The Very Polite Knight (Ian Smith, Affirm)
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Reviews
Finn is not like other knights in the kingdom. While Boris, Ethel and Walter are busy with scaring, fighting and stealing, Finn prefers gardening and reading. He is quiet, kind... 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
The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union (Gordon Bray, Gelding Street Press)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
The current crop of Wallabies may have lost their lustre, but Gordon Bray’s latest offering, The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union, harks back to a golden age of the sport.... Read more
Hachette acquires Farnham memoir
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to The Voice Inside, a memoir by John Farnham. The book is written in partnership with Poppy Stockell, director of 2023 Farnham biopic Finding... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold Light at Lavelle (Paullina Simons) to Poland, Italy and Israel; Crimson Lake, Redemption Point and Gone by Midnight (Candice Fox) to Russia; Red Leaves (Paullina Simons)... Read more
Under the Stars Camping Australia & New Zealand
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway
Sleep under the stars in Australia and New Zealand's most spectacular spaces. Discover more than 200 out-of-this-world camping hotspots in this epic guide that features breathtaking wild camping pitches, picturesque... Read more
Because I’m Not Myself, You See (Ariane Beeston, Black Inc)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
Ariane Beeston’s debut, Because I’m Not Myself, You See, chronicles her postpartum psychosis, as a mother and clinical psychologist. The memoir weaves personal experiences with scientific evidence, and makes recommendations... Read more
S&S acquires Garside memoir ‘The Good Fight’
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to The Good Fight, a memoir by boxer Harry Garside. Garside rose to prominence following his bronze medal win at the... Read more
The Glass House (Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, Hachette)
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Graeme Simsion is well-known for The Rosie Project, and Anne Buist for her crime novels. Partners in real life, their new collaboration, The Glass House, showcases their talent and fields of interest where... Read more
Stuart Kells on ‘Alice™’
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Features Interview
Stuart Kells (co-author of Sold Down the River, author of Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The untold story of a publishing revolution) is an adjunct professor at La Trobe University’s... Read more
Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, MUP)
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
An Australian inventor patented the future of world finance. An Australian journalist saw what finance had become and told the world. Business and finance writer Stuart Kells (The Library: A... Read more
The Cave (Victor Kelleher, Eagle Books)
Date: 6 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
In Victor Kelleher’s upper-middle-grade prehistoric adventure novel The Cave, young Irian—one of the few survivors after the Beast (a sabre-toothed tiger) attacks the cave where he lives—is traumatised into muteness... Read more
Excitable Boy: Essays on risk (Dominic Gordon, Upswell)
Date: 6 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Dominic Gordon’s Excitable Boy: Essays on risk is a collection of punchy vignettes about his life growing up in Melbourne in the 1990s and early 2000s. Gordon sets out an... Read more
Johnstons ‘positive about the future of Hill of Content’ in Melbourne
Date: 5 February 2024Category: Local news
The Hill of Content bookshop in Melbourne’s CBD faces potential relocation or closure, with the building that houses the bookshop going up for sale, reports the Age. The Hill of... Read more
Adelaide Writers’ Week announces 2024 program
Date: 31 January 2024Category: Local news
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has announced its 2024 program, running from 2 to 7 March. Held in Adelaide's Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden, the week features 194 writers across 135 sessions, under... Read more
‘Better than expected’ Christmas for booksellers, despite almost a quarter reporting sales dropped
Date: 24 January 2024Category: Features
Best Beaches: 100 of the World’s Most Incredible Beaches
Date: 24 January 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway
Explainer: What is accessible publishing?
Date: 10 January 2024Category: Features
To and Fro (Anton Clifford-Motopi, A&U Children’s)
Date: 9 January 2024Category: Reviews
Woven (ed by Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Magabala)
Date: 12 December 2023Category: Reviews
MidnightSun acquires Prewer science fiction novel
Date: 7 December 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
The facts on 2024’s nonfiction releases
Date: 6 December 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 December
Date: 1 December 2023Category: Books in the media
Love, Just In (Natalie Murray, A&U)
Date: 21 November 2023Category: Reviews
Listen up: How booksellers are getting in on the audiobook boom
Date: 8 November 2023Category: Features
Ottley wins at World Fantasy Awards
Date: 31 October 2023Category: Awards Local news
HarperCollins acquires Fedler novel
Date: 24 October 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Carbis shortlisted for international poetry award
Date: 24 October 2023Category: Awards Local news
Introducing Key People
Date: 11 October 2023Category: Features
Newcastle Poetry Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Date: 11 October 2023Category: Awards
Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction shortlist
Date: 10 October 2023Category: Awards International news
From literary memoir to survival in a broken world: Australian nonfiction at Frankfurt
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Think Australian feature
