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As a young girl in Sydney, Rachel pays more attention than she perhaps should to a cartoon character who accesses different personas on separate adventures,... Read more |
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Hachette Australia and Hachette New Zealand have acquired world rights to The Unravelling, a debut novel from Rachel Paris, in a six-figure two-book deal. Describing... Read more |
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Christmas Press has acquired world rights to The Lastling, a science fiction novel for upper middle-grade readers by Victor Kelleher, via Margaret Connolly of Margaret... Read more |
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to a nonfiction series with multiple authors, including John Larkin, Cristy Burne, Louise Park and George Ivanoff, to be... Read more |
A new Nielsen BookData-GfK study of the global book market has found that publishing revenue and book prices grew in many countries in 2023, reports... Read more |
Over the past week, the program for the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival was announced, featuring international guests including Bonnie Garmus, Ann Patchett, Michael Connelly and Celeste Ng, and local guests including Shankari Chandran, Melissa Lucashenko and Anna Funder. Meanwhile, in Aotearoa New Zealand, seven successful recipients of the second round of funding in the Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture & Heritage audiobook publishing seed program will receive grants to produce 28 audiobooks in total.
In awards news, the International Booker Prize 2024 longlist has been released. Locally, Kylie Needham has won the 2024 MUD Literary Prize for her novel Girl in a Pink Dress (Hamish Hamilton); Xiaole Zhan is the recipient of the 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship to work on their essay collection ‘Think an Empty Room, Moonly with Phoneglow’; and Penguin Random House Australia has announced the 2024 shortlist for the Penguin Literary Prize.
In the United States, Publishers Weekly reported that three former high-level staff from Penguin Random House and Macmillan have launched a new publishing company, Authors Equity, which will not pay advances, but will share a higher proportion of book profits with authors.
Elsewhere in literary news, the Guardian reported that the State Library of Victoria cancelled events involving writers Omar Sakr, Jinghua Qian and Alison Evans, who the paper said were ‘left to speculate on whether cancellations relate to their pro-Palestinian stances’.
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Last week, Books+Publishing heard why book publicists are picking and choosing when (or, more often, when not) to put efforts into TikTok coverage. Here, they... Read more |
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This year’s New York Publishers’ Program took place between 12 and 16 February, with nine delegates accompanying Creative Australia’s Jo Simpson as part of the... Read more |
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Australian Tamil lawyer and author Shankari Chandran, who won the 2023 Miles Franklin Award for her novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo), returns with her... Read more |
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Winnie Dunn’s debut, Dirt Poor Islanders (Hachette). She explores Australian Tongan life with defiance and audacious honesty. It’s something we’ve never seen in Australian literature... Read more |
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Top 10 bestsellers The Simple Dinner Edit (Nicole Maguire, Plum) What Happened to Nina? (Dervla McTiernan, HarperCollins) Bluey: Happy Easter (Puffin) Bluey: Horray, It’s Easter! (Puffin) The 24th... Read more |
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Judith Bishop’s Circadia is a collection of neatly formed, intelligent poems in which you can discover something new with each read. Bishop is in conversation with a... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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How to Avoid a Happy Life is a lively memoir by Julia Lawrinson (Losing It), the author of over 15 books for young people. This memoir takes readers through... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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The nine essays in this collection, Peripathetic by Melbourne-based Cher Tan, use the form’s digressive capacity well. In elastic prose informed by wide reading, Tan... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Miles Franklin–winning author Shankari Chandran turns her focus to Australia’s inhumane practice of mandatory detention in her fourth novel, Safe Haven. As in Chai Time... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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From Miles Franklin–shortlisted author Catherine McKinnon (Storyland), To Sing of War confronts the interconnectedness that binds humanity. Against the backdrop of WWII, we find ourselves... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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When Cora’s family moves to Tasmania to renovate a decrepit theatre, Cora, 12, is thrilled at the opportunity to reinvent herself as Cora 2.0: more... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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The title of multi-awarded Gunai poet Kirli Saunders’s picture book The Land Recalls You honours the Stolen Generations and their descendants, as well as others who have been taken... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Gold Inky award-winning author Gabrielle Tozer’s fifth YA novel, The Unexpected Mess of it All, displays her trademark empathy, humour and cheekiness. Jamila’s life is... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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What Stars Are For is the first picture book by sewing pattern and soft toy designer Margeaux Davis. The emerging children’s book illustrator’s love for... 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 |
Entries close soon for the richest literary prize in the nation.
Up to $100,000 will be awarded in each of the six categories: fiction, non-fiction, young adult literature, children’s literature, poetry and Australian history.
Submit your entry by Tuesday 19 March. For more information, or to apply, visit the Creative Australia website.
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