UK study finds regular reading increases self-esteem
Monday, 9 February 2015
Research in the UK has found that people who read regularly have greater self-esteem, are more empathetic and have a greater ability to cope with difficult situations, reports The Bookseller....
Penguin and Random House merge UK social media
Friday, 6 February 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House has announced it will use the Penguin brand for its consumer activity across all social media, reports the Bookseller. From 4 July, all consumer-facing...
Ashurst Business Literature Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 6 February 2015
The shortlist for the 2014 Ashurst Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Twiggy: The High Stakes Life of Andrew Forrest (Andrew Burrell, Black Inc.) Stop the Presses:...
Agent defends ‘Go Set a Watchman’ as it climbs bestseller charts
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Harper Lee’s international rights agent Andrew Nurnberg said the author is ‘increasingly excited at the prospect of her second novel finally seeing the light of day’ after ‘mounting concern’ followed...
Harper Lee to publish second book
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird (various imprints), will publish her second book in July, reports Publishers Weekly. Go Set a Watchman, published by HarperCollins in the US...
NZ booksellers awarded US conference scholarship
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Booksellers NZ is sending two booksellers to the US for the American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute conference (Wi10).Unity Books Wellington bookseller Matt Bialostocki and Anita Kingston from Paper Plus Remuera are...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
‘We can sell up to 50% of total sales in e-book edition in the first couple of weeks of a book’s life’—Allen & Unwin digital publisher Elizabeth Weiss outlining the...
ALA Awards 2015: Printz, Newbery, Caldecott, Stonewall
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced its awards for children’s and young adult literature, including the Printz, Newbery, Caldecott and Stonewall. The Michael L Printz Award for excellence in...
Roy Morgan study finds more Australians buying ebooks
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
More Australians are buying ebooks according to a study from Roy Morgan Research. The study found that over the past two years, online sales of ebooks have increased across most age...
Controversy over Canadian YA award-winner
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid, a YA book about a transgender teen that won Canada’s 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award, is proving controversial, reports Publishing Perspectives....
The Eagle Inside (Jack Manning Bancroft, illus by Bronwyn Bancroft, Little Hare)
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
At Jimmy the honeyeater’s first day of flying school, he quickly becomes the target of other, bigger birds, who tease and taunt him. He is the only honeyeater and far...
On tour: Meet the author Stephan Pastis
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Stephan Pastis is the author of the ‘Timmy Failure’ series (Walker Books). The latest title in the series, We Meet Again, was published in 2014. Pastis will be touring Australia...
Billie’s new adventure: Sally Rippin on writing picture books
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Sally Rippin’s latest two picture books, Billie’s Great Desert Adventure and Billie’s Underwater Adventure (illus by Alisa Coburn, Hardie Grant Egmont) will ‘stir the imagination in all sorts of colourful...
On tour: Meet the author Roxane Gay
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Roxane Gay is the writer of the novel An Untamed State (Corsair) and the collection of essays Bad Feminist (Corsair). She will be a guest of Adelaide Writers’ Week and...
University publishing symposium to be held in Canberra in March
Monday, 2 February 2015
A one-off symposium on university publishing will be held at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra in March.The ‘Reinventing university publishing’ symposium, to be held from 17-19 March, brings together representatives from university presses,...
New book to advise authors on publicity campaigns
Monday, 2 February 2015
A ‘world-first’ guide for authors running their own publicity campaigns in Australia will be published next month.The DIY Book PR Guide: The HAPPIER Guide to Do-it-yourself Book Publicity in Seven Easy Steps is written...
Amazon reports net loss of US$241 million in 2014
Monday, 2 February 2015
Amazon has released fourth-quarter and full-year figures, reports Publishers Weekly. For the full year, the online retailer’s sales increased 20% to US$88.99 billion (A$1.14 billion), but operating income was only US$178...
S&S launches North Star Way
Monday, 2 February 2015
Simon & Schuster US has launched North Star Way, an imprint and service to help authors to build their public profile, said the company in a statement. North Star Way...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 2 February 2015
The film tie-in edition of American Sniper (Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice, HarperCollins) has jumped from fourth to first spot in this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart and is number one...
James Herbert Award for Horror Writing shortlist announced
Friday, 30 January 2015
In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted titles are: The Girl with All the Gifts...
Enright appointed inaugural Irish fiction laureate
Friday, 30 January 2015
Anne Enright has been appointed the inaugural laureate of Irish fiction, reports the Bookseller. As part of the role, which is worth €150,000 (A$218,630) over its three-year term, Enright will...
Australian author Colleen McCullough dies
Friday, 30 January 2015
Australian author Colleen McCullough has died aged 77.The author passed away on 29 January in hospital on Norfolk Island.McCullough’s publisher HarperCollins has released a statement paying tribute to ‘one of Australia’s most...
Billie’s Underwater Adventure (Sally Rippin, illus by Alisa Coburn, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Friday, 30 January 2015
Billie B has entered the picture book world in Sally Rippin’s new series, ‘Billie’s Super Dooper Adventures’. Seeing a gap in the three-plus pre-school market, Rippin has taken Billie B...
Bogtrotter (Margaret Wild, illus by Judith Rossell, Walker Books)
Friday, 30 January 2015
Some of us spend our lives doing the same thing all day long, every day, day in, day out. We yearn for something different but don’t know how to find...
A Curry for Murray (Kate Hunter, illus by Lucia Masciullo, UQP)
Friday, 30 January 2015
Molly lives next door to Murray and Maureen. When Maureen has to go to hospital, the piggy-tailed little girl decides to look after Murray, who is home alone. With the...
Fish Jam (Kylie Howarth, Five Mile Press)
Friday, 30 January 2015
Jonah and the Whale has got nothing on this book! Toot is a fish who likes to make noise and he loves nothing better than making music. But the rest...
Too Much for Turtle (Cat Rabbit & Isobel Knowles, Thames & Hudson)
Friday, 30 January 2015
With their beautifully delicate handmade felt and cardboard scenes, Cat Rabbit and Isobel Knowles have created another delightful book following their bestseller Owl Know How. In Too Much for Turtle,...
Alice’s Food A-Z (Alice Zaslavsky, illus by Kat Chadwick, Walker Books)
Friday, 30 January 2015
Too often children’s cookbooks are just bad collections of cheap, cheesy content and recipes for happy-face pizzas, which makes finding a good cookbook for primary school kids or your own...
Prince of Afghanistan (Louis Nowra, A&U)
Friday, 30 January 2015
When a hostage rescue mission in a remote region of Afghanistan suddenly goes wrong, 18-year-old Corporal Mark Hollis and an army sniffer dog, Prince, are the only survivors—and now they...
The Hush (Skye Melki-Wegner, Random House)
Friday, 30 January 2015
In a world where Music is the fabric of reality, none but those trained by the elite Conservatorium are allowed to touch the Song (the life force of everything). Travelling...
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