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Readings wins Bookstore of the Year award at LBF

Wednesday, 13 April 2016
Readings has won the inaugural Bookstore of the Year Award at the 2016 London Book Fair International Excellence Awards. Readings was cited for ‘its community outreach, support of Australian authors...

Auckland Uni Press wins LBF publishing award

Wednesday, 13 April 2016
New Zealand publisher Auckland University Press (AUP) has won the Academic and Professional Publisher Award at this year’s London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards, presented on 12 April. AUP...

Bestsellers this week

Monday, 11 April 2016
The Treehouse Fun Book by Jill Griffiths, Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton (Pan) has climbed from fifth to first place in this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart—also making it this...

Co-op opens six SA stores

Monday, 11 April 2016
The Co-op has opened four stores at the University of South Australia and will open two more at Flinders and Adelaide universities by the end of the month. The stores...

Guardian First Book Award to close

Friday, 8 April 2016
In the UK, the Guardian First Book Award is closing, citing a crowded awards landscape as the reason, reports the Bookseller. The £10,000 (A$18,704) prize was established in 1999, and...

Woodley appointed MD of ALS Library Services

Friday, 8 April 2016
ALS Library Services general manager Simon Woodley has been promoted to the role of managing director. Woodley replaces ALS owner Patricia Genat in the role. ALS said in a statement...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

Friday, 8 April 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains eight reviews of children’s and YA books publishing in June 2016. Jeannie Baker’s picture book about the migration of bar-tailed godwits, Circle (Walker Books), received...

Wordstorm 2016 program released

Thursday, 7 April 2016
The 2016 Northern Territory writers’ festival Wordstorm program has been launched. Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan, author of Beauty is a Wound (Text), will be the international guest at this year’s...

Random House US to launch Dunham imprint

Thursday, 7 April 2016
In the US, Random House is launching a new imprint based around Lena Dunham and her producing partner Jenni Konner’s feminist newsletter Lenny Letter, reports Publishers Weekly. The Lenny imprint...

On tour: Liz Pichon

Liz Pichon author photo Wednesday, 6 April 2016
UK writer and illustrator Liz Pichon is the author of the ‘Tom Gates’ books for young readers, including the forthcoming Super Good Skills (Almost) (Scholastic, June). Pichon will visit the...

Small publisher spotlight: Berbay Publishing

Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Melbourne-based children’s publisher Berbay was established in 2009 by Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke. She spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe your company in under 50 words. Berbay is...

RiP George Dale

Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Australian book designer George Dale has died, aged 74. Dale was Penguin’s first in-house designer, and went on to design over 2000 covers during his 30 years with the publisher....

Quote of the week

Wednesday, 6 April 2016
‘Scribe, Text, Transit Lounge, UQP and Wakefield Press all have titles longlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin. That means titles by SPN members make up more than half the list!’—the...

Rosoff wins 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Wednesday, 6 April 2016
US-born author Meg Rosoff has won the  2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s and young adult literature. Rosoff, who is based in the UK, is...

Horin appointed Five Mile Press publishing director

Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Hardie Grant Egmont publisher Niki Horin has joined Bonnier Publishing Australia as Five Mile Press publishing director. Horin began her publishing career at Five Mile Press 13 years ago as...

Dempsey joins SPN as general manager

Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Former Books+Publishing editor-in-chief Matthia Dempsey has joined the Small Press Network as general manager. Dempsey takes over from Hannah Cartmel, who is returning to freelance editing. Cartmel has been acting...

Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2016 winners announced

Tuesday, 5 April 2016
The 2016 Hans Christian Andersen awards, presented by the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY), have been awarded to Chinese author Cao Wenxuan and German illustrator Rotraut Susanne...

HarperCollins France established

Tuesday, 5 April 2016
HarperCollins’ international expansion continues with the establishment of HarperCollins France, reports Publishers Weekly. The French office was created after the publisher bought out Hachette Livre SA’s stake in Harlequin SA....

Bestsellers this week

Monday, 4 April 2016
The Road to Ruin (Niki Savva, Scribe) has claimed the top spot in this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart. Savva’s account of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s political downfall has...

‘Writing Clementine’ wins Ena Noël Award

Monday, 4 April 2016
Kate Gordon’s YA novel Writing Clementine (A&U) has won the 2016 Ena Noël Award, a biennial prize administered by the Australian branch of the International Board on Books for Young...

Perseus sale to Hachette, Ingram completed

Monday, 4 April 2016
In the US, the sale of Perseus Book Group’s publishing and distribution arms to Hachette Book Group (HBG) and Ingram, respectively, has been completed, reports Publishers Weekly. HBG’s purchase of...

CYL launches Inky Awards Ambassador Program

Monday, 4 April 2016
The Centre of Youth Literature (CYL) at the State Library of Victoria has launched its new Inky Awards Ambassador Program, with four schools from across Australia selected as ‘Ambassador Schools’...

Fiction that slays: Julie Koh on ‘Portable Curiosities’

author Julie Koh (photo credit Hugh Stewart) Friday, 1 April 2016
Julie Koh’s debut short story collection Portable Curiosities (UQP, June) ‘takes a magnifying glass to Australia’s greatest fallacies’, writes reviewer Sonia Nair. She spoke to the author. How does the...