Kenwood’s ‘Unnecessary Drama’ sells to US
Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Text has sold North American rights to Nina Kenwood’s second YA novel Unnecessary Drama to Sarah Barley at Flatiron Books, in a deal brokered by David Forrer at Inkwell Management....
Harper tops libraries index second year running
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Public sector software provider Civica and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have released this year’s Civica Libraries Index, which looked at borrowing data across regional and metropolitan libraries...
Scholastic sales up 26%
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
In the US, Scholastic’s revenue grew 26% to US$1.6 billion (A$2.3b) in the year ending 31 May. The company posted an operating profit of US$97.5 million (A$140.2m) after a loss...
Davitt Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2022 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult crime novel...
UQP acquires inaugural Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award–winning novel
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to the debut novel Roseghetto by Kirsty Jagger, inaugural recipient of the Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award for a writer from a background of social and...
Reviews, residencies, new publications receive latest Copyright Agency funding
Monday, 25 July 2022
Increased funding for book reviews, a new Mascara x Varuna editorial and writing residency, and several publications are among 20 initiatives receiving a total of $256,245 in the latest round...
PRH acquisition of S&S goes to court
Monday, 25 July 2022
In the US, the bid by the Department of Justice (DoJ) to block the acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S) by Penguin Random House (PRH) will be heard in court...
Kennedy wins 2022 Furphy Literary Award
Monday, 25 July 2022
The winners of the 2022 Furphy Literary Award have been announced. Cate Kennedy won first place in the open category for her short story ‘Art and Life’, receiving $15,000 and...
Books in the media this weekend, 23–24 July
Friday, 22 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Harvest Lingo (Lionel Fogarty, Giramondo) Out of Breath (Anna Snoekstra, HQ Fiction)...
Henderson appointed Hachette senior nonfiction publisher
Friday, 22 July 2022
Hachette Australia has appointed Scott Henderson, previously editor and content director of Men’s Health Australia, as senior nonfiction publisher. Group publishing director Fiona Hazard said Henderson 'clearly has the vision...
China book sales down 14%
Friday, 22 July 2022
Data from Beijing OpenBook has shown a 13.8% year-on-year decline in book sales in China for the first half of 2022, reports Publishing Perspectives. Compared to the same period in...
Ultimo launches UK fiction list
Friday, 22 July 2022
Ultimo Press will launch six fiction titles into the UK market in late 2022. Carried by the Hardie Grant UK sales team, Ultimo’s fiction list will be launched in the...
Furphy Literary Award 2022 shortlist announced
Thursday, 21 July 2022
The shortlist for the 2022 Furphy Literary Award has been announced. The winner of the short story competition receives $15,000, making the award one of the richest prizes for a...
German book sales flat amid concerns for bricks-and-mortar shops
Thursday, 21 July 2022
German book sales were up 0.7% year-on-year by value in the first half of 2022, reports the Bookseller. The data, from trade association Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, shows sales from...
Down wins 2022 Miles Franklin for ‘Bodies of Light’
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Jennifer Down has won the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her second novel Bodies of Light (Text). At 31 years old, Down is one of the youngest authors...
A&U acquires Lim middle-grade novel
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ, Oceania and non-exclusive Asia rights to a new middle-grade novel by Rebecca Lim, Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky, via the Annabel Barker...
Affirm acquires two Robinson novels
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to two new novels by Alice Robinson. The first title, Blueshifts, is a literary/speculative fiction novel set both 100 years into the future and...
Meet ABA Children’s Bookseller of the Year Becky Lucas
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Becky Lucas is the owner of Shakespeare's Bookshop in Blackwood, in the Adelaide foothills. Named 2022 ABA Children's Bookseller of the Year, Lucas has a passion for children's books and...
HarperCollins US staff to go on one-day strike
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
In the US, unionised employees of HarperCollins will hold a one-day strike on Wednesday, July 20, reports Publishers Weekly. UAW Local 2110, a union for technical, office and professional workers,...
T S Bookshop urges board to rethink closure
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Customers and supporters of the T S Bookshop in Melbourne have launched a Change.org petition in response to the planned closure of the store by the board of the Theosophical...
Bookshop tour: Scorpio Books, Christchurch
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Established nearly 50 years ago, Scorpio Books is the biggest bookshop in the South Island of Aoteoroa New Zealand, and is considered an institution by many Christchurch locals. The well-loved...
Summers leaves Hardie Grant
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Hardie Grant Books publisher Arwen Summers has left the role after five years at the company. Summers said in a LinkedIn post she was 'in need of major change' after two...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2022 finalists announced
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
The finalists for the 2022 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Finalists were announced in 10 categories including: Best illustrated book Bill Hammond: Across...
HarperCollins acquires two crime novels by Lando
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to two novels by Veronica Lando, via Benjamin Paz at Curtis Brown. The first book, The Drowning Girls, is a ‘darkly absorbing’ mystery set in...
Batt awarded Reading Australia fellowship
Monday, 18 July 2022
The Copyright Agency has named Jantiena Batt, a deputy principal working within the ACT Education Directorate, as the 2022 Reading Australia Fellow for Teachers of English Literacy. Batt receives a...
Orwell Prizes 2022 winners announced
Monday, 18 July 2022
In the UK, journalist Sally Hayden and novelist Claire Keegan have won the 2022 Orwell Prizes. Hayden was awarded the Orwell Prize for Political Writing for My Fourth Time, We...
Sidnam wins 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize
Friday, 15 July 2022
Wellington-based poet and student Emma Sidnam has been awarded the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of four,...
Books in the media this weekend, 16–17 July
Friday, 15 July 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Lilly and Her Slave (Has Fallada, Scribe) Uncanny Angles (Sean Williams,...
Ultimo acquires debut novel ‘Higher Education’
Friday, 15 July 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel Higher Education by Kira McPherson, in a deal brokered by Cara Lee Simpson from UK-based agency Peters Fraser + Dunlop. According...
Nash to step down from Booktopia executive management
Thursday, 14 July 2022
The board of Booktopia Group has given founder and CEO Tony Nash notice to step away from executive management of the company. Current CFO Geoff Stalley has been appointed interim...
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