‘A Room Called Earth’ sold to US, Canada
North American rights to Victoria-based writer Madeleine Ryan's forthcoming debut novel A Room Called Earth have been sold to Penguin ...
‘The Lifted Brow’ & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Nonfiction longlist announced
Melbourne-based literary magazine The Lifted Brow and RMIT's non/fictionLab have announced the longlist for their Prize for Experimental Nonfiction. The longlisted ...
Former Finch staff launch Bad Apple Press
Two former Finch Publishing staff have launched Bad Apple Press, a ‘boutique’ publisher of local nonfiction specialising in memoir. Bad ...
Scholastic acquires two books by Rove McManus
Scholastic Australia has acquired world rights to two children’s books by TV personality Rove McManus. Scholastic will publish the picture ...
MWF reveals first international guests
Sonic Youth co-founder and author of the memoir Girl in a Band (Faber) Kim Gordon, Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, and ...
‘I call it a retail recession. We spoke to retailers on the strip where we are and some of them have already closed and got out, and some are having very bad trading days like us. It’s the retail malaise; people aren’t spending at the moment’—Pages & Pages manager Jon Page explains how worsening trading conditions contributed to the Page family’s decision to sell their Mosman store.
