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Affirm Press acquires Louise picture-book series

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to six books in the picture-book series Handbooks for Little Humans by Zanni Louise, in a deal between Simon & Schuster and Affirm children’s...

Summit Books acquires Nelson short fiction collection

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Simon & Schuster imprint Summit Books has acquired ANZ rights to the debut short fiction collection Wait Here by Lucy Nelson, via Martin Shaw Literary. Each of the stories in...

BWF announces new venue, timing and bookseller

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) will next year take place at the Brisbane Powerhouse and has announced it will move to a later time of year. In a statement, BWF...

Wheelers to match Wheeler Centre donations

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Lonely Planet co-founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler have pledged to match all donations to the Wheeler Centre (TWC) for the next three years, up to $1 million. TWC—a key component...

Hardie Grant acquires Baker-Finch biography

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print, ebook and audiobook rights to the authorised biography Ian Baker-Finch: To Hell and Back by Geoff Saunders. In the book, Saunders has charted the...

Bloomsbury audiobook catalogue added to Spotify

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Bloomsbury had announced its catalogue of audiobook titles will be available through Spotify’s ‘Audiobooks in Premium’ limited-streaming offer. Spotify’s Premium subscribers in the UK, US, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and...

Taylor wins first prize in 2024 Scarlet Stiletto Awards

Monday, 25 November 2024
Sisters in Crime Australia announced the winners of the 2024 Scarlet Stiletto Awards at an event in South Melbourne on Saturday night. Newcastle author Nikki Lee Taylor won the $2000...

Writers receive Arts Tasmania funding

Monday, 25 November 2024
Three writers have received grants in the 2024 round of Arts Tasmania’s individuals and groups 2024-25 funding program. A total of $377,562 was awarded for 20 activities. Recipients with book-related...

Hepworth’s ‘The Family Next Door’ adaptation currently in production

Monday, 25 November 2024
A screen adaptation of Sally Hepworth’s novel The Family Next Door (Macmillan) will be produced as a television series for ABC TV. The six-part drama series follows a stranger as...

‘The Ministry of Time’ named Dymocks Book of the Year

Monday, 25 November 2024
Kaliane Bradley’s novel, The Ministry of Time (Sceptre), has been named the 2024 Dymocks Book of the Year. On accepting the award, Bradley said: ‘There isn’t a vote of confidence...

‘Praiseworthy’ longlisted for Climate Fiction Prize

Monday, 25 November 2024
Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy (Giramondo) has been longlisted for the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize. Chair of judges Madeleine Bunting said Praiseworthy ‘makes you giddy, plunging you into a distinctive form of...

Dymocks returns to Penrith

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Dymocks will return to Sydney’s western suburbs with a new franchise store in Westfield Penrith opening on Friday, 22 November. In a statement, Dymocks said new franchisee Farshid Kamal, a...

Australian bookshops sign up for Global Book Crawl initiative

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Local booksellers in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania are planning to take part in the Global Book Crawl, ‘a dynamic, community-centred event’ planned for the last week of...

New England Illustration Prize 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 21 November 2024
The New England Writers’ Centre has announced the winners of this year’s New England Illustration Prize for Children’s Picture Book Publishing. The winners of the 2024 award are: First prize...

‘Leading Wellbeing’ wins book of the year at the Australian Business Book Awards

Thursday, 21 November 2024
The winners of the 2024 Australian Business Book Awards have been announced. The winners are: Book of the year Leading Wellbeing (Fleur Heazlewood, Major Street) Communications and sales Self-Promotion Without...

Flanagan declines Baillie Gifford prize money

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Richard Flanagan, who was yesterday announced the winner of the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction for his book Question 7 (Knopf), has declined to accept the £50,000 (A$97,227) cash...

‘Flawed Hero’ wins 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year

Thursday, 21 November 2024
Chris Masters has won the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award for the book Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes (A&U). Prize judges said Flawed Hero ‘addresses...

Amplify Bookstore opens physical store

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Amplify Bookstore, which opened in 2020 as an online-only bookseller specialising in in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, has opened a physical bookshop in Melbourne....

Andrew replaces Hardingham at Unity Books Wellington

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Susanna Andrew has been appointed manager of Unity Books Wellington, replacing Adrian Hardingham. In a statement, the bookshop’s co-owners Tilly Lloyd and Jo and Lawrie McColl,...

Wood launches communications agency

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Alice Wood has announced the launch of new communications agency Novel Concept Brand Management. Formerly head of marketing and communications for adult books at HarperCollins, Wood established the business after...

Netflix to release ‘The Woman Who Fooled the World’ adaptation

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Netflix, in collaboration with See-Saw Films and Picking Scabs, has released the first trailer of Apple Cider Vinegar, a limited series inspired by the book The Woman Who Fooled the...

Murdoch acquires ‘She Births’

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to She Births: A Practical Guide to Creating a Beautiful Birth by Nadine Richardson, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. Richardson is...

S&S acquire Masen romance series

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to two novels in a new romance series from Kat T Masen. Described as a ‘small-town billionaire romance series’, the series...

Flanagan wins 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
In the UK, Question 7 by Australian author Richard Flanagan (Knopf) has won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$96,097), becoming the first author to win both this...

‘Nuked’ wins 2024 Walkley Book Award

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Andrew Fowler has won the 2024 Walkley Book Award for Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty (MUP). Walkley judges said: ‘Andrew Fowler’s razor-sharp analysis uses extensive research and interviews...

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