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That Island Feeling (Karina May, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Set on a sleepy, scenic Australian island and featuring oysters, wine and flirty banter, That Island Feeling is the summer romance book for 2025. The novel follows Andie and her...

Panic (Catherine Jinks, Text) 

Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Modern society is well versed in the evils of social media. From cyberbullying and trolling to revenge porn and deep fakes, there is no end to the new and horrifying...

UWAP acquires Smith’s YA novel 

Pip Smith credit Lucy Parakhina Monday, 18 November 2024
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Pip Smith’s YA novel The Pull of the Moon. Inspired by the Janga/SIEV-221 tragedy in December 2010, The Pull of the Moon...

Wright, Tiffany 2024 Melbourne Prize winners

Thursday, 14 November 2024
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, and Carrie Tiffany has won the $10,000 Writers Prize. A member of the Waanyi Nation of the Southern Highlands of...

Storylines Notable Book Award 2024 winners

Thursday, 14 November 2024
Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa has announced the 2024 Storylines Notable Book Award winners. This year’s winners are: Te Reo Māori A Ariā me te...

UQP acquires Wood middle-grade novel 

Fiona Wood Thursday, 14 November 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to a new middle-grade novel by Fiona Wood, titled The Boy and the Dog Tree, in a two-book deal, via Katelyn...

A&U acquires Beaumont thriller 

Thursday, 14 November 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Liar’s Game, the third book in Jack Beaumont’s Frenchman series of thrillers, via Laura Bonner of WME. In the new book,...

Vale Barney Rivers 

Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Former publisher Brian John ‘Barney’ Rivers has died, aged 86. Former Australian Publishers Association president and John Wiley & Sons managing director Peter Donoughue writes: Barney Rivers has died after a...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold Portuguese rights for Reasons Not to Worry (Brigid Delaney) to PRH Grupo Editorial. Black Inc. has sold North American rights to The Shortest History...

Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for ‘Orbital’

Cover of Orbital Wednesday, 13 November 2024
In the UK, Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$97,635), for Orbital (Vintage). Orbital takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 13 November 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.

Cruel Is the Light (Sophie Clark, Penguin) 

Tuesday, 12 November 2024
In a world both familiar to and hauntingly different from our own, the Vatican Empire has waged a centuries-long war with demons across Europe. After a series of unprecedented attacks...

Unfinished Business (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 12 November 2024
The first in Miles Franklin–winning author Shankari Chandran’s Ellie Harper political thriller series, Unfinished Business mirrors the themes of the author’s past books (Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens, Safe Haven):...

Smith wins 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize

Monday, 11 November 2024
Overland has announced that Yasmin Smith is the winner the 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. Smith receives a $5000 cash prize, as well as an optional writing...

2025 MIRROR Mentorship recipients announced

Monday, 11 November 2024
Think+DO Tank Foundation and Scribble Books have announced the winners of the 2025 MIRROR Mentorship program for emerging bilingual writers and illustrators in children’s literature. The winners are: Leila Frijat...

Cusk wins Goldsmiths Prize for ‘Parade’

Cover of Parade Thursday, 7 November 2024
In the UK, Rachel Cusk has won the £10,000 (A$19,605) Goldsmiths Prize for Parade (Faber), a novel that ‘offers an enigmatic and thought-provoking meditation on art, gender and the complexities...

Stewart wins 2024 Bragg Prize

Thursday, 7 November 2024
Cameron Stewart has won the 2024 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for the essay ‘Heroes of Zero’. ‘Heroes of Zero’ introduces readers to research by Michelle Haber and...

State Library of NSW 2024 fellowships announced

Sheila Ngoc Pham and Caroline Butler-Bowdon Wednesday, 6 November 2024
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the recipients of its 2024 research fellowships, worth a total of $186,000 across eight categories, on the 50th anniversary of its research...

Creative Australia Elevate funding recipients announced 

Creative Australia logo Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Creative Australia has announced a new round of recipients of its Elevate: First Nations Storytelling and Literature career development funding program. The recipients—each receiving a $10,000 grant—are: Tahnee Carter Vivienne...

HarperCollins acquires three new McTiernan books 

Photograph of Dervla McTiernan Wednesday, 6 November 2024
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to three new books by Dervla McTiernan, including The Unquiet Grave. The Unquiet Grave features Cormac Reilly—who first appeared in McTiernan’s 2018 debut, The...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold North American rights to South with the Seabirds (Jess McGeachin); North American rights to four books in the Bravepaw series (L M Wilkinson, illus...

 

 

 

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