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Jade and Emerald (Michelle See-Tho, Vintage) 

Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize, Jade and Emerald is a portrait of what it means to grow up caught between two cultures. Lei Ling Wen is an Australian-born...

The Infant Vine (Isabella G Mead, UWAP) 

Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Isabella G Mead’s debut collection, The Infant Vine, speaks to the deeply elemental nature of motherhood. In these poems, the line between what is human and what is animal becomes ever...

Slaughter wins 2024 Calibre Essay Prize

Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand writer Tracey Slaughter has won the 2024 Australian Book Review (ABR) Calibre Essay Prize. Slaughter’s essay, ‘why your hair is long & your stories short’, was chosen...

S&S acquires McEwan romantasy duology 

Photograph of Stacey McEwan Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a two-book romantasy series by Stacey McEwan, via an exclusive submission from Amy Collins at Talcott Notch Literary. S&S Australia associate...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Monday, 6 May 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) The Sun Walks Down (Fiona McFarlane,...

WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced

Monday, 6 May 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted authors and books in each category are: Western Australian Writer’s Fellowship ($60,000) Lucy Dougan Alan Fyfe...

Allen & Unwin acquires new Bublitz thriller 

Photograph of Jacqueline Bublitz Monday, 6 May 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Leave the Girls Behind, a new novel by Jacqueline Bublitz, via Cara Lee Simpson at Peters Fraser + Dunlop. Bublitz’s book...

Wright wins 2024 Stella Prize for ‘Praiseworthy’

Thursday, 2 May 2024
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Stella Prize for her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright becomes the first author to win the Stella Prize twice, having previously won the 2018...

ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 2 May 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins publishing division HQ have announced the shortlist for the 2024 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted works, chosen...

Vale Kate Callingham

Photograph of Kate Callingham Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Arts worker Kate Callingham died in an accident on Saturday 27 April, aged 39. Among various roles, Callingham was a steering committee member for the Blak & Bright festival, a...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Sales Fiction Hachette has sold UK rights to The Fisherman’s Daughter and The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna (both by Erin Palmisano) to Headline Publishing Group; US rights to...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 1 May 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.

Outrider (Mark Wales, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 30 April 2024
In Mark Wales’s debut novel, Outrider, China invades Australia, and the state of Victoria is now in the hands of enemy forces. With many fight-hungry locals turned traitors, The Hill—the once...

Spiro (Anna McGregor, Scribble) 

Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Spiro is a humorous new picture book by Anna McGregor, the multi-award-winning creator of Anemone Is Not the Enemy. The protagonist is Spiro, a determined little spider on a mission to catch...

Milk (Matthew Evans, Murdoch) 

Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Dairy milk is an odd battleground for political polarisation, yet it always seems to be one. Milk is an attempt to make the case for that long-loved standard—cows’ milk—in the face of...

Affirm acquires Hodge’s ‘Top Knocks’

Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to Australian cricketer and commentator Brad Hodge’s nonfiction book Top Knocks, via TLA. The publisher said that Top Knocks will count down 20 of...

Wheeler Centre 2024 Hot Desk Fellows announced

Monday, 29 April 2024
The Wheeler Centre has announced the 22 emerging writers who will receive Hot Desk Fellowships in 2024. This is the 12th year of the fellowship program, which the Wheeler Centre...

Vale June Factor

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Folklorist, social historian and author June Factor has died, aged 87. Factor was the compiler of a list of 1980s children’s schoolyard rhyming books published by Brolly Books, including Far...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold the Swedish rights to The Italian Marriage (Jenna Lo Bianco, Macmillan), on behalf of Jacinta di Mase Management; Italian rights to Why Do...

Upswell acquires Spirovski debut, ‘White Hibiscus’ 

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights for White Hibiscus: A portrait in words, the debut work of visual artist Loribelle Spirovski. Publisher Terri-ann White described the book as ‘a poetic...

 

 

 

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