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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Sales Fiction Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has sold German rights to The Venice Hotel (Tess Woods) to PRH Germany in a pre-empt deal; Arabic Egypt rights for Everyone in...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 29 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.

Pancakes for Plum (Rae Tan, Lothian) 

Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Pancakes for Plum is a charming story about discovering what we love and following our hearts to find things that make us happy. Plum’s brothers are good at climbing and...

The Dragon’s Treasure (Mark Greenwood, Fremantle) 

Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Buried treasure? Check. Old shipwrecks? Check. Mark Greenwood’s latest nonfiction book, The Dragon’s Treasure, begins his new History Hunter series and pulls together historical evidence to tell the story of...

The Honeyeater (Jessie Tu, A&U) 

Cover of The Honeyeater Tuesday, 28 May 2024
The Honeyeater is the second novel by Jessie Tu, acclaimed author of A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing. The story centres around Fay, an academic and emerging translator who works on...

Murder in Punch Lane (Jane Sullivan, Echo) 

Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Jane Sullivan’s third novel, Murder in Punch Lane, transports readers to the grizzly underbelly of 1860s Melbourne. Actress Lola Sanchez doesn’t believe her best friend, theatre star Marie, died by...

A&U acquires Rielly’s ‘Fridays with Blanche’ 

Blanche d'Alpuget and Derek Rielly Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Fridays with Blanche by Derek Rielly, via Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary Management. Fridays with Blanche is based on Rielly’s weekly...

Inaugural ABR Inglis Fellowship announced

ABR logo Tuesday, 28 May 2024
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced a new fellowship program—the $5000 ABR Inglis Fellowship. The inaugural year-long program will give one fellow the opportunity to write three review essays...

Text Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 28 May 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, worth $10,000, has been announced. Shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘The Feathers of Farwood’ by Jayne McIntyre (middle grade),...

‘Solenoid’ wins 2024 Dublin Literary Award

Monday, 27 May 2024
Solenoid by Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu (Deep Vellum Publishing), translated by US translator Sean Cotter, has won the €100,000 (A$163,706) international Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize...

Bacon awarded 2024 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence

Photograph of Eugen Bacon Monday, 27 May 2024
African Australian speculative fiction author Eugen Bacon has been named the 2024 University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer-in-Residence, worth $30,000. Eugen will use the Hobart residency, which consists of three months writing, working...

Text acquires Stanley’s ‘Consider Yourself Kissed’ 

Photograph of Jessica Stanely Thursday, 23 May 2024
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to London-based Australian novelist Jessica Stanley’s Consider Yourself Kissed, via Lizzy Kremer at David Higham Associates. Kremer also sold US rights to Sarah McGrath...

Affirm acquires Art Simone anthology 

Thursday, 23 May 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Drag Queens Down Under, an anthology curated by Art Simone. The anthology is described by the publisher as ‘a glorious celebration of life...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold North American and UK rights to Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective (Kelly Gardiner & Sharmini Kumar) to Harper Via, HarperCollins US and HQ HarperCollins UK; and...

S&S acquires Behrendt novel 

Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) imprint Bundyi has acquired world rights to a new commercial novel by Larissa Behrendt. Friends for nearly four decades, Behrendt and Bundyi publisher-at-large Anita Heiss...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 22 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.

The Last Trace (Petronella McGovern, A&U) 

Tuesday, 21 May 2024
The Last Trace by award-winning author Petronella McGovern (The Liars) is true to her usual form, simmering with mystery and psychological twists. We meet Lachy, who should be enjoying an...

Big Time (Jordan Prosser, UQP) 

Cover of Big Time Tuesday, 21 May 2024
I’m not sure what’s going on at UQP, but they seem to have developed a passion for speculative fiction, and I’m here for it. Their latest offering, Big Time, is...

 

 

 

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