The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel....
Popular Art and the Avant-Garde: Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints
Wednesday, 12 February 2020
When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-garde art world....
Uplit and practical climate change titles predicted for 2020
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
When Books+Publishing asked Australian publishers, booksellers and industry leaders to share their predictions for 2020, uplifting fiction and nonfiction were widely predicted, as well as titles that offer practical solutions...
Lead titles for LBF from Australian publishers & agents
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
A number of Australian publishers and literary agents will be heading to this year’s London Book Fair in March, with some taking their own stands, others joining their parent company...
Christos Tsiolkas’ ‘Damascus’ wins best fiction at VPLAs
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
The winners of the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Christos Tsiolkas’ Damascus (Allen & Unwin) picked up the prize for fiction, Sea People: The puzzle of Polynesia...
Dubosarsky announced as Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020–21
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Children’s author Ursula Dubosarsky has been chosen as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020–21. Dubosarsky is the author of over 60 books for children and young adults, and her work...
The Fatal Lure of Politics: The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In Britain, with the publication of The Dawn of European Civilisation (1925), Childe began a...
Dunera Lives: Profiles
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
The story of the ‘Dunera Boys’ is an intrinsic part of the history of Australia in the Second World War and in its aftermath. The injustice these 2000 men suffered...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top 2019 Australian charts
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Trent Dalton’s multi-award-winning debut novel Boy Swallows Universe and Scott Pape’s 2016 guide to household finance The Barefoot Investor have topped the Australian fiction and nonfiction charts for 2019—the third...
Marchetta’s Printz-winning YA novel to be adapted for TV
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Melina Marchetta’s 2006 YA novel On the Jellicoe Road (Penguin Australia)—which was published in the US by HarperCollins and awarded a Printz Award for excellence in YA literature—is being adapted...
Debut novel sold into multiple territories; children’s guide to changing the world snapped up
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Fiction sales International rights to Pip Williams’ forthcoming debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words (Affirm, April) have sold in multiple territories, including UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to...
Hardie Grant, UQP acquire books from Indigenous experts
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Nonfiction acquisitions Hardie Grant Travel has acquired world rights to Fire Country, a memoir from Indigenous fire practitioner Victor Steffensen, and has fast-tracked publication for mid-February 2020. Steffensen said, ‘With...
Audible banned from using major publishers’ works in Captions
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
In newly revealed details of the settlement made between seven US publishers and Audible, the audiobook company won’t use major publishers’ works in its Captions program without their permission, reports...
Unity Books, Gecko Press shortlisted for LBF International Excellence Awards
Monday, 10 February 2020
New Zealand bookshop Unity Books and Wellington-based publisher Gecko Press have been shortlisted for the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Unity Books Auckland is shortlisted for the bookstore...
UQP launches annual placement program for Indigenous graduates
Monday, 10 February 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has established an annual Indigenous Placement program aimed at providing a pathway into publishing for Indigenous university graduates. Launched in January this year, the...
VIPs, inaugural fellows announced for SWF 2020
Monday, 10 February 2020
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2020 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program, to be held from Wednesday, 29 April to Friday, 1 May, alongside...
New women’s prize to award over $150k to a single work of fiction
Monday, 10 February 2020
In Canada, the newly announced Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will award C$150,000 (A$169,000) to a single work of fiction by a woman or non-binary writer. Launching in 2022, the...
ILF announces three-year partnership with Australia Post
Monday, 10 February 2020
The Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF) has announced a new three-year partnership with Australia Post, which will see nearly 100,000 books delivered per year to 400 remote Indigenous communities across Australia...
LBF to host audiobook summit
Friday, 7 February 2020
The London Book Fair (LBF) is launching a new audiobook summit, to be held on 10 March. Audio HQ will include sessions on the size of the UK market and...
Bin Salleh wins inaugural Writing WA Literary Lions Medal
Friday, 7 February 2020
Magabala Books publisher Rachel Bin Salleh has won the inaugural Writing WA Literary Lions Medal, awarded to an individual who has made a substantial contribution to the vitality and success...
Coronavirus closes Chinese printers; Australian publishers expect delays
Friday, 7 February 2020
Australian trade publishers are anticipating delays to some book supply due to printer closures in China. In response to the coronavirus outbreak in China, there is a compulsory closure of...
Stella Prize 2020 longlist announced
Friday, 7 February 2020
The longlist for the 2020 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Lucky Ticket (Joey Bui, Text) Songspirals: Sharing women’s wisdom of country through songlines (Gay’wu Group...
Booktopia raises $20m from private investors
Friday, 7 February 2020
Online bookseller Booktopia has raised $20 million from private investors, led by Champ Ventures CEO Su-Ming Wong and JBS Investments CEO John Sampson. Under the deal, Wong will join the...
Expand your audience at London Book Fair
Thursday, 6 February 2020
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‘Your family is okay’: Bernadette Green on ‘Who’s Your Real Mum?’
Thursday, 6 February 2020
Who's Your Real Mum? (Scribble, illus by Anna Zobel) is the debut picture book from Bernadette Green, inspired by the real-life questions her own children have been asked about their...
Scribble launches Art for Wildlife, companies donate to bushfire relief
Thursday, 6 February 2020
A number of book industry companies are raising funds for bushfire relief. Scribble publisher Miriam Rosenbloom has set up Art for Wildlife, an online store selling open-edition prints by illustrators...
B&N, PRH cancel Diverse Editions promotion after backlash
Thursday, 6 February 2020
In the US, Barnes & Noble and Penguin Random House have cancelled a planned Black History Month promotion after a social media backlash that accused the companies of ‘literary blackface’,...
Gill wins 2020 Margaret Mahy Medal
Thursday, 6 February 2020
Children’s author Maria Gill has won the 2020 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, presented annually for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to New Zealand children’s literature. Gill is the author of...
Brow Books acquires graphic novel ‘Stone Fruit’
Thursday, 6 February 2020
Brow Books has acquired ANZ rights to debut graphic novel Stone Fruit by Montreal-based Australian comics artist Lee Lai. Stone Fruit follows queer couple Bron and Ray who ‘enjoy their...
Grappling with diversity and working conditions in the book industry
Wednesday, 5 February 2020
‘A discussion that meaningfully grapples with diversity within the industry itself would have to involve an honest reckoning with the conditions that most of us have accepted for so long,...
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