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 ...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ wins ABA book of the year; booksellers of the year announced
Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe (Fourth Estate) has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award at the 2019 ABA ...
BWF 2019 program announced
The program has been announced for the 2019 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 5–8 September. Over 160 writers ...
A&U acquires rights to International Man Booker winner ‘Celestial Bodies’
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies, winner of the 2019 International Man Booker ...
‘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.
