Exploring Eden Media acquires ‘Fire to Fork’ cookbook
Monday, 21 September 2020
Exploring Eden Media has acquired world rights Fire to Fork, a camping cookbook by Harry Fisher. Fisher, who has developed a strong following on Instagram and via his YouTube series...
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Monday, 21 September 2020
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NZ Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize winner announced
Friday, 18 September 2020
Hachette NZ and the Margaret Mahy estate have announced Nelson-based artist Lily Emo as the winner of the 2020 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize for unpublished illustrators. Unpublished New Zealand artists...
Azar longlisted for National Book Award for Translated Literature
Thursday, 17 September 2020
In the US, Iranian–Australian writer Shokoofeh Azar has been longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature for her novel The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (trans by...
Hardie Grant acquires Alberici memoir
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to journalist Emma Alberici’s memoir Rewrite the Story. Interweaving her life as a first generation Australian and her career in journalism with an...
Guineay, Walpert win 2020 Viva La Novella competition
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Seizure has announced the winners of the 2020 Viva la Novella competition. Dark Wave by Adelaide writer Lana Guineay and Late Sonata by Auckland writer Bryan Walpert were chosen from...
Molloy memoir ‘Fourteen’ to be adapted for screen
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Screen rights to journalist Shannon Molloy’s memoir Fourteen (S&S) have been acquired by Orange Entertainment Co. Fourteen is Molloy's account of the homophobic bullying and violence he experienced during high...
Young wins 2020 Colin Roderick Award for ‘Paper Emperors’
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Writer and academic Sally Young has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award and the H T Priestley Medal for her nonfiction book Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia’s newspaper...
NZ Book Industry Awards 2020 winners announced
Thursday, 17 September 2020
The 2020 New Zealand Book Industry Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Young NZ Publisher of the Year Paul Stewart, Mākaro Press and the Cuba Press...
Covid-19 as a ‘positive moment’ for books and reading
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
'We've clearly seen books occupy more time and space with people. The figures are positive versus the same time last year so I feel like books and reading are having...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Sales Nonfiction Murdoch Books has sold world Dutch-language rights to Probiotic Drinks at Home (Felicity Evans); world Korean-language rights to Australian Food (Bill Granger); world Korean-language rights to How to Talk...
Hardie Grant & Kellow launch Ultimo Press, $3bn Vic gov package for small businesses
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Hardie Grant has announced the launch of Ultimo Press, a new Sydney-based publishing house to be led by former HarperCollins ANZ CEO James Kellow. In Victoria, the state government has revealed...
Anemone is Not the Enemy (Anna McGregor, Scribble)
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Everybody needs a special friend—one they can rely on, one who’s there for them—but Anemone is lonely and finding it very difficult. The problem is he accidentally stings everybody who...
The Fifth Season (Philip Salom, Transit Lounge)
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Philip Salom has twice been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, and The Fifth Season will attract serious readers as a result. But this is not a book for everyone; its...
Everyday heroes: Jamila Rizvi on ‘I’m a Hero Too’
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Jamila Rizvi's picture book I'm a Hero Too (illus by Peter Cheong, Puffin, November) 'provides gentle positive reinforcement for children who feel helpless and scared' in the face of changes...
I’m a Hero Too (Jamila Rizvi, illus by Peter Cheong, Puffin)
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
I’m a Hero Too is about a little boy named Arty who’s feeling sad and out of sorts because his parents are acting strangely. Mum is talking in whispers and...
Avila wins 2020 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
In the UK, Australian writer Jacob P Avila has won the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript for his self-published novel Cave Diver. Avila receives a world...
PRH acquires Madden’s ‘Anything But Fine’
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to YA novel Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden. The novel’s teenage protagonist Luca Mason has been preparing to audition for...
Arathimos wins 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Michalia Arathimos has won the the 2020 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for her short story collection Apologia (originally titled ‘The Free Box’). Judge Justin Wolfers described the collection as...
S&S acquires biography ‘The Nazis Knew My Name’
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to The Nazis Knew My Name, Maya Lee's biography of her mother, Australian–Slovakian Auschwitz survivor Magda Hellinger. Lee's book is based on...
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing establishes new illustration prize
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has established a new illustration prize. The Little Hare Prize for Illustration has been established to ‘inspire new work from unpublished and emerging artists’ and...
A&U acquires 2020 Calibre Prize winner Rees’ memoir
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to 2020 Calibre Prize winner Yves Rees’ memoir via Jacinta di Mase, following a five-way auction. All About Yves: Notes from a...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2020 winners announced
Monday, 14 September 2020
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2020 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The winning books in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in May, are: Picture fiction:...
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Monday, 14 September 2020
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Affirm acquires picture book based on viral TikTok poem
Friday, 11 September 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to picture book Our Family Pledge, based on a poem by Emmaline Carroll Southwell that has accumulated millions of views on video sharing platform...
PRH named ‘master publishing partner’ for Bluey books ahead of US, UK launches
Thursday, 10 September 2020
Penguin Random House (PRH) will publish Bluey titles in the US from October 2020 and in the UK from 2021, after BBC Studios named the multinational ‘master publishing partner’ for...
Vickerman wins SLQ Young Writers Award
Thursday, 10 September 2020
Ellen Vickerman has won the the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) Young Writers Award for her short story 'Unit K13', described by the judges as ‘a standout winner’. Vickerman receives...
NT Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Thursday, 10 September 2020
The shortlists for this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards were announced in August. The finalists in each category are: Short story award ($1000) 'Of Ruts and Roars' (Mhairi Duncan) 'Bull...
O’Farrell wins 2020 Women’s Prize for ‘Hamnet’
Thursday, 10 September 2020
UK author Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Hamnet (Tinder Press). Chosen from a shortlist of six and a longlist of 16, Hamnet is inspired...
Increasing diversity in STEM starts with kids books
Wednesday, 9 September 2020
'Stories inspire, challenge and motivate. Real-life stories of success make the dream possible. How many more young readers would be inspired to pursue their STEM dreams if more Australian stories...
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