ARA Historical Novel Prize shortlists announced
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Shortlisted titles, selected from longlists announced last month, are: Adult The Unearthed (Lenny...
Paice wins ACU Poetry Prize
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Kiama-based poet and author Christine Paice has won the $10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Poetry for a poem about the death of her mother. The winning poem, ‘Gabriel...
FT Business Book of the Year shortlist announced
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the Year. The shortlisted titles are: The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost)...
Editor, Melbourne
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Books+Publishing B+P is seeking an experienced editor to join its busy team producing the publication’s daily e-newsletters and the Weekly Book Newsletter, as well as international and feature article content. This role would...
Lonely Planet’s The Tree Atlas
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Introducing 50 of the world's most magnificent trees for travellers and nature lovers to enjoy from the comfort of an armchair or to seek and behold in the wild. Whether...
Head of digital strategy, Melbourne
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Kill Your Darlings Kill Your Darlings seeks an experienced and energetic head of digital strategy to grow our online magazine readership, membership base, enews subscriber numbers and participation in other...
Booking co-ordinator and admin assistant, Melbourne
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Booked Out Booked Out is a speakers’ agency for writers, artists, social commentators and more. Please take a look at our website to find out more about us: bookedout.com.au We’re...
Editorial and publishing assistant, Sydney
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Allen & Unwin After an internal promotion, Allen & Unwin, Australia’s largest independent book publishing house, is seeking a capable and organised assistant to support several publishers and a busy...
Rural and regional writers festival round-up
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
Headland Writers Festival will run from 18–20 October in Tathra, New South Wales. Described as 'a celebration of reading, writing, sharing stories and indulging the mind', this year's festival will...
Polari Prize 2024 shortlists announced
Monday, 30 September 2024
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2024 Polari Prizes for LGBTQ+ literature have been announced. Shortlisted titles include: Book prize (£2000, A$3867) Blue Hunger (Viola Di Grado, trans by...
Matuku wins inaugural NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award
Monday, 30 September 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) (NZSA) has announced Steph Matuku as the inaugural winner of the $5000 NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award....
Australian market news: Publishers welcome survival of key online bookseller
Thursday, 26 September 2024
As the Australian book trade approaches the crucial Christmas bookselling period, publishers do so with some relief that a key local channel to market has survived to sell books in...
Australian fiction and poetry at Frankfurt
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Australian publishers are excited to pitch a wide range of fiction titles this year, including major award winners, debuts and follow-ups, in genres ranging from complex literary works to page-turning...
Nonfiction at Frankfurt
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Australian publishers are heading to Frankfurt with plenty of nonfiction titles on offer, from poetic memoirs to vibrant art books. Below, they share highlights they look forward to pitching at...
Australian CYA at Frankfurt
Thursday, 26 September 2024
An array of books—from those for young children to those on the cusp of adulthood, and with subjects ranging from axolotls to ultra-villains—are set to feature among publishers' CYA pitches...
Australian bestsellers 2024 YTD
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Top 10 Australian adult fiction titles YTD Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 68k Boy Swallows Universe* (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate), 56k What Happened to Nina? (Dervla McTiernan,...
Australian authors recommend
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Australian creators tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Michelle de Kretser won the Miles Franklin twice, for The Life to Come and Questions...
Latest acquisitions: Fiction and poetry
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Among the new Australian fiction signed this year are books from familiar names, debut works, manuscript prize winners, titles signed at competitive auctions, and a good dose of romantasy. Fiction...
Latest acquisitions: Nonfiction
Thursday, 26 September 2024
First Nations reportage, moving memoir, cooking, sport and Drag Queens Down Under—read all about Australian publishers’ recent nonfiction acquisitions. S&S imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to...
Latest acquisitions: Children’s and YA
Thursday, 26 September 2024
See what Australian publishers have been signing recently in children's and YA. Animals Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to Bindi Irwin’s debut picture book, titled You Are a...
Award winners to look out for
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Fiction Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) won the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the $60,000 Stella Prize, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) fiction book award...
Meet the Australian publishers at this year’s fair!
Thursday, 26 September 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) stand at Frankfurt this year will feature 14 publishers, with an additional seven to appear on the APA Virtual Australian Collective Stand. Appearing on the...
Wolfson History Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Thursday, 26 September 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize, worth £50,000 (A$97,650), has been announced, reports BookBrunch. The shortlisted books are: Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Joya Chatterji,...
Ned Kelly Awards 2024 winners announced
Thursday, 26 September 2024
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards winners. The winning works in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in August, are: Best crime fiction Darling...
Bigfoot vs Yeti
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
The Bigfoot and Yeti have been enemies for as long as anyone can remember, living on opposite sides of an enormous rift—too wide to cross—too deep to fathom. But when...
After the Great Storm
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Forty-year-old Alice Kaczmarek has lost so much. She wants a baby, but her husband, Daniel, is serving a life sentence, accused of orchestrating an accident on Sydney’s new transport system....
Why Are We Like This? An Evolutionary Search for Answers to Life’s Big Questions
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Some questions have nipped at humanity’s heels for as long as we’ve been … well, humans. Why do we care? Why do we have sex? Why do we get cancer?...
Australian titles with international appeal
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Discover the latest rights opportunities from Australian publishers participating in the Australian Collective Stand at Frankfurt. View the stand catalogue here, featuring a range of fiction, nonfiction and children’s titles...
No newsletter on Friday
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Books+Publishing will not publish a newsletter on Friday, 27 September, due to a public holiday in Victoria on that day.
Hardie Grant acquires Pantera, new Perth literature festival, De Tores wins 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Hardie Grant has signed an agreement to acquire Pantera Press, with completion of the sale set for 30 September, subject to customary closing conditions. Perth Festival has announced that it...
