Stella Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Thursday, 25 March 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The six shortlisted books are: Fathoms: The world in the whale (Rebecca Giggs, Scribe) Revenge: Murder in Three Parts (S...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold rights to Jessica Au's forthcoming novel Cold Enough for Snow to the following: German rights to Suhrkamp, French rights to Grasset and Fasquelle, world Spanish rights...
BWF program announced, Readings staff request EBA
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival, running from 7–9 May, has been announced. Meanwhile, Red Room Poetry is planning a series of daily events for the first ever...
Australians comprise majority of Walter Scott Prize shortlist
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Three out of the five books shortlisted for the £25,000 (A$44,900) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction are by Australian authors. The five shortlisted novels are: The Tolstoy Estate (Steven Conte,...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The shortlists for the 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) A Room Made of Leaves (Kate...
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) (Anita Heiss, S&S)
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Exploring themes of family, belonging, courage, equality and heartache, this important new historical novel from Anita Heiss raises awareness of First Nations perspectives on the early days of white settlement...
ARA Historical Novel Prize adds children and young adult category, prize money totals $100,000
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The Historical Novel Society of Australasia (HNSA), in partnership with building and infrastructure services provider ARA Group, has announced that the ARA Historical Novel Prize will incorporate a category for...
As Beautiful As Any Other (Kaya Wilson, Picador)
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
As Beautiful As Any Other is a joyous and thoughtful memoir–travelogue covering the terrains of both the body and the environment. Kaya Wilson's voice makes the reader feel immediately at...
Why Do Tigers Have Whiskers? (ed by Sunanda Creagh, Thames & Hudson)
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Curated from the Curious Kids section of the academic-authored news website The Conversation, this book is compiled as a series of questions provided by kids and answered by a range...
A Human for Kingsley (Gabriel Evans, Little Hare)
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Kingsley, a dog who has decided to own a human, sets off on a journey to find just the right one. The problem is, there are so many humans to...
‘Cold Enough for Snow’ sells to multiple territories
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Giramondo has sold rights to Jessica Au's Novel Prize–winning book Cold Enough for Snow in multiple territories. German rights were sold to Suhrkamp by Kathrin Scheel at This Book Travels after...
‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’ wins 2021 Indie Book of the Year
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Pip Williams's debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words (Affirm) has been named Book of the Year at the 2021 Indie Book Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books. The winning...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 22 March 2021
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Papathanasiou debut novel sells to MacLehose Press
Thursday, 18 March 2021
Transit Lounge has sold world English-language rights (ex North America/ANZ) to Peter Papathanasiou's forthcoming debut novel The Stoning to Katharina Bielenberg at MacLehose Press/Quercus, in a deal brokered by Martin...
Varuna announces new fellowships for writers with disability
Thursday, 18 March 2021
Varuna, the National Writers' House in Katoomba, NSW has partnered with NSW’s peak arts and disability organisation Accessible Arts to deliver a new fellowship program for 12 NSW writers with...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) rights to The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Sheila Fitzpatrick) to Old Street Publishing. Transit Lounge has...
Monster (Ashleigh Synnott, Puncher & Wattmann)
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Monster is a collection of dark, finely written short stories by debut author Ashleigh Synnott. The stories are peopled with eccentric, predominantly female characters living atomised, often isolated lives. Mental...
SWF program announced, guests revealed for BookUp, IPEd
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
In a big week for events announcements, the Sydney and Auckland writers’ festival programs have been revealed, and the first speakers for the BookUp and IPEd conferences—the second of which...
Text signs Sheppard in two-book deal
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to The Brink, the second YA novel by Holden Sheppard, in a two-book deal via Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary Agency. The Brink follows a...
Scribner acquires Hooper’s ‘Bedtime Story’
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia’s Scribner imprint has acquired ANZ rights to Bedtime Story, a new work of nonfiction by Chloe Hooper, from Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency. When her...
Elsewhere Girls (Emily Gale & Nova Weetman, Text)
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Acclaimed authors Emily Gale and Nova Weetman have teamed up to write this beautifully rendered time-slip narrative that delves into the personal and social struggles of young women past and...
Before You Knew My Name (Jacqueline Bublitz, A&U)
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
We know the phrase from books, from crime shows, from the news: ‘The body was found by a jogger.’ Someone is murdered and somebody else finds them, while just going...
Bear and Rat (Christopher Cheng, illus by Stephen Michael King, Puffin)
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
This picture book is a heartwarming, tender tale of the loving relationship between two friends. The elegantly simple story in Bear and Rat holds a timeless, universal appeal with themes...
Transit Lounge acquires debut novel ‘The Signal Line’
Monday, 15 March 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Signal Line, the debut novel by Tasmanian writer Brendan Colley, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. Transit Lounge publisher Barry Scott said...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 15 March 2021
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 edition here.
PRH acquires debut romantic comedy ‘The Matchmaker’
Friday, 12 March 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to The Matchmaker by debut Pakistani–Australian author Saman Shad via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. It is the first local adult...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 11 March 2021
Sales Fiction Jacinta di Mase at Jacinta di Mase Management has sold UK & Europe English-language rights to The Silent Listener by Lyn Yeowart (Viking) to Joffe Books. Rights were...
Vale Simon Player
Thursday, 11 March 2021
Simon Player, co-director of Footprint Books, has died. Player and his wife Kate O'Reilly established the Sydney-based distributor in 1999. It closed in November 2020 due to Player's health issues....
Ultimo acquires Moore-Gilbert memoir
Thursday, 11 March 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s memoir, in a joint venture with James Erskine at Sports & Entertainment Ltd. Australian–British academic Moore-Gilbert was imprisoned for 804 days...
Stella Prize longlist, Frankfurt announces hybrid event
Thursday, 11 March 2021
The longlist for this year’s Stella Prize, announced last week, includes short fiction, a young adult novel, three works of nonfiction and a novel in translation, and comprises five works...
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