‘A Fistful of Shells’ wins 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize Archive
Thursday, 31 October 2019
In the UK, historian Toby Green has won the £25,000 (A$46,750) Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise...
Lake wins 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize for ‘The Bible in Australia’ Archive
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Meredith Lake has won the 2019 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences’ (CHASS) Australia Book Prize, for her book The Bible in Australia: A cultural history (NewSouth). Lake’s...
Climate change and MBS books popular at nonfiction-focused Frankfurt 2019 Archive
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Nonfiction titles dominated this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (16–20 October), with books on climate change and Mind Body Spirit (MBS) in demand, according to a number of Australian publishers who...
Justin Ractliffe on reaching heavy and light readers Archive
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 Archive
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...
ALA delivers report on unfair behaviour in the digital market to House Judiciary Committee Archive
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has delivered a report on ‘unfair behaviour by digital market actors’ to the House Judiciary Committee, reports Publishers Weekly. According to the...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week Archive
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.
Best book forward: 2020 fiction preview Archive
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
New books by Evie Wyld, Kate Mildenhall, Alice Pung and Jamie Marina Lau are among next year’s most anticipated releases. Sarah Farquharson rounds up the best locally authored fiction and...
Chowdhury named Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow Archive
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced Penguin Random House audio producer Radhiah Chowdhury as the recipient of the 2019–2020 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. The fellowship will allow Chowdhury to...
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2019 shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
In the UK, the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Disoriental (Négar Djavadi, trans Tina Kover, Europa Editions) Drive Your...
New APA initiative to signify Australian created books Archive
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has begun a campaign to signify books created in Australia with a new logo. Based on the logo for joint-industry group Books Create Australia, the...
First writers announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week Archive
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The first writers have been announced for next year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 29 February to 5 March. International guests include Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma, Omani novelist and...
Winners of 2019 YABBAs announced Archive
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The winners of the 2019 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Seriously Do Not Open This Book (Andy...
Lit projects account for 2.7% of OzCo arts funding in 2018–19 Archive
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
According to the Australia Council’s latest annual report, published last week, literature projects accounted for 2.7% of its arts funding in 2018–19, or $5.1 million out of a total of...
John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film Archive
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
A film based on YA adventure series ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ by Australian author John Flanagan (Random House Children’s) has received funding and is expected to begin production in 2020, reports the...
Fair Work approves PRH EBA Archive
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
The Fair Work Commission has approved Penguin Random House Australia's enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA), the first union-negotiated EBA in Australian publishing history. In September, PRH delegates in the editorial and...
Create NSW makes changes to multi-year arts funding guidelines Archive
Monday, 28 October 2019
The NSW state government has announced changes to its multi-year arts funding for small to medium independent arts organisations. Applicants for multi-year funding will no longer need to have received...
New online platform to help US indies compete with Amazon Archive
Monday, 28 October 2019
In the US, a new website designed to help independent bookstores compete with Amazon will launch in January, reports Publishers Weekly. Backed by the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Bookshop is...
Meyer’s ‘A Superior Spectre’ shortlisted for Saltire Literary Awards Archive
Monday, 28 October 2019
Angela Meyer’s novel A Superior Spectre (Peter Bishop) has been shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award, as part of Scotland's Saltire Literary Awards. Published in the...
Hammer wins UK Dagger award for ‘Scrublands’ Archive
Friday, 25 October 2019
Australian writer Chris Hammer has won the John Creasey Award for the best crime novel by a first-time author at the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2019 Dagger awards. Hammer's...
Wild Dingo launches Deadly Dingo imprint, scholarship for First Nations writers Archive
Friday, 25 October 2019
Wild Dingo Press has launched a new imprint to publish work by First Nations writers and poets. The imprint, called Deadly Dingo Books, will publish ‘authentic, integral and powerful stories...
Hardie Grant acquires Slattery Media Group publications, expands sports publishing Archive
Friday, 25 October 2019
Hardie Grant has acquired the publishing and content activities of Slattery Media Group (SMG) with immediate effect. Hardie Grant Books (HGB) will take on all book publishing projects, including the...
‘Girl, Woman, Other’ more than doubles lifetime sales after Booker win Archive
Thursday, 24 October 2019
In the UK, joint Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) more than doubled its lifetime sales in the week following its win on 14 October, reports the...
‘The Things We Can’t Undo’ wins AAFT Award for Children’s Literature Archive
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Gabrielle Reid’s YA novel The Things We Can’t Undo (Ford Street) has won the 2019 Australian Association of Family Therapists’ (AAFT) Award for Children’s Literature. The novel follows the relationship between...
Macfie wins 2019 CLNZ Writers’ Award Archive
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Journalist Rebecca Macfie has won the Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ)/New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Writers’ Award, worth NZ$25,000 (A$23,360), to help support her biography of Helen Kelly—the first...
Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019 Archive
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The winners of the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Death of Noah Glass (Gail Jones, Text) Nonfiction Half...
Remember, remember the 10th of September: Release day for ‘The Testaments’ Archive
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Three retailers share how their release-day strategies panned out for this year’s biggest release: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (Vintage). The sweet spot In Fremantle, New Edition bookseller Kristy Diffey has...
2020 vision: Kids’ and YA title preview Archive
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
New books from favourites including Melina Marchetta, Sally Morgan and Jessica Townsend are slated for 2020 publication, alongside debuts by Danielle Binks and Georgina Young that are already generating buzz....
Great School Libraries report prompts call for compulsory library funding Archive
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
In the UK, a new report from the Great School Libraries campaign has found that schools with a higher proportion of children on free meals are more than twice as...
XR-affiliated group book Brisbane library room despite ban Archive
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
A group affiliated with Extinction Rebellion has defied Brisbane City Council’s ban on their use of library rooms by holding a meeting in Brisbane Square Library last week, reports the...
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