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Diversity in UK publishing: what’s changed?

Thursday, 7 November 2019
In 2017 BookBrunch feature writer Julie Vuong reported on the UK book industry’s efforts to encourage diversity. Two years on, she considers the industry’s progress. Here we are: two years...

My life in books: Tim Gott from Devonport Bookshop 

Thursday, 7 November 2019
Tim and Anne Gott have owned the Devonport Bookshop for almost 25 years. In his bookseller’s diary, Tim shares stories from his bookselling career and observations on Devonport’s urban renewal....

Long-term appeal: Marketing a series 

Thursday, 7 November 2019
How—and to whom—do publishers market books as part of series? Bec Kavanagh spoke to Hardie Grant Egmont and Scholastic about their approaches to creating buzz that transforms into longevity. In two...

ACT libraries to scrap fines

Thursday, 7 November 2019
The ACT’s libraries will abolish fines for late return of books from 21 November, becoming the latest locality to move away from the fines system, reports the Guardian. The ACT...

Walkley Book Award 2019 shortlist announced

Thursday, 7 November 2019
The Walkley Book Award 2019 shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up (Gabrielle Chan, Vintage) See What You Made Me Do (Jess Hill, Black...

A&U sells ‘Pain and Prejudice’ to US, UK

Thursday, 7 November 2019
Allen & Unwin has sold rights to Gabrielle Jackson’s Pain and Prejudice to Piatkus in the UK and Greystone Books in North America. Published in Australia in October, Pain and...

Pantera acquires new Amal Awad novel 

Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to journalist and author Amal Awad’s third novel, Control on the Way Down, a work of women’s fiction. Awad’s novel is about a Muslim...

PRH to acquire complete works of Eric Carle

Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Penguin Random House US (PRH) children’s imprint Penguin Young Readers will acquire author and illustrator Eric Carle’s company, Eric Carle LLC, which holds the intellectual property rights to Carle’s books,...

VanOver returns to PRH amid staff changes 

PRH logo Monday, 4 November 2019
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced a number of staff changes in its adult publishing division. Brandon VanOver has returned to PRH in the role of commissioning editor, where...

McTiernan wins Barry Award for best paperback original

Monday, 4 November 2019
Dervla McTiernan has won the Barry Award for best paperback original for her 2018 novel The Ruin (HarperCollins). The annual literary crime awards, named for American critic and crime fiction...

Staunch Book Prize 2019 shortlist announced

Monday, 4 November 2019
In the UK, the shortlist for the Staunch Book Prize—for the best thriller novel in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered—has been announced. The shortlisted...

No ‘Daily’ on Tuesday

Monday, 4 November 2019
Please note that, due to the Melbourne Cup holiday on Tuesday, the next Daily newsletter will be published on Wednesday, 6 November.

PRH raises $100k for ILF programs

PRH logo Friday, 1 November 2019
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has presented a $100,000 donation to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). The $100,000 cheque was presented to the ILF at a book launch this morning,...

UNESCO announces 11 new cities of literature

Friday, 1 November 2019
UNESCO has announced 11 additional cities of literature among 66 newly designated creative cities. The new cities of literature are: Angoulême (France) Beirut (Lebanon) Exeter (UK) Kuhmo (Finland) Lahore (Pakistan)...

Among the animals: Donna Mazza on ‘Fauna’

Thursday, 31 October 2019
Donna Mazza’s novel Fauna (A&U, February) is set in a near-future in which a woman is enticed into an experimental program that mixes her embryo with genetically edited cells. Reviewer...

Tighe, Walker announced as inaugural ABR Rising Stars

Thursday, 31 October 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the inaugural ABR Rising Stars, a new initiative to support young ABR writers and critics supported by Creative Victoria and Create NSW. Alex...

Justin Ractliffe on reaching heavy and light readers

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Penguin Random House ANZ publishing director Justin Ractliffe travelled to the United States earlier in 2019 to study consumer insights and data as part of his Copyright Agency Cultural Fund...

Thorpe wins 2019 ALIA Research Grant Award

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Kirsten Thorpe from the University of Technology Sydney’s Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research has received the $5000 ALIA Research Grant Award 2019 for her project, ‘National Survey on...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Please note that due to the Melbourne Cup holiday in Victoria on Tuesday, 5 November, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 7 November.

 

 

 

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