Galgut wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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’ Archive
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...
Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest award shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for a collection of poems by an Australian woman poet has been announced. The seven shortlisted poets are: Michelle...
Inaugural Speculate Prize shortlist announced Archive
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The shortlist for the inaugural Speculate Prize, for an unpublished speculative fiction manuscript, has been announced.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 Archive
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 Archive
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)...
Speech Pathology 2021 Book of the Year winners announced Archive
Monday, 1 November 2021
The winners of the 2021 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Birth to three years Look, Baby! (Janeen Brian, illus by...
‘The Unforgiven’ wins Cricket Society & MCC Book of the Year Archive
Monday, 1 November 2021
Ashley Gray’s The Unforgiven (Pitch Publishing) has won the Cricket Society and MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) Book of the Year award, presented at a ceremony at Lords Cricket Ground in London on...
Books in the media this weekend Archive
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...
Parliamentary inquiry recommends increased ABS funding, PLR/ELR review, minimum Aus content Archive
Friday, 29 October 2021
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts has released its report on Australia’s cultural and creative industries and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the...
Books among Victorian Community History Awards winners Archive
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:...
‘Waves Across the South’ wins British Academy Book Prize Archive
Thursday, 28 October 2021
In the UK, Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram has won the £25,000 (A$46,750) British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for Waves Across the South: A new history of revolution...
IBBY Australia names 2022 Honour List selections Archive
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 Archive
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...
The road not taken: One year on from the 2020 Beatrice Davis Fellowship report Archive
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Following her 2020 Beatrice Davis Fellowship report 'It’s hard to be what you can’t see: Diversity Within Australian Publishing', Radhiah Chowdhury reflects on the experiences of those in the First...
Moriarty, de Kretser, Allende among first AWW guests Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
A&U acquires debut middle-grade novel ‘A Girl Called Corpse’ Archive
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to A Girl Called Corpse: An Elston-Fright tale, the debut middle-grade novel by Reece Carter. The book was acquired by A&U children’s...
Josh Pyke & Ronojoy Ghosh on ‘Family Tree’ Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
‘Henry Hamlet’s Heart’ sells to US, UQP acquires second Wilde YA novel Archive
Monday, 25 October 2021
UQP has sold North American rights for Rhiannon Wilde's YA debut Henry Hamlet’s Heart to Charlesbridge, and has acquired world rights to Wilde's second novel Where You Left Us. Released...
Serong, Nannestad win $100k Historical Novel Prize Archive
Monday, 25 October 2021
Victorian writer Jock Serong has won the $50,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize in the adult category for The Burning Island (Text), while Katrina Nannestad has won the $30,000 children and...
S&S signs Spicer book on AI bias Archive
Monday, 25 October 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired a new book by journalist Tracey Spicer on ‘the ways that sexist and racist stereotypes are being embedded into emerging technologies, thus perpetuating...
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