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...
Bergmoser’s ‘The Hunted’ to be adapted for screen
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Writer and director John Michael McDonagh, with Film Constellation and CAA Media Finance, will adapt The Hunted, a novel by Gabriel Bergmoser (HarperCollins), for film in Australia in 2025. The...
Lloyd, Hart to launch Pink Shorts Press
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Co-founders Margot Lloyd and Emily Hart have announced the establishment of new publishing venture Pink Shorts Press, which will launch in Adelaide during Adelaide Writers' Week in March 2025. Lloyd...
QBD to open Ballarat store
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
QBD Books has announced it will open a new bookstore at Stockland Wendouree in Ballarat, Victoria. Authors appearing at the grand opening on 23 November will include Amy Doak with...
Australian authors launch Summer Reading for MPs campaign
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
A group of over 90 Australian authors and other members of the literary community have given Australian federal parliamentarians a ‘carefully curated package of books on the Middle East to...
Diversity Works outlines ‘areas for improvement’ in PANZ member ‘baseline’ survey report
Monday, 18 November 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ), in collaboration with Diversity Works, has released a report communicating findings from a diversity baseline...
Yen Press joins Hachette, ADS for ANZ sales and distribution
Monday, 18 November 2024
Hachette Australia, Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand, and Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) have announced Yen Press has partnered with the organisations for their sales and distribution services throughout Australia and Aotearoa...
UWAP acquires Smith’s YA novel
Monday, 18 November 2024
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Pip Smith’s YA novel The Pull of the Moon. Inspired by the Janga/SIEV-221 tragedy in December 2010, The Pull of the Moon...
Jones receives Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Monday, 18 November 2024
Gail Jones has won the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, ‘recognising her impressive body of work and her ongoing mentoring of young writers’. The award ‘acknowledges the...
Inaugural DANZ festival announced
Monday, 18 November 2024
The Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Children's Book Award organisation (DANZ) has announced it is planning a children’s book festival. In a brief statement in which it launched...
Wright, Tiffany 2024 Melbourne Prize winners
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, and Carrie Tiffany has won the $10,000 Writers Prize. A member of the Waanyi Nation of the Southern Highlands of...
Storylines Notable Book Award 2024 winners
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa has announced the 2024 Storylines Notable Book Award winners. This year’s winners are: Te Reo Māori A Ariā me te...
Saleh and Treloar joint winers of 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced joint winners for the 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award: Sara M Saleh for Songs for the Dead and the Living (Affirm) and Lucy Treloar...
Booktopia announces staff appointments
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Online bookseller Booktopia has announced a number of staff appointments, following the acquisition of the business by digiDirect owner Shant Kradjian. Sophie Higgins, among whose previous roles is the position...
UQP acquires Wood middle-grade novel
Thursday, 14 November 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to a new middle-grade novel by Fiona Wood, titled The Boy and the Dog Tree, in a two-book deal, via Katelyn...
A&U acquires Beaumont thriller
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Liar’s Game, the third book in Jack Beaumont’s Frenchman series of thrillers, via Laura Bonner of WME. In the new book,...
Booktopia Group insolvent since at least 31 January; entities put into liquidation
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Booktopia Group Limited creditors have voted in favour of the resolution that Booktopia Group Limited—and associated entities Booktopia Pty Ltd, Making I. T. Better Pty Ltd, and Virtual Lifestyles Pty...
Gale and Golding to depart Scribe in restructure
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Scribe has announced that trade sales manager Sarina Gale and senior editor David Golding will leave the company after a restructure. Gale and Golding, both based in Melbourne, will leave...
Hardie Grant leadership changes
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Hardie Grant (HG) has announced a new leadership team, following the announcement that Julie Pinkham will be stepping down from the position of group managing director after 27 years with...
HarperCollins acquires Johnston novel ‘The Revisionists’
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Revisionists, a new novel by Michelle Johnston, via Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary. The publisher said the book ‘examines the malleability of...
EWF announces inaugural Speculate Prize for Emerging Writers
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced the inaugural Speculate Prize for Emerging Writers, in partnership with RMIT University. Open to Australian emerging writers studying at TAFE or university who...
Wong receives Burr/Tatham Trust Award
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Alison Wong is the recipient of the NZ$35,000 Burr/Tatham Trust Award, which is one of eight 2024 Laureate Awards presented by the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi to ‘celebrate and...
ADS to trial airfreight to NZ
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) has announced a new trial airfreight service designed to support Aotearoa New Zealand customers during the Christmas peak bookselling season. Aotearoa New Zealand customers will have...
Oliver children’s book withdrawn from sale
Monday, 11 November 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) UK has withdrawn Jamie Oliver’s children’s book Billy and the Epic Escape from sale in all countries where it holds rights, including Australia and the UK,...
Smith wins 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize
Monday, 11 November 2024
Overland has announced that Yasmin Smith is the winner the 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. Smith receives a $5000 cash prize, as well as an optional writing...
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