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New specialist kids agency launched

Thursday, 1 November 2018
Lawyer and writer Justine Barker has launched a new literary agency focusing on children’s and YA books. Mayfair Literary Agency will represent authors writing picture books, junior fiction, middle-grade and...

Book industry figures to attend Australia Fest in India

Thursday, 1 November 2018
Australian authors, publishers and literary festival programmers are among the guests at Australia Fest, a six-month festival comprising more than 75 events across 20 Indian cities. Supported by the federal...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Please note that due to the Melbourne Cup holiday in Victoria on Tuesday, 6 November, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 8 November.

SLQ wins 2018 VALA award for innovation

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has won an industry innovation award, presented by Victorian organisation VALA—Libraries, Technology and the Future, for its Tunley Braille Globe Project. The project involved...

Books+Publishing: Change of email addresses

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Books+Publishing staff members are using new email addresses on the booksandpublishing.com.au domain. Please see the updated email addresses in the 'contact us' section at the end of the newsletter. Our...

Foundry658 announces successful applicants for Bootcamp

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Business development program Foundry658, an initiative from State Library Victoria (SLV) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), has announced the successful applicants for its inaugural bootcamp sessions....

Kassabova’s ‘Border’ wins UK Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Scotland-based Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova has won the 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Granta). Chosen from a shortlist...

‘On the Java Ridge’ wins 2018 Colin Roderick Award

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Jock Serong’s On the Java Ridge (Text) has won the 2018 Colin Roderick Award and the HT Priestley Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook...

YABBAs 2018 winners announced

Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The winners of the 2018 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do Not Open This Book Again!...

Shelf talk: Crime pays 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
As readers wave goodbye to those long lazy days surrounded by books and blankets, there are a few killer books coming out over summer to spark a bit of danger...

Shelf talk: Fantastic fiction 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
The new year is the time I always tell myself I’m going to step back a bit and recover from the Christmas retail frenzy. I never do though, since there...

Shelf talk: Women’s stories 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Humour is back in a big way in women’s fiction, starting in February with The Rosie Result (Text). Could there be a more fitting title to the final book in...

Written in the stars: Minnie Darke on ‘Star-crossed’ 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Minnie Darke’s Star-crossed (Michael Joseph, March) follows an aspiring journalist who begins to tinker with her paper’s astrology section after learning that her crush consults his horoscope whenever he’s faced with making...

Books+Publishing magazine Issue 4 2018

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s fourth—and final—issue for 2018 is out now! It features 30 reviews of forthcoming adult and children’s books due to be published between December 2018 and March 2019. Reviews: Of the 17 adult...

Bound together: Kate Richards on ‘Fusion’ 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Kate Richards’ Fusion (Hamish Hamilton, February 2019) tells the story of conjoined twins, their carer, and an injured stranger who is brought into their isolated bush home. Reviewer Jacqui Davies described...

Ringing in the new year: 2019 title preview 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
New books by Peggy Frew, Claire G Coleman and Carrie Tiffany are among the local highlights from Australian publishers, reports Sarah Farquharson. Fiction After the success of Christian White’s The Nowhere...

Pen to paper: Publishing the writing of the African diaspora 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
African and African-Australian writers are finding a voice in Australian literature, but they continue to face many challenges. Marisa Wikramanayake investigates. Stories from people of African descent are ‘largely missing...

Book bites: A taste of books to come 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Picture this With a brand new year of school on the horizon, there are plenty of picture books to get early readers prepared for their first day: On The First...

Your store: Non-book item of the month 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Codenames is the bestselling game at Perth’s Rabble Books & Games. Players must guess their team’s secret codenames and avoid guessing their opponent’s codenames during the fast-paced 15 minute game....

Your store: Small space, big ideas 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Just because Melbourne’s tiny and beloved Paperback Bookshop is small, it doesn’t mean it can’t hold events. Owner Rosy Morton and bookseller Anna McDonald had been discussing the idea of...

Gift of the Blab: An interview with Aaron Blabey 

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Aaron Blabey is the creator of the ‘Pig the Pug’ and ‘The Bad Guys’ series. Kelsey Oldham asks the author about his success. You’re known for your prolific output, which...

 

 

 

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