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UK publisher consumer sales up 7% in 2020

Wednesday, 28 April 2021
In the UK, Publishers Association (PA) figures show UK book sales—particularly fiction and audiobooks—soared in 2020, with consumer sales up 7% on 2019 despite bookshop closures, reports the Guardian. The...

UWAP announces 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist

Wednesday, 28 April 2021
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives a cash prize of $10,000, as well as manuscript development...

Closing down sale

Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Australian Bookmarks and Bookplates will be closing on 30 June, 2021 or when stocks run out. Bookmarks: 50% discount Over 90 bookmark designs including unicorns, angels, fairies, animals, humorous, inspirational...

Lagardère in discussions to revamp company governance

Tuesday, 27 April 2021
In France, the Lagardère group, owner of Hachette Livre, has confirmed that negotiations are under way to transfer the group into a joint stock company, reports the Bookseller. The move...

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced

Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their poetry collection Throat (UQP). Van Neerven’s collection was awarded the overall $10,000 book of the year award,...

Liminal, Pantera establish $10,000 nonfiction prize

Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Liminal magazine and Pantera Press have announced a new nonfiction writing prize for First Nations writers and writers of colour. The winner of the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize receives...

Publisher halts Philip Roth biography after sexual assault allegations

Monday, 26 April 2021
In the US, publisher W W Norton has halted the distribution and promotion of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth: The biography after several women accused Bailey of grooming and sexual assault....

Pham, Kruimink and Tu named SMH 2021 Best Young Australian Novelists

Monday, 26 April 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced its 2021 Best Young Australian Novelists, all of whom have been chosen for debut novels. The writers are: K M (Kate) Kruimink for...

Wyld wins 2021 Stella Prize for ‘The Bass Rock’

Friday, 23 April 2021
Evie Wyld has won the 2021 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her novel The Bass Rock (Vintage). Judging panel chair Zoya Patel said the novel was ‘a consuming and perplexing...

International Booker Prize shortlist announced

Friday, 23 April 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize for translated fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: At Night All Blood is Black (David Diop, trans from French by...

S&S US to publish Pence books despite staff petition

Thursday, 22 April 2021
Simon & Schuster US (S&S) will proceed with publishing two books by former US vice president Mike Pence despite a petition from staff, reports the Bookseller. In the petition, staff...

ABA conference program, Readings Children’s Book Prize winner

Wednesday, 21 April 2021
The program for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association conference, to be held in person and online from 20–22 June at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, has been announced. In awards...

Change for Shawline Publishing Group

Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Publisher: Shawline Publishing Group Old distributor: Novella Distribution New distributor: Shawline Publishing Group Changeover date: 1 May 2021 Returns cut-off: 11 June 2021 Contact URL: Novella Distribution

Change for Red Wheel Weiser

Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Old distributor: Brumby Sunstate New distributor: NewSouth Books Changeover date: 1 May 2021

NewSouth Books to distribute Red Wheel/Weiser

Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Global Publishers Group representing sales, marketing and distribution of Red Wheel/Weiser announces it has appointed NewSouth Books to manage sales, marketing, and distribution for Red Wheel/Weiser in Australia effective 1...

Lisa Emanuel on ‘The Covered Wife’

Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Lisa Emanuel's 2019 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award–shortlisted debut The Covered Wife (Pantera, June) centres on Sarah, a lawyer whose new relationship leads to involvement with an oppressive and...

Creative NZ Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary recipient announced

Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Emma Hislop has been named the recipient of of Creative New Zealand's 2021 Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary, valued at NZ$11,000 (A$10,200). Hislop is a Taranaki-based writer whose work has...

Macky, Ballantyne to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; ABIA business awards shortlists announced

Monday, 19 April 2021
Bookseller Mandy Macky and children's publisher Maryann Ballantyne will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) on Wednesday, 28 April. Macky will...

PRH acquires Crabb and Sales ‘Chat 10 Looks 3’ book

Monday, 19 April 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to Well Hello by Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales. In the book, journalists Crabb and Sales, who started their popular podcast...

Zable honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature

Monday, 19 April 2021
Arnold Zable has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, which ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of 60 who have made an outstanding...

Folio Books to relocate

Friday, 16 April 2021
Brisbane’s Folio Books is closing temporarily, due to the planned demolition of the building in which the store is located. The store, which is holding a sale on all stock...

LBF to run as digital-only event

Friday, 16 April 2021
This year’s London Book Fair (LBF) will run as a series of digital-only events at the beginning and end of June, after having previously been rescheduled to run from 29...

Rathbones Folio loses £30k prize money to cyber scam

Thursday, 15 April 2021
In the UK, the Bookseller has revealed that the Rathbones Folio Prize lost £30,000 (A$53,500) to an email fraudster last year, while other awards, publishers, agents and industry bodies have...

Australians, New Zealander shortlisted for 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Thursday, 15 April 2021
Four Australians and one New Zealander are among the finalists for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The Australian and New Zealand authors shortlisted are: A N King for ‘The...

Jeffrey wins 2020 Anne Elder Award for ‘Dead Bolt’

Thursday, 15 April 2021
Australian Poetry has named Ella Jeffrey as the winner of the 2020 Anne Elder Award for her debut poetry collection Dead Bolt (Puncher & Wattmann). 'Ella Jeffery’s Dead Bolt is an...

‘As Fast as I Can’ wins Readings Children’s Book Prize 2021

Thursday, 15 April 2021
Penny Tangey's middle-grade novel As Fast as I Can (UQP) has won the 2021 Readings Children's Book Prize. Readings bookseller and prize judge Clare Millar writes that the judging panel were...

Shortlist announced for 2021 Jhalak Prize for BAME writers

Wednesday, 14 April 2021
The shortlist for the UK’s Jhalak Prize for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers, and the inaugural Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize have been announced. The titles shortlisted...

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