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ABIA shortlists; PRH revenue, earnings up

Wednesday, 14 April 2021
The shortlists for this year’s ABIAs have been announced, as has the shortlist for the ABIA Rising Star of the Year Award. In other news, Clunes Booktown is returning with...

Program announced for APA BookUp conference

Wednesday, 14 April 2021
The program has been announced for the Australian Publishing Association’s BookUp conference, which will run online and in-person in Sydney on Tuesday, 27 April. Hachette UK CEO David Shelley will...

The Overthinkers

Wednesday, 14 April 2021
‘I laughed. I cried. Sometimes at the same time!’ —Tim Ferguson ‘Portolan and Cheong’s voices stitch seamlessly together to lay out a funny, honest and extremely relatable story, so clearly...

Second-hand book store/cafe for sale, Sydney

Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Love coffee and books? New to the market is a family-owned and run second-hand book cafe which has been operating for decades. It is a well-established business and the only...

Booktopia partners with online ed-tech company Zookal

Booktopia logo Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Booktopia has become the exclusive supplier and fulfilment partner for online education technology company Zookal. Under the terms of the agreement, Booktopia will source, supply and distribute all of Zookal’s...

ABIA 2021 shortlists announced

Monday, 12 April 2021
The shortlists for the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year The Dictionary of Lost Words...

Varuna 2021 First Nations Fellowships announced

Varuna, the National Writers House logo Monday, 12 April 2021
The recipients of the Varuna First Nations Fellowships for 2021 have been announced. The writers and their projects are: Krista Dunstan for her YA work ‘Noble Intentions’ Lisa Fuller for...

Clunes Booktown returns with month-long festival

Friday, 9 April 2021
The town of Clunes in regional Victoria has announced the program for Turn the Page, a new ‘month-long celebration of the book’ to take place over three weekends in May....

Bologna cancels in-person events

Friday, 9 April 2021
The organisers of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Bologna Licensing Trade Fair and BolognaBookPlus have announced the cancellation of in-person events, due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions in Italy and Europe....

ABIA Rising Stars 2021 shortlist announced

Friday, 9 April 2021
The shortlist for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2021 Rising Star of the Year Award has been announced. The Rising Star Award is given to an emerging talent in...

Farry leaves PRH

Thursday, 8 April 2021
Alysha Farry has left Penguin Random House Australia where she was group marketing, publicity and communications director.

RISE funding recipients, ABDA shortlists

Thursday, 8 April 2021
The Australian Publishers Association, and the Melbourne and Blue Mountains writers festivals are among the latest recipients of the federal government’s RISE funding. In awards news, the shortlists for the...

Pete Cromer: Wildlife

Thursday, 8 April 2021
Discover some of the world's most wonderful animals through Pete Cromer's bold and beautiful animal portraits. This gallery in a book features 18 of his best loved wildlife collages. For...

One Hundred Days (Alice Pung, Black Inc.)

Thursday, 8 April 2021
Is there a right way to love? Karuna feels suffocated by her mother—and her entrapment multiplies when her dad leaves and she’s forced to move away from private school and...

Alice Pung on ‘One Hundred Days’

Wednesday, 7 April 2021
One Hundred Days (Black Inc., June), Alice Pung's first novel for adults, is described as a fractured fairytale about 16-year-old Karuna, who is locked in her family's housing commission flat...

PRH revenue up 4.6%, earnings up 23.3% in 2020

Wednesday, 7 April 2021
Penguin Random House’s (PRH) global sales in 2020 were up 4.6% and its operating EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) was up 23.3%, according to PRH parent company...

Romei steps down as literary editor

Wednesday, 7 April 2021
The Australian newspaper’s literary editor Stephen Romei has left the role, with his last column published in the newspaper on Saturday, 3 April. ‘I have decided to step back from...

Australian Book Design Awards 2021 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 6 April 2021
The shortlists for the Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. Shortlisted titles in some of the categories are: Best Designed Commercial...

Aurealis Awards 2020 finalists announced

Tuesday, 6 April 2021
The finalists for the 2020 Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. The finalists are: Best horror novel Soul Survivor (Daniel de...

Hachette Livre CEO replaced

Thursday, 1 April 2021
Long-time Hachette Livre CEO Arnaud Nourry has been replaced by Pierre Leroy, co-managing partner of Hachette's parent company Lagardère. Nourry, who had run Hachette since 2003, was replaced on Monday,...

Next ‘WBN’ to be published Thursday

Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Please note that, due to the Easter Monday public holiday on 5 April, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 8 April. The deadline for classifieds and...

Gunk Baby (Jamie Marina Lau, Hachette)

Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Leen has opened up a massage and ear cleaning studio in the suburban wastelands of Par Mars. Her shop is housed in the second-best shopping mall in the district—Topic Heights....

International Booker Prize longlist announced

Wednesday, 31 March 2021
The longlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize for translated fiction has been announced. The 13 longlisted titles are: I Live in the Slums (Can Xue, trans from Chinese by...

New writing prize for Western Sydney

Wednesday, 31 March 2021
WestWords and WestLit Libraries have announced a new writing competition for Western Sydney residents. With a prize pool of over $10,000, supported by Create NSW as part of Arts Restart,...

 

 

 

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