Books in the media this weekend, 20–21 April
Date: 19 April 2024Category: Books in the media
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Deep Water (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton) The End of the Morning (Charmian Clift,... Read more
Hachette acquires Coburn YA verse novel ‘The Foal in the Wire’
Date: 18 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to The Foal in the Wire, a YA verse novel from poet Robbie Coburn, via Belinda Bolliger at Key People Literary Management. Described by... Read more
Pantera acquires Sursok memoir
Date: 17 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Pantera has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled memoir from Tammin Sursok. Among many other roles—including producing, directing, writing, music, media appearances, and entrepreneurship—Sursok is known as an actor who... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 17 April 2024Category: Rights round-up
Sales Poetry Giramondo has sold Hasib Hourani’s debut poetry book, rock flight (September), about ‘the dispossession and occupation Palestinians are faced with on the ground and across the diaspora’, to New... Read more
Vale Max Oliver
Date: 17 April 2024Category: Obituaries
Max Oliver, the founder of Lindfield Bookshop, which operated for 46 years until 2019, died on 4 April at the age of 81. From the Sydney Morning Herald: Much loved... Read more
Fragile Creatures (Khin Myint, Black Inc.)
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Reviews
Debut author Khin Myin’s Fragile Creatures is a remarkable memoir in many ways. Myin’s writing is gracious and honest; at its core, his life story is devastatingly sad. The opening chapter reveals... Read more
Affirm acquires Ferguson ‘feminist manifesto’
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled second nonfiction book from Hannah Ferguson. Described by the publisher as a ‘no-bullshit, no-frills guide to your twenties’, Ferguson’s 'new feminist... Read more
A third of translators report losing work due to AI
Date: 15 April 2024Category: International news
In the UK, a survey of members of the Society of Authors (SoA) has found a quarter of illustrators (26%) and over a third of translators (36%) have lost work due... Read more
UQP acquires Bigna middle-grade verse novel
Date: 11 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to debut author Sandy Bigna’s middle-grade verse novel Little Bones, in a two-book deal via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di... Read more
PRH acquires Clark romantasy duology
Date: 11 April 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to a romantasy duology from Tasmanian debut author Sophie Clark, as part of a global PRH co-publishing deal with Knopf in the... Read more
AI and publishing: Concerns beyond copyright
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Features
The publishing sector’s response to last year’s revelations about the materials used to train generative AI has been characterised by concern over the unauthorised use of pirated books in these... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Rights round-up
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold rights to Tilda Is Visible (Jane Tara) in the following territories: Italian rights to Feltrinelli, German rights to Diogenes, and North American rights to Penguin... Read more
ILF wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2024
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Awards Local news
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has won the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), worth five million Swedish kronor (A$710,000). The ILF was announced as the winner at a live... Read more
Sharkman and Blowfish: World Domination (David Woodland, Berbay)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
Sharkman and Blowfish: World Domination is a fast-paced graphic novel by artist and film designer David Woodland (Ernie’s Journey). Woodland initially drew everything by hand, and the illustrations feature meticulous line-work.... Read more
My Efficient Electric Home Handbook (Tim Forcey, Murdoch)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
Energy plays a big part in our lives today, especially as the world faces a climate crisis. Electrification emerges as a solution, but managing our home’s energy can feel complicated... Read more
Hachette acquires Farnham memoir
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Affirm acquires rights to Welgemoed cookbook
Date: 8 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Keeperton to acquire print rights to works by ‘established digital-first authors’
Date: 8 April 2024Category: Local news
The ‘Australian’ announces new fiction prize as Vogel ends
Date: 8 April 2024Category: Local news
Books in the media this weekend, 6–7 April
Date: 5 April 2024Category: Books in the media
Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
Date: 4 April 2024Category: Local news
UWAP acquires On’s third poetry collection
Date: 4 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Bleedthrough: censorship and book banning in Australia
Date: 3 April 2024Category: Features
Windham-Campbell Prizes 2024 recipients announced
Date: 3 April 2024Category: International news
Magic Counting (Nabeel Khan, illus Tete Garcia, Scribble)
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Reviews
Drop into the Ocean (Karen Wasson, illus Marta Tesoro, Hardie Grant Explore)
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Reviews
Borderlands: Riding the Slipstream (ed by Paul Collins, Ford St)
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Reviews
Heartsease (Kate Kruimink, Picador)
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Reviews
Australian Book Design Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 28 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Women’s Prize for Nonfiction 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 28 March 2024Category: International news
Hachette acquires McNab book on mushroom poisonings
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Rights round-up
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Australians in London: ‘Plenty of deals’ at ‘electric’ LBF
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news
PRH 2023 results flat, despite revenue rise
Date: 27 March 2024Category: International news
ABIAs book shortlists; MWF, BWF programs; Marr wins Indie Book of the Year
Date: 27 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Walker acquires Zaslavsky nonfiction ‘Splodge!’
