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Sharma wins 2016 International Dublin Literary Award

Family Life cover Friday, 10 June 2016
US author Akhil Sharma has won the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award for his novel Family Life (Faber). The award, worth €100,000 (A$152,270), is presented annually for a novel written...

Ginninderra Press celebrates 20th birthday

Friday, 10 June 2016
Adelaide-based independent publisher Ginninderra Press is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Founded in Canberra in 1996, Ginninderra Press moved its operation to Port Adelaide in 2008. Owner and publisher...

Rakuten closes UK online store

Friday, 10 June 2016
Japanese eretailer Rakuten is closing its UK online store following a review of its European operations, reports the Bookseller. Rakuten will also exit the Spanish and Austrian markets as part...

Ngaio Marsh Award 2016 longlist announced

Thursday, 9 June 2016
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Inside the Black Horse (Ray Berard, Mary Egan Publishing) Made...

Lambda literary awards 2016 winners announced

Thursday, 9 June 2016
The winners of the 2016 Lambda literary awards, known as the ‘Lammys’, have been announced. The awards celebrate excellence in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) writing published in the...

Mudgee Readers’ Festival 2016 program announced

Tuesday, 7 June 2016
The Mudgee Readers’ Festival in regional NSW has announced the program for its 2016 festival, to be held from 13-14 August. Festival guests include Jane Caro, Sami Shah, Emily Maguire,...

Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2016 shortlists announced

Monday, 6 June 2016
The 2016 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The three shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for an established Australian female writer are: A Few...

Israeli government repeals fixed price book law

Monday, 6 June 2016
The Israeli government has repealed legislation in force since 2014 that prohibits discounts on new books in the first 18 months of publication, reports Israel National News. The law, which...

Bestsellers this week

Me Before You Film Tie-in Monday, 6 June 2016
Four new releases have entered the top 10 bestsellers, with this week’s highest new entry Slow Cooker Central 2 (Pauline Christie, ABC Books) debuting in fourth spot; The Emperor’s Revenge...

Kulkarni wins 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Monday, 6 June 2016
Parashar Kulkarni has become the first Indian writer to win the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘Cow and Company’. The £5000 (A$9586) prize is presented annually to the...

YA Book Prize 2016 winner annouced

Friday, 3 June 2016
The Bookseller’s 2016 YA Book Prize has been awarded to free-verse novel One by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury). Crossnan’s winning novel is about ‘conjoined twins Grace and Tippi, who, after years of...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

Friday, 3 June 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in July and August 2016. Author Chris Owen and illustrator Chris Nixon’s picture book Pandamonia (Fremantle Press, August) received five...

‘Chasing Shadows’ wins UK Sports Book Award

Friday, 3 June 2016
Australian authors Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge have won the Cricket Book of the Year award at the UK Cross Sports Book Awards, for Chasing Shadows (Hardie Grant), a biography...

ABA backs APA’s Books Create campaign to retain PIRs

Thursday, 2 June 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced it will join the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and other organisations to support the Books Create Australia campaign, which condemns the government’s plans...

Small publisher spotlight: Aulexic

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
WA-based publisher Aulexic specialises in books for children with language and literacy difficulties, launching its first titles in 2015. ‘Originally, we started as a simple home-school project to encourage my...

Bangkok to open 24-hour library

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
A 24-hour library will open in Bangkok, Thailand by the end of the year, reports the Thai government’s Happy Reading website. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration had last year announced a budget of THB$200m...

 

 

 

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