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Booktopia yearly results, latest award winners  Archive

Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Booktopia has posted revenue growth of 35% and a 125% rise in profit for the 2021 financial year—its first full year results as an ASX-listed company. In other news, Brisbane Writers Festival...

PRH half-yearly profits up 55%  Archive

Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann has reported the publisher posted a profit rise of 55.1% and a 10.9% growth in sales for the first half of 2021. Total...

Sylph Series: Sylphie is Resilient  Archive

Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Sylphie is unique as she has wings because she is an air elemental known as a Sylph. But there is a problem, Sylphie cannot fly. Will Sylphie ever fly? Sylph...

BWF engages curators to build 2022 program  Archive

Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which will celebrate its 60th year in 2022, has engaged five curators to build its festival program for the event. They are Ellen van Neerven, Anne-Marie...

Hachette acquires two Jordan novels  Archive

Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Hachette has acquired world rights for two novels by Toni Jordan, in a deal struck between head of fiction Rebecca Saunders and Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary Agency. The...

Davitt Awards winners announced  Archive

Monday, 30 August 2021
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2021 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The winners in each category are:  Adult crime novel...

Nib Literary Award 2021 longlist announced  Archive

Monday, 30 August 2021
The longlist for the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Truth about China: Propaganda, patriotism and...

Barnes & Noble sales up 5–6%  Archive

Friday, 27 August 2021
Barnes & Noble (B&N) CEO James Daunt is confident the bookselling chain can ‘weather the Covid storm’ with book sales ‘resilient’ during the recession, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). In an...

Ned Kelly Awards 2021 winners announced  Archive

Thursday, 26 August 2021
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards. Crime novels released by Text Publishing swept the fiction categories, with the winning titles...

WA Premier’s Book Awards announced  Archive

Thursday, 26 August 2021
The winners of the 2020 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in June, the winners in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging...

Malwatta wins 2021 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize  Archive

Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Queensland Poetry has announced that Janaka Malwatta has won the 2021 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for his manuscript blackbirds don’t mate with starlings. Malwatta receives $2000 and a publishing contract...

CBCA winners, MWF live events cancelled  Archive

Wednesday, 25 August 2021
The winners of this year’s CBCA Book of the Year Awards were announced last Friday. In other awards news, the recipients of the Sydney Opera House Mentorship for Diverse Emerging...

The Stoning  Archive

Wednesday, 25 August 2021
The Stoning is an atmospheric page-turner, a brilliant crime novel with superb characters, but also a nuanced and penetrating insight into the heart of a country intent on gambling with its...

ILF book supply program  Archive

Wednesday, 25 August 2021
ILF book supply program for remote communities is asking for submissions from publishers. Criteria regarding selection, quantities, discount, fulfilment of orders, etc. is available from Seeba Tapim, programs administrator—via email:...

Bookings open for Think Australian Frankfurt  Archive

Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Bookings are now open for Think Australian's Frankfurt issue, out 30 September. The Frankfurt issue includes a limited number of banner ads and prominently placed title preview ads. Discounts apply for...

Change for Red Globe Press  Archive

Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Publisher: Red Globe Press Old distributor: Macmillan International Higher Education New distributor: Bloomsbury Changeover date: 23 August 2021 Returns cut-off: 24 September 2021 Contact URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/help/contact-us