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I Don’t Need Therapy (Toni Lodge, A&U) 

Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Podcaster Toni Lodge has garnered a following for her candid, confessional and always comical videos in conversation with co-host Ryan Jon. Yet, in her memoir, I Don’t Need Therapy (and...

Love & Autism (Kay Kerr, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Apart from the obvious audience—fans of the award-winning TV series Love on the Spectrum—Love & Autism by CBCA nominee Kay Kerr will also appeal to readers who like to be...

The Quiet and the Loud (Helena Fox, Pan) 

Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Helena Fox, author of award-winning debut How It Feels to Float, returns with another powerful, heart-tugging YA novel. Nine years after her dad disappeared under the lake, 18-year-old George is...

The Prize (Kim E Anderson, Pantera) 

Tuesday, 31 January 2023
In 1943, artists William (or Bill, as he prefers) Dobell and Joshua Smith are friends and lovers, sharing intimacies at idyllic scenes on Lake Macquarie while working on their art....

Glass Houses (Anne Coombs, Upswell) 

Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Glass Houses is Anne Coombs’s (Sex and Anarchy: The life and death of the Sydney Push) posthumous final novel. Perched on a ‘neglected hillside’ near the fictional town of Glaston...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 30 January 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, 25 January 2023
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold Korean translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Munhakdongne Publishing Group, and Italian translation rights to The Butterfly Collector (Tea...

Return to Valetto (Dominic Smith, A&U) 

Tuesday, 24 January 2023
This is the sixth novel from Australian-American author Dominic Smith, perhaps best known locally for his 2017 ABIA-winning novel The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. The fictional Valetto, in...

Fed to Red Birds (Rijn Collins, S&S) 

Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Rijn Collins’s novel Fed to Red Birds is beguiling and moody. Our heroine, Elva, is an Australian–Icelandic woman in her mid-20s. She’s living in Reykjavik to learn Icelandic, connect with...

Nightbirds (Kate J Armstrong, A&U Children’s) 

Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Magic is illegal in Simta, punishable by death, but that does not mean it does not exist. Matilde, Æsa, and Sayer are nightbirds: privileged girls who have the ability to...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 23 January 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, 18 January 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold large print rights for North America to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Thorndike Press. Jacinta di Mase Management, with Sujin Lena...

Children of Tomorrow (J R Burgmann, Upswell) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
J R Burgmann’s debut novel is an intergenerational story that foresees a century of environmental devastation. We begin in the present day, when one of our protagonists, Arne, bears witness...

The Wakes (Dianne Yarwood, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
When Clare’s husband tells her one night that he’s unhappy, she’s not sure what to do—but helping her new friend Louisa start a funeral catering business is the last thing...

One Illumined Thread (Sally Colin-James, Fourth Estate) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Fans of Sarah Winman and Pip Williams will love Sally Colin-James’s debut novel One Illumined Thread, an intriguing story of three women separated by centuries yet inextricably connected by their...

Judgement Day (Mali Waugh, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Mali Waugh’s debut novel opens with an omniscient narrator observing that there were no signs or omens that family court judge Kaye Bailey was to be murdered that day. Due...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 16 January 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, 11 January 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold the following rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams, April):  North American (Ballantine), UK (Chatto), Slovak (Vydavatelstvo Motyl), Taiwanese (Business Weekly), Finnish (Into...

Dark Mode (Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Dark Mode opens with the graphic discovery of a woman disturbingly murdered in the same way as the infamous, unsolved case of the Black Dahlia. Also disturbing for Reagan Carsen,...

Once a Stranger (Zoya Patel, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Following on from her debut memoir No Country Woman, Zoya Patel’s novel Once a Stranger tackles the same themes of cultural bereavement, being caught between two different worlds and the...