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
Wright shortlisted for 2024 Dublin Literary Award
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Under the Stars Camping Australia & New Zealand
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway
Grace the Amazing (Aleesah Darlison, Wombat Books)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
Love & Rome (Jenna Lo Bianco, Macmillan)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
Copyright Licensing New Zealand launches IP platform
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Local news News
Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Awards International news
Scribner acquires Beecher’s ‘The Men Who Killed the News’
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Pham named UTS writer in residence
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
‘Greenwild’ wins 2024 Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year
Date: 25 March 2024Category: International news
Full 2024 MWF program announced
Date: 22 March 2024Category: Local news
ABIAs 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award shortlist announced
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Nonfiction children’s titles on offer at Bologna
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Picture books being pitched at Bologna
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Junior and middle-grade titles on offer at Bologna
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Young adult titles on offer at Bologna
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Award winners to look out for
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian awards
Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian profile
Meet the publisher: Nicola Robinson at the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian newsletter Think Australian profile
Asian-Australian booksellers championing diversity
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Features
Rights round-up
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Maguire’s historical fiction ‘Rapture’ sells to Sceptre
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Woehlert and Lake list Imprint Booksellers for sale
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Local news News
Psykhe (Kate Forsyth, Vintage)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
Cheer Up, Blobfish! (Julie Murphy, illus Rachel Tribout, Affirm)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
Cristy Burne on ‘Ultra Violet’
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Features Interview
Books in the media this weekend, 16–17 March
Date: 15 March 2024Category: Books in the media
Affirm Press signs Sweatshop mentees Nour and Barnette
Date: 14 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
S&S acquires three titles by Heiss
Date: 14 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Christmas Press acquires Kelleher SF novel ‘The Lastling’
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Larrikin House acquires ‘I Can’t Believe…’ nonfiction series
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
Hachette acquires Paris debut ‘The Unravelling’ in two-book deal
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
The Changing Room
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway
Marketing executive, Melbourne
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Jobs
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging (Cher Tan, NewSouth)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
What Stars Are For (Margeaux Davis, Affirm)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
Circadia (Judith Bishop, UQP)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
To Sing of War (Catherine McKinnon, HarperCollins)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
Needham wins 2024 MUD Literary Prize
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Affirm acquires Hardy’s ‘Unbury the Dead’
Date: 7 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
Rights round-up
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Grenville longlisted for 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Awards
National accounts coordinator: DDS, Sydney
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Jobs
The Mistress of Dara Island (Averil Kenny, Echo)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
The Apprentice Witnesser (Bren MacDibble, A&U Children’s)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 March
Date: 1 March 2024Category: Books in the media
S&S acquires Rogers novel in three-book deal
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
HarperCollins acquires Gorman’s ‘Lost Pleasure’
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
MidnightSun acquires Siemienowicz novel ‘Double Happiness’
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Rights round-up
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Hardie Grant Explore, Intrepid Travel announce publishing joint venture
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Local news
S&S acquires Garside memoir ‘The Good Fight’
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Pantera acquires Lenton debut ‘Spite Pie’
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Vale Marion Halligan
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Obituaries
The Dark Man, By Referral and Less Pleasant Tales
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Title showcase
CBCA 2024 Notable Books announced
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Tree (Claire Saxby, illus Jess Racklyeft, A&U Children’s)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Reviews
Deep Water (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Those Girls (Pamela Rushby, Walker)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing acquires Rossell middle-grade novel
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
HG Explore acquires Mayo’s Always Was, Always Will Be
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions