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Miles Franklin 2024 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 2 July 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles, selected from a longlist announced in May, are: Only Sound Remains (Hossein Asgari, Puncher & Wattmann)...

PRH acquires Bindi Irwin picture book 

Monday, 1 July 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to Bindi Irwin’s debut picture book, titled You Are a Wildlife Warrior! Saving animals & the planet, illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki (Sisters...

Dao wins Pascall Prize 

Monday, 1 July 2024
André Dao has won the 2024 Pascall Prize for Cultural Criticism, worth $5000. Dao received the award for pieces published in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin and Liminal Review of Books: ‘Review of Nam...

Orwell Prize 2024 winners announced

Monday, 1 July 2024
In the UK, Hisham Matar and Matthew Longo have won the 2024 Orwell Prizes, reports the Bookseller. Matar won the Orwell prize for political fiction for his novel My Friends (Viking),...

Affirm acquires second Solly novel 

Photograph of Kate Solly Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Kate Solly’s second novel, The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch-Up. Solly is a mother of six and author of Tuesday Evenings with the...

Rights round-up 

Cover of Green Dot Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold Romanian rights to Green Dot (Madeleine Gray, A&U), French rights to The Wolf Tree (Laura McCluskey, HarperCollins), and Italian rights to New Animal...

Niland, McKinnon among James Beard Award winners

Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Fish Butchery by chef Josh Niland (Hardie Grant) and Tenderheart: A cookbook about vegetables and unbreakable family bonds by Hetty Lui McKinnon (Plum) are among the winners of the 2024...

Pantera acquires Madigan nonfiction ‘Torn’ 

Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Pantera has acquired world rights to Nicole Madigan’s nonfiction book Torn, via Jeanne Ryckmans of Key People Literary Management. The book follows individual stories of women who have faced major...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 26 June 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.

Translations (Jumaana Abdu, Vintage) 

Cover of Translations Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Translations is a powerful, character-driven debut novel by Jumaana Abdu. It follows young mother Aliyah and her daughter, Sakina, who leave Sydney for a property in the Northern Rivers region...

Girl Falling (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Girl Falling is the second novel by award-winning crime writer Hayley Scrivenor. Three women—Daphne, Magdu and Finn—head out for a day of rock climbing in the Blue Mountains, but only...

Bird (Courtney Collins, Hachette) 

Cover of Bird Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Following the success of her first novel, The Burial, Courtney Collins’s new dual-narrative novel, Bird, centres on the titular 14-year-old girl. The story is told in alternating chapters differentiated by...

Inaugural recipients announced for NZSA mentorships 

Tuesday, 25 June 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa Te Kaituhi Māori (NZSA) has announced the inaugural recipients of its NZSA Kaituhi Māori Mentorship and Kupu Kaitiaki programs....

Upswell acquires White’s essay collection 

Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Upswell has acquired world rights to Jessica White’s collection Silence Is My Habitat: Ecobiological essays. Upswell publisher Terri-ann White said White’s new book of essays ‘contains multiple dimensions’, with ‘a...

Farr wins NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize

Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Tracy Farr has won the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) (NZSA) Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize for Wonderland, an alt-history set on...

Coelho, Becker win Yoto Carnegie medals

Monday, 24 June 2024
In the UK, the winners of the Yoto Carnegie medals for writing and illustration for children and young people have been announced. Joseph Coelho, the UK’s current Children’s Laureate, won...

UQP acquires Morton’s VPLA-winning debut 

a portrait of Rachel Morton Monday, 24 June 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Rachel Morton’s debut novel, The Sun Was Electric Light, which won the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished...

Scribner acquires Latimore nonfiction title 

Monday, 24 June 2024
Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to Kumanjayi: Death and indifference by First Nations journalist Jack Latimore, in a deal via Melanie Ostell at...

Hammad wins 2024 RSL Encore Award 

Thursday, 20 June 2024
In the UK, Isabella Hammad has won the 2024 RSL Encore Award for her second novel, Enter Ghost (Vintage), reports the Bookseller. The value of the prize (which celebrates second...

S&S acquires Kitching romance novel 

A photo of Jess Kitching. Thursday, 20 June 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to The Life Experiment, a romance novel from Melbourne-based author Jess Kitching, in a deal negotiated by Daniel Pilkington. Described by...

 

 

 

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