Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has restructured its business, resulting in three redundancies and the creation of three new positions. HGE managing director Natasha Besliev told Books+Publishing ‘the new model is...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
The shortlist for the inaugural Sarah Broom Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poets are Emma Neale, C K Stead and Kirsti Whalen. The winner of the prize, which...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Norma K Hemming Award has been announced.Presented by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation, the award is for a work of speculative fiction published in Australia...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
‘It’s not just about romance—the company has interesting capabilities’—HarperCollins chief executive Brian Murray on the publisher’s decision to acquire Harlequin. 

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced.The shortlisted authors and their manuscripts are: David Burton for How to Be Happy, ‘a...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
The Northern Territory Library has announced the shortlisted titles for this year’s Territory Read Awards and Northern Territory Literary Awards.The shortlisted titles in the Territory Read Awards are:Chief Minister’s Book...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
The shortlisted works for the Ditmar Awards ballot have been announced and voting has commenced. The shortlisted works include: Best novel Ink Black Magic (Tansy Rayner Roberts, FableCroft) Fragments of...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Iranian-American author Marsha Mehran has died, aged 36. HarperCollins Australia writes:‘HarperCollins is deeply saddened to announce that Marsha Mehran, author of Pomegranate Soup and Rosewater and Soda Bread, has died...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
SalesFiction—Random House has sold Romanian rights to The Mannequin Makers (Craig Cliff).Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold World Spanish rights to Optimum Health the Paleo Way (Claire Yates). Random House has sold...

Monday, 5 May 2014
Nora Roberts’ The Collector (Hachette) is in first place on this week’s bestsellers chart, up from fourth place last week and ahead of last week’s number one The Fault in Our Stars (John...

Monday, 5 May 2014
HarperCollins has agreed to acquire Harlequin for C$455 million (A$446 million), reports Publishers Weekly.The purchase still requires the approval of the US and Canadian governments. In Australia, the Australian Competition...

Friday, 2 May 2014
Bolinda is set to triple its audiobook output following an acquisitions push in the UK.Bolinda announced in April that it has acquired audiobook rights for a number of high-profile international...

Thursday, 1 May 2014
Penguin Random House has announced the appointment of Margaret Thompson to the newly created position of managing director of Penguin Random House New Zealand. The appointment of Thompson, who has...

Thursday, 1 May 2014
A number of Australian and New Zealand writers have been shortlisted for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Works by Australian and New Zealand writers shortlisted for the prize are: ‘The...

Thursday, 1 May 2014
The program for this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), to be held in Melbourne from 27 May to 6 June, has been announced.The festival begins with an ‘opening night extravaganza’...

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
‘The Stella Prize is like the Brownlow Medal of the literary world: all muscle and spine, with a touch of glamour’—2014 Stella Prize winner Clare Wright

Monday, 28 April 2014
The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) is in first place on this week’s bestsellers chart, ahead of seven titles in Veronica Roth’s ‘Divergent’ trilogy (HarperCollins), including regular, adult and...