Monday, 15 September 2014
Lou Johnson, managing director of Simon & Schuster Australia, has resigned and will leave the company after a ‘smooth transition to new leadership’.‘Lou has decided to seek challenges in her...

Monday, 15 September 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Eleven Grams of Trouble’ by Frank Bowden (Inside Story) ‘TB and...

Friday, 12 September 2014
The campus bookselling chain the Co-op has announced it will open its first two stores at Queensland’s James Cook University.The stores will be located at the university’s Cairns and Townsville...

Friday, 12 September 2014
Susannah Chambers, commissioning editor of books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin, has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report into YA literature following her three-month placement...

Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Sam Bramham, paralympian and author of the memoir Three-Quarter Man (Affirm Press) is a housemate in the current season of reality TV show ‘Big Brother’.Bramham entered the ‘Big Brother’ house...

Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) is on the shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize. The shortlist of six, selected from a longlist of 13,...

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...