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Huntley to leave Booktopia 

Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Booktopia head of customer experience Alex Huntley is leaving his role after almost a decade with the business. 'I’ve chosen to say goodbye as part of Booktopia’s sad but necessary...

Chinese market down 12% in 2022

Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Overall book sales in China decreased 12% in 2022 according to Beijing OpenBook, reports Publishing Perspectives. While sales via short video ecommerce, such as on TikTok and other platforms, were...

Doris Brett recommends 

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
I have been re-reading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Penguin). I first read, and loved it, as a teenager. It is a sharply written, laugh-out-loud-on-the-tram novel, satirising the doom-and-gloom,...

Doris Brett on ‘Philomella and the Impossible Forest’

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Philomella and the Impossible Forest is Doris Brett's first fiction book for children. A 'playful take on the classic quest story' the middle-grade novel follows Philomella who stumbles upon a forest...

The Paperback Bookshop under new ownership 

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
The Paperback Bookshop, located in Melbourne’s CBD, has been sold by Rosy and Bill Morton after 23 years of ownership. Anna MacDonald took over management on 1 January 2023, after...

NewSouth acquires Tan debut essay collection 

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to Cher Tan’s debut essay collection Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, which blends ‘cultural criticism, experimental writing, autotheory, (inter)net writing and literary memoir’, according to the...

IndieBound joins Bookshop.org

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
In the US, the American Bookseller Association’s consumer-facing online bookselling and marketing platform, IndieBound.org, will switch to using Bookshop.org for sales and fulfilment, reports Publishers Weekly. Bookshop.org founder Andy Hunter...

UK publishers’ ebook sales fall

Monday, 6 February 2023
In the UK, sales of ebooks from the ‘Big Six’ publishers fell 8.3% in 2022, reports the Bookseller. The publishers’ ebook volume to 43.6 million units in 2022, the lowest...

Clunes 2023 program announced

Monday, 6 February 2023
Clunes Booktown festival has announced its ‘biggest program yet’ for the 2023 event to take place on the weekend of 25 and 26 March in Clunes, Victoria. Sessions programmed include...

Arnott longlisted for 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize

Cover of Limberlost Friday, 3 February 2023
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has been longlisted for Swansea University's Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded for the best literary work published in English and written by an author aged 39 or...

NBCC Awards finalists announced

Friday, 3 February 2023
In the US, the shortlists for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been announced. The finalists include: Fiction Dr No (Percival Everett, Graywolf) A New Name (Jon Fosse, trans...

Books in the media this weekend, 4–5 February 

Friday, 3 February 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend.  National The Saturday Paper  Is Mother Dead (Vigdis Hjorth, Verso)  The Passion of Private White...

ANZ authors among Dublin Literary Award longlistees

Friday, 3 February 2023
Several books by Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the €100,000 (A$155,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work...

Au wins 2023 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs

Thursday, 2 February 2023
Jessica Au has won Australia’s single richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her novel Cold Enough for Snow (Giramondo), at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards...

Booktopia secures funding for new CFC 

Booktopia logo Thursday, 2 February 2023
Booktopia has announced it has secured funding for the development of its planned new customer fulfilment centre (CFC) at South Strathfield. The online retailer says it has finalised a $12...

Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 longlists announced

Thursday, 2 February 2023
The longlists for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction Better the Blood (Michael...

Echo acquires Murphy debut novel ‘That is All’ 

Thursday, 2 February 2023
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to debut novel That is All by Liam Murphy via the NAC Literary Agency. The novel follows young Australian Mark Ward’s quest for redemption...

De Kretser shortlisted for 2023 Folio Prize

Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Michelle de Kretser has been shortlisted for the UK’s Rathbones Folio Prize. De Kretser is shortlisted in the fiction category for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U). The titles shortlisted for...

PRH acquires Rieden bio of Quentin Bryce 

Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to an authorised biography of Quentin Bryce by Juliet Rieden in a deal agented by Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown. The...

Newbery, Caldecott 2023 winners announced

Tuesday, 31 January 2023
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott medals, reports Publishers Weekly. Debut author Amina Luqman-Dawson...

Richell to S&S in six-figure pre-empt 

Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired a new novel by Hannah Richell, The Search Party, and a further untitled novel in a six-figure pre-emptive deal struck with Sarah Lutyens and...

 

 

 

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