,...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) Dark as Last...
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