Miles Franklin longlist, latest HarperCollins and S&S results and more
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Independent publishers dominate this year’s Miles Franklist longlist; out of the 10-strong list, only one book published by one of the Big Four is up for the $60,000 award. In...
A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing (Jessie Tu, A&U)
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Somewhere between wetting her pants during a standing ovation and sleeping with her conductor, violinist Jena Chung finds herself lonely. Set against a backdrop of Sydney suburbs from Willoughby to...
The Snowman’s Wish (Sophie Masson, illus by Ronak Taher, Dirt Lane Press)
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
With The Snowman’s Wish, Sophie Masson and Ronak Taher have crafted a soft tale about the passage of time and the beauty in the world. Mr Snowman, a kindly soul...
Metal Fish, Falling Snow (Cath Moore, Text)
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Fourteen-year-old Dylan blames herself for her mum’s recent tragic death. Left alone with her mum’s boyfriend Pat, Dylan has no choice but to leave her hometown and join him on...
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Monday, 11 May 2020
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Funding boost for Australia Reads; Windy Hollow wins at Bologna and more
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
This week, the Australia Reads campaign received a $100,000 funding boost from the federal government, and delayed this year’s Australian Reading Hour event from 17 September to 12 November due...
New Zealand publishing is under threat
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
‘This is the year to buy New Zealand books, if you want to be sure our books are still around in the future.’—Publishers Association of New Zealand president Julia Marshall...
The Secret Library of Hummingbird House (Julianne Negri, Affirm Press)
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Julianne Negri’s debut middle-grade novel The Secret Library of Hummingbird House is sure to entice young readers with its effervescent premise and hook. It tells the story of Hattie, a...
The Details: On love, death and reading (Tegan Bennett Daylight, Scribner)
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Tegan Bennett Daylight knows a thing or two about reading. As a writer, critic and creative writing lecturer, Bennett Daylight has a careful eye for detail and knows how it...
Littlelight (Kelly Canby, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
A tyrannical leader, an oppressive wall and a courageous girl come together in this timely fable for preschoolers. When bricks start disappearing from the protective wall that surrounds their town,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Sales Fiction Hachette has sold UK and Commonwealth and translation rights in those territories to The Silk House (Kayte Nunn) to Orion Publishing Group. The University of Queensland Press has...
The Friendly Games (Kaye Baillie, illus by Fiona Burrows, MidnightSun)
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
It’s great to see so many books telling true stories of inspiring young people and overlooked yet defining moments in the lives of different communities. The Friendly Games unearths one...
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Monday, 4 May 2020
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I Shot The Devil (Ruth McIver, Hachette)
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Richell Prize-winner Ruth McIver’s debut crime thriller is a powder-keg with a slow burning fuse that has you racing to figure out which of the shadowy, unreliable suspects ‘did it’—and...
Garner on being inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
'When I was first starting out there were still people here who would think it was almost not worth publishing a book if it was not first published in London....
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Sales Fiction Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Doom Creek (Alan Carter, forthcoming) to Suhrkamp Verlag. HarperCollins has sold a renewal of Polish translation rights to Complete Self-Help for...
‘The Yield’ sweeps NSW Prem’s Awards, publishers postpone pub dates and more
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Over the weekend, Tara June Winch’s The Yield took out a hat-trick at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, scooping Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and...
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Monday, 27 April 2020
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APA condemns unauthorised distribution of Turnbull memoir
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
‘This disappointing, blatant and unforgiving act of piracy comes at a time when the Australian publishing industry—in fact the whole arts industry—is working tirelessly to support communities access content in...
Hardie Grant reaches settlement with PM staffer who distributed Turnbull memoir, Kruimink wins 2020 Vogel and more
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
The big story this week was the unauthorised distribution of Malcolm Turnbull's memoir A Bigger Picture, allegedly by a staffer in the Prime Minister's Office, which Hardie Grant chief executive Sandy...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Sales Nonfiction Pantera Press has sold North American rights for Space is Cool as F*ck (Kate Howells et al) to Andrews McMeel, and will publish a small-format edition concurrently with...
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Monday, 20 April 2020
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Jess Hill on why we need to openly discuss domestic abuse
Thursday, 16 April 2020
'Part of the Australian story has been our struggle to face the difficult truths of our recent history. To me this is a book about what happens when there’s nothing...
Lonely Planet shutters Melbourne office, industry adapts to lockdown and more
Thursday, 16 April 2020
The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic made itself known this week, with the news Lonely Planet reduced its publishing operations with immediate effect, including essentially shuttering its Melbourne and...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Czech translation rights to The Love That I Have (James Moloney) to JOTA, and Slovak translation rights to Fortuna Libri. Shaw Literary has sold US...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2020
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Covid-19 reveals crisis in arts funding
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
'Covid-19 is an opportunity to ask ourselves as a nation why we take our artists and cultural organisations for granted. Why, even in an emergency, can’t we find the money...
Publishers roll out redundancies, reduced working hours; funding bodies restructure financial support; ABDA shortlists and more
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
This week Hardie Grant and Scribe became the first Australian publishers to announce redundancies in response to Covid-19. Other publishers, including Thames & Hudson Australia and Allen & Unwin, have...
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Monday, 6 April 2020
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The End of the World is Bigger Than Love (Davina Bell, Text)
Thursday, 2 April 2020
Davina Bell’s first young adult novel is unlike anything else written for the target audience. This becomes clear almost immediately upon beginning the book, when the identical twin protagonists, Summer...
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