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Walkley Book Award 2017 longlist announced

Friday, 20 October 2017
The Walkley Book Award longlist for 2017 has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney (Graham Archer, Ebury) Victoria: The Queen (Julia...

Most Underrated Book Award 2017 shortlist announced

Friday, 20 October 2017
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Most Underrated Book Award. The shortlisted titles are: The Island Will Sink (Briohny Doyle, Brow Books) The Invisible...

ARC funding for project exploring authorship and copyright

Friday, 20 October 2017
Monash University legal academic Rebecca Giblin and a team of researchers have received Australian Research Council funding for the project ‘Reclaiming copyright’s lost value for authors and the public’. The...

Writers among the recipients of the 2017 New Zealand Arts Awards

Friday, 20 October 2017
A number of writers and illustrators are among the 11 recipients of the 2017 New Zealand Arts Awards, presented by the New Zealand Arts Foundation. Poet Hera Lindsay Bird was...

Rushdie to headline Melbourne’s Global Atheist Convention in 2018

Friday, 20 October 2017
UK author Salman Rushdie will headline the 2018 Global Atheist Convention, which runs from 9-11 February at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. International guests also include UK author Richard...

Introducing New Frontier

Thursday, 19 October 2017
Established in Australia in 2002, New Frontier Publishing specialises in children’s books for the trade and the educational market. In 2017 the publisher opened a UK office and in 2018...

Authors announced for NZ Festival

Thursday, 19 October 2017
The New Zealand Festival in Wellington has announced the authors appearing at its Writers and Readers stream, which runs from 8-11 March 2018. Among the international guests are US sci-fi...

Pug picture book tops bestsellers chart

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The Australian picture book bestsellers chart for September is dominated by Aaron Blabey and Mem Fox, with the exception of Nick Bland’s The Very Sleepy Bear—a follow-up to Bland’s 2008...

Multiple awards for ‘Words in Deep Blue’

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Cath Crowley’s YA novel Words in Deep Blue (Pan Macmillan)—a love story between estranged best friends set in a Melbourne secondhand bookshop—has picked up multiple awards in the past few...

Australian children’s books selected for international catalogues

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Several Australian children’s and YA books will soon be getting greater international exposure after being included in the prestigious IBBY Honour List and White Ravens catalogue. Two refugee stories—the YA...

A&U acquires feminist picture book ‘Our Little Inventor’

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Australian illustrator and designer Sher Rill Ng’s debut picture book Our Little Inventor via Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase Management, to...

RBmedia announces launch of Audiobooks.com in Australia

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Audiobooks.com, the second largest provider of audiobooks in North America, launched in Australia today Audiobooks.com owner, RBmedia, builds on 5 years of Australian success with leading audiobook publisher Wavesound The...

‘The Shortest History of Europe’ sells over 300,000 copies in China

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Sales for the Chinese edition of Australian historian John Hirst’s The Shortest History of Europe (Black Inc.) have hit over 300,000 units in China. While Black Inc. originally sold simplified...

Quote of the week

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
‘We got books on television and we made it work. It lasted as long as we wanted it to. That’s a great triumph because there were many that said it...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean (Mira Robertson) to Wavesound. Brow Books has sold world rights to The Town (Shaun Prescott) to Faber. (See...

ALIA trend report: more jobs for librarians by 2022

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has published its fourth annual Education, Skills and Employment Trend Report, which forecasts a modest increase in the number of qualified positions available...

SIMON & SCHUSTER AUSTRALIA TO DISTRIBUTE ELLIOTT & THOMPSON

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Simon & Schuster Australia is pleased to announce a new sales and distribution partnership with Elliott & Thompson in Australia and New Zealand.Elliott & Thompson is a London-based independent publisher...

FNAWN condemns HSC students’ abuse of van Neerven

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
The First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) has condemned the online abuse of writer Ellen van Neerven after a poem from her 2016 collection, Comfort Food (UQP), appeared on the...

RB Media launches Audiobooks.com in Australia

Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Audiobook publisher and digital media distributor RB Media, which owns Australian audiobook provider Wavesound, has launched its streaming and downloading service Audiobooks.com in Australia today. RB Media is offering new...