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HarperCollins acquires Johnston’s ‘Tiny Uncertain Miracles’

Friday, 28 January 2022
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired world rights to the novel Tiny Uncertain Miracles and a second nonfiction book by Michelle Johnston. The two-book deal was brokered by Martin Shaw of...

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 longlists announced

Thursday, 27 January 2022
The longlists for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction A Good Winter (Gigi Fenster,...

Uncanny Angles (Sean Williams, Wakefield)

Thursday, 27 January 2022
Since the late 90s Sean Williams has been a prolific contributor to Australian speculative fiction; he’s written award-winning science fiction, post-collapse and young adult books. Part retrospective, part confession, Uncanny...

BRTD enterprise agreement, ABA ICYMI campaign, Newbery, Caldecott winners

Thursday, 27 January 2022
In news this week, following industrial action in November last year, workers and management at Sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead have signed an enterprise agreement, which has been submitted...

Rights round-up

Thursday, 27 January 2022
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold Portuguese translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, 4th Estate) to HarperCollins Iberica S A, and Greek translation rights to Tuscan Rose (Belinda...

HGCP acquires ‘Little J & Big Cuz’ title ‘The Big Race’

Thursday, 27 January 2022
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired Little J & Big Cuz: The Big Race, the first book in the publishing program based on the award-winning ABC series Little J...

Unlimited Futures (ed by Rafeif Ismail & Ellen van Neerven, Fremantle Press)

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Unlimited Futures is a YA anthology of sci-fi and speculative fiction edited by Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven. What makes it so different from other collections like it is...

Orphan Rock (Dominique Wilson, Transit Lounge)

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Five-year-old Bessie is removed from an extended stay at the Protestant Orphan School and returned home to her unstable mother: a woman she doesn’t remember and who is anything but...

Australiana (Yumna Kassab, Ultimo)

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
The heart of Australiana is an examination of settler Australia, disrupting the conception of town and rural settings so common in the nation's literary imagination. First Nations writers have significantly...

Ultimo acquires standalone Gentill novel

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to a new contemporary crime novel by Sulari Gentill, The Woman in the Library, in a deal brokered by Anna Carmichael of Abner Stein....

Booktopia announces FAB shortlist, two new awards

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Booktopia has announced the 10 titles shortlisted in its Favourite Australian Book (FAB) Award, which according to the online retailer has already attracted more than 100,000 votes. Established in 2019,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 24 January 2022
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The Imagineer (Christopher Cheng, illus by Lucia Masciullo, NLA Publishing)

Saturday, 22 January 2022
In the vein of Andrea Beaty’s delightful Rosie Revere and friends, Christopher Cheng and Lucia Masciullo’s The Imagineer introduces us to a resourceful, inquisitive and (obviously) imaginative child who is...

Lawrence wins 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize

Friday, 21 January 2022
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Anthony Lawrence as the winner of the 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘In the Shadows of Our Heads'. Lawrence receives...

New appointments at HarperCollins and Bloomsbury, Hazel Rowley shortlist

Wednesday, 19 January 2022
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Michelle Weisz as publishing director of HarperCollins Australia’s children’s books division. Weisz replaces Cristina Cappelluto, who has joined Bloomsbury Australia as managing director. The...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Sales Fiction Brandl & Schlesinger has sold North American rights to Mother Tongue (Joyce Kornblatt, September) to Publerati, and Polish rights to The Baker’s Alchemy (John Stephenson) to Dressler Publisher...

Vale Keri Hulme

Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand writer Keri Hulme, author of The Bone People, the first New Zealand novel to win the Booker Prize, died in December 2021 aged 74. First published by...

Indie Book Awards 2022 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Leading Edge Books has announced the shortlists for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Chosen from longlists announced in December 2021, the shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Treasure and...

2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced

Wednesday, 19 January 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. Presented by the South Australian government, the biennial awards offer a total prize pool of $167,500. The...

Remember Me (Charity Norman, A&U)

Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Remember Me begins with a call in the middle of the night, when illustrator Emily is awakened in her London flat. Her father’s health is failing and Emily is the...

The Love That Grew (Sarah Ayoub, illus by Mimi Purnell, HarperCollins)

Tuesday, 18 January 2022
In the vein of Sam McBratney’s You’re All My Favourites comes a picture book that captures the idea that a mother’s love is unlimited when it comes to her children,...

Hovering (Rhett Davis, Hachette)

Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Alice returns to the fictional Australian city of Fraser after 16 years away. The city itself has changed—and continues to change—beyond recognition. Streets, houses and other buildings literally shift and...

Growing Up in Flames (Zach Jones, Text)

Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Zach Jones’s debut novel Growing Up in Flames is as gritty as bushfire ash. Written for a doctorate in creative writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast, the novel’s...

Magabala announces recipients of 2021 scholarships

Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Magabala Books has announced the six recipients of its 2021 Creative Development Scholarships. The scholarships provide recipients with the support to complete creative development projects throughout 2022. The six recipients...