Books+Publishing will not publish a newsletter on Monday, 9 June due to the King’s Birthday public holiday. The next newsletter will be published on Tuesday,... Read more

Chuckie Raven has won the 2025 Fogarty Literary Award for their novel Glimmers in the Sea Glass. Raven receives a $20,000 cash prize from the... Read more

Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki (AWF) has reported the overall attendance for the 2025 program, which ran 13–18 May, slightly exceeded last year’s record... Read more

Rare Books Melbourne has announced the 2025 program for the Melbourne Rare Book Week, running 24 July to 2 August across Melbourne.  The program, which... Read more

The International Publishers Association (IPA) has awarded exiled Belarusian Publishers Nadia Kandrusevich and Dmitri Strotsev the 2025 Prix Voltaire, which supports defenders of freedom to publish.... Read more

The Australian book industry this week saw Hardie Grant announce the relocation of Melbourne offices from Richmond to Collingwood; B+P reviews editor Jess Lomas spoke to a new Melbourne independent bookstore, Ramona, about ‘how the shop is using social media to build its brand from the ground up and connect with readers’; also among this week’s features are reflections on the Melbourne Writers Festival from B+P publishing director Kate Cuthbert and managing editor Ange Glindemann; and bookshops succession planning as shared with B+P digital and operations manager Andrew Wrathall.

Awards announcements made the news on multiple occasions this week with IPEd announcing Julie Ganner as the winner of its 2025 Janet Mackenzie Medal for ‘an outstanding professional editor who has lifted the standard of the editing profession and/or given exemplary service to IPEd’ and Izzy Roberts-Orr winning the 2024 Anne Elder Award for her debut poetry collection Raw Salt; Chuckie Raven was awarded the Fogarty Literary Award for their YA novel Glimmers in the Sea Glass; the Dorothy Hewett Award announced the 2025 shortlist of six, chosen from over 300 entries; Ingrid Horrock was announced as the Aotearoa New Zealand winner of the 2025 Michael King Writers Centre Australian Residency, in association with Varuna, The National Writers House; and local authors Garry Disher and DV Bishop were shortlisted in the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s 2025 Dagger Awards.

In festival news, the Auckland Writers Festival announced a bumper year, with both attendance and book sales up. The Benidgo Writers Festival, which will run from 15–17 August, announced its 2025 program and the Melbourne Rare Book Week program, running from 24 July to 2 August, was also announced.

Penguin Random House Australia acquired ANZ rights to A Far-flung Life by ML Stedman which will be published simultaneously by Doubleday in the UK; Simon & Schuster Australia acquired world rights to Average at Best, a memoir by Pub Choir founder and director Astrid Jorgensen; and Murdoch Books acquired world rights to Guts a memoir by Australian freelance food writer and television host Melissa Leong.

In overseas news, the fired US Copyright Office director Shira Perlmutter filed a lawsuit over her removal from the position earlier this month, reported Publishers Weekly (PW); the International Publishers Association (IPA) has awarded exiled Belarusian Publishers Nadia Kandrusevich and Dmitri Strotsev the 2025 Prix Voltaire – an award that supports defenders of freedom to publish; and in the UK, Rosie Rowell was announced as the 2025 recipient of the The Women’s Prize Trust Discoveries Award for her thriller Down by the Stryth.

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This year, several members of the B+P team attended the Melbourne Writers Festival. We asked publishing director Kate Cuthbert and managing editor Ange Glindemann to... Read more

In the independent bookstores of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, a new generation of book lovers is taking the reins. Incoming owners are learning that... Read more

Sales Fiction University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold simplified Chinese rights to The White Girl (Tony Birch) to Guangxi University Press. Nonfiction Allen &... Read more

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Ruby Rose Gillespie lives with cystic fibrosis and is admitted to the hospital for a fever on the same day the body of Dr Gabriel... Read more

The Golden Sister is a fast-paced mystery set in a small fictional NSW coastal town, exploring complex and dysfunctional family dynamics and the impact of... Read more

Yilkari is a book that resists easy categorisation – it’s part character study, part travel narrative, part history lesson and part meditation on the connection... Read more

The award-winning duo of author Sophie Masson and illustrator Lorena Carrington reunite for The Giant. Their previous title, Satin, was a 2024 CBCA Notable book.... Read more

A Gift from the Birds is the first middle-grade novel by picture book author Caroline Stills. Winner of the 2024 Text Prize – and the... Read more

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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