Amazon Australia to begin selling products on Thursday
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Amazon has told its Australian suppliers that it will begin selling products to ‘a small number of customers’ on Thursday 23 November. Amazon said in an email to suppliers: ‘To...
SWF 2018 schools program announced
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced the line-up for the 2018 Primary and Secondary School Days programs, to be held from 2 to 7 May. Former UK children’s laureate,...
Nielsen BookScan to merge trade, academic panels in 2018
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Nielsen BookScan Australia has announced it will merge its trade and academic book sales panels in 2018 ‘in order to report on all print book sales via one complete service’....
NYPL unveils US$317m ‘masterplan’
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
In the US, the New York Public Library (NYPL) has unveiled the US$317m (A$418m) ‘masterplan’ for its flagship Stephen A Schwarzman Building, reports Publishers Weekly. The library said the plan...
Scotland trials national ‘One Card’ program
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Scotland has launched a trial of a ‘One Card’ program in Scottish libraries, reports the Bookseller. Five councils are taking part in the six-month pilot program, which will be extended...
Redhill wins Canada’s Giller Prize for ‘Bellevue Square’
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Toronto author Michael Redhill has won Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize—the country’s richest literary award—for his novel Bellevue Square (Doubleday Canada). Bellevue Square tells the story of a woman who tries to track...
Christmas closing list: Submissions due this Monday
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Publishers and distributors are asked to submit their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Monday 27 November. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book Newsletter on Wednesday 6 December. This is...
Victorian library votes to remove print books
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Port Phillip Council in Melbourne has voted to remove the books from its Middle Park Library to make space for more desks and laptops, reports the Herald Sun. The library’s...
Siberry wins HGE Ampersand Prize for middle-grade novel ‘Gloop’
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Lisa Siberry has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) Ampersand Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her middle-grade novel ‘Gloop’. ‘Gloop’ is a ‘funny and atmospheric middle-grade mystery’ about 12-year-old science...
Colpoys wins British Book Design Award
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, designed by Scribe associate art director Allison Colpoys, has won the Best Jacket/Cover Design category at the British Book Design and Production Awards. Colpoys...
ACT Book of the Year 2017 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 ACT Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fighting Fit (Laura Dawes, Orion) Maps of Small Countries (Russell Erwin, Ginninderra...
Stella Prize launches Read Up resource
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Stella Prize has launched a series of reading lists for young people aged 15-24 ‘to help guide their thinking about sexuality, relationships, gender, minds and bodies, and diverse cultures’....
‘The Story of a Brief Marriage’ wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Anuk Arudpragasam has won the US$25,000 (A$33,110) DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage (Granta), reports the Guardian. Arudpragasam’s novel is...
France wins 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for ‘How to Survive a Plague’
Monday, 20 November 2017
David France has won the £30,000 (A$50,812) Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction writing for his account of the AIDS epidemic How to Survive a Plague (Picador), reports the Bookseller. France was chosen...
Copyright Agency files suit against NSW government
Monday, 20 November 2017
The Copyright Agency has filed a suit against the NSW government before the federal Copyright Tribunal alleging the government owes its members for copying up to 200 million pages of...
Horne Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Monday, 20 November 2017
The Saturday Paper and cosmetics company Aesop have announced the shortlist for the $15,000 Horne Prize for narrative nonfiction. The shortlisted writers are: Alice Bishop for ‘Coppering’, ‘on renewal of...
Spain to be guest of honour at 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair
Monday, 20 November 2017
Spain will be the guest of honour at the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) 30 years after it first appeared as a guest of honour, reports Publishing Perspectives. FBF director...
Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Awards 2017 winners announced
Monday, 20 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime, have been announced. New South Wales writer Rowena Harding-Smith won the $1500 first prize for her short...
‘The Invisible War’ wins the 2017 Most Underrated Book Award
Friday, 17 November 2017
The graphic novel The Invisible War by Ailsa Wild, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti, Ben Hutchings and Jeremy Barr (Scale Free Network) has won the Small Press Network’s Most Underrated Book...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017 shortlists announced
Friday, 17 November 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette) The Last Days...
‘Tincture’ literary journal to close
Friday, 17 November 2017
Australian online literary journal Tincture has announced that it will close at the end of the year. The quarterly journal was established in 2013 and has featured fiction, poetry and...
Hachette acquires ‘The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village’ in two-book deal
Friday, 17 November 2017
Hachette has acquired world rights to debut author Joanna Nell’s The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village in a two-book deal negotiated by Haylee Nash at The Nash Agency. The...
National Book Awards 2017 winners announced
Friday, 17 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 US National Book Awards have been announced. Jesmyn Ward has won the fiction award for the second time for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing (Bloomsbury),...
Kroetsch to step down as AWW director
Friday, 17 November 2017
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) director Laura Kroetsch will step down from the role after the 2018 festival, which runs from 3-8 March. Kroetsch was appointed in 2010 to direct the...
‘The Town’ sold to US, European territories
Friday, 17 November 2017
Faber has sold the rights to Shaun Prescott’s novel The Town, published in Australia by Brow Books, into the US and several European territories. The novel has been sold to...
Bonnier closes UK self-publishing platform Type & Tell
Friday, 17 November 2017
In the UK, Bonnier has closed its self-publishing platform Type & Tell eight months after it was launched, reports the Bookseller. According to the Bookseller, around 500 UK users were...
‘Overland’ Fair Australia Prize 2017 shortlists announced
Friday, 17 November 2017
Literary journal Overland has announced the shortlists for this year’s Fair Australia Prize. Shortlists have been released for the Essay Prize, Fiction Prize, Poetry Prize, and Cartoons and Illustrations Prize....
Laveau-Harvie wins 2018 Finch Memoir Prize for ‘Okotoks Erratic’
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Vicki Laveau-Harvie has won the 2018 Finch Memoir Prize for her manuscript ‘Okotoks Erratic’, a ‘gripping, black humoured drama’ about the power play between Laveau-Harvie’s parents and its ramifications. Judges...
Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize for ‘H(a)ppy’
Thursday, 16 November 2017
In the UK, Nicola Barker has won the $10,000 2017 Goldsmiths Prize for H(a)ppy (William Heinemann), reports the Bookseller. The prize rewards British and Irish fiction which ‘breaks the mould...
Tony Birch wins 2017 Patrick White Award
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Author Tony Birch has been named the winner of the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award for 2017. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of his...
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