Zadie Smith, Curtis Sittenfeld to appear at inaugural Broadside feminist festival
The Wheeler Centre has announced a two-day feminist ideas festival, Broadside, to be held at the Melbourne Town Hall from ...
Black Inc. sells Glover’s ‘The Last Man in Europe’ to UK
Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Dennis Glover’s novel The Last Man in Europe to ...
Parrett’s ‘There Was Still Love’ sold to UK
Martin Shaw of Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold UK and Commonwealth rights to Favel Parrett’s third novel, There Was ...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2019 winners announced
New Zealand writer Fiona Kidman has won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for This Mortal Boy (RHNZ ...
A&U, Wavesound to partner on audiobooks
The majority of new Allen & Unwin titles will be produced as audiobooks under a new partnership between the publisher ...
‘Running a bookshop in Sydney is just becoming too difficult … People are using retail space as a showroom to explore purchasing options and more and more are shopping online without being aware of the consequences.’—Paul Macdonald, owner of The Children’s Bookshop in Sydney, on his decision to close the shop after nearly 50 years of business.
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