Tuesday, 27 August 2013
The program for the ninth annual Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival in Geraldton, Western Australia, has been announced. The festival, which runs from 13-15 September, includes author talks, panel...

Tuesday, 27 August 2013
Sales Fiction—The Drummond Agency has sold world rights to books five and six in the ‘Tales from the Highland Gazette’ series (A D Scott) to Atria US, and to the already published...

Monday, 26 August 2013
Australian author Hannah Kent has been nominated for this year’s Guardian First Book Award for her novel Burial Rites (Picador). Eleven titles have been longlisted for the £10,000 (A$17,250) award,...

Monday, 26 August 2013
Hachette titles dominate this week’s highest new entries chart. In first place on the chart is Watching You by Michael Robotham, followed by Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson, The...

Friday, 23 August 2013
The Age Book of the Year Awards have been suspended and may not be presented this year. In previous years, the awards have been presented on opening night of the...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Books wholesaler and remainders dealer TB Clarke and its retail arm AllBooks4Less are now in liquidation after being placed into administration in early July. According to a notice lodged with the...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Sydney University Press production coordinator Agata Mrva-Montoya has won a scholarship to attend the International Publishing Management course at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland in early September. Mrva-Montoya...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Gideon Haigh has won the Australian Cricket Society Jack Pollard Literary Award for the sixth time for his book On Warne (Hamish Hamilton). Haigh will be presented with the 2012-13...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold rights to Growing Yourself Up (Jenny Brown) in the Netherlands and Belgium; French language rights to The Happiness Trap Pocket Book (Russ Harris & Bev...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
US author and screenwriter Elmore Leonard has died, aged 87. Leonard is the author of 45 novels, many of which were adapted for film and television. His novels adapted for...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
‘I want to find the next Michelle de Kretser, the next Anna Funder or the next Gail Jones. There are very few companies expanding their publishing lists at the moment...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Genre publisher Clan Destine Press has launched three short-form digital imprints: Crime Shots, Encounters and Clan Destine Fictions. Crime Shots is an imprint for true crime writing, Encounters features erotic stories and Clan Destine...

Monday, 19 August 2013
Underbelly: Squizzy (A&U) tells the story of Squizzy Taylor’s quest to become Melbourne’s first celebrity gangster in the 1920s. Based on the television miniseries currently screening on Channel Nine, the...

Monday, 19 August 2013
The Dymocks store in Ellenbrook in Western Australia has won the Dymocks Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2013 Dymocks national conference, held in Adelaide from 11-13 August. The Dymocks store...

Monday, 19 August 2013
Writers Victoria has announced the winners of the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. The $1000 prize for creative nonfiction was awarded to Judith Bunn for her memoir ‘Pink’, and...

Friday, 16 August 2013
Aviva Tuffield will join Melbourne-based publisher Affirm Press in the role of publisher this month. Affirm Press said in a statement that Tuffield, who has left Scribe Publications, where she...