George Goes to the Farm (Sinead Saint, Wild Dog)
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
Playful and charming, George Goes to the Farm marks the debut of writer-illustrator Sinead Saint. Based on Saint’s own 11-year-old Groodle, the story follows George, a city dog who spends...
The Occupation (Chloe Adams, Penguin)
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
Chloe Adams’ debut, The Occupation, brings to life the constraints placed on Australian women in the aftermath of the Second World War. The story follows Mary as she travels to...
The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson (Belinda Lyons-Lee, Transit Lounge)
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
Ghosts from the past awaken strange obsessions in Belinda Lyons-Lee’s second novel, The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson, a gothic retelling of the stranger-than-fiction history of Robert Louis Stevenson's...
Cloudmaker (Helen Milroy, Magabala)
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
Acclaimed author-illustrator Helen Milroy, a descendant of the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, returns with a creation story in her distinctive style, as seen in Sunny...
Local author shortlisted in UK CrimeFest Awards
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
Aotearoa New Zealand author Tom Baragwanath has been shortlisted for the UK CrimeFest Debut Crime Novel Award for Paper Cage (Text). Originally from Masterton in Aotearoa New Zealand, Baragwanath currently...
Fresh Off the Books winners announced
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
Sweatshop Literacy Movement and NewSouth Publishing have announced the recipients of Fresh Off the Books: The Pasifika Australian Literary Initiative. The 14 recipients are: Christine Afoa Sela Ahosivi Taulogomai Aii...
WestWords acquires Burnham debut novel
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
WestWords Books has acquired world rights to Swallow by Alexandria Burnham. The first in a trilogy, Swallow is described by the publisher as 'the true story of William Swallow – Australian convict and the...
Gentill among 2025 Edgar Award winners
Monday, 5 May 2025
Australian crime writer Sulari Gentill has won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for her novel The Mystery Writer (Ultimo) at the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. In 2023, Gentill was...
UWA Publishing acquires Byrne debut ‘The Warrumbar’
Monday, 5 May 2025
UWA Publishing has acquired world rights to The Warrumbar, William J Byrne’s debut adult fiction novel. The novel, which is inspired by Byrne's family history, is set in a small...
Aurealis Awards 2024 winners announced
Monday, 5 May 2025
The winners of the 2024 Aurealis Awards have been announced. Winning titles in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in April, are: Best fantasy novel Thoroughly Disenchanted (Alexandra Almond, Voyager) Best science...
WestWords acquires Curic debut novel
Monday, 5 May 2025
WestWords Books has acquired world rights to debut novel Sing to Me by Jelena Curic. ‘Sing to Me tells the story of Pero, a Croatian immigrant, father, husband, musician, and philanderer...
The Age Book of the Year 2025 shortlists announced
Thursday, 1 May 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 Age Book of the Year awards have been announced. Shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction The Burrow (Melanie Cheng, Text) This Kingdom of Dust (David...
Melbourne Books acquires women’s cricket nonfiction title
Thursday, 1 May 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Full Corset and Stockings: A History of Women’s Cricket by historian and musician Craig Horne. 'Full Corset and Stockings details the history of women’s cricket...
Eagle Books acquires Dubosarsky short story collection
Thursday, 1 May 2025
Eagle Books (an imprint of Christmas Press) and Roffo Court Press (in the UK) have jointly acquired world rights to Life and Breath, a collection of short stories for upper...
A&U acquires Trip in a Van’s Bucket List Experiences
Thursday, 1 May 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Trip in a Van’s Bucket List Experiences by Bec and Justin Lorrimer. ‘After seven years of full-time travel in their van with...
black&write! shortlist announced
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced the shortlist for the 2025 black&write! Writing Fellowships. The shortlisted authors are: Marilyn ‘Marly’ Hooper, for the children's novel ‘Moodu Gutta Will...
Bin Salleh wins Pixie O’Harris Award
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Rachel Bin Salleh has been named the recipient of 2025 Pixie O’Harris Hall of Fame Award, presented at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) by the Australian Publishers Association (APA)....
Gibb wins Lloyd O’Neil Award
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Ross Gibb has been named the recipient of the 2025 Lloyd O’Neil Hall of Fame Award, presented at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) by the Australian Publishers Association (APA)....
Lloyd O’Neil, Pixie O’Harris recipients; Open Book 2025 interns; Maehashi makes plagiarism claims
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Lots of news from the industry this week. Beginning with good news, B+P and the Australian Publishers Association (APA) congratulate the winners of the 2025 ABIA Hall of Fame awards....
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Sales Fiction Scribe has sold Polish rights to Auē (Becky Manawatu) to Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Nonfiction Rockpool Publishing has sold German rights to Folklore Oracle (Hadas Knox, illus by Giada Rose). Scribe...
ABR announces new editorial cadetship
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the Peter Rose Editorial Cadetship to honour outgoing CEO and editor Peter Rose's ‘extraordinary contribution to the training of publishing professionals’. In its...
Mrozinski wins 2025 Calibre Essay Prize
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has named Jeanette Mrozinski as the 2025 winner of the $5000 Calibre Essay Prize for her essay 'Eucharist'. 'Eucharist' was chosen from a shortlist of...
Transit Lounge acquires new novel from Carmel Bird
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Crimson Velvet Heart, a new novel by Carmel Bird (Love Letter to Lola, Family Skeleton). ‘This sumptuous historical novel centres on Marie Adelaide...
Pitt to star in Winton’s ‘The Riders’ film adaptation
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Scott Free Productions will begin production of the film adaptation of Tim Winton’s novel The Riders (Penguin), with Brad Pitt set to star as protagonist Fred Scully. Edward Berger (Conclave)...
NSW Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
The shortlists for the 2025 New South Wales Literary Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) One Another (Gail Jones, Text) Heartsease (Kate...
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Wednesday, 30 April 2025
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Salvage (Jennifer Mills, Picador)
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
In Salvage, Jennifer Mills (The Airways, Dyschronia) weaves a haunting, speculative tale of two sisters navigating the fallout of a fractured world. Jude, rootless and always on the move, once...
Fault Lines: Australia’s Unequal Past (ed by Seumas Spark & Christina Twomey, Monash University Publishing)
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Fault Lines: Australia’s Unequal Past is a powerful essay collection that invites readers to engage with past and ongoing injustices embedded in Australia’s national story. Edited by Seumas Spark and...
A Lemon for Safiya (Jemima Shafei-Ongu, illus Nisaluk Chantanakom, Lothian)
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
A Lemon for Safiya is a gentle and respectful story about a family’s compassionate response to a disoriented older woman whose ‘eyes held a sadness as deep as the ocean’....
Lady’s Knight (Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner’s latest novel, Lady’s Knight, is a tantalising forbidden love story for the ages. Gwen has spent years manning the village blacksmith under the guise of...
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