A “klein aber fein” literary agency devoted to the very best Antipodean fiction & non-fiction
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Deal news! Really excited to share that @justinehausheer's book debut, "The Vanishing Wild. Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction", will be appearing courtesy of UNSW Press in May next year! unsw.press/news/the-vanishin…
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Over at @lithub: “Other, Better Worlds: @pipadam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction. Danielle Dutton In Conversation With the Author of “Audition” lithub.com/other-better-worl…
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So delighted by yet another rapturous review: "I read Lucy Nelson’s debut in the course of a single mesmerised sitting...Probing and gorgeously realised, Wait Here marks the arrival of a luminous new talent." abc.net.au/news/2025-06-28/b…
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Lucy Nelson’s “striking short fiction collection” is book of the week in the Age/SMH this week! theage.com.au/culture/books/…
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“Nelson’s book offers a plea to stop judging women on how they live their lives, that no single choice makes one woman better than another” artshub.com.au/news/reviews/…
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Lovely consideration by Joanne Anderton of the "beautiful and devastating, heartbreaking and life affirming" Salvage by @millsjenjen, via @ConversationEDU theconversation.com/escape-t…
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Thrilled to announce: Adam Ouston’s second novel, Mine, has been acquired by @transitlounge2! An extraordinary novel, composed in a single sentence (a first in OzLit I think?) booksandpublishing.com.au/ar…
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Thrilled to announce that Italian rights to @PipAdam's brilliant Audition have sold to Cantoni Editore! They publish high-quality lit with covers designed in collaboration with emerging contemporary Italian visual artists #Audizione cantonieditore.it/contatti/
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So so thrilled for @rhallwriter and his utterly deserved Age Book of the Year win with Vortex!! This was an utterly electrifying novel from an author who, even at age 89, remains absolutely at the height of his powers! theage.com.au/culture/books/…
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How magnificent to see @rhallwriter's “expansive, generous, intelligent & utterly enthralling” Vortex up for Age Book of the Year! theage.com.au/culture/books/…
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A marvellous B&P advance review for Lucy Nelson's divine debut, her short story collection Wait Here: "...a striking reflection on women's lives in all their beautiful complexity". Out in June from @Summit_Books OZ!
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Thrilled to share the cover of @cothren_alex's insanely good (I think I've read it 3x!) debut short story collection, #PlayingNiceWasGettingMeNowhere, coming from Pink Shorts Press in August! simonandschuster.com.au/book…
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And here it is: the brilliant OZ cover art for @LouiseM_Wallace's debut novel Ash! Out in September from @AllenAndUnwin, with UK & US release next year allenandunwin.com/browse/boo…
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So @shawliterary turns 5 today! Nothing's quite so satisfying as helping a book go out into the world, & I've been blessed to have been a reader of so much amazing work. Tx to all for making it so much fun: authors, publishers, lit citizens. Another 5 maybe?
Great news at Shaw Lit today!
My great news is finally out! For one thing, @LouiseM_Wallace's extraordinary Ash, pubbed by @thwupbooks last year, is getting an OZ release courtesy of @AllenAndUnwin! And, in breaking news, also a US one courtesy of @MarinerBooks! booksandpublishing.com.au/ar…
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Such a thrill to have a “buzz” book at LBF! Some exciting news coming very soon… #AshtheNovel
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And it will look like this!
Deal news! Delighted to announce two further novels in the Manolis series from @peteplastic, with The Bolthole coming from @maclehosepress in August! Kangaroo Island is being bought up by the global elite as a doomsday getaway...booksandpublishing.com.au/ar…
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Oh isn’t that just gorgeous: a proof just in of Lucy Nelson’s stunning debut, her story collection Wait Here. Out in June from @SummitBooks / @SimonSchusterAU!
Literally spent years working with Alex to try & get his phenomenal story collection published: a happy agent day to see it formally announced in @BplusPNews! #agentlife
"@cothren_alex, a lecturer in creative writing represented by @shawliterary, said: ‘I’ve been working on this collection since Trump was a reality host and climate change was sci-fi. What a thrill to finally have these stories released into the world! 1/4