Category: Rights

Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton with Cindy Lane has garnered a Whitley Commendation Award for Children’s Conservation Awareness. This is the second year in a row that Cindy Lane has received this honour for her illustrations. Cindy Lane said she was grateful to have been part of the team bringing Tim Winton’s words […]

Bernice Barry has won the richest individual prize in Australia for her novel The Names of a Hare. Awarded by the Historical Novel Society of Australasia, in partnership with the ARA Group, to novels where the majority of the story is set more than 50 years ago, the Historical Novel Prize recognises Australian and New […]

Bernice Barry is still in the running for the richest individual prize in the region for her novel The Names of a Hare. Awarded by the Historical Novel Society of Australasia, in partnership with the ARA Group, to novels where the majority of the story is set more than 50 years ago. The Historical Novel […]

O’Keefe by David Whish-Wilson has taken out the fiction prize in the WA Premier’s Book Awards. David’s win has taken place just days after releasing his latest crime novel Free World. O’Keefe is a pulse-pounding thriller that takes a hard look at the Australian ‘cocaine gold rush’, where maritime crime meets the ruthless currents of […]

The Names of a Hare by Bernice Barry has received the Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize ($1,500) and is a finalist for the 2026 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award ($40,000), and the Nib People’s Choice Prize ($4,000). Presented by the Waverley Council in Sydney, this 25-year-old national literary prize has become an established and respected […]

Trapped! by Julia Lawrinson has won the NSW History Award in the Young People’s History Prize category. The winners were announced at a ceremony on Monday 7 September at the State Library of NSW. This quintessentially Western Australian story tells the tale of the near miraculous rescue of Modesto ‘Charlie’ Varischetti, trapped in a flooded […]

The Ghost Walk by Karen Herbert is on the shortlist for Best Crime Fiction in the 2026 Ned Kelly Awards. The Ghost Walk’s protagonist is amateur sleuth Ruby Rose Gillespie, who lives with cystic fibrosis. Undeterred by her chronic illness, she sets out to solve the murder of her secret lover, and starts to wonder […]

Bernice Barry is on a roll with another longlisting for her novel The Names of Hare – this time she’s in line for the richest individual prize in the region. Awarded by the Historical Novel Society of Australasia, in partnership with the ARA Group, to novels where the majority of the story is set more […]

Trapped! by Julia Lawrinson and Catalpa: Escape to Freedom by Mike and Joy Lefroy have each been shortlisted for an NSW History Award. Administered by the State Library of NSW in association with Create NSW, the awards recognise the contribution of historical research to our culture and communities, and to society at large. Julia Lawrinson […]

Bernice Barry received an extra special birthday gift this year when she learned her novel The Names of a Hare was longlisted for the 2026 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. Now in its 25th year, this national literary prize has become an established and respected part of the literary landscape, with books scrutinised […]

Ninni Yabini by Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker and Tyrown Waigana has been selected for the IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages. Chosen by an international committee of influential experts on children’s books after a global call for submissions, the list was unveiled at the 40th IBBY World Congress in […]

Palyku creator Professor Helen Milroy has won the ASLA DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award with her chapter book Sunny & Shadow.   The DANZ Children’s Book Award recognises children’s books that challenge stereotypes and celebrate diverse and marginalised people and communities. It is designed to support educators and families when looking for books that provide accurate, fair and authentic representations of disability, culture, class, LGBTQIA+, race and religion in a way that […]

Eight books representing nine writers have been shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. They are in the running to win a $15,000 prize from a total pool of $120,000. Administered by the State Library of Western Australia, the Premier’s Book Awards support and promote authors, illustrators and publishers, while encouraging readers to engage […]

The Shameful Isles by David Price is in the running for the Margaret Medcalf Award. This is the second time the author has been shortlisted for the prize, which recognises excellence in research – particularly as it pertains to the use of materials housed in the State Records Office of Western Australia.  The Shameful Isles reveals […]

Fremantle Press’s first permanent home, the SEC Substation at 10 Parry Street, is set to crackle and hum with the sound of new podcasts and new audiobooks, thanks to the generosity of Stott Hoare, in partnership with Microsoft. A dedicated podcast room with microphones, audio recording equipment, a big screen and a dedicated laptop were […]

Fremantle Press is happy to announce that Julia Lawrinson’s real-life tale of the Bonnie Vale mine rescue is in the running for the 2026 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction. The judges said the book brought Australia’s history vividly to life, thanks to Lawrinson’s insightful language. They said, ‘Real characters come to life on […]

Palyku creator Professor Helen Milroy has two books on the ASLA DANZ (Diversity in Austrlia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award shortlist: her picture book The Boab Tree and her chapter book Sunny & Shadow.   Children’s publisher Cate Sutherland said the books provided a First Nations perspective on the special connection to the place we call home and what happens when that gets severed. She said, ‘Both of Helen’s books are […]

Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton with Cindy Lane has been shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award and an Australian Booksellers Association Award in as many days. The ABA Book of the Year Awards are for titles which have captured the hearts of Australian booksellers – those titles they most like recommending. The ABIAs are presented by […]

Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton with Cindy Lane has been shortlisted for the Eve Pownell Award in this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards.  Fremantle Press CEO Alex Allan commissioned Ningaloo from four-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award and bestselling author, Tim Winton, who is well known for his environmental activism in the […]

Bigfoot vs Yeti by James Foley, Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton with Cindy Lane and Say Goodnight by Renae Hayward and Rebecca Mills have been named Notable books by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. The list acts as the longlist for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards. Children’s publisher Cate Sutherland […]

Bigfoot vs Yeti by James Foley has been shortlisted for the 2025 Children’s Peace Literature Award. This biennial prize is awarded to Australian authors for children’s books that encourage peaceful resolution of conflict or promote peace at the global, local or interpersonal level. Administered by Psychologists for Peace (SA), over 100 books were judged by […]

Fremantle Press congratulates Ebony Froome and Leanne Zilm who have won a Whitley Award in the category of Children’s Cultural Zoology for Djinang Bonar: Seeing Seasons. Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder illustrator Cindy Lane was also recognised, taking out best illustrator. Ebony said Djinang Bonar was the first publication of its kind because of the way […]

Fremantle Press congratulates Kelly Canby and Gerard McCann, winners of a WA Premier’s Book Award. Kelly Canby’s A Leaf Called Greaf won Children’s Book of the Year and Gerard McCann’s Anatomy of a Secret won Non-Fiction Book of the Year. The winners of the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced this evening at […]

Cutler has garnered its second shortlisting in as many weeks. The first book in Whish-Wilson’s undercover series has been named in the Crime Fiction category of the 2025 Danger Awards. To be announced on 13 September, the winner will receive $1,000 prize money, a Danger Award Trophy and will be invited to speak at the […]