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A&U acquires Tunny’s debut novel

Georgie Tunny credit Cameron Grayson Monday, 8 December 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Over to You by Georgie Tunny, in a deal brokered by Cathy Baker at CMC Talent Management. According to the publisher, Over...

Copyright Agency announces latest Cultural Fund grants

An image of the Copyright Agency cultural fund logo. Thursday, 4 December 2025
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has announced the recipients of funding in its final round for 2025, including 3 new publishing fellowships. Launched earlier this year, the revamped publishing fellowships “are...

Vale Porter Anderson 

Porter Anderson Thursday, 4 December 2025
Book industry reporter Porter Anderson, editor-in-chief of Publishing Perspectives, has died. Anderson had led Publishing Perspectives since 2016, succeeding founding editor Ed Nawotka. As editor-in-chief, Anderson reported on international book...

2025 Wolfson History Prize goes to Durkin’s “Survivors” 

Cover of Hannah Durkin’s 'Survivors'. Wednesday, 3 December 2025
In the UK, historian Hannah Durkin has won the £50,000 (A$100,570) Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade (William Collins), reported the Bookseller.  The...

Meerkat acquires Bacon’s first Sauútiverse novel

Cover of Eugen Bacon’s 'Crimson in Quietus'. Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Meerkat Press has acquired African-Australian author and editor Eugen Bacon’s Crimson in Quietus, the first novel set in the speculative Afrocentric Sauútiverse. Crimson in Quietus spans the five-planet Sauútiverse, which...

Rights round-up 

A photo of Francesca Albanese. Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Ukrainian rights The Shortest History of Ancient Rome (Ross King) and The Shortest History of Egypt (Maria Golia) to Atena; Indian subcontinent rights to The...

A&U acquires Wilkinson’s new YA novel

Photo of author Lili Wilkinson. Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to YA novel Lavender and Hemlock by Lili Wilkinson, in a deal negotiated by Katelyn Detweiler and Sam Farkas at Jill Grinberg...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 3 December 2025
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.

The Duke’s Secret (Sue Williams, A&U) 

Tuesday, 2 December 2025
In The Duke’s Secret, the latest historical fiction by Sue Williams (The Governor, His Wife and His Mistress), journalist Ava Washington sets out to verify a family legend. According to...

In a Common Hour (Sita Walker, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Dedicated to the Queensland state school teachers she works alongside, Sita Walker’s debut novel, In a Common Hour, offers readers a story with universal school politics. Over the course of...

UK Translation Prizes shortlists announced 

Cover of Eve Manasse's book, 'Darkenbloom'. Tuesday, 2 December 2025
In the UK, the Society of Authors has released shortlists for its 2025 Translation Prizes, which recognise outstanding translations of prose, poetry and nonfiction from any language. Among the finalists...

Bundyi acquires Sawyer’s debut

A photo of Luca Sawyer standing outside. Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Bundyi has acquired world rights to Luca Sawyer’s novel Nightcrawlers. Written from a First Nations perspective, Sawyer’s debut explores leaving Country, the experience of urban isolation, and the challenges posed...

MUP acquires Stafford nonfiction

Tuesday, 2 December 2025
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has acquired world rights to The Wanted and Unwanted by Annabel Stafford, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Creative Management. According to the publisher,...

Waterstones names 2025 books of the year 

Cover of Lucy Steeds’s The Artist showing still life painting of fruit and flowers. Monday, 1 December 2025
In the UK, the Waterstones bookselling group has named Lucy Steeds’s The Artist (John Murray) as its Book of the Year, with Mikey Please’s The Café at the Edge of...

Vale Graeme Turner

Photo of Graeme Turner. Monday, 1 December 2025
Cultural studies academic Graeme Turner, author of books including The Shrinking Nation (UQP, 2023), has died. His most recent publisher, Monash University Publishing, pays tribute: With great sadness we share that...

MidnightSun Publishing launches picture book prize

An image of the MidnightSun picture book proze logo. Monday, 1 December 2025
MidnightSun Publishing has announced the MidnightSun Picture Book Prize, a new manuscript prize for emerging or established picture book writers across Australia. Entries are open until 25 December, with the...

Magabala acquires Pascoe & Norris’s “Big Sky”

A photo of Bruce Pascoe. He stands outside and is wearing a red shirt. Monday, 1 December 2025
Magabala Books has acquired Big Sky: When the Emu Left the Earth by First Nations author Bruce Pascoe and astrophysicist Ray Norris. A Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man, Pascoe is...

Morton wins Walkley for “Mean Streak”

Cover of Rick Morton’s 'Mean Streak'. Monday, 1 December 2025
Mean Streak (Fourth Estate), Rick Morton’s account of the robodebt scandal, has won this year’s Walkley Book Award. Judges said, “Mean Streak is a riveting and detailed exposition of government...

IPA expands membership, firms up 2026 congress 

International Publishers Association logo incorporating stylised book. Thursday, 27 November 2025
The International Publishing Association this week named two provisional new national members, released the results of its online elections, and confirmed details of the 2026 International Publishers Congress, to take...

 

 

 

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