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Tales of the unexpected: Events at Riverbend Books Archive

Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Events manager Vicky Tosh shares the joys and hiccups of managing author events at Brisbane’s Riverbend Books. Before I was hired at Riverbend Books, I had never worked in a...

Karys McEwen: Why you should meet your heroes Archive

Tuesday, 19 March 2019
In her first column for 2019, high school library manager Karys McEwen argues that young people have much to gain from interacting with authors in person—but authors need to be...

PRH, Text, Matilda Bookshop and Farrell’s Bookshop awarded at Leading Edge Books Conference Archive

Tuesday, 19 March 2019
A number of industry awards were presented at this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference in Adelaide on 18 March. Penguin Random House was named Publisher of the Year, while Text...

Kinokuniya’s oldest Asian store outside of Japan to close Archive

Tuesday, 19 March 2019
In Singapore, Japanese bookstore chain Kinokuniya is closing down its oldest branch in Asia outside of Japan, reports the Straits Times. Opened in 1983, Kinokuniya at Liang Court shopping mall...

Kissane and Ling win Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2019 Archive

Tuesday, 19 March 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Andy Kissane’s ‘Searching the Dead’ and Belle Ling’s ‘63 Temple Street, Mong Kok’ as the joint winners of the Peter Porter Prize 2019....

‘Boy Swallows Universe’ wins Book of the Year at 2019 Indie Book Awards Archive

Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Trent Dalton’s debut novel Boy Swallows Universe (HarperCollins) has been named Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, presented at the Leading Edge Books Conference in Adelaide...

Ashleigh Young longlisted for 2019 Folio Prize Archive

Tuesday, 19 March 2019
New Zealand writer Ashleigh Young has been longlisted for the UK's £30,000 (A$56,000) Rathbones Folio Prize for her essay collection Can You Tolerate This? (Giramondo). Can You Tolerate This? is a...

2019 PRH Literary Prize winner announced Archive

Monday, 18 March 2019
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced that the winner of the 2019 PRH Literary Prize is The Spill by Imbi Neeme. Victorian-based Neeme wins $20,000 (which acts as an advance...

Amsterdam-based publisher wins NGV art and design book prize Archive

Monday, 18 March 2019
Amsterdam-based publisher Van Zoetendaal Publishers has won the 2019 Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing for its book STUFF: Catalogue Archaeological Finds Amsterdam’s North/South Metro Line, written by...

NZSA 2019 writer mentorships announced Archive

Monday, 18 March 2019
Recipients have been selected for the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) mentorship program 2019, with 13 chosen from a pool of 79 applicants. The 2019 recipients are: Semira Davis,...

National Book Critics Circle Awards 2018 winners announced Archive

Monday, 18 March 2019
In the US, the winners of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced. Among the winners, chosen from shortlists announced in January, are: Fiction Milkman (Anna Burns,...

SWF 2019 program announced Archive

Friday, 15 March 2019
The program has been announced for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs from 29 April to 5 May. Fifty-five international guests and 360 Australian writers, academics and public...

HBG and Hachette UK sales up despite Lagardère’s profits down Archive

Friday, 15 March 2019
Hachette Book Group (HGB) in the US and Hachette UK have reported 'strong' sales growth in 2018, despite profits falling by 9.6% at parent company Lagardère Publishing. The UK business...

MUP appoints new directors, editorial advisory board Archive

Thursday, 14 March 2019
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has appointed two new directors to its board, and announced eight members of its new editorial advisory board. Former managing director of Oxford University Press Australia...

A&U acquires new Anh Do children’s books in three-series deal Archive

Thursday, 14 March 2019
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to three new children's series by Anh Do. 'Wolf Girl' is the first of three new series aimed at an older readership of...

Santilli joins A&U Archive

Thursday, 14 March 2019
Nicola Santilli has joined Allen & Unwin as editor (children & young adults), and began the position on 4 March. Santilli was previously an editor at Walker Books.

Naoum joins Booktopia Archive

Thursday, 14 March 2019
Joel Naoum has joined Booktopia as nonfiction category manager and will begin the position on 18 March. Naoum was the publisher at Pan Macmillan’s digital imprint Momentum for five years...

Mike Shuttleworth on the Centre for Youth Literature Archive

Thursday, 14 March 2019
'Driven more by passion than by planning, the promotion and support of children’s and teenage literature is currently piecemeal and under stress. It is urgently in need of a politically...

‘Growing up African in Australia’ (ed by Maxine Beneba Clarke) Archive

Thursday, 14 March 2019
'The collection boldly explores migratory experiences, rarely shying away from the realities of racism both overt and covert, the ongoing effects of colonisation in and outside of Australia, the conditional...

Two Shelly Unwin board books sold to US Archive

Thursday, 14 March 2019
Alex Adsett at Alex Adsett Literary Agency has sold North American rights to Shelly Unwin’s board books You’re One! and You’re Two! (A&U, illus by Katherine Battersby) to Penguin Random...

HQ Fiction acquires Armstrong novel ‘The Collaborator’ Archive

Thursday, 14 March 2019
HarperCollins Australia imprint HQ Fiction has acquired world rights to the first book in eight years by author Diane Armstrong. Titled The Collaborator and based on a true story set in...

NLA launches archive of Australian websites Archive

Thursday, 14 March 2019
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has launched an archive of Australian websites dating back to 1996, reports the ABC. The Australian Web Archive contains snapshots of Australian websites from...

‘Don Quixote’ tops library world’s 100 most widely held novels Archive

Thursday, 14 March 2019
International library cooperative OCLC has compiled a list of the library world’s 100 most widely held novels based on its WorldCat database, reports Publishers Weekly. Topping the Library 100 list...

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