Riwoe sells third Heloise Chancey novel to UK’s Legend Press
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Brisbane-based author Mirandi Riwoe has sold world rights to her historical crime fiction novel The Death of Me to UK publisher Legend Press. Rights were acquired by Legend commissioning editor Lauren...
For love or money: employment in the Australian publishing industry in 2018
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Books+Publishing surveyed over 300 readers to create a detailed picture of employment in the book industry in 2018. Small Press Network associate producer Jessica Harvie and Books+Publishing editor-in-chief Andrew Wrathall checked the stats. These results...
Johnston awarded $5000 ALIA research grant for project on fake news
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has awarded a $5000 research grant to Nicole Johnston, a lecturer in information science at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. Johnston will...
Please complete our reader survey: Last chance to participate
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Books+Publishing is currently conducting a reader survey to help us improve our publications. The survey takes around 10 minutes to complete. To participate in the survey, click here. The final...
Christmas closing list: Submissions due Monday
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Publishers and distributors are asked to submit their Christmas closing dates by 5pm, Monday 26 November. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book Newsletter on Wednesday 5 December. This is...
‘Overland’ Fair Australia Prize 2018 winners announced
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Literary journal Overland has announced the winners for this year’s Fair Australia Prize. The Fair Australia Prize asks writers and artists to engage with the topics ‘What does unionism mean...
Edugyan wins Canada’s Giller Prize for ‘Washington Black’
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Canadian author Esi Edugyan has won Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize—the country’s richest literary award—for her novel Washington Black (Serpent's Tail). Set in 19th century Canada, Washington Black tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who...
Pascoe receives Person of the Year honour at 2018 National Dreamtime Awards
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Bunurong and Yuin writer Bruce Pascoe has won the Person of the Year award at the 2018 National Dreamtime Awards. The Dreamtime Person of the Year is awarded to an...
Australian, NZ authors on 2019 Dublin Literary Award longlist
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Fourteen books by Australian authors and six by New Zealand authors have been nominated for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award. Longlisted books by Australian authors are: A Long Way...
Dymocks opens new store in Melbourne; regional WA store to close
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Chain retailer Dymocks has opened a new store at Highpoint Shopping Centre, in Melbourne's inner west. The Highpoint store is the first Dymocks to open in a new location in...
Canadian literary prize suspended after authors protest Amazon sponsorship
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
In Canada, a Québécois literary prize has been suspended by organisers after prize finalists and the public protested the sponsorship by Amazon, reports the Guardian. The five finalists for the 2019...
Blake among 2019 Zev Birger Editorial Fellows to attend Jerusalem International Book Forum
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) publisher Cate Blake has been announced as one of 34 recipients of the Zev Birger Editorial Fellowship, a week-long professional seminar that focuses on ‘significant issues...
Tim’s Bookshop Canterbury to close
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
The Canterbury branch of family-owned independent bookstore Tim’s Bookshop, in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, will close in January 2019. Owner Tim Warmington told Books+Publishing: ‘It’s the usual story of ever-increasing costs...
Douglas-Kinghorn wins 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize
Monday, 19 November 2018
Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn has won the 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers for her entry ‘The Invisible Sea’. Douglas-Kinghorn was selected from a shortlist of nine writers and receives a cash...
Harry Cook’s debut YA novel acquired by Scottish small press
Monday, 19 November 2018
Scottish independent publisher Black & White Publishing has acquired world rights to the debut novel by Australian actor and LGBTQIA+ activist Harry Cook. A romance set in small-town Australia, Fin...
Jasanoff wins US$75,000 Cundill Prize in History
Monday, 19 November 2018
US author and academic Maya Jasanoff has won Canada's 2018 Cundill Prize in History—the largest international prize for a work of history, worth US$75,000 (A$102,500)—for her book The Dawn Watch: Joseph...
‘Optical Illusions’ wins Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Monday, 19 November 2018
In the UK, Optical Illusions by visual artist and author pair Gianni A Sarcone and Marie-Jo Waeber (Quarto) has won the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for the best...
Bestsellers this week: ‘The Meltdown: Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ takes out top spot
Monday, 19 November 2018
Number one on this week's bestsellers chart is The Meltdown (Puffin), book 13 in Jeff Kinney's ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series, which has moved up from number two. Lee Child's...
Chapman wins HGE Ampersand Prize for YA novel ‘What it Takes’
Friday, 16 November 2018
Sydney-based journalist Frances Chapman has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) Ampersand Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her ‘vibrant’ YA novel, What it Takes. Chosen from nearly 200 submissions, What...
‘Invisible Boys’ wins T A G Hungerford Award
Friday, 16 November 2018
Perth-based YA writer Holden Sheppard has won the 2018 City of Fremantle T A G Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript for Invisible Boys, a YA novel about a group...
ABA announces 2018 Vic, NSW reps of the year
Friday, 16 November 2018
Mandy Wildsmith from Hardie Grant Books has been named Victorian Rep of the Year by the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), while Simon Rannard from Penguin Random House (PRH) has been...
National Book Award 2018 winners announced
Friday, 16 November 2018
The winners of the 2018 US National Book Awards have been announced. Sigrid Nunez has won the fiction award for her novel The Friend (Riverhead), which follows a woman who is...
Christmas predictions: Megan O’Brien from Brunswick Bound in Melbourne
Friday, 16 November 2018
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 the this...
‘Chernobyl’ wins 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction
Friday, 16 November 2018
Ukrainian-American author and historian Serhii Plokhy has won the £30,000 (A$53,880) 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction for his book Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy (Allen Lane). Chosen from a shortlist of six,...
‘Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’ wins BAMB Readers’ Choice Award
Friday, 16 November 2018
Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (HarperCollins) has won the Books are My Bag (BAMB) Readers’ Choice Award in the UK. Honeyman’s bestselling debut novel, which follows a socially...
Hachette Book Group reorganises divisions, dozens made redundant
Thursday, 15 November 2018
In the US, the Hachette Book Group (HBG) has reorganised its Hachette Books and Nashville divisions, resulting in a number of layoffs, reports Publishers Weekly. Under the reorganisation, Hachette Books...
Lester wins $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature; Tumarkin wins Best Writing Award
Thursday, 15 November 2018
Children's author and illustrator Alison Lester has won the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented every three years to a Victorian author ‘whose body of published work has made an...
UWAP announces 2019 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist
Thursday, 15 November 2018
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Angela Rockel for ‘Rogue Intensities’, a memoir...
Robertson wins 2018 Goldsmiths Prize for ‘The Long Take’
Thursday, 15 November 2018
In the UK, Robin Robertson has won the £10,000 (A$17,970) 2018 Goldsmiths Prize for The Long Take (Picador). The prize, established in 2013, rewards British and Irish fiction which ‘breaks the...
Southeast Queensland libraries launch annual Christmas amnesty
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Brisbane City Council has launched its ninth annual Christmas amnesty to encourage the return of over 75,000 missing items, including 12,000 missing books, across Brisbane’s 1.4 million-item library collection, reports...
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