Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Sales Fiction Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold The Housemate (Sarah Bailey, A&U) to French publisher Mera Editions. Penguin Random House (PRH) ANZ has sold Spanish and Catalan...
Kelly joins Affirm, Kassab named Parramatta Laureate, Bitto wins Blake-Beckett scholarship
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
In this week's news, Affirm Press has appointed Tace Kelly to the role of publicity manager; author Yumna Kassab was named the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature; QBD announced plans...
My Brilliant Sister (Amy Brown, Scribner)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
My Brilliant Sister is a layered and involving story about womanhood, motherhood and art. It follows three very different women who all want to create art and are at a...
The Beacon (P A Thomas, Echo)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Living in the Byron region, doctor-turned-author P A Thomas is well placed to helm this debut crime novel featuring colourful characters and rollicking action set in this lively location. Jack...
The Intuition Toolkit (Joel Pearson, S&S)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Forget the idea of intuition as a sixth sense or any of the other mysterious connotations that many gurus and self-help books have been portraying for decades. Instead, in The...
Countdown to Yesterday (Shirley Marr, Puffin)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Shirley Marr’s latest novel, Countdown to Yesterday, takes young readers on a heartwarming journey through time, memories, and the complexities of family and friendship. This enchanting tale is a delightful...
How to Avoid Being Eaten By Sharks… and other advice (John Larkin, illus Chrissie Krebs, Walker)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
How do you avoid being eaten by sharks? Is the Earth flat or round? How do you translate parent-speak, pass a creative writing test, and elude alien abduction? Tongue-in-cheek, chapter-length...
Ho Jiak: A Taste of Malaysia (Junda Khoo, Hardie Grant)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Ho Jiak: A taste of Malaysia by chef Junda Khoo with Nick Jordan is an exciting culinary exploration of Malaysian cuisine. The title, meaning ‘delicious’ in Hokkien—also the name of...
Smoke & Mirrors (Barry Jonsberg, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
High-school student Grace is a whiz at magic—or she tries to be. Since learning an array of magic tricks and pranks from her no-good Uncle Mike as a little girl,...
Everything Is Perfect (Maxine Fawcett, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
The protagonists of what was once deemed ‘chick lit’ have grown older and now face the trials of middle age. In Maxine Fawcett’s debut novel, Everything Is Perfect, Cassandra is no...
Time to Rest (Jack Carty, illus Natasha Carty, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Husband and wife team Jack and Natasha Carty have collaborated on a new children’s book for the first time. Time to Rest is written as a lullaby, with songwriter and poet...
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Monday, 4 December 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency reports that Vincent and Sien (Silvia Kwon) has been licensed in Lithuania and the Czech Republic; Fire with Fire (Candice Fox) has been licensed in Italy...
Lynch wins Booker, Arnott wins Voss, Loewenstein wins Walkley
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Earlier this week, Paul Lynch was announced as the winner of the 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song (Oneworld); Bloomsbury Australia said that reprinted stock will be available from this Friday. BookPeople...
Andromache Between Worlds (Gabriel Bergmoser, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Andromache Between Worlds is the middle-grade fiction debut from prolific adult and young adult writer Gabriel Bergmoser. Andromache is the 14-year-old daughter of two celebrity adventurer journalists whose escapades have...
Birdy (Sharon Kernot, Text)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
In Birdy, a compelling YA verse novel by CBCA award-winning author Sharon Kernot (The Art of Taxidermy), we meet Maddy, who began experiencing selective mutism and anxiety after an unnamed...
A Thousand Wasted Sundays (Victoria Vanstone, Pantera)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Since quitting alcohol in 2018, Queensland-based writer Victoria Vanstone has been sharing sobriety advice as a blogger and as co-host of the Sober Awkward podcast. Now, in her memoir, A...
Kintsugi (Marie O’Rourke, Fremantle)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Marie O’Rourke’s book of memoir essays, Kintsugi, shortlisted for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, takes its title from the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer mixed...
Gawimarra: Gathering (Jeanine Leane, UQP)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
In Gawimarra: Gathering, Wiradjuri poet and educator Jeanine Leane expresses her Country with poetry that overflows with celebrations of culture and acts of Blak resistance. Arranged into three sections, the...
We All Lived in Bondi Then (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
We All Lived in Bondi Then is the last publication of new work by Georgia Blain. This collection comprises nine previously unpublished stories written between 2012 and 2015, before Blain’s...
Nova’s Missing Masterpiece (Brooke Graham, illus Robin Tatlow-Lord, EK Books)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
It’s Nova’s dad’s birthday, and she has made him a special masterpiece drawing as his present. It’s nearly time for the party, but she can’t find the drawing! (‘Where is...
The Great Undoing (Sharlene Allsopp, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Imagine a completely digital future, with people connected via nanotechnology, attaining ultimate convenience at the price of absolute surveillance—good for people who like where they are, bad for those who...
The Beehive (Megan Daley, illus Max Hamilton, Walker)
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
The Beehive is a new informational picture book by teacher-librarian and author Megan Daley and CBCA-shortlisted illustrator Max Hamilton. The two have combined their talents to create a charming and...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 27 November 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold Dutch rights to Body of Lies (Sarah Bailey) to Uitgeverij Marmer, via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. Bold Type Agency has sold...
Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners, Baillie Gifford Prize winner, inaugural Hope Prize calls for submissions
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
The 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award winners were announced this week. Meanwhile, the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) presented the ASA Medal and the O'Donnell Essay Prize during the Colin...
Love, Just In (Natalie Murray, A&U)
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Following a panic attack while reporting on live TV, Josie is eager to prove that she can still make it as a full-time Sydney newsreader. However, after her dead-air debacle,...
The Health Habit (Amantha Imber, Penguin Life)
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
There are books about health and books about habits, but rarely are the two combined as they are in The Health Habit: Shape up, sleep better, feel amazing, a practical...
The Invocations (Krystal Sutherland, Penguin)
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Emer Byrne, Zara Jones and Jude Wolf are young women who have led completely different lives until one thread of commonality brings them together—magic. Zara believes in magic because she’s...
Whenever You’re Ready (Trish Bolton, A&U)
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Trish Bolton’s debut is a reckoning with grief. An exploration of ‘those feelings [that are] impossible to separate, a great tidal wave of loss and remorse, of love and longing’....
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