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The Work (Bri Lee, A&U) 

Cover of The Work by Bri Lee Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Having tackled power, privilege and sexual politics in her nonfiction books, Eggshell Skull, Beauty and Who Gets to Be Smart, Bri Lee brings the same shrewd scrutiny to her debut novel,...

Sanctuary (Garry Disher, Text) 

Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Grace has been stealing her whole life. She is an expert thief, taught by pros and specialising in small, high-value items, such as stamps and watches. However, a life of...

Deep Water (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton) 

Cover of Deep Water by James Bradley Tuesday, 27 February 2024
The first chapter of Deep Water is named ‘The Word for World Is Water’, a reference to science fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin’s novella The Word for World Is...

Those Girls (Pamela Rushby, Walker) 

Tuesday, 27 February 2024
When Australia entered World War II, new possibilities emerged for women to enter the services, work in munitions or uniform factories, or join the Land Army to fill the workforce...

Daisley on Walter Scott longlist 

Cover image for Stephen Daisley's A Better Place Tuesday, 27 February 2024
In the UK, Aotearoa New Zealand author Stephen Daisley has been longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, worth £25,000 (A$48,500). The full list of titles longlisted for...

Brooks wins 2023 Judith Wright Poetry Prize

A portrait of Andrew Brooks Monday, 26 February 2024
Overland has announced that Andrew Brooks is the winner of the 2023 Judith Wright Poetry prize, for his poem ‘Celestial Tree’. Brooks is a lecturer in media and culture, living...

Zhang wins 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

A photograph of Annie Zhang Monday, 26 February 2024
Overland has announced that Annie Zhang is the winner of the 2023 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, for her story ‘Who Rattles the Night?’. Zhang is a writer and editor...

Smith wins 2024 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize

Thursday, 22 February 2024
Yasmin Smith has won Island magazine’s 2024 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize for the poem ‘The Burial Feathers’. Smith’s poem was chosen from about 500 entries. The two runners-up were Emilie...

Affirm Press sells screen rights to Funny Ethnics 

Funny Ethnics book cover, featuring an ibis holding a bubble tea drink while standing on top of a bin Thursday, 22 February 2024
Flying Bark Productions has optioned the screen rights to Shirley Le’s Funny Ethnics (Affirm), in a deal negotiated by Bold Type Agency on behalf of Affirm Press. The 2022 novel ‘catapults...

The Heart Is a Star screen option sold to Aquarius Films 

Thursday, 22 February 2024
The Heart Is a Star (Megan Rogers, HarperCollins) has been optioned by Aquarius Films, in a television deal negotiated by Zeitgeist Agency. The novel—Rogers’ debut—is ‘set predominantly in rugged Tasmania’,...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold Italian rights to Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy and Carpentaria to Il Saggiatore, via Casanovas & Lynch. Pan Macmillan has sold simplified Chinese rights to Prima Facie (Suzie Miller) to Staread,...

Vale Tom Whitton

Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Jodie Dalglish, owner of Megalong Books, writes: We are very sad to report that we have lost a member of our Megalong Books family. Tom Whitton has sadly passed away....

HarperCollins acquires Gardiner, Kumar cosy crime 

An image of authors Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar. Wednesday, 21 February 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective, a forthcoming cosy crime novel from Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar, via Danielle Binks and Jacinta di Mase of...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 21 February 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.

Deep Is the Fen (Lili Wilkinson, A&U Children’s) 

Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Lili Wilkinson’s latest fantasy novel is set in the same magical world as her Victorian Premier's Literary Award–winning novel, A Hunger of Thorns. It’s a realm where all magic is...

Italian Coastal (Amber Guinness, T&H) 

Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Amber Guinness’s Italian Coastal: Recipes and stories from where the land meets the sea takes readers on a tour of the seven Italian regions that sit on the Tyrrhenian Sea—places...

The Glass House (Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Graeme Simsion is well-known for The Rosie Project, and Anne Buist for her crime novels. Partners in real life, their new collaboration, The Glass House, showcases their talent and fields of interest where...

Jerry’s Window (Y K Willemse, Wombat Books) 

Tuesday, 20 February 2024
In the spirit of Dennis the Menace, 10-year-old Jerry Ronden is a notorious nightmare. His parents are at a loss as he torments his school and neighbours with pranks, stink...

It Takes a Town (Aoife Clifford, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Aoife Clifford’s latest crime novel, It Takes a Town, is set in the fictional town of Welcome. This small town produced a superstar talent, Vanessa ‘Baby Vee’ Walton, who tap-danced...

Happy All Over (Emma Quay, ABC Books) 

Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Happy All Over is exactly that. Emma Quay’s capacity to capture miniatures of joy, through both word and image, will bring a smile to even the most careworn and cynical...

The Most Famous Boy in Town (Bel Schenk, Espresso) 

Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Bel Schenk’s latest work and her fourth publication, The Most Famous Boy in Town, delves into the intricate relationship dynamics in Charlotte Bay, a coastal community that unravels in the...

Black Silk & Sympathy (Deborah Challinor, HarperCollins) 

Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Deborah Challinor’s latest offering, Black Silk & Sympathy, sweeps readers away to the intriguing world of Victorian funeral customs in 1860s Sydney. In this expertly crafted novel, Challinor delivers a...

UQP acquires Behrendt novel 

An author photograph of Larissa Behrendt. Tuesday, 20 February 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to Alchemy, a new novel from Larissa Behrendt. Alchemy is described by UQP as ‘an intertwining story about the blurred lines between science and supernatural, the...

Funder longlisted for inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

Cover of Wifedom Monday, 19 February 2024
Anna Funder is longlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, worth £30,000 (A$58,000), for her book Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s invisible life (Hamish Hamilton). The fifteen other titles longlisted for the award...

 

 

 

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