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S&S acquires Archie Roach memoir

Friday, 2 November 2018
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired world rights to a yet-to-be-titled memoir by singer-songwriter Archie Roach. Roach, who is part of the Stolen Generations, is also known as a campaigner...

Lifelong learning: Younger readers editions

Thursday, 1 November 2018
Kelsey Oldham investigates the role played by younger readers editions in the growth of children’s nonfiction. It’s a well-established fact that adult nonfiction titles sell strongly in Australia. In 2018...

A Season on Earth (Gerald Murnane, Text)

Thursday, 1 November 2018
In 1976 William Heinemann published Gerald Murnane’s second novel, A Lifetime on Clouds. In the book’s originally published two parts, the protagonist Adrian Sherd, a student at a Catholic high...

Powles, Collison, Pati win inaugural Women Poets’ Prize

Thursday, 1 November 2018
Three poets have been announced as the winners of the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize: New Zealand-born Nina Mingya Powles and London-based poets Claire Collison and Anita Pati. Established in honour of...

Philosopher Nussbaum wins US$1m Berggruen Prize

Thursday, 1 November 2018
Philosopher and classicist Martha Nussbaum has won the US$1 million (A$1.4m) Berggruen Prize, which is awarded annually to ‘thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a...

New specialist kids agency launched

Thursday, 1 November 2018
Lawyer and writer Justine Barker has launched a new literary agency focusing on children’s and YA books. Mayfair Literary Agency will represent authors writing picture books, junior fiction, middle-grade and...

Book industry figures to attend Australia Fest in India

Thursday, 1 November 2018
Australian authors, publishers and literary festival programmers are among the guests at Australia Fest, a six-month festival comprising more than 75 events across 20 Indian cities. Supported by the federal...

Podcast spotlight: Seeking Tumnus

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Established in 2015, Seeking Tumnus is a podcast in which its hosts 'revisit the books of [their] youth and ... explore the uncanny wilds of contemporary adolescent fiction'. Hosted by...

RiP Rose Zwi

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Writer Rose Zwi has died in Sydney, aged 90. Zwi was born in Mexico in 1928 to Jewish-Lithuanian parents but grew up in South Africa, where her family migrated when...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Please note that due to the Melbourne Cup holiday in Victoria on Tuesday, 6 November, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 8 November.

SLQ wins 2018 VALA award for innovation

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has won an industry innovation award, presented by Victorian organisation VALA—Libraries, Technology and the Future, for its Tunley Braille Globe Project. The project involved...

Books+Publishing: Change of email addresses

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Books+Publishing staff members are using new email addresses on the booksandpublishing.com.au domain. Please see the updated email addresses in the 'contact us' section at the end of the newsletter. Our...

ABA Christmas parties and Rep of the Year Awards

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) is holding Christmas parties in both Victoria and New South Wales, and will be announcing the Rep of the Year Awards for each state at the events....

Get the books nominated for the Best Writing Award 2018

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
For the 10 finalists’ titles in the $30,000 Best Writing Award 2018, visit the Readings website. Winner to be announced at www.melbourneprize.org on November 14, along with the winners of...

Change for Barron’s Educational Test Prep & Language

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Test Prep & Language Old distributor: NewSouth Books New distributor: Simon & Schuster (HEDS) Changeover date: 1 November 2018 Returns cut-off: 31 January 2019 (See classified.)

Foundry658 announces successful applicants for Bootcamp

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Business development program Foundry658, an initiative from State Library Victoria (SLV) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), has announced the successful applicants for its inaugural bootcamp sessions....

Kassabova’s ‘Border’ wins UK Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Scotland-based Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova has won the 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Granta). Chosen from a shortlist...

‘On the Java Ridge’ wins 2018 Colin Roderick Award

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Jock Serong’s On the Java Ridge (Text) has won the 2018 Colin Roderick Award and the HT Priestley Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook...

YABBAs 2018 winners announced

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The winners of the 2018 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do Not Open This Book Again!...

Books+Publishing magazine Issue 4 2018

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s fourth—and final—issue for 2018 is out now! It features 30 reviews of forthcoming adult and children’s books due to be published between December 2018 and March 2019. Reviews: Of the 17 adult...

Yahoo Creek (Tohby Riddle, A&U)

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
In this imaginative work, Tohby Riddle delves into the mystery of the yahoo (or the yowie, as it is commonly known today). Reported sightings of these large, hairy beasts were...

47 Degrees (Justin D’Ath, Puffin)

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Author Justin D’Ath lost his home in Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires, and the story of that harrowing day forms the basis for his new novel, 47 Degrees. The morning of...

 

 

 

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