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Voss Literary Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Monday, 4 November 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. Shortlisted works, chosen from a longlist of 10 announced in September, are: Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton) God Forgets...

PRH acquires Noni YA romance in three-book deal

Friday, 1 November 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to three books from YA author Lynette Noni: a standalone contemporary romance, Wandering Wild; and a new fantasy series acquired in a...

Walkley Book Award 2024 shortlist announced

Friday, 1 November 2024
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 69th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The works shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award, chosen from a longlist of...

DuVal wins 2024 Cundill History Prize

Friday, 1 November 2024
Kathleen DuVal has been announced as the 2024 winner of the US$75,000 (A$114,122) Cundill History Prize for Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House US). Jury chair Rana...

Speech pathology book awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 31 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Birth–3 years age category: Let’s Play (Karen...

Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 31 October 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced. Shortlisted titles, selected from a longlist announced earlier this month, are: Quarterly Essay #93: Bad...

A&U acquires Murray’s ‘Lights, Camera, Love’

Thursday, 31 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Lights, Camera, Love by Natalie Murray in a two-book deal by Annette Barlow, via Sarah McKenzie of Sarah McKenzie Literary Management....

TT. O. wins Patrick White Literary Award, Hughes to leave Affirm, Pan Mac to move distribution to TDLC

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
In local news this week, Martin Hughes will leave Affirm Press, amid other staff changes; Left Bank Literary will dissolve in December; the Australia Institute is launching its own publishing...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ, Canada, Indian Subcontinent) rights to The Shortest History of Scandinavia (Mart Kuldkepp) to Old Street; and Serbian translation rights to The Shortest...

HG Explore acquires Wilson’s new book

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Sarah Wilson’s new book, Walk the World Bigger, under its Hardie Grant Explore imprint. In Walk the World Bigger, Wilson brings together ‘the...

QBD 2024 Book of the Year winners announced

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
QBD has announced the winners of the chain's 2024 Book of the Year. The winning titles are: Fiction The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm) Nonfiction The Voice Inside (John Farnham with...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
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.

YABBA Awards 2024 winners announced

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards) have been announced. Winning titles and honour books in each category are: Picture storybook Macca the Alpaca (Matt Cosgrove,...

‘A City on Mars’ wins 2024 Trivedi Science Book Prize

Monday, 28 October 2024
In the UK, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, Particular Books) has won the...

‘Personal Score’ longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal

Monday, 28 October 2024
Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity by local author Ellen van Neerven (UQP) is among the titles longlisted for the American Library Association’s (ALA) Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction...

Bancroft awarded 2024 Lady Cutler Award

Monday, 28 October 2024
Bronwyn Bancroft is the recipient of the 2024 Lady Cutler Award, a biennial award presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for distinguished...

City of Fremantle Hungerford Award 2024 winner announced

Friday, 25 October 2024
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes has won the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for his manuscript የተስፋ ፈተና / Trials of Hope. The author receives $15,000 in prize money, a publishing contract with Fremantle...

Pi-O wins 2024 Patrick White Literary Award

Friday, 25 October 2024
Victorian-based poet, publisher and editor π.ο. (Pi-O) has won the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award. Born in Greece in 1951, π.ο. immigrated with his family in 1954 to Australia, where they...

UQP acquires Byres mystery novel

Thursday, 24 October 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to Dead Ends, a ‘darkly funny and sexy’ mystery novel by Samantha Byres, via literary agent Jane Novak. Dead Ends begins as ‘all-round chaos merchant...

SPN to wind up unless new board formed, Shawline liquidation affects hundreds, ‘Edenglassie’ wins Roderick Literary Award

Wednesday, 23 October 2024
The board of the Small Press Network has informed members that it will apply to Consumer Affairs Victoria to terminate the organisation in 30 days, unless a new board is...