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The longlist for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The 11 longlisted novels are: Hopeless Kingdom (Kgshak Akec, UWAP) Limberlost... Read more |
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BookPeople has announced the shortlists for its 2023 Bookseller of the Year awards. The awards recognise an individual bookseller for their outstanding achievement in the... Read more |
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Puncher & Wattmann (P&W) has acquired ANZ rights to debut short story collection The Mother Must Die by Koraly Dimitriadis via the author. Dimitriadis, a Melbourne-based bestselling... Read more |
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Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Paul Thomas’s debut murder mystery The Beacon, as part of a two-book deal, via Martin Shaw at Shaw... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association has announced the winners of the 2023 George Robertson Awards, which recognise long and distinguished service to the publishing industry, Riikka Dunn has been appointed distribution director at ADS, and the shortlists for the Premier’s Book Awards have been announced.
Also in awards news, Martin McKenzie-Murray’s satirical memoir The Speechwriter (Scribe) has won the $10,000 biennial Russell Prize for Humour Writing; Harry Reid’s Leave Me Alone (Cordite Books) and Theodore Ell’s Beginning In Sight (RWP) are the joint winners of the Anne Elder Award for a first book of poetry; the Australian Literature Society (ALS) has announced the longlist for the ALS Gold Medal; and the Australian Political Book of the Year Award has announced that its prize money has increased to $15,000 for the winner, with each shortlisted author to also receive $1000.
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association has announced the shortlists for its Dagger Awards, which include books by Australian authors; Davina McCall and Naomi Potter’s Menopausing (HQ) has won book of the year at the British Book Awards; British-Cypriot poet Anthony Anaxagorou has won the Royal Society of Literature’s (RSL) £10,000 (A$18,730) Ondaatje prize for his collection Heritage Aesthetics (Granta); and Nigerian author Arinze Ifeakandu has been awarded the £20,000 (A$37,350) Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for his debut God’s Children Are Little Broken Things (W&N).
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In part two of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year’s IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE... Read more |
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Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Slovenian translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Ucila International Zalozba and North American English rights to The... Read more |
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Top 10 Bestsellers The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams, Affirm Press) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Homecoming (Kate Morton, A&U) Happy Place (Emily Henry,... Read more |
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Alba, Stanley and Drew are giants, sent out into space for reasons unknown to them, in a spaceship called Audition. As they travel through the... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Thirty years ago, Therese married Trevor Thorne, a wealthy businessman twice her age. Now middle-aged, she continues to enjoy a life of privilege, running a... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Aficionados of South African-Australian Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will be delighted with his new short fiction collection, The Pole & Other... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Father-daughter duo Lamisse and Hazem Hamouda’s debut memoir The Shape of Dust is an impactful picture of one ordinary Australian-Egyptian family’s experience as victims of... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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In a life-altering turn of events, BB loses both her father and the love of her life during the global pandemic. When grief and strict... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Captain Thunderbolt’s Recital tells the unlikely but true story of Fred Ward, the ‘gentleman bushranger’ known as Captain Thunderbolt in the 1860s. Writer Jane Jolly... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Anna Fienberg has had a long and illustrious career in children’s writing, with over 40 books and a swag of awards under her belt. Her... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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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 |
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When Dale sees a drunk girl being undressed by a group of guys at a party, he backs away. He’s pretty drunk himself, but he... Read more |
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