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Get out of your head and into your body. ‘Transform the way you think and feel about sex with Georgia as your knowledgeable, inclusive guide.’... Read more |
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The finalists for the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, have been announced. Shortlisted titles for the award are: Reaching Through... Read more |
Programs have been announced for the OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words and the Queenscliffe Literary Festival. Weekend of Words The OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words... Read more |
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Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s debut novel, with a working title of The Farm, in a five-way auction, in a two-book... Read more |
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Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to two novels by debut author Anna Maynard, via Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency. The first novel, Dancing... Read more |
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In the UK, Kate Winter has won the £5000 (A$9736) Klaus Flugge Prize for the book The Fossil Hunter (Puffin). Featuring panoramic fold-out pages and... Read more |
The 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards took place last Thursday, with André Dao and Daniel Browning among the winners. Also headlining awards news this week, Charlotte Wood is on the 2024 Booker Prize shortlist for Stone Yard Devotional (A&U).
In other local news this week, the board of the Australian Society of Authors has appointed Lucy Hayward to the role of CEO, succeeding Olivia Lanchester; Affirm has made a distribution agreement with independent UK publishing house Firefly Press, beginning next year; Shawline Publishing has rebranded as New Found Books; Sally Hepworth and Andy Griffiths are the inaugural ambassadors for Love Your Bookshop Day; and the OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words and Queenscliffe Literary Festival programs are live.
Finalists for the Nib Literary Award and winners of the 2024 Danger Awards were also announced this week. Meanwhile, in other awards-related news, a new prize—the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing—has been added to the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards; and the Fogarty Literary Award for young Western Australian writers has received an increase in funding.
As well as the Booker shortlist, there were also some other international awards happenings: In the US, the longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards have been announced. And, in the UK, the 2024 Wainwright Prize winners, the shortlist for the 2024 British Academy Book Prize and the winner of the 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize were all announced.
Last but not least, in acquisitions news this week, Hachette Australia acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s debut novel, with a working title of The Farm, in a five-way auction, in a two-book deal via Marina de Pass at The Soho Agency; Melbourne Books acquired world rights to Christy Tania’s first cookbook, Imagine: Creating Desserts with Christy Tania; Atlantic Books acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Jessica Dettmann, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown; Echo Publishing acquired world rights to two novels by debut author Anna Maynard, via Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency; and Riveted Press acquired worldwide rights to five picture books in the series The Book of Kin by author/illustrator Tamlyn Teow.
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Chef and restaurateur Shannon Martinez is a pioneer in her industry, bringing vegan cooking to the masses through her books and restaurants, including Smith +... Read more |
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The book I still have on my table that I can’t stop looking at is Chae: Korean Slow Food for a Better Life. It’s just... Read more |
Sales Nonfiction Scribe has sold Indonesian rights to Life Skills for a Broken World (Ahona Guha) to Bhuana Ilmu Populer; and Greek rights to 12... Read more |
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Top 10 bestsellers Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) Daydream (Hannah Grace, S&S) Wild Eyes (Elsie Silver, Piatkus) It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S)*... Read more |
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Top 10 in print The Scarlet Shedder (Dog Man #12) (Dav Pilkey) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi) My Favourite Mistake (Marian Keyes) A Court of... Read more |
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Cats and Dogs in Art and Design is a vibrantly illustrated book featuring over 100 artworks from the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) collection, alongside... Read more |
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In Shaeden Berry’s mystery debut, Down the Rabbit Hole, the lives of three women unravel in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 2015, Alice Montgomery... Read more |
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Molly is a riveting prequel to The Dressmaker from much-loved Australian author Rosalie Ham, and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel. Set in the... Read more |
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Prolific vegan chef and restauranteur Shannon Martinez’s fourth cookbook, Vegan Italian Food, is anything but conventional, but she promises she’s not out to shock your nonna.... Read more |
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Our World Full of Wonder is a parent’s and educator’s dream, combining teachable moments written in Jevita Nilson’s heartfelt lyrical prose with charming illustrations from... Read more |
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According to his grandson, Gramps has had ‘what they call a Chequered Career’. It has taken him on all sorts of adventures, though by far... Read more |
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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.... Read more |
Entries are open to the 2025 NSW Literary Awards, with a total of $360,000 to be awarded across 14 categories. Entries close on 10 October. Discounted early-bird entries are available until 5 pm on 25 September.
Enter now: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards
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Allen & Unwin is thrilled that Charlotte Wood’s magnificent novel Stone Yard Devotional has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. Allen & Unwin congratulates Charlotte on this achievement. We thank booksellers for their wonderful support of Stone Yard Devotional.
A further reprint is underway and will be available early next week.
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HarperCollins Australia are delighted to commence sales, marketing and distribution for Bedford Square Publishers, an independent publisher of fiction and nonfiction, founded in the historic streets of Bedford Square London.
Former agent NewSouth Books ceased trading for Bedford Square on 30 June 2024 and will accept returns until Monday 30 September. Booksellers should contact NewSouth/ADS for returns and back-order queries. Bedford Square Publishers would like to thank NewSouth Books for their support.
Key Information
- HarperCollins began to accept and distribute orders for Bedford Square and No Exit Press new and backlist titles on 9 September 2024
- NewSouth ceased processing orders on 30 June 2024
- Returns authorisations to NewSouth will cease on 30 September 2024
- Backorders will not be transferred from NewSouth to HarperCollins/HEDS
- Contact NewSouth/ADS for returns and outstanding backorder queries
- HarperCollins/HEDS will not accept returns of stock not invoiced by HarperCollins/HEDS.
Contact details
HarperCollins: orders@harpercollins.com.au
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