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Gunpowder Creek (Alex Dook, Echo) 

Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Alex Dook’s debut novel, Gunpowder Creek​, explores the question of how far a parent would go to save their child. Emily is a single mother whose teenage son, Zach, is...

Desolation (Hossein Asgari, Ultimo) 

Cover of 'Desolation' by Hossein Asgari. Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Desolation, the latest novel from Miles Franklin–shortlisted author Hossein Asgari (Only Sound Remains), is a taut and haunting exploration of trauma, memory and meaning. It traces the psychological unravelling of...

Once I Was a Giant (Zeno Sworder, T&H) 

Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Zeno Sworder’s Once I Was a Giant is a poetic and richly drawn picture book about memory, connection and renewal. In a dim apartment, a ‘picture-book maker’ has run out...

A&U acquires Ronald’s second romcom

Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Power Moves, Leesa Ronald’s second romcom novel. In Power Moves, ‘a workaholic communications staffer is determined to guide her beloved boss to...

PRH acquires Noni’s fantasy series

Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the forthcoming publication of Shadow Reaper, a new fantasy series from YA author Lynette Noni, previously acquired in a three-book deal, via Jennifer Azantian...

Stella Day Out announces Canberra program

Stella Day out Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Stella has announced a date and full program for its upcoming Stella Day Out event in Canberra. Stella Day Out is a free one-day literary festival that ‘celebrates and promotes...

S&S acquires Reynolds’ memoir

Monday, 21 July 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights for the memoir On My Own Terms by Adam Reynolds, via agent Steve Gillis. According to the publisher, the memoir tracks Reynolds'...

A&U acquires Heath’s ‘Kill Your Boss’

Monday, 21 July 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Jack Heath’s crime novel, Kill Your Boss, via Alexandra Christie from Curtis Brown Australia. Detective Sergeant Kiara Lui returns for a...

Pantera acquires ‘Juicy’ memoir by Joseph

Monday, 21 July 2025
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for the memoir Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations by debut Lebanese-Australian author Sheree Joseph, in a two-book deal...

Gippsland Writers Festival releases 2025 program

Gippsland Writers Festival logo Thursday, 17 July 2025
The Gippsland Writers Festival, formerly known as StoryFest, has released its 2025 program. The festival, which runs 1–3 August in Yarram, will open with ‘You are Here’, a conversation featuring...

Te Pae Tawhiti Awards launched for spec fic writers

Thursday, 17 July 2025
Speculative Fiction Writers of New Zealand (SpecFicNZ) has launched the Te Pae Tawhiti Awards for Aotearoa and Pasifika speculative fiction writers. The awards will aim to spotlight local writers and...

2025 Ngaio Marsh Award Best Novel longlist announced

Ngaio Marsh logo Thursday, 17 July 2025
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel, which celebrates Aotearoa New Zealand crime, mystery or thriller writing has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Return to...

PRH acquires Thian’s YA in two-book deal

Aurelne Thian Thursday, 17 July 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired Dear Campus Cupid by Aurelne Thian, in a two-book deal brokered by Danielle Binks from Jacinta di Mase Management. According to the publisher, Dear...

Melbourne Books acquires Entrecôte cookbook

Jason Jones Thursday, 17 July 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Entrecôte by restaurant owner Jason M Jones. Jones is the owner of the titular Melbourne restaurant in Prahran that describes itself as ‘a renaissance...

Vale Jess Knight

A portrait of Jess Knight Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Writer, poet and artist Jess Knight has died at the age of 42. Ultimo publishing director Robert Watkins writes, I had the inestimable honour of working with Jessica Knight on...

ABIA winner profile: Potts Point Bookshop 

Potts Point Book Shop Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Following on from the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) in early May, Books+Publishing (B+P) reached out to the industry winners to ask them about their challenges, the goals and what...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Sales Fiction Arndell, an imprint of Keeperton, has sold Slovakian rights to five titles by TL Swan (Mr Masters, Mr Spencer, Mr Garcia, My Temptation and My Rules) to Grada...

Hepworth’s ‘The Soulmate’ adapted for TV 

Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Production company Made Up Stories (Nine Perfect Strangers, Strife) is set to produce a television adaption of The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth (Macmillan). Executive producers for the series will include...

Words in Winter 2025 festival program launched

Wednesday, 16 July 2025
The Words in Winter festival has announced its full 2025 program, which will run 22–21 and 29–31 August on Dja Dja Wurrung country, across Daylesford and Hepburn Springs, Victoria. The...

PRH Write It fellowship shortlist announced

Write It Shortlist image Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Write It fellowship. The shortlisted writers are: Ceilidh Newbury for ‘Skates, Dates, and Other Deadly Weapons’ (young adult...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 16 July 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.

 

 

 

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