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Cool Water (Myfanwy Jones, Hachette) 

Cover of Cool Water Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Myfanwy Jones’s Cool Water is a cross-generational novel about the inheritance of toxic masculinity. When Frank Herbert returns to Tinaroo for his daughter’s wedding, he can’t stop thinking about his...

Thanks for Having Me (Emma Darragh, JOAN) 

Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Emma Darragh’s debut novel, Thanks for Having Me, is an intergenerational familial story that offers a glimpse into the lives of three women: Mary Anne, Vivian and Evie. It’s a non-sequential...

The Great Housing Hijack (Cameron K Murray, A&U) 

Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Instead of your typical dense economics book, The Great Housing Hijack: The hoaxes and myths keeping prices high for renters and buyers in Australia uses a compelling narrative with analogies,...

Outlaw Girls (Emily Gale & Nova Weetman, Text) 

Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Emily Gale and Nova Weetman deliver again with Outlaw Girls, the Kelly country time-slip follow-up to their CBCA Notable Elsewhere Girls. In 1878, Kate Kelly secretly slips supplies to her...

A Room for Ryel (Emma Cameron, Wombat) 

Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Within modern shifting family dynamics, Emma Cameron’s A Room for Ryel emerges as a heartwarming tale that adeptly explores the intricacies and joys of blending families. The book seamlessly transcends...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Sales Nonfiction Rach Crawford at Wolf Literary Services has sold the following rights to The Intuition Toolbox (Joel Pearson, S&S): UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Welbeck, via Kate Johnson; Korean...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Wednesday, 10 January 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.

One Another (Gail Jones, Text) 

Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Expect no less from Gail Jones’s tenth novel, One Another, than carefully crafted prose that will delight and assure you of an expert at work. With a languid sense of...

I Hope This Doesn’t Find You (Ann Liang, Penguin) 

Tuesday, 9 January 2024
Ann Liang’s third young adult novel, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You, is a feel-good rom-com that uses all the well-worn tropes of the enemies-to-lovers subgenre. When people-pleaser school captain...

The Girl from Moscow (Julia Levitina, Pantera) 

Tuesday, 9 January 2024
In Julia Levitina’s debut novel, The Girl from Moscow, Ella Ashkenazi, an aspiring actor on the verge of a breakthrough role, discovers she is pregnant. It’s a low-key beginning to...

To and Fro (Anton Clifford-Motopi, A&U Children’s) 

Tuesday, 9 January 2024
To and Fro by debut author Anton Clifford-Motopi is a heartfelt and humorous exploration of the complexities of growing up mixed-race in Australia. This delightful offering for readers aged 8–12...

Like Fire-Hearted Suns (Melanie Joosten, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 9 January 2024
‘Deeds not words’ was the valiant cry of the suffragettes, but does the average reader know what those deeds entailed? This average reader did not. While a work of fiction,...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold A Brilliant Life (Rachelle Unreich, Hachette) in the UK on behalf of Curtis Brown Australia; Estonia and German rights to The Wolf Tree (Laura...

What They Told Me (Hayley Lawrence, Scholastic) 

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Fifteen-year-old Elliott Gillespie has always believed she and her family are the lucky ones. Their home by Crooked River has been in the Gillespie family for generations. Her best friend,...

The Concierge (Abby Corson, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Abby Corson’s debut crime thriller, The Concierge, offers readers a locked-room murder mystery in a lavish English country hotel, where the guests are pointing fingers, and the person who knows...

Beyond Booze (Sarah Rusbatch, Murdoch) 

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
The term ‘sober curiosity’ has been around for a few years now, but Beyond Booze: How to create a life you love, alcohol-free offers something a bit more. Author Sarah...

Greater City Shadows (Laurie Steed, UWAP) 

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Laurie Steed’s third book and debut short story collection, Greater City Shadows, collates tales of grief, loss, loneliness, unrequited love, fractured relationships and—ultimately—hope. Suburban Perth is the setting for many an...

Go Lightly (Brydie Lee-Kennedy, Bloomsbury) 

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Brydie Lee-Kennedy’s debut, Go Lightly, is an honest, hilarious and often painful exploration of taking risks in life and love. Full of wry humour, it dives into the complexities of...

Woven (ed by Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Magabala) 

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Woven, the second collaborative project between Red Room Poetry and Magabala Books, is a profound and unique collection of First Nations poetry that sees some of the world’s finest First...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 11 December 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.

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...

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...

 

 

 

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