Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 longlist announced
Wednesday, 4 March 2020
In the UK, the longlist for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Now in its 25th year, the £30,000 (A$58,370) prize is presented annually to the best...
LBF to go ahead as publishers pull UK staff from fair
Wednesday, 4 March 2020
Penguin Random House (PRH), Pan Macmillan and Hachette Livre, as well as Curtis Brown parent company Original Talent, have withdrawn all staff—including UK employees—from the London Book Fair (LBF) due...
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 4 March 2020
The shortlists for the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Auē (Becky Manawatu, Mākaro Press) Pearly Gates (Owen Marshall, Vintage) A...
HarperCollins acquires new Holly Ringland novels in six-figure deal
Wednesday, 4 March 2020
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to two new novels by Holly Ringland in a six-figure deal, via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. The first book in Ringland’s new deal,...
Book industry figures create climate action group
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Writer Sophie Cunningham, children's author Lorna Hendry and Berbay sales and marketing manager Kirsty Wilson have founded an industry action group to address climate change. The Book Industry for Climate...
Big five US publishers, Amazon withdraw from LBF
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Amazon and the US businesses of HarperCollins, Hachette and Penguin Random House are the latest publishers to withdraw staff from the London Book Fair (LBF) due to the coronavirus outbreak,...
Giramondo, Fitzcarraldo, New Directions establish award for lit fic
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Giramondo Publishing has partnered with Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK and New Directions in the US on a new award for literary fiction. Awarded biennially, the Novel Prize will be...
Hachette UK revenue down 1.4% in 2019
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
Lagardère full-year results show that Hachette UK’s revenue was down 1.4% in 2019, reports the Bookseller. Hachette UK CEO David Shelley said that while 2019 was a strong year for...
New $30,000 historical fiction prize
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) and infrastructure and facilities service provider ARA Group have announced a new $30,000 award for an outstanding historical novelist. The award is open to...
ABIA 2020 longlists announced
Monday, 2 March 2020
The longlists for the 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Bruny (Heather Rose, A&U) Call...
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced
Monday, 2 March 2020
The winners of the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, presented biennially by the South Australian government, have been announced. The winning titles are: Premier’s Award for best overall published...
Clunes Booktown Festival 2020 program announced
Monday, 2 March 2020
The program has been announced for this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival, to be held from 2–3 May. Over 30 authors will appear at the festival, including Andy Griffiths, Garry Disher,...
S&S, Macmillan US pull out of LBF due to coronavirus
Monday, 2 March 2020
Several American publishing companies including Simon & Schuster US (S&S), Macmillan Trade US, Ingram Content Group and OverDrive have pulled out of the London Book Fair (LBF) due to the...
Around 15,000 attend Perth Festival’s Literature & Ideas Weekend; Hill tops bestsellers
Monday, 2 March 2020
Around 15,000 people attended Perth Festival’s Literature & Ideas Weekend, which ran from 21–23 February. Perth Festival producer Anna Kosky said the audience was receptive to the new three-day format....
The elephant in the room: Chris Flynn on ‘Mammoth’
Friday, 28 February 2020
Chris Flynn’s third novel Mammoth (UQP, May) handles an ambitious conceit and makes it work, according to reviewer Brad Jefferies. Narrated by the fossil of a 13,000-year-old mammoth, the novel...
Lightning Source to remove books from catalogue for ‘content integrity’
Friday, 28 February 2020
Ingram’s print-on-demand service Lightning Source will remove from its catalogue print content that ‘does harm’ to buyers’ and affects the reputations of its retail and publishing partners. In a notice...
Azar longlisted for International Booker Prize 2020
Friday, 28 February 2020
Iranian-Australian writer Shokoofeh Azar has been longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize for her novel The Englightenment of the Greengage Tree (trans by Anonymous, Wild Dingo Press). Azar is...
BookUp announces first keynotes
Friday, 28 February 2020
The Australian Publishers Association has announced the first keynote speakers for its inaugural book industry conference BookUp. Demographer Claire Madden will present ‘Generational change: where is Australia going?’, a look...
UQP acquires Next Chapter fellow Thompson’s short story collection
Friday, 28 February 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Adam Thompson’s debut short story collection Born into this. Set in Tasmania, Thompson's stories deal with Aboriginal identity and...
Affirm acquires picture book by Godwin, Lester
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Affirm Press has acquired the rights to Sing me the Summer, a picture book written by publisher and author Jane Godwin and illustrated by Alison Lester. The book, which ‘celebrates...
Waterstones staff to receive 6.2% pay rise
Thursday, 27 February 2020
In the UK, staff at bookselling chain Waterstones will receive a 6.2% pay rise, reports the Bookseller. Effective 1 April, the raise in bookseller wages is in line with the...
Booktopia appoints Rowe national sales manager
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Booktopia has appointed Michelle Rowe in the newly created role of national sales manager. Rowe was previously the state manager for Western Australia and South Australia at the University Co-operative...
Godfrey awarded 2020 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Perth-based writer Maddie Godfrey has been awarded the 2020 Kat Muscat Fellowship. Godfrey plans to use the fellowship to develop a hybrid manuscript of poetry and personal essays called ‘Womanhood...
Overland announces Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist
Thursday, 27 February 2020
The shortlist for the 2019 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets has been announced. The nine shortlisted poems are: ‘Chinny chin chin’ (Grace Yee) ‘Eulogy for...
The bookseller’s dilemma: What bookstores won’t stock
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
As conversations proliferate about cultural appropriation in literature, debates about whether—and how—bookstores should stock controversial books have been renewed. In her first column for 2020, Books+Publishing's new columnist Veronica Sullivan...
Why are booksellers leaving Leading Edge?
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
A number of Australia’s most prominent independent booksellers are leaving Leading Edge Books in favour of a new buying group set up by the Australian Booksellers Association. Sarah Farquharson reports....
Folio Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
In the UK, the shortlist for the £30,000 (A$59,000) Rathbones Folio Prize has been announced. The eight shortlisted titles are: Guest House for Young Widows (Azadeh Moaveni, Scribe) On Chapel...
Affirm to publish speculative fiction anthology by diverse writers
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Affirm Press will publish a speculative fiction anthology by writers from Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, as part of a partnership with Diversity Arts Australia and the Western...
TV adaptations of Cheng, Clarke books receive development funding
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
TV adaptions of Melanie Cheng's short story collection Australia Day (Text) and Maxine Beneba Clarke's Foreign Soil (Hachette) have received funding from Screen Australia in its latest development funding announcement. The...
CBCA 2020 Notable Books announced
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its list of Notable Books for 2020. The books in each category are: Older readers The Man in the Water (David...
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