Rights round-up
Thursday, 21 April 2022
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian translation rights to The Last Man in Europe (Dennis Glover) and Rose’s Vintage (Kayte Nunn) to MTS Library. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...
ABDA shortlists, FALS inaugural residency recipients, Waterstones profits down
Thursday, 21 April 2022
This week, the Australian Book Designers Association announced the shortlists for the 70th Australian Book Design Awards; the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing...
The Eulogy (Jackie Bailey, Hardie Grant)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey is at once sprawling and intimate: it’s a novel of race, disability, trauma, poverty, abuse and maternal rage that takes place over the course of...
Hip Hop & Hymns (Mawunyo Gbogbo, Penguin)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Hip Hop & Hymns is a beautiful and heart-wrenching memoir by Mawunyo Gbogbo, music and pop culture reporter for the ABC. Gbogbo begins her story in Ghana, where her parents...
The Museum of Broken Things (Lauren Draper, Text)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The concise opening of Lauren Draper’s debut YA novel immediately had me hooked: a new town, a mysterious statue and a curse all make for intriguing storylines. In The Museum...
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life (Paul Dalla Rosa, A&U)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The fiction of Melbourne-based Paul Dalla Rosa has been published in the Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney's and Meanjin. His debut book, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, contains 10 short...
What We All Saw (Mike Lucas, Puffin)
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
In a small English country town in the 1970s, four friends make their way to the local quarry, a place where stories of witches and curses are born. Hag’s Drop,...
Publishers Weekly’s 150th anniversary issue
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
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Tuesday, 19 April 2022
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Publishers report ‘phenomenal’ Bologna fair; ‘Crawdads’ tops Dymocks list; Petraitis wins A&U Crime Fiction Prize
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
Australian publishers who attended the 2022 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which wrapped up on 24 March, reported a 'phenomenal' fair; The Lifted Brow has announced a new board with plans...
Our Members Be Unlimited (Sam Wallman, Scribe)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Unionism is about more than your rights at work. It is something greater even than a form of politics at the point of production: union struggle is composed of those...
Daughters of Durga: Dowries, gender violence and family in Australia (Manjula Datta O’Connor, MUP)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
With Daughters of Durga, author, psychiatrist and campaigner Manjula Datta O'Connor has written an impassioned and empathetic treatise on the abuses of a patriarchal system. It may surprise readers to...
Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Four decades after covering horse racing as a cadet reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, award-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks has returned to the track. Her latest book is based on...
A Feather on a Wing (Maria Speyer, UQP)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
The darkness of night is a common fear for many children trying to get to sleep after lights-out. The dark can make you feel alone and separated from everyone, even...
When Only One (Meg Gatland-Veness, Pantera)
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Everything changes when Sam’s one-time best friend Emily appears outside his window for the first time in five years. He knows why she’s back and it isn’t good. The story...
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Monday, 11 April 2022
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Sales Nonfiction Spinifex Press has sold French translation rights to Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood (ed by Marie Josèphe Devillers & Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram) to Les Éditions L’échapee. Children’s/YA Berbay...
Stella Prize, CBCA, NSW Prem’s shortlists
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
The London Book Fair, which runs this week, sees several Australian publishers attending in person after more than two years of attending rights fairs virtually, while Canberra Writers Festival has...
The Comedienne’s Guide To Pride (Hayli Thomson, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
The only phrase you’ll need to get this debut into the hands of avid YA readers will be ‘Sapphic rom-com’—but there’s a lot more to this novel that will capture...
Black River (Matthew Spencer, A&U)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
He’s been dubbed the Blue Moon Killer: someone who has been killing young women along Sydney’s Parramatta River whenever the moon is full. Sydney is on edge, and the cops,...
The Making of Her (Bernadette Jiwa, Bantam)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
The Making of Her is a historical family drama that immediately conjures the sense of a time not so long ago. Spanning the 1960s to the 1990s, this cross between...
Hard Joy: Life and writing (Susan Varga, Upswell)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Susan Varga spent the first half of her life having affairs with inappropriate men, including some of the older leading lights of the libertarian Sydney Push. At the same time,...
Open Your Heart to Country (Jasmine Seymour, Magabala)
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Open Your Heart to Country is the stunning fourth picture book from Dharug woman and award-winning author/illustrator Jasmine Seymour. It’s a story of welcome and belonging told in two languages,...
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Monday, 4 April 2022
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ABIA 2022 longlist, Puncher & Wattmann acquires ‘Grimmish’, SWF 2022 program
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
WestWords and Ultimo Press have partnered to offer a new prize for emerging writers ‘with a connection to Western Sydney’; Scribe children’s imprint Scribble and Sydney-based Think+DO Tank Foundation have...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Polish rights to The Natural History of Love (Caroline Petit, May) to Świat Książki. Giramondo Publishing has sold Hebrew translation rights to Inland (Gerald...
How to Be Between (Bastian Fox Phelan, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
How to Be Between is a memoir that takes the reader on a tour of Australian counterculture at the beginning of the 21st century, through queer spaces, art festivals, DIY...
The Way of Dog (Zana Fraillon, UQP)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
The Way of Dog is the latest work from internationally acclaimed author Zana Fraillon. A beautifully written verse novel told through an animal voice, this is an ambitious and absorbing...
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain’s forgotten atomic tests in Australia (Elizabeth Tynan, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
While the atomic atrocities of Maralinga are now a well-known story in Australia, the events of nearby Emu Field have comparatively flown under the radar. Elizabeth Tynan, former science journalist...
Abomination (Ashley Goldberg, Vintage)
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Best friends Ezra and Yonatan are students at an ultra-Orthodox Melbourne Jewish school when a teacher is accused of sexual molestation and is quickly squirreled away to Israel, beyond the...
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