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Infinite Splendours (Sofie Laguna, A&U) 

Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Miles Franklin–winner Sofie Laguna’s fourth novel tells the story of Lawrence, a boy from a small western Victorian town near the Southern Grampians mountain range. Lawrence has a special, spiritual...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold North American rights to The Girl in the Painting (Tea Cooper) to Thomas Nelson. Nonfiction HarperCollins has sold Korean translation rights to Complete Self-Help for...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 31 August 2020
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. This week's features include: 'Big...

The Guardian on the coming flood of new releases

Wednesday, 26 August 2020
'The books business can sometimes feel like fast fashion—pile ’em high, move ’em along a couple of weeks later to make space for the next new thing. This speed is...

A Different Kind of Seeing (Marie Younan, Scribe) 

Wednesday, 26 August 2020
This is a simply told tale of an extraordinary life. Marie Younan’s memoir unravels twin narratives: being blind in a seeing world and being part of a displaced people. For...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Sales Fiction Penguin Random House Australia has sold German translation rights in Where the Rekohu Bone Sings (Tina Makereti) to w_orten & meer; Romanian translation rights to The Hollow Bones...

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Monday, 24 August 2020
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. This week's features include: 'A...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Sales Fiction Echo Publishing has sold German rights to Resurrection Bay, And Fire Came Down and Darkness for Light (all Emma Viskic) to Piper. HarperCollins has sold Vietnamese and Korean...

Ali Cobby Eckermann on the necessity of writing

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
'My decision to share my personal story through literature has been paramount to my emotional and holistic health, the cathartic telling guided by many senior healers and law-holders from my...

Rural Dreams (Margaret Hickey, MidnightSun) 

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Rural Dreams, like its name implies, is a short story collection deeply rooted in country Australia. Reading it you can practically smell the dry grass, eucalyptus and stale pub carpet....

Future Girl (Asphyxia, A&U) 

Wednesday, 19 August 2020
The events of Future Girl play out in a future Melbourne that is eerily plausible. Food has been largely replaced by recon, an all-in-one food replacement that is marketed as...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 17 August 2020
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. This week's features include: 'School...

Kate Forsyth on the importance of Writing NSW

Wednesday, 12 August 2020
‘I may never have achieved my lifelong dream of being a published writer without Writing NSW. As a young unpublished author, I attended courses, publishing seminars, and literary festivals in...

Loss Adjustment (Linda Collins, Awa Press) 

Wednesday, 12 August 2020
The unimaginable horror of losing a beloved only child to suicide concentrated Linda Collins’ mind, producing this extraordinary book. The pain of her loss suffuses every page, but she writes...

All Our Shimmering Skies (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins) 

Wednesday, 12 August 2020
Backdropped by the 1942 bombing of Darwin, Trent Dalton’s All Our Shimmering Skies is a macabre, dreamlike fable interrogating greed and intergenerational trauma. At the age of seven, gravedigger girl...

This One is Ours (Kate O’Donnell, UQP) 

Wednesday, 12 August 2020
In her second novel, Kate O’Donnell, author of Untidy Towns, delivers an insightful and earnest coming-of-age story brimming with humanity. This One is Ours takes readers on a romantic overseas...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 12 August 2020
Sales Children’s Affirm Press has sold Turkish rights to the following titles to Kültür Yayınları İş Türk A.Ş: How To Be A Giraffe (Thea Baker); Your Birthday Was The Best...

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Monday, 10 August 2020
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. This week's features include: 'History...

Bookshops need support during the Covid-19 pandemic

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
'Bookshops are at the heart of our communities, especially in Melbourne, the first and only City of Literature in Australia and the second in the world. Bookshops are also the...

 

 

 

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