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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Slovenian translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Ucila International Zalozba and North American English rights to The Butterfly Collector (Tea Cooper, HQ...

Why We Are Here (Briohny Doyle, Vintage) 

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
In a life-altering turn of events, BB loses both her father and the love of her life during the global pandemic. When grief and strict lockdown orders push her to...

Lioness (Emily Perkins, Bloomsbury) 

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Thirty years ago, Therese married Trevor Thorne, a wealthy businessman twice her age. Now middle-aged, she continues to enjoy a life of privilege, running a successful luxury homewares business and...

Audition (Pip Adam, Giramondo) 

Audition Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Alba, Stanley and Drew are giants, sent out into space for reasons unknown to them, in a spaceship called Audition. As they travel through the universe their bodies continue to...

The Pole & Other Stories (J M Coetzee, Text)  

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Aficionados of South African-Australian Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will be delighted with his new short fiction collection, The Pole & Other Stories. It explores philosophy and...

WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
The shortlists for the 2023 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: The Western Australian Writer's Fellowship ($60,000) Carolyn Wadley Dowley Madison...

ALS Gold Medal 2023 longlist announced

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
The longlist for the 2023 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The longlisted works are: Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text) Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo) Daisy...

Australian authors on Daggers shortlist

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the shortlists for its Dagger Awards. Authors from Australia are among those shortlisted for the annual crime writing awards. Hayley...

NewSouth acquires Kean science book 

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to science writer Zoe Kean’s popular science title Why are we like this? What can scuba diving at Shark Bay uncover about the evolution of...

Every Version of You optioned for film 

Monday, 15 May 2023
Cognito Entertainment, a new independent film and television production company launched last week in the United States, has optioned Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm) for adaptation into an international...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 15 May 2023
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 Speechwriter wins Russell Prize for Humour Writing

Friday, 12 May 2023
Martin McKenzie-Murray’s 'savage, dark and uproariously funny’ satirical memoir The Speechwriter (Scribe) has won the $10,000 biennial Russell Prize for Humour Writing, Australia’s only humour writing prize. McKenzie-Murray’s fictional debut...

Vale Bruce Sims 

Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Editor and publisher Bruce Sims has died, aged 75. In collaboration with Sims’s partner Peter Ronge, family, friends and publishing colleagues, Bryony Cosgrove writes:   'Bruce Sims was a brilliant...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Thai rights to The Shortest History of China (Linda Jaivin) to Paragraph Publishing House. Thames & Hudson has sold Chinese rights to The Age...

Vale Gabrielle Carey

Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Gabrielle Carey, the author of multiple works of fiction and nonfiction, including Puberty Blues, co-written with Kathy Lette, and the Prime Minister's nonfiction award-winning Moving Among Strangers, has died, aged...

Barren Grounds (B Michael Radburn, Pantera) 

Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Joseph ‘Joe’ Capello, the decorated detective at the centre of B Michael Radburn’s fifth novel, Barren Grounds, is haunted by The Cloakman and The Jeweller, two forces of evil who...

Australia: Country of Colour (Jess Racklyeft, Affirm) 

Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft celebrates Australian flora, fauna and landscapes through the lens of the colour wheel in Australia: Country of Colour. This beautifully illustrated nonfiction...

The Watchful Wife (Suzanne Leal, A&U) 

Tuesday, 9 May 2023
The Watchful Wife is the latest novel by the author of The Deceptions and The Teacher’s Pet, Suzanne Leal. It follows the life of its narrator, Ellen Wells, the daughter...

Wifedom (Anna Funder, Hamish Hamilton) 

Cover of Wifedom Tuesday, 9 May 2023
When researching a new book on George Orwell, powerhouse writer Anna Funder noticed an interesting omission—Eileen Orwell, George’s first wife, was curiously absent. The basis of Wifedom is six newly...

 

 

 

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