ABIA, ABA awards winners, Affirm to launch national sales team, Hughes apologises for plagiarism in ‘The Dogs’
Thursday, 16 June 2022
Affirm Press has announced the launch of its own national sales team which will be fully operational from January 2023, while the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has reported its members...
The Only Child (Kayte Nunn, Hachette)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
The Only Child is historical fiction-cum-murder mystery by Kayte Nunn. The novel follows two timelines and the reader is tasked with piecing together the connection between them. In the first...
A Little Spark (Barry Jonsberg, A&U)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
A Little Spark is the latest middle-grade novel from author Barry Jonsberg. Known for his novels My Life as an Alphabet and A Song Only I Can Hear, Jonsberg again...
This Devastating Fever (Sophie Cunningham, Ultimo)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Alice Fox has been struggling for years with her novel. Her agent, Sarah, has misgivings. Does anyone really want to read about Virginia Woolf’s husband, Leonard Woolf? Alice claims that...
Our Dreaming (Kirli Saunders, illus by Dub Leffler, Scholastic)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
This isn’t the first time that Gunai writer, poet and activist Kirli Saunders and Bigambul illustrator Dub Leffler have created something incredible together. It’s no surprise after the success of...
The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall (Karen Herbert, Fremantle Press)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
On the picturesque grounds of Harewood Hall, a retirement village in Perth’s western suburbs, something is afoot. Actually, a variety of things are afoot, and the residents of Harewood Hall...
The Book of Wondrous Possibilities (Deborah Abela, Puffin)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
The Book of Wondrous Possibilities starts with a bang and doesn’t let up. Arlo lives a quiet life with his uncle and pet mouse Herbert above their bookshop, until the...
Growing in to Autism (Sandra Thom-Jones, MUP)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Sandra Thom-Jones had a successful life before she knew she had autism. Or, more specifically, before she had a diagnosis of autism. A well-respected researcher in her 50s, Thom-Jones knew...
Nimblefoot (Robert Drewe, Hamish Hamilton)
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
In Nimblefoot, Robert Drewe imagines the second act in the life of Australian historical figure Johnny Day, an international star in the 19th-century sport of pedestrianism at age 10 and...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
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, 8 June 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Big Four: The curious past and perilous future of the global accounting monopoly (Stuart Kells & Ian Gow); Hungarian rights to Koala:...
ABDA 2022 winners, ALS Gold Medal shortlist, KYD announces anthology contributors
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
In news from the past week, the winners of this year’s Australian Book Design Awards have been announced, along with the shortlists for the 2022 NZ Book Awards for Children...
Mr Carver’s Whale (Lyn Hughes, Fourth Estate)
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
On the volcanic island of Pico in the Azores, a young and crippled Antonio Mateus João Carvalho Cabral is delivered a sea chest of books. Among the many books he...
Ninni Yabini (Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, illus by Tyrown Waigana, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
Ninni Yabini is a new picture book collaboration between author, research academic and community development practitioner Cheryl Kickett-Tucker and multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer Tyrown Waigana. A celebration of family...
Her Fidelity (Katharine Pollock, Vintage)
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
Cathy works at a revered Brisbane record store full of indie snobs and turntable pedants. But now their days of rock royalty are gone as streaming services and online retailers...
A Recipe for Family (Tori Haschka, S&S)
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
A Recipe For Family is food writer Tori Haschka’s second novel. It brims with beautiful descriptions of food and the role that it plays in our lives. Each chapter heading,...
The Hidden Girl (Louise Bassett, Walker)
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
In Louise Bassett’s debut novel The Hidden Girl Melati Nelson has precariously performed the 'good girl' act for a year at her new school, trying to overcome the misdoings of...
Ella and the Useless Day (Meg McKinlay, illus by Karen Blair, Walker)
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
Turning trash into treasure and cleaning into fun! The joys of sorting through useless household hoarding combined with the value of re-using, recycling and upcycling make this picture book a...
Electric and Mad and Brave (Tom Pitts, Picador)
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
In Tom Pitts’ debut novel, 28-year-old Matt slogs through painful memories while living in a mental health facility. The story of why he is unwell unfolds through diary entries, which...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 6 June 2022
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, 1 June 2022
Sales Children’s/YA Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Littlelight (Kelly Canby) to Carl-Auer Verlag, via Book149 Lit. Agency. Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has sold Italian rights to Flocked (Chren Byng,...
The Brothers (S D Hinton, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
S D Hinton’s debut novel The Brothers is a masterclass in menacing tension. Set on the Victorian south coast, it starts with an isolated house and a series of threatening,...
The Brink (Holden Sheppard, Text)
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
In The Brink, schoolies week goes horribly wrong when a group of school leavers find themselves isolated on a remote island along the Western Australian coast. Everyone is trying to...
Everything Feels Like the End of the World (Else Fitzgerald, A&U)
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
In Everything Feels Like the End of the World, Else Fitzgerald lays bare our simmering anxieties around an uncertain future. The reader is walked through a speculative Australia transformed by...
Faithless (Alice Nelson, Vintage)
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Alice Nelson’s Faithless is an astonishing novel that unfolds as a love letter from protagonist Cressida to her all-consuming love, Max. In the beginning, Cressida is looking after a young...
ASAL book awards finalists, Vucic awarded $50k Marten Bequest scholarship
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
To celebrate its centenary, Collins Booksellers has established the Australian Political Book of the Year Award, a new literary prize worth $10,000. Meanwhile, the Australian Library and Information Association has...
Life Lessons for Little Ones: You Are Enough (Jess Sanders, illus by Ocean Hughes, Affirm)
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
You are Enough is the first title in a new series, 'Life Lessons for Little Ones', that pairs the award-winning author of Love Your Body and Be Your Own Man,...
The Deadly Daylight (Ash Harrier, Pantera)
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
In Ash Harrier’s debut middle-grade novel, The Deadly Daylight, 12-year-old Alice England helps her father dress corpses in the family funeral home. She finds that certain personal objects are ‘resonant’:...
Marlo (Jay Carmichael, Scribe)
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
After previous success with Ironbark, a novel that wrestled with the coming of age of a gay man in rural Australia, Jay Carmichael turns his attention once again to queer...
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Monday, 30 May 2022
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.
« Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 Next page »
