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On tour: Reni Eddo-Lodge

Thursday, 27 July 2017
British journalist and activist Reni Eddo-Lodge is the author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Bloomsbury) and will be one of the international guests at...

NT Literary Awards 2017 winners announced

Thursday, 27 July 2017
The winners of this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Short Story Award ‘This is where you come from’ by Miranda Tetlow...

Man Booker Prize 2017 longlist announced

Thursday, 27 July 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$81,973) prize are: 4 3 2 1 (Paul Auster, Faber) Days without...

Fox wins Walkley Women’s Leadership in Media Award

Thursday, 27 July 2017
Catherine Fox has won the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award for her nonfiction book Stop Fixing Women (NewSouth), as well as articles for the ABC and the Australian....

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Sales Fiction—Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold Spanish-language rights to Voss (Patrick White) to Impedimenta; and German-language rights to The Twyborn Affair, The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of...

Dark Matters

Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Dark Matters: A novel by Susan Hawthorne We always think that bad things can’t happen in our country. But they do. In a dawn raid, Kate is arrested. She is...

German universities to let Elsevier contracts lapse

Wednesday, 26 July 2017
In Germany, 13 additional universities have announced they will not renew their subscriptions with Dutch publishing company Elsevier once they end in December, joining around 60 other institutions that allowed...

Book blogger spotlight: Bec’s Books

Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Rebecca Gough is a self-described ‘perpetual internet presence’ who blogs about YA and middle-grade titles, with a focus on fantasy and sci-fi. After realising that Instagram’s space for captions was...

Solomun launches The Rights Hive agency

Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Former Penguin Random House (PRH) and Five Mile Press rights manager Natasha Solomun has launched a new rights agency, The Rights Hive, to provide representation of foreign and subsidiary rights...

B&N investor urges company to sell itself

Wednesday, 26 July 2017
In the US, an asset management firm with a ‘meaningful’ stake in Barnes & Noble has sent a letter to the company urging it to sell the business, reports Publishers...

HarperCollins publisher Lisa Berryman relocates office

Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Lisa Berryman, HarperCollins Publisher of Children’s and YA Books, has moved office in Melbourne and please note her new contact details: Level 11, HWT Tower, 40 City Rd, Southbank, Victoria,...

Designer Peter Long now freelance

Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Designer Peter Long has left his position as Senior Designer at Black Inc. Books and is now working freelance once again. Long is a committee member of the Australian Book...

Brisbane Writers Festival program announced

Tuesday, 25 July 2017
The program has been announced for the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival, which runs from 6-10 September. Over 100 authors will appear at the festival, including Canadian novelist Anosh Irani, who...

WA government defers multi-year arts funding

Tuesday, 25 July 2017
The WA Department of Culture and Arts has announced it will undertake a ‘comprehensive review’ of its Organisations Investment Program (OIP) and defer the opening of the second OIP funding...

MUP unveils new website

Monday, 24 July 2017
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has launched a new website featuring book extracts, author interviews and book tour details, among other overhauled features. The publisher said that ‘with ninety-five years of...

PANZ Book Design Awards 2017 winners announced

Friday, 21 July 2017
The winners of the 2017 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The winning title in each category is: Best book Cazador: Game, Offal and...

ASA launches International Marketplace

Friday, 21 July 2017
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a new digital marketplace to showcase and sell the work of writers to international publishers, agents and literary scouts. The ASA said...

Scholastic US reports rise in revenue

Friday, 21 July 2017
In the US, Scholastic has reported a four percent increase in revenue over fiscal 2016 for the year ending 31 May 2017, reports Publishers Weekly. Operating income at the publisher...

Junot Díaz pens new picture book

Thursday, 20 July 2017
In the US, Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz has written a picture book for young readers, reports the New York Times. The book, Islandborn, will be illustrated by Leo Espinosa and...