Wednesday, 10 September 2014
‘I’m speechless in Seattle’—Richard Flanagan on his shortlisting for the Man Booker Prize. He also said he was overwhelmed, delighted, thrilled and honoured. Flanagan is currently promoting his book in the...

Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 52-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has inspired a Guinness World Record for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Trees. Pan Macmillan publicist Charlotte Ree collaborated...

Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Penguin New Zealand and Random House New Zealand ‘will merge all our functions and become one fully integrated business from January 2015’, according to a statement from managing director Margaret Thompson....

Tuesday, 9 September 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize will be announced in the UK overnight. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Australian author Richard Flanagan has been longlisted for the prize...

Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Boffins Bookshop in Perth has announced that Barbara Horgan has joined the business. Horgan, who previously owned Shearer’s Bookshop in Sydney with her husband Tony, has moved with her husband to...

Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Scholastic has reported global profits of US$107 million (A$115 million) for the 2014 financial year, an increase of 31% on the previous year, when it reported profits of US$81.5 million...

Monday, 8 September 2014
The Small Press Network has released a draft program for its third Independent Publishing Conference, which will be held in Sydney from 13 to 14 November. The first day of...

Monday, 8 September 2014
The winners of the 2014 Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing were announced at the Brisbane Writers Festival on 6 September.The fiction award went to Adrian McKinty for In the...

Monday, 8 September 2014
The winners of the NSW Premier’s History Awards have been announced as part of the official launch of NSW History Week. The awards, which total $75,000 in prize money, incorporated...

Monday, 8 September 2014
Following the success of the bestselling The 39-Storey Treehouse, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton have returned with The 52-Storey Treehouse (Pan). The 13 new ‘storeys’ feature a rocket-powered carrot-launcher, a ninja...

Monday, 8 September 2014
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the appointment of Michael Webster as chair of the SPN board.‘Michael’s career in the Australian book industry has spanned more than forty years...

Friday, 5 September 2014
The University of Queensland Press is publishing a series of ‘UQP Modern Classics’.The new series features early works from Australian authors previously published by UQP that have been ‘repackaged for...

Friday, 5 September 2014
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains six reviews of children’s and YA books publishing in October and November.Included is a review of The Three Billy Goats Gruff from Little Hare’s new...

Thursday, 4 September 2014
Melissa Lucashenko has won the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her novel Mullumbimby (UQP).The $20,000 award was presented at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne as part...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
The winners of the Wilderness Society’s 2014 Environment Award for Children’s Literature were announced at the Little Bookroom in Melbourne on 2 September. Bush Baby Rescue: Juliet Nearly a Vet Book...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is staging its eighth Indigenous Literacy Day today (Wednesday 3 September) to raise money for Indigenous literacy.A number of booksellers and publishers are donating a percentage...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
The 2014 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) kicks off today and runs until 7 September.As previously reported by Books+Publishing, more than 200 writers and illustrators will participate in this year’s festival, which is...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
‘If we in the print business want to survive, we have to make print an entirely different experience from reading digitally’—Melbourne Writers Festival guest Dave Eggers argues for a greater...

Tuesday, 2 September 2014
The inaugural two-day Writers Victoria Manuscript Assessor Conference kicks off today in Melbourne.The conference, which is open to emerging and established assessors, will host discussions on the best practice, professional...

Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Literary journal Island has announced the launch of the WD Booth Charitable Trust/Island Emerging Writer Mentoring Program to ‘build the resilience and capacity of the writing sector in Tasmania’.The program...

Monday, 1 September 2014
Liam McIlvanney has won the 2014 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for Where the Dead Men Go (Faber).McIlvanney won the NZ$1000 (A$895) award ahead of fellow shortlisted authors Paul Cleave (Joe...

Monday, 1 September 2014
The Stella Prize Schools Program will launch in Melbourne on 10 September with a free event for teachers, librarians, educators and students. The event will feature Australian authors Carrie Tiffany, Cate Kennedy...