News sections | Books+Publishing

Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

News sections >

Hachette Australia acquires Unreich memoir of mother’s Holocaust survival

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired the ANZ rights to A Brilliant Life: My mother’s inspiring story of surviving the Holocaust by Australian journalist Rachelle Unreich. In Australia, Hachette head of literary...

‘Runt’ wins 2023 Indie Book of the Year

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Runt by Craig Silvey (Allen & Unwin) has been named Book of the Year at the 2023 Indie Book Awards. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Horse (Geraldine...

Crismani wins 2023 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship

Monday, 20 March 2023
Wiradjuri writer and filmmaker Edoardo Crismani has been awarded the 2023 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship for the manuscript ‘Finding Billy Brown’ and will be mentored by Wiradjuri author Tara June...

Pantera sells ‘The Deadly Daylight’ to Holiday House

Monday, 20 March 2023
Pantera Press has sold World English rights (excluding ANZ) to Ash Harrier’s The Deadly Daylight to New York-based independent publisher Holiday House. The first Alice England Mysteries book, The Deadly...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Monday, 20 March 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.

Affirm acquires Ham debut nonfiction ‘The Lucky Ones’

Friday, 17 March 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by journalist and activist Melinda Ham, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. The Lucky Ones is about refugees...

Holland-Batt longlisted for 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize

Thursday, 16 March 2023
Sarah Holland-Batt’s poetry collection The Jaguar (UQP) has been longlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize, worth C$130,000 (A$142,700). The Griffin Poetry Prize is awarded annually for the best collection of poetry...

Giramondo sells US, UK rights to Wright titles

Thursday, 16 March 2023
Giramondo has sold international rights to several Alexis Wright books. In North America, New York-based independent press New Directions will publish Alexis Wright's forthcoming novel Praiseworthy (April) and her novel...

Moriarty’s ‘Apples Never Fall’ to be adapted for screen

Thursday, 16 March 2023
Liane Moriarty’s novel Apples Never Fall (Macmillan) will be adapted as a limited series. Apples Never Fall centres on the Delaneys, who appear to be a contented family. Former tennis coaches...

Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize 2022 winners announced

Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Overland has announced the winners of the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Abbra Kotlarczyk has won the $6000 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for outstanding...

Transit Lounge acquires anaesthetist’s thriller

Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to All You Took From Me by NSW author and doctor Lisa Kenway in a direct publisher-to-author deal. ‘This is a dark, twisty thriller...

Llewellyn steps down; Bell named Hazel Rowley fellow; 2023 VIPs announced

Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The Wheeler Centre CEO Caro Llewellyn has announced her resignation and will vacate the role at the end of her contract in July this year, to focus on writing and...

PRH acquires new Flanagan book

Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Question 7 by Richard Flanagan via PRH publisher at large Nikki Christer. Question 7 melds fiction and nonfiction, 'beginning at...

International Booker 2023 longlist announced

Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The longlist for the 2023 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90,950), has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Ninth Building (Zou Jingzhi, trans by Jeremy Tiang, Open Letter) A System...

Harriet Hound (Kate Foster, illus Sophie Beer, Walker)

Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Harriet Hound is eight years old, vegan, and autistic. Her family runs a dog rescue shelter, Hound’s Rescue, on Hound Lane in their town of Labrador. On her eighth birthday,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly

Tuesday, 14 March 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.

Australian Book Design Awards 2023 longlists announced

Friday, 10 March 2023
The longlists for the 2023 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The longlisted titles in the first three categories are: Best...

Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners shortlist announced

Friday, 10 March 2023
In the UK, the shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award—being held to celebrate the prize’s 25th anniversary—has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The annual award, originally known...

Aurealis Awards shortlists announced

Friday, 10 March 2023
The shortlists for the 2022 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the shortlists are: Best Fantasy Novel The Not So...

Penguin Literary Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Thursday, 9 March 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted titles are: 'The Elementals' by Liz Allan, the story of The Bastards, a...

Bell wins Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2023

Thursday, 9 March 2023
Writer and anthropologist Diane Bell has been awarded Writers Victoria’s $20,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of the relationship between Ngarrindjeri woman Louisa Karpany, née Kontinyeri (c1840–1921)...