Seize the Moment: Australia’s Real Opportunities in an Unstable World (Bernard Keane, Allen & Unwin)
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
In Seize the Moment: Australia’s Real Opportunities in an Unstable World, journalist Bernard Keane uses the last 25 years of global politics and economics as a framework for considering Australia’s...
Quite the Pair (Tobias Madden, Penguin)
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Quite the Pair, the adult fiction debut from award-winning YA author Tobias Madden (Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell), is a warm and emotionally insightful exploration of friendship in modern adulthood....
Stuff (Jen Sherrington, illus Hélène Magisson, MidnightSun)
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
In Stuff, by Jen Sherrington and illustrator Hélène Magisson, Morri is “chuffed” when he receives some “stuff” from Birdee. Surely more stuff would be even better, Morri thinks. Before long,...
Alice Jolly wins 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
UK author Alice Jolly has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for her novel The Matchbox Girl (Bloomsbury), reports the Bookseller. The Matchbox Girl tells the story of Adelheid...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2026 longlist announced
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) has announced the longlist for the 2026 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, worth $50,000. The 14 longlisted titles, chosen from over 230...
Helen Goh, Yoko Nakazawa win 2026 James Beard Awards
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Local titles Baking and the Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipes by Helen Goh (Murdoch Books) and The Japanese Art of Pickling & Fermenting: Preserving Vegetables...
UWA Publishing acquires Thuy On’s “Insolence”
Monday, 15 June 2026
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Insolence, the fourth poetry collection by Melbourne-based poet, critic and arts journalist Thuy On. According to the publisher, Insolence “reinvents, reimagines and...
HarperCollins acquires Kári Gíslason’s “To Catch a Fox”
Monday, 15 June 2026
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Kári Gíslason’s new crime novel, To Catch a Fox, in a deal brokered by Grace Heifetz at a4 Literary. Described by the publisher as...
A&U acquires two books in new Naïma Brown series
Monday, 15 June 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to two books in a new series by Naïma Brown, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. In the...
Stefen Brazulaitis, Graeme Aitken inaugural Lifetime Achievement winners at 2026 ABA bookseller and book of the year awards
Monday, 15 June 2026
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of its 2026 Book of the Year and Bookseller of Year awards. Also announced at the ABA Conference Gala Dinner in...
Davitt Awards 2026 longlists announced
Monday, 15 June 2026
Sisters in Crime has announced the longlists for the 2026 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The longlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels At...
Evans, Doucet win 2026 Women’s Prizes
Monday, 15 June 2026
In the UK, the 2026 Women’s Prizes have been announced. US novelist Virginia Evans has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction for The Correspondent (Michael Joseph) and Canadian journalist Lyse...
Australians to speak at 35th International Publishers Congress
Monday, 15 June 2026
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has announced guest speakers for the 35th International Publishers Congress, which will be held from 5 to 9 July in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and hosted...
Allen & Unwin acquires Hannah Goldstein debut “Dream Girls”
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the debut novel Dream Girls by Hannah Goldstein, in a deal brokered by Rebecca Slater at a4 Literary. Inspired by Shakespeare’s...
Melbourne Rare Book Week announces 2026 program
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Melbourne Rare Book Week (MRBW) returns on 23 July, running until 1 August 2026 with a line-up of events, exhibitions, talks and lectures. Book experts will explore topics including the...
Bryan Brown, Siang Lu among authors on Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival 2026 program
Thursday, 11 June 2026
The Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival (SHWF) will celebrate its 15th anniversary with its 2026 festival, which runs from 23 to 26 July in Berrima and Bowral. Guest speakers at the...
Brooke Maddison wins 2026 Penguin Literary Prize for “Driftwood”
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced that Driftwood by Brooke Maddison is the winner of the 2026 Penguin Literary Prize. Chosen from a shortlist of 6, Driftwood “explores how traumatic...
Giramondo acquires Amy Crutchfield’s “Asterion”
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Giramondo has acquired world rights to the poetry collection Asterion by Amy Crutchfield. Asterion is the follow-up to Crutchfield’s debut collection The Cyprian, which won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award...
Magabala Books acquires Bruce Pascoe’s “The European Mind”
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Magabala Books has acquired The European Mind: Colonialism, Capitalism, Christianity & How to Recover by Bruce Pascoe. Described by the publisher as the follow-up title to Pascoe’s Dark Emu, the...
Black Inc. acquires Don Watson book on Dezi Freeman
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to a nonfiction book by Don Watson on the case of Dezi Freeman that will build on the theme of Watson’s December 2025 article...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Sales Fiction Arndell has sold Portuguese rights to The Heart You Kept and The Italian Obsession (both TL Swan) to Alma in Portugal. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Thai rights...
Vale Richard Scolyer
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Pathologist, researcher and author Professor Richard Scolyer died on Sunday, 7 June 2026. Allen & Unwin writes: The hugely admired pathologist and researcher Professor Richard Scolyer, AO died on Sunday,...
Local translator on Voices of Today Literary Translation Prize
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Brisbane-based translator Jenny Lu has been shortlisted for the inaugural Voices of Today Literary Translation Prize. Participants were invited to translate a substantial excerpt from the novel Salty Jokes by...
Creative Aus participation survey; SWF director steps down; King’s Birthday Honours
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Creative Australia has released the results of the most recent National Arts Participation Survey; Sydney Writers’ Festival artistic director Ann Mossop will step down from her role; former Leading Edge...
Te Pae Tawhiti Awards 2026 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
The shortlists for the Te Pae Tawhiti Awards for Aotearoa and Pasifika speculative fiction writers have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Outstanding Achievement for Adult Novel...
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2026 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
The shortlists for the 2026 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The shortlists in each category, chosen from 159 entries, are: BookHub Picture Book...
Text Publishing acquires “What Gentlemen Do” by Todd Babiak
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Text has acquired ANZ rights to adult fiction What Gentlemen Do by Todd Babiak from Carolyn Buszynski at CookeMcDermid Agency in Canada. The “uplifting and outrageously funny story of a...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2026
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Mother Waters (Lisa Nan Joo, Affirm Press)
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
Lisa Nan Joo’s debut, Mother Waters, is an atmospheric, quietly unsettling novel that explores ambition, grief, inheritance and the emotional legacies left by fathers. It shifts between thriller and literary...
A New Kind of Beautiful (Suzy Zail, Walker Books)
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
In Suzy Zail’s A New Kind of Beautiful, 16-year-old Paige Wilding has her future mapped out: win the coveted school art prize, graduate at the top of her class and...
