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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...

We Were Not Men (Campbell Mattinson, Fourth Estate)

Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Campbell Mattinson’s We Were Not Men charts the story of twin brothers Jon and Eden in an episodic exploration of male kinship. Told from Jon’s perspective, the book begins with the...

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Lisa Emanuel's 2019 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award–shortlisted debut The Covered Wife (Pantera, June) centres on Sarah, a lawyer whose new relationship leads to involvement with an oppressive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

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...

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 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...