Affirm acquires Rees children’s book
Thursday, 8 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a children’s book by ABC children’s television presenter Jimmy 'Giggle' Rees, via Red Mgmt. Rees’s debut, to be illustrated by Briony Stewart, will...
Hachette acquires Wilson picture book series
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a ‘funny and heartfelt’ picture book series by Australian comic actress Rebel Wilson. The ‘Bella the Brave’ series, to be published in hardback...
National Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
In the US, the shortlists for the 2020 National Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Leave the World Behind (Rumaan Alam, Bloomsbury) A...
Outer limits: Philip Bunting on ‘Give Me Some Space!’
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Philip Bunting's picture book Give Me Some Space! (December, Omnibus) follows Una, whose determination to explore space results in a new mission—to take care of our own planet. Reviewer Bronte Coates...
A most extraordinary year in books
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Australian Booksellers Association CEO Robbie Egan says readers are spoiled for choice this Christmas—but in addition to shopping local, they’ll have to shop early. Those in the book trade will...
Celebrating in a pandemic: Monash University Publishing turns 10
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Several publishers had big plans for significant birthdays this year, until Covid came along. In the first of a series of birthday profiles, we hear about 10 years of publishing...
Victorian literary orgs to receive Creative Vic funding
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Creative Victoria has announced the 78 arts and cultural organisations that will share in $7.85 million in grants in stage two of its Strategic Investment Fund. The funding is ‘focused...
Inaugural $50k Historical Novel Prize longlist announced
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlist for the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. The HNSA has also confirmed sponsor ARA has doubled its funding for the...
ALIA welcomes library budget announcement
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has welcomed the ‘positive outcomes’ for library and information workers announced in the Federal government’s 2020-21 budget. The federal government announced $31.2 million...
QPF receives funding for digital adaptation
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
The Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) is among 52 arts projects to receive funding under the Queensland Government’s Digital Adaptation stream of its Arts and Cultural Recovery Package. QPF receives $9,651...
Richell Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 6 October 2020
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the shortlist for the 2020 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: ‘The Boy Who...
Black Inc. acquires Wear’s ‘Recovery’
Monday, 5 October 2020
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to Recovery by Andrew Wear, via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell Agency. Recovery, which follows on from Wear’s first book Solved!, will examine the calamities...
Booktopia announces senior appointments
Monday, 5 October 2020
Online bookseller Booktopia has appointed chief financial officer Wayne Baskin as executive director, and named Geoff Stalley as the retailer’s new CFO. As executive director Baskin joins the Booktopia board,...
Reminder: Love Your Bookshop Day this Saturday
Friday, 2 October 2020
The Australian Booksellers Association's (ABA) annual Love Your Bookshop Day will take place this Saturday, 3 October. As well as an opportunity for Australian booksellers to thank their customers for...
Serpell wins 2020 Arthur C Clarke Award for ‘The Old Drift’
Friday, 2 October 2020
Zambian author Namwali Serpell has won the 2020 Arthur C Clarke award for science-fiction for her debut novel The Old Drift (Vintage), reports the Guardian. The Old Drift, described as ‘a...
Affirm Press acquires Chatfield’s ‘So Let’s Unpack That’
Friday, 2 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to ‘feminist handbook’ So Let’s Unpack That by reality television star Abbie Chatfield, via her management, Stage Addiction. With the acronym ‘SLUT’, Chatfield’s book...
Fenster wins 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize
Friday, 2 October 2020
Gigi Fenster has won the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel for ‘A Good Winter’. Chosen from a shortlist of three, the winning manuscript was announced during an...
Barbara Jefferis Award 2020 shortlist announced
Friday, 2 October 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the $50,000 Barbara Jefferis Award. The shortlisted novels are: The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP) Too Much Lip (Melissa...
Proportion of UK YA writers of colour doubles since 2017
Thursday, 1 October 2020
In the UK, a study has found the proportion of authors of colour writing YA in the UK has more than doubled since 2017, reports the Guardian. According to research...
Big Issue announces 2020 fiction edition line-up
Thursday, 1 October 2020
The Big Issue has announced the authors that will appear in its 16th annual fiction edition. The 2020 edition features 14 stories from Australian writers, including new commissioned work from...
UQP acquires Thunig’s ‘Tell Me Again’
Thursday, 1 October 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Indigenous academic, writer and media commentator Amy Thunig’s first book, Tell Me Again. UQP said the collection of essays...
Meet UQP rights and contracts manager Kate McCormack
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Kate McCormack has been the rights and contracts manager for Brisbane-based independent UQP for the past four years, joining the publisher after 10 years at Penguin Random House Australia and...
Christmas buyers’ picks: Ruth Ellis at WHSmith
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
In the lead-up to Christmas 2020, Books+Publishing is asking book buyers across the country to share what titles they're investing in for the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar. In...
UK, North American bodies form green book supply chain alliance
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
The UK’s Book Industry Communication (BIC) has formed an international green book supply chain alliance with Canada’s BookNet and US body the Book Industry Study Group, reports the Bookseller. Under...
The Turning Page Bookshop to become co-op
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
The owners of the Turning Page Bookshop in the Blue Mountains suburb of Springwood, NSW are in the process of transforming the business into a co-operative, after putting the shop...
Affirm acquires Bontempelli picture book
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a children’s picture book by Western Bulldogs AFL player Marcus Bontempelli, via Tom Petroro of TLA. To be co-authored with Fiona Harris, the...
Pan Macmillan acquires Rushton’s ‘The Most Important Job in the World’
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Pan Macmillan has acquired ANZ rights to The Most Important Job in the World by journalist Gina Rushton. The book, a blend of reportage, memoir and essay exploring ‘the most pressing...
Australian Short Story Festival 2020 cancelled
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
The organising committee of the Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF) has announced the 2020 festival will not go ahead in October in Adelaide as planned, due to the Covid-19 pandemic....
Little Pink Dog Books announces Authorstrator Prize
Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Independent children's publisher Little Pink Dog Books has announced a new annual prize for picture book author/illustrators. The Authorstrator Prize recognises picture book creators who 'work their magic with both...
Scribe acquires Sparrow’s ‘A Secret History of Climate Change’
Monday, 28 September 2020
Scribe has acquired world rights to Jeff Sparrow’s A Secret History of Climate Change, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom said: ‘Jeff is one of Australia’s...
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