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UQP acquires two new nonfiction titles by Foley, Bond

Monday, 2 December 2019
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to two books by leading Indigenous scholars, visual artist Fiona Foley’s Biting the Clouds and public intellectual Chelsea Bond’s Another...

Room on our Rock wins Charlotte Huck Award in US

Friday, 29 November 2019
In the US, Room on our Rock (Kate & Jol Temple, illus by Terri Rose Baynton, Scholastic) has won the NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for outstanding fiction for children. Room...

Sales wins 2019 Walkley Book Award

Friday, 29 November 2019
Journalist and author Leigh Sales has won the 2019 Walkley Book Award for Any Ordinary Day (Hamish Hamilton). Any Ordinary Day describes how tragedy and loss can affect people. Judges...

Christmas predictions: Tim Gott from Devonport Bookshop

Friday, 29 November 2019
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and surprise sellers. In this first instalment for...

‘The Strays’ to be adapted into six-part drama series

Thursday, 28 November 2019
Emily Bitto’s Stella Prize-winning novel The Strays (Affirm) will be adapted into a six-part drama series as a co-production of See Pictures and Apogee Pictures. Beatrix Christian (Picnic at Hanging...

Readings Foundation announces 2020 grant recipients

Thursday, 28 November 2019
The Readings Foundation has chosen 12 Victorian organisations to share in $135,142 worth of grants in 2020. The grant recipients are: Banksia Gardens Community Service: $10,000 to continue supporting for a...

Costa Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced

Thursday, 28 November 2019
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2019 Costa Book Awards have been announced. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award are: Middle England (Jonathan Coe, Viking) Confession with Blue Horses...

NZ Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa to close

Thursday, 28 November 2019
The New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa will close next month, following Creative New Zealand’s decision to withdraw its funding to the publication. The quarterly publication was launched in...

Wilson to leave Text 

Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Kirsty Wilson will leave her role as Text Publishing sales and marketing director, after 14 years with the company. Wilson was due to return from maternity leave at the end...

Christmas closing list: Final chance to submit dates

Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Publishers and distributors have one more chance to advise Books+Publishing of their Christmas closing dates. If your business doesn’t appear on this week’s list, please submit your business closing dates before...

Christmas closing list 2019

Wednesday, 27 November 2019
  Company Last day of business in 2019  First day of business in 2020 Alliance Distribution Services Closed only on public holidays (see classified) Allen & Unwin Tuesday, 24 December...

Pandiella to return to S&S 

Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Anabel Pandiella will return to the role of marketing and publicity director at Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) in 2020. Pandiella previously worked for S&S for 10 years before joining...

New appointments to Hachette ANZ board 

Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Hachette Australia and New Zealand (HANZ) has made a number of new appointments to its board, effective 1 January next year. Among the appointments are Emma Rusher, who will officially...

O’Brien awarded £40k David Cohen Prize for Literature

Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Irish novelist Edna O'Brien has been awarded the £40,000 (A$75,800) David Cohen Prize for Literature, which recognises a living writer from the UK or Ireland's lifetime achievement in literature. O'Brien...

The Co-op Bookshop, Curious Planet enter voluntary administration 

Tuesday, 26 November 2019
The University Co-operative Bookshop has entered voluntary administration. The company, which runs the retail network of 34 Co-op Bookshops and 63 Curious Planet (formerly Australian Geographic) stores, appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as...

Clark wins Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award 2019

Tuesday, 26 November 2019
The winners of the 2019 Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime, have been announced. Melbourne-based writer and former Herald Sun books editor Blanche Clark won the $1500 first...

 

 

 

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