A&U acquires feminist ‘little inventor’ picture book Archive
Friday, 13 October 2017
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Melbourne-based illustrator and designer Sher Rill Ng’s debut picture book, Our Little Inventor via Danielle Binks at Jacinta di Mase Management. The...
ABC to end ‘The Book Club’ after 11 years Archive
Friday, 13 October 2017
The last episode of The Book Club will air on the ABC on 19 December, with Jennifer Byrne announcing she’s leaving the broadcaster after 11 years as host of the...
Herrmann shortlisted for FutureBook Awards Archive
Friday, 13 October 2017
Bolinda founder and co-CEO Rebecca Herrmann has been shortlisted for the 2017 FutureBook Awards, run by the Bookseller in the UK. Herrmann is shortlisted for FutureBook Leader of the Year,...
Brow Books sells world rights to Prescott’s ‘The Town’ Archive
Friday, 13 October 2017
Brow Books has sold world rights to Shaun Prescott’s debut novel The Town to Faber. Faber will publish The Town in the UK in August 2018 and is ‘actively selling...
US self-publisher ISBNs up 8% in 2016 Archive
Friday, 13 October 2017
In the US, ISBNs for self-published books have grown eight percent from 2015-2016, according to a new report from ProQuest affiliate Bowker. In total, 786,935 ISBNs were assigned to self-published...
Australians nominated for 2018 Astrid Lindgren Award Archive
Friday, 13 October 2017
Nine Australian authors and illustrators and one Australian organisation have been nominated for the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The Australian nominees are: Randa Abdel-Fattah Ursula Dubosarsky Mem Fox Morris...
Hardie Grant to distribute new cookbook series by Noma chef René Redzepi Archive
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Hardie Grant has signed a deal with US publisher Artisan for Australian distribution of a new three-book series by the founder and head chef of Copenhagen restaurant Noma, René Redzepi....
Print-digital ratio stable at 80-20, says PRH CEO Archive
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle has highlighted the stability of the global publishing market at the opening press conference for the Frankfurt Book Fair, reports Publishers Weekly. Dohle said...
Scribe pre-empts UK and Commonwealth rights for ‘major book about honesty’ from US podcaster Archive
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom has pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights to a nonfiction book by US podcaster Anna Sale, creator and presenter of the podcast ‘Death, Sex and Money’, just...
HGE sells UK rights to ‘Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds’ Archive
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Australia and Canada) to Jeremy Lachlan’s middle-grade adventure novel Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds in a...
Davis appointed COO of Hardie Grant Archive
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Andrew Davis, former deputy CEO Asia Pacific at Penguin Random House and former vice president of the Australian Publishers Association, has joined Hardie Grant as its chief operating officer. The...
Finch Publishing celebrates 25th Anniversary Archive
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Finch Publishing is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Founder Rex Finch said he is ‘pleased (and slightly amazed)’ to be celebrating the occasion. The company launched in 1992. Finch,...
Tynan wins CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017 for ‘Atomic Thunder’ Archive
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Elizabeth Tynan has won the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences’ (CHASS) 2017 Australia Book Prize, for her book Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story (NewSouth). Tynan’s book was...
Victorian library invests in books for people with dyslexia Archive
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Mitchell Shire Council in Victoria has invested $5000 in books for people with dyslexia, in response to community feedback, reports the ABC. The books are designed in a font called...
PRH to publish ‘a heartfelt tribute’ to Australian women Archive
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced it will publish Shout Out to the Girls: A Celebration of Awesome Australian Women, a hardcover children’s nonfiction book dedicated to notable Australian...
Cornerstone to publish E L James’ retelling of ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ Archive
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Cornerstone has acquired UK and Commonwealth (ex Canada) rights to E L James’ Darker, a retelling of Fifty Shades Darker from the perspective of the character Christian Grey. Cornerstone will...
Echo to publish Jabour’s debut novel ‘The Way Things Should Be’ Archive
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s Echo imprint will publish Guardian Australia journalist Bridie Jabour’s debut novel in May 2018. The Way Things Should Be centres on four adult siblings in the lead-up to...
New Varuna fellowship program announced for Indigenous writers Archive
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
A three-year, $30,000 grant from the Copyright Agency will fund a new fellowship program for Indigenous writers at Varuna. The Copyright Agency Fellowships for First Nations Writers are open to...
Hardie Grant Books to publish Yumi Stynes’ debut cookbook Archive
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Hardie Grant Books has announced the acquisition of broadcaster Yumi Stynes’ debut cookbook, The Zero F*cks Cookbook: Best Food Least Effort. The cookbook includes 60 ‘inventive, delicious and nutritious recipes...
S&S UK profit up in 2016 Archive
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
In the UK, Simon & Schuster made a before-tax profit of £3.76m (A$6.37m) in 2016, up from a loss of £132,000 (A$223,000) in 2015, reports the Bookseller. Turnover was up...
IBBY Australia selects two refugee stories for 2018 Honour List Archive
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
IBBY Australia has selected two refugee stories for the 2018 International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour List. The Bone Sparrow (Zana Fraillon, Hachette) was selected for the...
Shortlist announced for 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize Archive
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
The shortlist for the £30,000 (A$50,812) Baillie Gifford Prize, which recognises nonfiction writing by authors of any nationality, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern...
Troubled publisher Freight Books asks writers to buy their own books back Archive
Monday, 9 October 2017
In the UK, Scottish publisher Freight Books has asked writers if they wanted to buy their own books back, as the publisher faces an ‘extremely uncertain’ future, reports the Bookseller....
US report finds only 7.8% of romance titles by people of colour Archive
Monday, 9 October 2017
In the US, romance-specialist bookstore The Ripped Bodice has published a report on the racial diversity of romance publishing in 2016, reports Entertainment Weekly. The report found that 7.8% of...
Schrader wins 2017 CLNZ Writers’ Award Archive
Monday, 9 October 2017
Freelance historian Ben Schrader has won the second annual Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers’ Award for nonfiction, worth NZ$25,000 (A$22,720), to help support his project Won and Lost: Saving New...
Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 6 October 2017
Scribe and Express Media have announced the shortlist for this year’s Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Sian Campbell, for ‘Harriet and the...
The rights stuff 2017: Healthy year for Australian rights sales Archive
Friday, 6 October 2017
For the 15th year in a row, Books+Publishing has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading and book exports. Andrew Wrathall and...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now Archive
Friday, 6 October 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains six reviews of books publishing in December 2017 to February 2018. Two books scored four-and-a-half stars: Catherine Pelosi’s junior-fiction debut Quark’s Academy (Lothian, February); and...
Carey to headline Geelong’s Word for Word Nonfiction festival Archive
Friday, 6 October 2017
Novelist Peter Carey will headline this year’s Word for Word Nonfiction festival, which runs at the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre from 17-19 November. Carey will be in conversation with...
Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Archive
Thursday, 5 October 2017
Japanese-born UK author Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature for his ‘novels of great emotional force’. The author is best known for his Man Booker Prize-winning...
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