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Publicist, Melbourne
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Pitch Projects Are you a book publicist looking to expand your horizons? Love books but also excited by culture, the arts and advocacy? Pitch is hiring and wants to hear...
Senior key account sales manager, Sydney or Melbourne
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
IngramSpark Full-Time, permanent, Sydney or Melbourne Competitive salary + commission plan Travel opportunities 5-10 years’ experience in bookselling, publishing or printing with sales, marketing & account management experience Join our...
Editor (children’s publishing), Sydney
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd Walker Books Australia is an award-winning publishing house. For 30 years, we have published outstanding children’s books for readers of all ages. We have an...
Assistant category manager, Sydney
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Booktopia We are looking for a highly motivated and capable assistant category manager, to join our sales & marketing team based at Rhodes. To be successful in this role, you...
Sydney Uni creates scholarship for First Nations publishing students
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
The University of Sydney is offering a new scholarship for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students undertaking the university's Master of Publishing postgraduate degree. The scholarship will cover academic course...
London Book Fair 2024 rescheduled for March
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
The London Book Fair (LBF) has announced its 2024 fair will be rescheduled from April to March 12–14, reports Publishers Weekly. The move to March was prompted when Bologna Children’s...
Aria acquires Lette backlist, new novels
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
UK publisher Aria, an imprint of Head of Zeus, has acquired The Revenge Club and a second title from author and comedian Kathy Lette, reports the Bookseller. Editorial director Rachel...
Latest acquisitions: Nonfiction
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by journalist and activist Melinda Ham, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. The Lucky Ones is about refugees...
Latest acquisitions: Fiction
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to One Divine Night by Mick Cummins, the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (VPLA) for an unpublished manuscript, in a deal brokered...
London calling
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Ahead of this year's London Book Fair (LBF), in this issue of Think Australian we once again round up the latest rights sales and acquisitions from Australia, as well as...
Windham-Campbell Prizes 2023 recipients announced
Thursday, 6 April 2023
In the US, the recipients of the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth US$175,000 (A$258,000) each, have been announced. For fiction, the prize recognises US author Percival Everett for over 30 works...
B+P Easter publishing schedule
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Due to the Easter long weekend, the Books+Publishing newsletter will not be published tomorrow, Friday, 7 April or Monday, 10 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements in the...
Stories to tell: Australian fiction on offer at LBF
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Following on from recent deals for her work in the UK and US, multi-award-winning writer Alexis Wright is the ‘top author’ for publisher Giramondo at this year’s London Book Fair....
Get your facts here: Australian nonfiction on offer at LBF
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Forensic psychologist Ahona Guha’s groundbreaking book Reclaim: Understanding complex trauma and those who abuse (Scribe) will ‘broaden and expand your thinking, whether you are a trauma survivor, someone who loves...
Australian market: Christmas 2022 sales up but booksellers look to challenging year ahead
Thursday, 6 April 2023
According to booksellers surveyed by Books+Publishing for its annual post-Christmas survey, there was a bump in book sales in the lead-up to Christmas 2022 compared to the previous year. Booksellers...
Australian titles selling internationally
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Fiction sales Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days by Alice Pung to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia. Shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, One Hundred Days is Pung’s...
Latest acquisitions: Children’s and YA
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a new five-book series by Amelia Mellor as well as the third novel in Mellor’s series that began with The Grandest Bookshop in the...
Summer of Blood
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Get ready for a wild ride through the Summer of Love with Dave Warner's newest crime novel. Follow two Australian police officers as they travel to San Francisco and Los...
Call Me Marlowe
Thursday, 6 April 2023
With a delicate touch, Call Me Marlowe embodies the nature of trauma—both personal and political. Harold Vaněk loves Marylou, a woman he met in South Korea, where she was working...
The Bell of the World
Thursday, 6 April 2023
When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the...
The Disorganisation of Celia Stone
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Every fan of Bridget Jones should have this book on their to be read list. Meet Celia Stone, the ultimate hyper-organised, journal-obsessed thirty-something with a life that is perfectly planned...
De Kretser, Parker-Chan internationally recognised
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Australian authors recognised recently with international awards include Michelle de Kretser, who won the fiction category of the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U), and Shelley...
We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Think Australian talks to author Debra Dank, whose debut memoir is in the running for three NSW Premier’s awards and the Stella Prize, about the...
For the kids: Australian children’s and YA on offer at LBF
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Winner of the 2022 Text Prize, Let's Never Speak of This Again by Megan Williams (Text) is a ‘big-hearted YA debut’, which celebrates ‘the depth and strength of friendship through all of...
Bestselling Australian books 2022
Thursday, 6 April 2023
Top 10 Australian adult fiction titles Exiles (Jane Harper, Macmillan) Apples Never Fall (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) Lying Beside You (Michael Robotham, Hachette) Cobalt Blue (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan) The Dictionary of...
We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Books+Publishing's rights publication Think Australian talks to author Debra Dank, whose debut is in the running for three NSW Premier's awards and the Stella...
BookPeople 2023 Book of the Year longlists announced
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
BookPeople has announced the longlists for the 2023 Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Adult fiction book of the...
McFarlane shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane (A&U) has been shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, worth £25,000 (A$46,000) and open to novels published in the...
Book Depository to close
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
UK-based online bookseller the Book Depository will close on 26 April. In a letter to vendors, the Book Depository said it will be winding down its business over the coming...
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