Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. ‘Tuesday Jocks’ by Fin J Ross won first prize ($2000); last year’s winner Hayley Young won... Read more
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to Amanda Lohrey’s new novel The Conversion, via Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management. The Conversion follows Zoe, who leaves Sydney for a small... Read more
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Trish Bolton’s debut novel Life Itself. Rights were acquired by A&U publisher Jane Palfreyman and executive editor Genevieve Buzo. Life Itself... Read more
In the UK, Waterstones has named Katy Hessel’s The Story of Art Without Men (Hutchinson Heinemann) its Book of the Year for 2022, reports the Bookseller. Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in... Read more
In The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About, Sydney-based journalist and podcast presenter Elfy Scott uses her talent for explaining complicated issues in accessible ways to examine the myths and... Read more
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