Introducing Key People
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Think Australian profile
Europa Editions acquires new Azar novel
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Drama series inspired by ‘Fake’ to screen next year
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Volume symposium: Australia Reads on building a reading nation
Date: 27 September 2023Category: Features
Spotify to offer free audiobook trial to subscribers
Date: 14 September 2023Category: International news
Your Trip Starts Here
Date: 13 September 2023Category: Advance copy giveaway
The Paris Cooking School (Sophie Beaumont, Ultimo)
Date: 12 September 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Epic: Adventures across Aotearoa (Ray Salisbury, Exisle)
Date: 5 September 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Canberra Writers Festival reports ‘big and buzzing’ crowds
Date: 5 September 2023Category: Local news
Sales coordinator/sales account executive, Melbourne
Date: 30 August 2023Category: Jobs
Inside sales account executive, Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney
Date: 30 August 2023Category: Jobs
Industry advice for authors
Date: 30 August 2023Category: Classifieds
BA relaunches Shopfloor Publishers scheme
Date: 29 August 2023Category: International news
HarperCollins acquires Gorman nonfiction
Date: 15 August 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Picador)
Date: 8 August 2023Category: Reviews
Suzie Miller on ‘Prima Facie’
Date: 8 August 2023Category: Features Interview
Pantera acquires Glenn debut thriller in two-book deal
Date: 3 August 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Genevieve Nelsson
Date: 2 August 2023Category: Features
Vincent appointed Wheeler Centre CEO
Date: 27 July 2023Category: Local news
Your Head’s Not The Place To Store Problems (Josh Pyke, illus Stephen Michael King, Scholastic)
Date: 25 July 2023Category: Reviews
Epic Bike Rides of Australia and New Zealand
Date: 12 July 2023Category: Advance copy giveaway
Canberra Writers Festival 2023 program announced
Date: 6 July 2023Category: Local news
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local fiction
Date: 5 July 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
HarperCollins settles, apologises after defamation case
Date: 4 July 2023Category: Local news
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local nonfiction
Date: 28 June 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
I Am The Mau & Other Stories (Chemutai Glasheen, Fremantle)
Date: 6 June 2023Category: Reviews
The Vitals (Tracy Sorensen, Picador)
Date: 6 June 2023Category: Reviews
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, part two
Date: 17 May 2023Category: Features
Books in the media this weekend, 13–14 May
Date: 12 May 2023Category: Books in the media
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view
Date: 10 May 2023Category: Features
TikTok owner flags move into publishing
Date: 10 May 2023Category:
BookPeople gift card program, new research
Date: 4 May 2023Category: Local news
Inside sales representative, Melbourne
Date: 26 April 2023Category: Jobs
Chinese Fish (Grace Yee, Giramondo)
Date: 25 April 2023Category: Reviews
Trump’s Australia (Bruce Wolpe, A&U)
Date: 11 April 2023Category: Reviews
Get your facts here: Australian nonfiction on offer at LBF
Date: 6 April 2023Category: Think Australian feature
Latest acquisitions: Nonfiction
Date: 6 April 2023Category: Think Australian rights
We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
Date: 6 April 2023Category: Think Australian profile
We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
Date: 5 April 2023Category: Features
Read Independent Publishing’s March newsletter
Date: 29 March 2023Category: Classifieds
Jess Racklyeft on Bologna
Date: 21 March 2023Category: Features Junior
AWW 2023 audience ‘informed, provoked and entertained’
Date: 20 March 2023Category: Local news
Read Independent Publishing’s February newsletter
Date: 1 March 2023Category: Classifieds
Etta and the Octopus (Zana Fraillon, illus by Andrew Joyner, Lothian)
Date: 28 February 2023Category: Junior Reviews
S&S acquires Sales nonfiction
Date: 24 February 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Industry advice for authors
Date: 22 February 2023Category: Classifieds
Ultimo acquires ‘The Paris Cooking School’
Date: 10 February 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
The Quiet and the Loud (Helena Fox, Pan)
Date: 31 January 2023Category: Junior Reviews Think Australian top reviews
PMLAs 2022 winners announced
Date: 13 December 2022Category: Awards Local news Special Bulletin news
True story: 2023 nonfiction preview
Date: 16 November 2022Category: Features Title preview feature
Earp joins Affirm sales team
Date: 15 November 2022Category: Local news
Little Plum (Laura McPhee-Browne, Text)
Date: 8 November 2022Category: Reviews
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Date: 7 November 2022Category: Awards Local news Special Bulletin news
What does the future look like for bookselling?
Date: 21 October 2022Category: Features
Faber Writing Academy appoints editor-in-residence
Date: 14 October 2022Category: Local news
High-profile memoirs, political books, self-help guides: top nonfiction at Frankfurt
Date: 13 October 2022Category: Think Australian feature Think Australian newsletter
Aus Political Book of the Year 2022 longlist announced
Date: 3 October 2022Category: Awards Local news
Royal Society 2022 Science Book Prize shortlist announced
Date: 29 September 2022Category: International news
PANZ Book Design Awards 2022 winners announced
Date: 26 September 2022Category: Awards Local news News
CWF: ‘the little festival that could’ returns after two years of false starts
Date: 24 August 2022Category: Local news
Pantera acquires Sarago memoir on beauty
Date: 23 August 2022Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Vale Evan Jones
Date: 10 August 2022Category: Obituaries
Reviews, residencies, new publications receive latest Copyright Agency funding
Date: 25 July 2022Category: Local news