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14 August 2024

 

Lonely Planet's Australia

Lonely Planet’s local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Australia. Discover popular and off the beaten track... Read more
 
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Books pitched at MIFF 2024 x

Books at MIFF, an event that promotes books to potential screen rights buyers at the Melbourne International Film Festival, took place again this year, on... Read more
 

 

Readings Children’s Book Prize 2024 shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2024 Readings Children’s Book Prize has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: The Lonely Lighthouse of Elston-Fright (Reece Carter,... Read more
 
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Affirm acquires Cleary debut historical fiction x

Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Madeleine Cleary’s debut historical novel, The Butterfly Women. Set in 1863, the novel tells a story of Australia... Read more
 

Royal Society science book prize 2024 shortlist announced

In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The six titles shortlisted for... Read more
 
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Dunn named 2024 Rising Star, Hammer wins ACT Book of the Year, SA Literary Awards shortlist announced

In local news this week, the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has confirmed that 14 publishers will attend the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair on the APA collective stand; attendance was up 18% at the 2024 Byron Writers Festival; the PANZ Publishing Market Size Report for 2023 revealed that total publishing revenue in Aotearoa New Zealand is down 3.7% on 2022; Creative Australia has announced it will combine the International Travel Fund with other programs; and almost 30 publishers and agents took part in this year’s Books at MIFF pitching event.

Meanwhile, this week brought a bunch of award winners and nominees: ADS distribution director Riikka Dunn was named the 2024 APA Rising Star; Chris Hammer won the ACT Book of the Year Award for The Seven (A&U); shortlists were announced for the NSW Premier’s History Awards, the South Australian Literary Awards, the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, the 2024 Readings Children’s Book Prize, and the Ned Kelly Awards; and the longlist for the 2024 Nib Literary Award was also revealed.

Overseas, more awards news: the 2024 Hugo Award winners have been revealed, and the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize has been announced. In other international news, HarperCollins parent company News Corp announced its fourth quarter and annual results, showing the publisher’s audio sales were up 18% and overall sales were up 6%; and Orbit UK has launched a new horror imprint, Run For It.

In rights news, Affirm has acquired world rights to Madeleine Cleary’s debut historical novel, The Butterfly Women, for publication in April 2025.

Elsewhere in book-related writings, Rajiv Thind wrote for the ABC on ‘how the West created an upper-caste echo chamber’ in Indian-English fiction.

 

 

Yin on 'The Conscious Style Guide' x

Karen Yin is an award-winning writer and editor. She created the Conscious Style Guide, a resource website for writers, editors and others interested in conscious... Read more
 

 

Rochelle Siemienowicz on 'Double Happiness' x

Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne-based author, journalist and film critic. Her debut fiction novel, Double Happiness (MidnightSun, October 2024), ‘explores the intricacies, challenges and taboos surrounding... Read more
 

 

Rochelle Siemienowicz recommends x

If You Go by Alice Robinson (Affirm) is an amazing book that works as both tense, speculative fiction and as a nuanced, philosophical exploration of... Read more
 

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Rights round-up x

Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Serbian rights to The Shortest History of Economics (Andrew Leigh) and The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to... Read more
 

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'Fall with Me' debuts at number two x

Top 10 bestsellers It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S)* Fall with Me (Becka Mack, S&S) Play Along (Liz Tomforde, Hodder) A Death in Cornwall... Read more
 

 

Double Happiness (Rochelle Siemienowicz, MidnightSun) x

In Double Happiness, journalist and film critic Rochelle Siemienowicz explores the intricacies, challenges and taboos surrounding polyamory and ethical non-monogamy (ENM). Set in Melbourne between... Read more

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No One Will Know (Rose Carlyle, Text) x

Pregnant, homeless, and alone, 24-year-old Eve Sylvester is faced with a desperate future when a meeting at her dead fiancé’s gravesite offers a chance too... Read more

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A Song to Drown Rivers (Ann Liang, Macmillan) x

A Song to Drown Rivers is a bold departure from Ann Liang’s critically acclaimed YA rom-com novels (This Time It’s Real, I Hope This Doesn’t... Read more

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Twenty-Two Impressions (Jessica Friedmann, Scribe) x

For years, Jessica Friedmann (Things That Helped) circled the tarot, feeling a combination of mild embarrassment, curiosity and intellectual bewilderment when a pack was inevitably... Read more

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Game On (Prank Wars #1) (Louise Park & Mo Johnson, illus Jules Faber, Larrikin) x

If Game On is any indication, Louise Park and Mo Johnson’s new series, Prank Wars, will be a hit with middle-grade readers who are high in... Read more

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Giinagay Juluum, Hello Mountains (Melissa Greenwood, ABC Books) x

Following the success of Miimi Marraal, Mother Earth, and Miimi and Buwaarr, Mother and Baby, the latest picture book by Melissa Greenwood (Giinagay Gaagal, Hello... Read more

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Stand Proud (Nicho Hynes with Marlee Silva, illus Blak Douglas, Puffin) x

Stand Proud is a picture book that shares one man’s powerful story of self-discovery during childhood. Wiradjuri author and rugby league star Nicho Hynes tells... Read more

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Read the latest Publishers Weekly x

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
 

Mulder joins Fremantle Press x

Freelance editor and writer Casey Mulder has joined Fremantle Press as an editor for the next six months, with support from Creative Australia. Mulder is a... Read more
 

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