Daisy Utemorrah Award for an unpublished manuscript: entries open
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Entries are now open for the $15,000 Daisy Utemorrah Award for an unpublished manuscript of junior or YA fiction. Honouring the late Ngarinyin Wunambal Elder and author Daisy Utemorrah, this...
RiP Garry Evans
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Harbour Publishing House director Garry Evans has died, aged 50. Evans, along with his wife Michelle, owned and operated Harbour Bookshop in Ulladulla, NSW, and founded the publishing house in...
RiP Barrie Dunstan
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Business and investment journalist Barrie Dunstan has died, aged 80. Starting his journalism career at the Argus in 1955, Dunstan then moved to the Age in 1958 and was promoted to finance...
Empty shelves at new Helsinki library; 66,000 items borrowed since December opening
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
In Finland, Helsinki's new library Oodi has been so popular since opening late last year that shelves are sitting empty, particularly in the children's section, reports Finnish news outlet Yle....
About the book
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
A woman. A war. A child that changed everything. Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave is a luminous and profoundly moving novel about the people we rescue...
About the author
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Frances Liardet is a child of the children of the Second World War. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and studied Arabic at...
Praise for ‘We Must Be Brave’
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
‘This is storytelling at its best’—Sarah Winman, author of Tin Man ‘It broke my heart and glued it together again. Just perfect’—Jill Mansell, author of Rumour Has It ‘A story both epic...
Digital assets
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Read a sample chapter of We Must Be Brave here. See the Reading Group Guide for a conversation with Frances Liardet here.
Reading copy giveaway
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Be one of the first to read We Must Be Brave. Email Eliza.Auld@harpercollins.com.au with ‘We Must Be Brave’ in the subject line for your chance to secure one of ten copies.
The Sparkle Pages
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
‘Is marriage just a series of texts about where the children are and whether we need milk until one of you dies?’ Susannah Parks—wife, mother, cleaner of surfaces and runner...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Please note that, due to the Australia Day public holiday in lieu on Monday, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 31 January. The deadline for classifieds and...
Wheeler Centre to offer new fellowships for regional, interstate writers
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
The Wheeler Centre will offer three new fellowships for regional and interstate writers as part of its Hot Desk Fellowships program in 2019. The new fellowships will be offered to...
Edgar Awards 2019 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
In the US, the shortlists for the 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (the Edgars) have been announced. The Edgars honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published or produced...
National Book Critics Circle Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
In the US, the shortlists for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been announced. The finalists include: Fiction Milkman (Anna Burns, Faber) Slave Old Man (Patrick Chamoiseau, trans by Linda...
Tumarkin’s ‘Axiomatic’ sold to US
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Brow Books has sold North American and Spanish-language rights to Axiomatic (Maria Tumarkin). North American rights were sold to California-based nonprofit publisher Transit Books, with publisher Adam Levy describing Tumarkin’s...
Last chance: Please complete our post-Christmas survey
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. The survey deadline has been extended to Thursday, 24 January. This is your last chance to complete the survey....
French bookshop chain Furet du Nord buys competitor Decitre
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
In France, the Furet du Nord chain of bookshops has confirmed it has bought its competitor the Decitre group, reports the Bookseller. Based in the city of Lille, Furet du Nord...
ASA ‘outraged’ by unauthorised lending of scanned books
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has joined with international authors’ associations in condemning the activities of the Internet Archive’s Open Library in its unlicensed lending of scanned copies of...
Berbay sells board book series to US, UK
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Berbay Publishing has sold North American and UK rights to a series of three board books by Tokyo-based illustrator Chihiro Takeuchi. Catherine Drayton from InkWell Management sold North American and...
Two Garth Nix novels to A&U; US and UK rights sold
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to two new fantasy novels by Garth Nix, with US and UK rights also selling in a two-book deal. Angel Mage, a high...
Monday, 21 January 2019
From the bestselling author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this perfectly crafted novel about families, relationships and the true nature of belonging.
Monday, 21 January 2019
Praise for the book
Monday, 21 January 2019
‘An assured, intelligent and emotionally full read ... I laughed, wept and cared desperately for Marchetta’s fascinating characters. This is wonderful storytelling—full of humour, tenderness and honesty about how people,...
Authors’ associations demand that Open Library stops lending scanned books
Monday, 21 January 2019
The Society of Authors (SoA) in the UK and the Authors Guild (AG) in the US are simultaneously demanding that the Internet Archive’s Open Library stops lending scanned copies of...
Jon Faine to retire at the end of 2019
Monday, 21 January 2019
ABC Radio Melbourne broadcaster Jon Faine has announced he will retire at the end of 2019, reports ABC News. Faine has hosted the weekday Mornings program for 23 years, in which...
Tan wins ‘KYD’ New Critic Award 2019
Monday, 21 January 2019
Critic and narrative nonfiction writer Cher Tan has been named the winner of the 2019 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) New Critic Award. Tan receives a $1000 cash prize, plus payment for a...
UK publishing workforce still lacking in BAME representation, regional diversity
Friday, 18 January 2019
In the UK, the Publisher's Association (PA) has released the results of its second survey of the publishing workforce, finding that while improvements have been made around representation of women...
Faber Writing Academy Scholarships announced
Friday, 18 January 2019
Allen & Unwin has announced the recipients of the 2019 Faber Writing Academy Scholarships. The recipients are: Chandu Bickford (True Stories Scholarship) has travelled extensively in India and Tibet, and...
Children’s authors honoured on postage stamps
Friday, 18 January 2019
Australia Post is honouring five children’s authors on its ‘Australian legends of children’s literature’ postage stamp series, as part of its 2019 Legends Awards. Authors and their books featured in...
Western Sydney Emerging Writers’ Fellowships announced
Friday, 18 January 2019
Western Sydney literature organisation WestWords has announced three recipients of the 2019 Western Sydney Emerging Writers’ Fellowships. The three writers awarded fellowships are: Fiona Murphy for hybrid memoir ‘The Shape of Sound’,...
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