Books+Publishing will not publish a newsletter on Monday, 12 June due to the King’s Birthday public holiday. The next newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 13 June. The deadline for... Read more |
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Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm (Alan Atkinson, NewSouth) and Te Motunui Epa (Rachel Buchanan [Taranaki, Te Ātiawa], Bridget Williams Books) have jointly won the 2023 Ernest Scott... Read more |
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Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its First Nations Fellowships for 2023. The 12 fellowship recipients and their projects are: Bebe Backhouse for their collection of... Read more |
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Melanie Ostell has sold world English (ex ANZ) and French rights to Michelle Prak’s debut thriller The Rush (S&S) on behalf of the author. French rights were sold to HarperCollins in... Read more |
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Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Patrick Holland’s fifth novel, Oblivion. ‘I was transfixed by the atmospheric story of a diplomat drifting through Asia’s business world and aspiring to... Read more |
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In the UK, actor and author Paterson Joseph has won the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Christopher Bland Prize for The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (Dialogue), reports the... Read more |
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Sam Twyford-Moore set out to write a cultural history of Australian cinema in Cast Mates: Stories of Australians in film, but covering 127 years of boom and bust was always... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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