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Galgut wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’

Thursday, 4 November 2021
South African author Damon Galgut has won the £50,000 (A$91,830) Booker Prize for his ninth novel The Promise (Chatto & Windus), reports the Bookseller. Galgut’s novel, set in South Africa during the...

Melbourne City of Lit meets Bucheon’s Yong Books

Wednesday, 3 November 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Today we...

NEWC crowd-funds children’s publishing book

Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The New England Writers' Centre (NEWC) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the printing and marketing of Inside Story: the wonderful world of writing, illustrating and publishing...

Hachette acquires Bravery’s ‘The Patient Doctor’ 

Wednesday, 3 November 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to ‘part memoir, part manifesto’ The Patient Doctor by cancer survivor turned doctor, Ben Bravery, in a deal brokered by agent Catherine Drayton at...

Inaugural Speculate Prize shortlist announced

Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The shortlist for the inaugural Speculate Prize, for an unpublished speculative fiction manuscript, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: ‘Let’s Talk Trojan Bee: Stories’ by Alex Cothren ‘The Best...

US DoJ sues to block Bertelsmann’s acquisition of S&S

Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has sued to block Penguin Random House (PRH) parent company Bertelsmann’s proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S), reports Publishers Weekly. The lawsuit, filed...

Souhami, Zaidi win 2021 Polari Prizes

Monday, 1 November 2021
In the UK, writers Diana Souhami and Mohsin Zaidi have won the 2021 Polari Prizes for work that explores the LGBT experience, reports the Bookseller. Souhami won the £2000 (A$3642)...

Books in the media this weekend 

Friday, 29 October 2021
This week’s round-up will be updated as data is available.  National The Saturday Paper How to End a Story (Helen Garner, Text) The Magpie Wing (Max Easton, Giramondo) Wild Abandon...

Books among Victorian Community History Awards winners

Friday, 29 October 2021
The 2021 winners of the Victorian Community History Awards have been announced. The following books were among the winners and commended entries: Judges special prize (joint winners): Under the Rainbow:...

IBBY Australia names 2022 Honour List selections

Thursday, 28 October 2021
IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Australia has selected writer Vikki Wakfield and artist Philip Bunting for the 2022 IBBY Honour List. Wakefield, who is based in South...

Deborah Cass Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Thursday, 28 October 2021
Writers Victoria and the Deborah Cass Prize Committee have announced the shortlist for the 2021 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds. The shortlisted works and their authors...

Moriarty, de Kretser, Allende among first AWW guests

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Adelaide Writers' Week (AWW), which runs as part of Adelaide Festival, has announced the first guests for its 2022 festival, to take place 5–10 March at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial...

Bonnier UK to launch ‘disruptive’ new publisher

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
In the UK, Bonnier Books is launching a new ‘independently run, disruptive publisher of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction’, Footnote Press, in partnership with founders Vidisha Biswas and Sujoy Roy,...

WBN published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 27 October 2021
The Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) will be published on Thursday, 4 November, next week due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday on Tuesday, 2 November The deadline for classifieds and...

Josh Pyke & Ronojoy Ghosh on ‘Family Tree’

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Singer–songwriter and children's book author Josh Pyke celebrates Australia's diverse and multicultural society in his latest picture book Family Tree (Scholastic, January) with illustrations by Ronojoy Ghosh. Reviewer Romi Sharp said...

Frankfurt reports 73,500 in-person attendees

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Frankfurt Book Fair has reported that 36,000 trade visitors from 105 countries, and 37,500 public visitors, attended this year’s event, which ran from 20–24 October, reports Publishing Perspectives. Visitors came...

Writers Vic announces 2021 Writeability fellows

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Writers Victoria has announced the 2021 Writeability fellows. The following five writers with disability were awarded Writeability fellowships: Beau Windon for 'A Proud Failure', a hybrid memoir exploring neurodiversity through...

SPN Book of the Year Award shortlist announced

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
The shortlist for the Small Press Network (SPN) Book of the Year Award has been announced. Formerly the Most Underrated Book Award, the prize was first presented under its new...

Nielsen: Book sales surge after NSW reopens 

Monday, 25 October 2021
Australian book sales for the week ending 16 October 2021 have broken the average BookScan weekly sales record for this time of year over the past decade, in what was...

Australians nominated for 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Monday, 25 October 2021
Six Australian authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. The Australian candidates are: Jeannie...

 

 

 

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