Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

Image. Advertisement:

Free >

About the book  Archive

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Philadelphia, 1961. After having to give up his brother to save his own life, hitman Blake Saunders flees the Mob and seeks refuge on the other side of the world....

Advance praise  Archive

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
'Part Goodfellas and part love letter to Australian coastal towns, this wonderfully imagined crime novel is like riding the perfect wave.' —Michael Robotham ‘Dave Warner captures the heyday and spirit...

Interview with the author  Archive

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
You’re a musician by trade and each of your books seems to have its own soundtrack. Tell us about the particular era and style of music that inspired your new...

About the author  Archive

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Dave Warner is an author, musician and screenwriter. His first novel City of Light won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Fiction, and Before it Breaks the Ned Kelly Award for best Australian...

Tour dates  Archive

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Western Australia: 26 March to 6 April 2019 New South Wales: 10 to 17 April 2019 Contact Fremantle Press for event bookings: admin@fremantlepress.com.au or (08) 9430 6331.

Digital assets  Archive

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Read a sample chapter of River of Salt here. Download the Book Club notes here. See the marketing kit for booksellers here.

Free advance copies  Archive

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Fremantle Press is giving away five free advance reading copies of River of Salt. To be in the running contact admin@fremantlepress.com.au.

French media company Vivendi buys publisher  Archive

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
French media company Vivendi has bought French-language publisher Editis from Spanish owner Planeta in a deal that values the business at €900 million ($A1.4bn), reports BookBrunch. Editis is the second-largest...

‘Catching Teller Crow’ sold to UK, US  Archive

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
UK and US rights to Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina's YA novel Catching Teller Crow (A&U) have been sold to Penguin Children's Books UK and Knopf respectively. The book will be published in...

Tan’s ‘Rubik’ optioned for film  Archive

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Brio Books has sold the film option to Elizabeth Tan’s debut novel Rubik to Australian production company Photoplay. Photoplay develops projects in film, television, web and virtual reality, and is known for its...

  Archive

Monday, 11 February 2019
Allen & Unwin is thrilled to be publishing a new novel from Dominic Smith, the award-winning author of acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. The Electric Hotel...

About the book  Archive

Monday, 11 February 2019
Paris, 1895: 20-year-old Claude Ballard interviews for a job as a ‘concession agent’ for the Lumière Brothers. With a CV, such that it is, that contains film of his sister’s...

From the publisher  Archive

Monday, 11 February 2019
I stayed up all night reading The Electric Hotel and can still instantly conjure the thrill of being lost in its pages. It is one of those very rare books...

From the author, Dominic Smith  Archive

Monday, 11 February 2019
I was overwhelmed by your support and enthusiasm for The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. As I met with booksellers in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and beyond, I was struck...

About the author  Archive

Monday, 11 February 2019
Dominic grew up in Sydney and now lives in Austin, Texas. He is the author, most recently, of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, an acclaimed bestseller in Australia, winning...

Events  Archive

Monday, 11 February 2019
Dominic Smith will be touring Australia in August. Please contact Christine Farmer for details: ChristineF@allenandunwin.com

Reading copy giveaway  Archive

Monday, 11 February 2019
Be one of the first to read The Electric Hotel. Email us at marketing@allenandunwin.com for your chance to receive a proof copy.

UK sales of YA dropped 21.5% in 2018  Archive

Monday, 11 February 2019
Nielsen figures for 2018 show that sales of YA titles in the UK dropped by 21.5% last year, reports the Bookseller. The YA fiction sector fell by £6.2 million (A$11.3m)...

Lagardère’s sales drop slightly in 2018  Archive

Friday, 8 February 2019
Hachette Book Group (HBG) parent company Lagardère Publishing's total consolidated sales for its publishing group fell by 1.6% in 2018 compared to the previous year, dropping to €2.52 billion (A$4bn)....

Stella Prize 2019 longlist announced  Archive

Friday, 8 February 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Little Gods (Jenny Ackland, A&U) Man Out of Time (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette) Bluebottle (Belinda...

  Archive

Thursday, 7 February 2019
Inspired by the incredible true story of Lee Miller, Vogue model turned one of the first female war photojournalists, comes the new novel by the bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress.

About the book  Archive

Thursday, 7 February 2019
Manhattan, Paris, 1942: When Jessica May's successful modelling career is abruptly cut short, she is assigned to the war in Europe as a photojournalist for Vogue. But when she arrives the...