Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

Image. Advertisement:

News >

ABA Booksellers of the Year 2017 finalists announced

Friday, 2 June 2017
The finalists for the 2017 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers of the Year awards have been announced. The finalists for the Bookseller of the Year are: Nadine Allan (Better Read...

Ventura introduces new imprint for emerging writers

Thursday, 1 June 2017
Ventura Press has launched a new imprint for emerging writers, to be curated by former creative director of Varuna, the Writers’ House, Peter Bishop. Peter Bishop Books will aim to...

Training opportunities for US editors

Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Harlequin executive senior editor Annabel Blay spent 10 weeks in New York City researching fiction editing in the US as part of her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. In this extract...

New study finds government cuts put libraries at risk

Wednesday, 31 May 2017
A new study has found that the federal government’s ‘wilful neglect’ of Australia’s national libraries, galleries and museums is putting the nation’s shared history and heritage at risk, particularly in...

Book blogger spotlight: Diva Booknerd

Wednesday, 31 May 2017
YA and middle-grade book blogger Kelly from Diva Booknerd says she reviews books ‘purely on emotion and entertainment’, and enjoys the sense of community that blogging brings. She spoke to...

MUP orders reprint of Milligan’s ‘Cardinal’

Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Melbourne University Press (MUP) has ordered a reprint of journalist Louise Milligan’s Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell following extensive media coverage and ‘through the roof’ sales. A spokesperson...

Wainwright wins British Sports Book Award

Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Australian journalist and author Robert Wainwright has won the Biography of the Year at the 2017 British Sports Book Awards for his book Maverick Mountaineer (HarperCollins, published in the UK...

Inaugural Readings YA Prize shortlist announced

Tuesday, 30 May 2017
The shortlist for the inaugural Readings Young Adult Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Boone Shepard (Gabriel Bergmoser, Bell Frog Books) Freedom Swimmer (Wai Chim, A&U) The Bone...

Ford Street to celebrate 10th birthday 

Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Independent children’s publisher Ford Street Publishing will celebrate its 10th birthday on 1 June. Publisher Paul Collins said Ford Street’s highlights include receiving shortlistings in Premiers’ Literary Awards for his...

BWF releases 2017 schools program

Tuesday, 30 May 2017
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has released its 2017 Word Play program, designed for students from prep to year 12. The Word Play program, which runs from 6-8 September, features...

Industry responds to Macquarie University readers survey

Monday, 29 May 2017
Author Melissa Lucashenko, Penguin Random House publisher Meredith Curnow and Avid Reader owner Fiona Stager participated in a panel on the Macquarie University survey of Australian readers at the Sydney...

Matar wins Folio Prize for his memoir ‘The Return’

Friday, 26 May 2017
In the UK, Hisham Matar has won the relaunched £20,000 (A$34,610) Rathbones Folio Prize for his memoir The Return (Viking), reports the Bookseller. Matar’s memoir details the author’s search, ‘both...

Davitt Awards 2017 longlists announced

Friday, 26 May 2017
Sisters in Crime has announced the longlists for the 2017 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. A total of 99 titles have been longlisted, including 63...

New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now

Friday, 26 May 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest reviews newsletter contains 20 reviews of books publishing in June to August. The highest-scoring books were Brigid Delaney’s nonfiction title Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness (Nero,...

Modern love: Jean Flynn on ‘Lovesick’

Thursday, 25 May 2017
Jean Flynn’s debut novel Lovesick is the first title from Xoum Publishing’s new romance imprint XO Romance. Reviewer Kat Mayo describes it as a ‘fun romantic comedy’ with a ‘modern...