The shortlist for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. Chosen from a longlist of ten, the shortlisted titles are: Chinese Postman (Brian Castro,... Read more

The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for its 2025 Rising Star award. The shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in... Read more

The shortlists for the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. This year, the awards have a total prize pool of $120,000 and... Read more

The winners for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize regional categories have been announced. Chosen from a shortlist of six, the winner for the Pacific... Read more

Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Theodora’s Tea Shop by Christy Anne Jones in a joint acquisition with Wildfire, an imprint of Headline, taking... Read more

UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Riots by Fiona Skyring. Riots is a nonfiction title delving into the Australian riots that occurred between... Read more

The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), which ran 18–22 June, welcomed ‘record international participation’, said the organisers, with 1,700 exhibitors from 80 countries and regions,... Read more

The Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist was announced this week – get ready to debate around the tea trolley; the 2025 Rising Star shortlist has been announced, with the winner to be announced at the BookUp conference in August. The Australian School Library Association and the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation announced the inaugural Laureate Week, beginning on 28 July 2025, and ‘aimed at supporting students and inspiring a love of stories across regional Australia’; and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has appointed Josh Bornstein to the ASA Board of Directors.

And industry, family, and friends paid tribute to Aotearoa New Zealand author Maurice Gee, who died last week.

In features, Books+Publishing (B+P) spoke to Hachette head of children’s publishing and winner of the ABIA Publisher/Commissioning Editor of the Year Jeanmarie Morosin; and publishing director of B+P, Kate Cuthbert, reflected on her time spent at the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May.

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As with all similar publications, Books+Publishing has a set of editorial guidelines and a style manual, designed to ground us in our core purpose and... Read more

Following on from the Australian Book Industry Awards in early May, Books+Publishing reached out to the industry winners to ask them about their career, their... Read more

Sales Fiction Arndell, an imprint of Keeperton, has sold Czech rights to both Capturing Love and Finding Beauty (Ann Penny) to Grada. Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has... Read more

Top 10 bestsellers Cozy Corner (Coco Wyo, Penguin) The Let Them Theory (Mel Robbins & Sawyer Robbins, Hay House) Cozy Cuties (Coco Wyo, Penguin) Caught... Read more

Hailstones Fell without Rain is a rich, multi-generational debut that spans two continents and three generations, exploring memory, identity and the quiet revolutions of everyday women.... Read more

Amy Rose Bennett’s The Nanny’s Handbook to Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes is a charming historical romance that defies expectations and blends genres with flair.... Read more

In News Cowboys, veteran Australian foreign correspondent Mike Amor shares stories from a decades-long career covering some of the biggest news events of the 21st... Read more

Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere is a collection of satirical stories by award-winning short fiction writer Alex Cothren and is one of the first releases... Read more

The Set-Up Girl is a rollercoaster of awkward crushes and friendships set against the warmth and chaos of a tight-knit family and the bittersweet final... Read more

The Style Secrets of Gareth McGreen by Kelly Brodie-Brown, illustrated by Natasha Carty (Time to Rest, The Two-nicorn), is a vibrant debut picture book for... 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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