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Summit Books acquires Gray’s ‘Chosen Family’

MaddyGray photo with credit to Zan Wimberley Thursday, 5 June 2025
Summit Books has acquired ANZ rights to Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray, via Grace Heifetz at a4 Literary. Overseas, Chosen Family was also acquired by Lettice Franklin at Orion (UK), via...

Melbourne Rare Book Week program announced

Melbourne Rare Book Week Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Rare Books Melbourne has announced the 2025 program for the Melbourne Rare Book Week, running 24 July to 2 August across Melbourne.  The program, which ‘celebrates the rich tradition and...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Sales Fiction University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold simplified Chinese rights to The White Girl (Tony Birch) to Guangxi University Press. Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold Japanese rights...

AWF 2025: attendance, book sales up 

Michelle Porter Photography AWF2025 Gala Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki (AWF) has reported the overall attendance for the 2025 program, which ran 13–18 May, slightly exceeded last year’s record number of 85,000, as well...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 4 June 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 Ghost Walk (Karen Herbert, Fremantle) 

Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Ruby Rose Gillespie lives with cystic fibrosis and is admitted to the hospital for a fever on the same day the body of Dr Gabriel Beaufort – her high school...

A Gift from the Birds (Caroline Stills, Text) 

Tuesday, 3 June 2025
A Gift from the Birds is the first middle-grade novel by picture book author Caroline Stills. Winner of the 2024 Text Prize – and the final recipient before the prize...

The Golden Sister (Suzanne Do, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 3 June 2025
The Golden Sister is a fast-paced mystery set in a small fictional NSW coastal town, exploring complex and dysfunctional family dynamics and the impact of grief. Suzanne Do’s prose is...

Death at Booroomba (AL Booth, Ventura Press) 

Tuesday, 3 June 2025
On the eve of his deployment to the Western Front in 1915, Jack O’Rourke has a chance encounter with an elderly Russian man, Samuel Lomond, that will profoundly impact his...

Murdoch acquires Leong memoir

the cover of Guts by Melissa Leong Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to Guts by Melissa Leong, a ‘gripping, incisive, and darkly funny memoir’. ‘Guts is a powerful exploration of identity, resilience and finding the courage...

Bendigo Writers Festival 2025 program announced

Bendigo Writers Festival Tuesday, 3 June 2025
The program for the 2025 Bendigo Writers Festival program, which runs 15–17 August on Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung Country, has been announced.  The festival will open with an ABC Radio...

Roberts-Orr wins 2024 Anne Elder Award 

The cover of 'Raw Salt' by Izzy Roberts-Orr. Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Raw Salt (Vagabond Press) by Izzy Roberts-Orr has been announced the winner of the 2024 Anne Elder Award. The prize is awarded annually for a debut, solo-authored collection of poetry,...

Disher, Bishop on CWA Dagger shortlists 

The Crime Writers' Association Daggers Award logo. Monday, 2 June 2025
Garry Disher and DV Bishop have been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s (CWA) 2025 Dagger Awards. Disher and Bishop were shortlisted from longlists announced earlier this year. The shortlisted...

Dorothy Hewett Award 2025 shortlist announced 

Dorothy Hewett shortlist 2025 tile Monday, 2 June 2025
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts, chosen from over 300 entries, are: ‘Clutch Feathers, Draw Breath’ by...

PRH acquires Stedman’s ‘A Far-flung Life’

PRH logo Monday, 2 June 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to A Far-flung Life by ML Stedman. The novel will be published simultaneously with Doubleday in the UK. A Far-flung Life...

S&S acquires Pub Choir creator’s memoir

Astrid Jorgensen photo and book cover. Thursday, 29 May 2025
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to Average at Best, a memoir by Pub Choir founder and director Astrid Jorgensen, via Alex Adsett Literary Agency. 'Average at...

Ganner awarded 2025 Janet Mackenzie Medal

Julie Ganner Thursday, 29 May 2025
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) announced Julie Ganner as the winner of its 2025 Janet Mackenzie Medal. Ganner has worked in the editing and publishing industry for over 35...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Shortest History of AI (Toby Walsh) to Chongqing University Press; and Greek rights to The Shortest History of the...

Mary Gilmore Award 2025 shortlist announced

the ASAL logo Wednesday, 28 May 2025
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Mary Gilmore Award, a prize for a poet's first book of poetry. Judges Kate...

MWF ticket sales up 47% 

MWF logo Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) recorded a 47% year-on-year increase in revenue for this year’s festival program, running 8–11 May. Representing the highest revenue since 2019, the festival reported over 21,000...

A note from Fashion Critical

Wednesday, 28 May 2025
The good folk at Murdoch Books have made the bold decision to turn me, a simple street sweeper from Gundagai, into a published author this October. Elevated to a soon-to-be...

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Wednesday, 28 May 2025
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