Vale Michael Mosley
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
British television personality, medical journalist and author Michael Mosley has died, aged 67. As an advocate for intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets, Mosley wrote the Fast 800 series of books...
Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients announced
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Writers Victoria has announced the 11th round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. The eight successful recipients—who share in a total of $50,419—are: Elfy Scott (NSW), to...
S&S acquires McCormack’s ‘Raising Resilient Children’
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired world rights to a nonfiction book from teacher Gavin McCormack, titled Raising Resilient Children: 7 ways to nurture lifelong learners, via literary agent Daniel...
A&U acquires Trevelyan debut novel
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to debut author Jennifer Trevelyan’s literary coming-of-age story A Beautiful Family, at an auction by Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary on behalf of...
2024 Prix Voltaire shortlist announced
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has announced the 2024 shortlist for the Prix Voltaire. This year’s shortlist, announced at the World Expression Forum, includes: Osman Kavala, Türkiye Dušan Gojkov, Balkan...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
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Love Unleashed (Melanie Saward, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Melanie Saward’s Love Unleashed is a bingeable, warm and soulful romantic comedy. Saward (whose debut novel, Burn, was released in 2023) draws on her own experience in New York to...
Sky Country (Aunty Patsy Cameron & Lisa Kennedy, Magabala)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Grandmother takes her young grandchildren on a walk up a mountain in Trouwerner (Tasmania). As they walk together, Grandmother retells an ancient story of creation, sky, and the First Peoples...
Winter of the Wolf (Amanda Willimott, Viking)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Winter of the Wolf is Amanda Willimott’s debut novel, inspired by the real-life trial of Gilles Garnier, who was convicted of being a werewolf in 1573. When Sidonie Montot travels...
Yarn Quest 1: The Search for the Story Realm (Brooke Scobie, illus Jade Goodwin, Penguin)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Brooke Scobie’s debut series, Yarn Quest, begins with The Search for the Story Realm (with the next two books in the series releasing concurrently) and introduces friends Sibyl and Tane...
Slick: Australia’s toxic relationship with Big Oil (Royce Kurmelovs, UQP)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
As citizens of the global West, we are learning that sitting with discomfort is necessary to create change. Slick, by journalist Royce Kurmelovs (Just Money, The Death of Holden), is...
The Youngest Son (John Byrnes, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
John Byrnes’s The Youngest Son follows the fortunes of three siblings from a working-class Sydney family in the 1930s and 40s. Bob, the titular youngest, naturally gets the largest share...
Hi from Outer Space (Fiona Katauskas, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Cartoonist and illustrator Fiona Katauskas’s debut middle-grade novel, Hi from Outer Space, is a wonderfully wacky sci-fi/comedy that will appeal to readers of Nat Amoore, Morris Gleitzman and Eve L...
Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars (Catherine Norton, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
The year is 1866, and 11-year-old Hester’s life looks like something out of A Series of Unfortunate Events: her father is lost at sea, her mother dies giving birth to...
McIntosh’s ‘The Pearl Thief’ to be adapted for film
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced Fiona McIntosh’s The Pearl Thief is being adapted into a feature film. Made Up Stories, led by Bruna and Steve Hutensky, will produce the...
WA Premier’s Book Awards 2024 winners announced
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
The winners of the 2024 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. At the awards, presented on 7 June at the State Library of Western Australia, novelist Gail Jones...
Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2024 shortlist
Thursday, 6 June 2024
The shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth $25,000. The shortlisted works, chosen from a longlist of seven announced in...
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2024 finalists announced
Thursday, 6 June 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults finalists have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Picture book award ($8500) At...
Upswell acquires Holt poetry collection, ‘Fitzroy North 3068’
Thursday, 6 June 2024
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to a new collection of poetry from Yvette Henry Holt, titled Fitzroy North 3068, via Jeanne Ryckmans and Lou Johnson at Key People Literary...
Penguin Literary Prize 2024 winner announced
Thursday, 6 June 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced The Occupation by Chloe Adams as the winner of the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize. Shortlisted as ‘Those Days of Hill and Sea’, The Occupation...
ALS Gold Medal 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 6 June 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted works, chosen from a longlist announced last month, are: Frank (Jordie Albiston, NLA Publishing) Like...
Redundancies at Booktopia as CEO resigns; Coronel to depart as SPN looks to expand board; full BookUp program released
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
Some significant role changes in the book industry this week, as Booktopia CEO David Nenke resigns and the bookseller announces it is considering at least 50 roles for redundancy; meanwhile,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
Sales Fiction Penguin Random House has sold Latvian rights for Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Benjamin Stevenson) to LIEGRA Publishers. Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold UK and...
A&U acquires London debut
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to debut novel Love on the Air by radio presenter and podcaster Ash London. Love on the Air follows radio host Alex York...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
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Woo Woo (Ella Baxter, A&U)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
In Woo Woo, Ella Baxter’s raucous second novel after New Animal, art is terrible, a living spell, a parasite, a trick, and all there is. ‘Art is life,’ writes protagonist...
Six Figures While You Sleep (Kate Toon, Major Street)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Following the success of her first book, Six Figures in School Hours, copywriter, podcaster and self-made millionaire Kate Toon returns with Six Figures While You Sleep, a practical, no-nonsense guide to creating...
Shades of Me (Mel Brown, Rockpool)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Melinda Brown’s Shades of Me challenges the saying ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ by taking us through Brown’s ‘many lives through many Dreamings’, including her careers as a...
Djinang Bonar: Seeing Seasons (Ebony Froome, illus by Leanne Zilm, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Written by Wardandi Noongar woman Ebony Froome, Djinang Bonar: Seeing Seasons is a lyrical picture book describing the six seasons on Noongar country in Western Australia. It cleverly incorporates Noongar...
Catherine Wheel (Liz Evans, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Kate is starting over in the small town of Bridgewell after a bad break-up with Max. She works as a yoga instructor and volunteers at the local library, living in...
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