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NT Literary Awards 2018 winners announced

Thursday, 2 August 2018
The winners of this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Zip Print Short Story Award ($1000) ‘The Virgin Mary and Katrina Sparks’...

India reduces GST on ebooks

Wednesday, 1 August 2018
In India, the GST Council has announced that GST on ebooks will be reduced from 18% to 5%, but the lack of clarity has left publishers ‘perplexed’, reports the Hindu. The...

Ancient public library uncovered in Germany

Wednesday, 1 August 2018
Archaeologists in Cologne, Germany, have uncovered the remains of the oldest public library in the country, built almost 2000 years ago, which may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls, reports...

PRH NZ sells basketballer’s memoir to US 

Wednesday, 1 August 2018
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRH NZ) has sold North American rights to My Life, My Fight by New Zealand basketball player Steven Adams to Hachette Books in the US. ...

Winners of 2018 Affirm Press Mentorship Award announced

Wednesday, 1 August 2018
The winners of this year’s Affirm Press Mentorship Award have been announced. The winning authors and their works are: ‘The Things She Owned’ by Katherine Arguile, set in Tokyo during...

Ned Kelly Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 31 July 2018
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime fiction...

Winton’s ‘Dirt Music’ begins casting, announces locations

Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Sydney-based production company Aquarius Films has begun casting for the film adaptation of Tim Winton's 2001 novel Dirt Music (Penguin), reports ABC News. Winton's story of 'fragile characters, secrets, strangers and revenge...

‘Alex Rider’ books to be adapted into YA drama series

Monday, 30 July 2018
In the UK, Anthony Horowitz’s 'Alex Rider' series will be adapted to an eight-part television drama series for teenagers, starting with the second book Point Blanc, to be produced by production company...

Booktopia wins ORIA for best online retailer

Booktopia logo Monday, 30 July 2018
Online bookseller Booktopia was awarded a 2018 Online Retail Industry Award (ORIA) in the Best Pureplay Online Retailer category at an awards ceremony in Sydney on 26 July. Booktopia has...

ABA announces 2019 conference dates

Friday, 27 July 2018
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) will hold its 2019 conference and trade show in Melbourne at Pullman Melbourne on the Park on 23-24 June. ABA CEO Joel Becker said, ‘We’re...

Viskic, Clark shortlisted for UK Dagger awards

Friday, 27 July 2018
Australian authors Emma Viskic and Sherryl Clark have been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2018 Dagger awards. Viskic’s Resurrection Bay (Echo) has been shortlisted in two categories:...

Text acquires debuts from Bishop, McPhee-Browne 

Friday, 27 July 2018
Text Publishing has acquired two fiction debuts from Melbourne-based writers. Text acquired world rights to Alice Bishop’s debut short-story collection, A Constant Hum, which explores the Black Saturday bushfires and...

PANZ Book Design Awards 2018 winners announced

Friday, 27 July 2018
The winners of the 2018 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. New China Eyewitness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy...

Greer’s ‘On Rape’ sold to Bloomsbury UK

Thursday, 26 July 2018
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Germaine Greer’s On Rape to Bloomsbury UK. Bloomsbury won the rights at auction after 12 UK publishers reviewed the submission....

Hosein wins Commonwealth Writers’ Short Story Prize 2018

commonwealth short story prize logo Thursday, 26 July 2018
Kevin Jared Hosein, from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, has won the 2018 Commonwealth Writers’ Short Story Prize for the short story 'Passage'. Hosein's short story explores 'a midlife crisis-ridden protagonist...

 

 

 

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