More than 70,000 attend Byron Writers Festival; Szubanski the bestseller
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Box-office takings were up 14% and more than 70,000 guests attended the 20th Byron Writers Festival, which was held from 5-7 August. The record crowd was ‘particularly gratifying for the...
Melbourne library could be shut for being ‘too small’: council
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Hampton library in Melbourne’s south-east suburbs could be closed by Bayside council following a review into the municipality’s library services which found the library to be too small, reports the...
Bonnier Publishing launches US division
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Swedish-owned, UK-based Bonnier Publishing is launching a US division as part of an ‘ambitious programme for growth’, reports the Bookseller. Bonnier Publishing USA will bring together Bonnier’s two US-based imprints,...
Birrell steps down as SWF artistic director
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) artistic director Jemma Birrell is stepping down from the position at the end of this year after overseeing the past four festivals. SWF chair Deena Shiff...
Leading Edge to hold standalone conference in 2017
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Leading Edge Books will hold its 2017 annual conference as a standalone event in late March, after four years of running the event in tandem with the Australian Booksellers Association...
NZ YA novel ‘Spark’ optioned for film
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
New Zealand production company Miss Conception Films has optioned the film rights to NZ author Rachael Craw’s YA novel Spark (Walker Books). Producer Ainsley Gardiner said the company was excited to...
Report finds majority of US-based SF magazines not publishing black authors
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
In the US, a report has revealed that the majority of US speculative-fiction magazines and fiction sites in 2015 did not publish a story by black authors, reports the Verge....
‘ANZAC Heroes’ wins 2016 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
Maria Gill’s ANZAC Heroes (illus by Marco Invancic, Scholastic) has won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young...
Wright wins Alice Literary Award
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
The Society of Women Writers have awarded historian and author Clare Wright the biennial Alice Literary Award for ‘distinguished and long-term contribution to literature by an Australian woman’. Wright, whose...
Voss Literary Prize 2016 longlist announced
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
The longlist for the 2016 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Blessing (Adrian Caesar, Australian Scholarly Publishing) Coming Rain (Stephen Daisley, Text) The Life of...
‘Mannix’ wins 2016 National Biography Award
Monday, 8 August 2016
Mannix by Brenda Niall (Text) has won this year’s $25,000 National Biography Award, presented by the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW). Niall’s biography of the former Catholic Archbishop...
Booktopia set to list on ASX in October
Monday, 8 August 2016
Online bookstore Booktopia is planning to list on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) at the end of October, with a proposed initial public offering of $150m. As previously reported by...
New Bridget Jones book due in October
Monday, 8 August 2016
Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries, a new novel by Helen Fielding based on her columns in the UK’s Independent newspaper, will be published by Jonathan Cape on 11 October. The...
Northern England indie publishers form alliance
Monday, 8 August 2016
Four indie publishers based in northern England have launched an alliance to showcase their work to an international market, reports the Bookseller. Established by Manchester-based Comma Press, the Northern Fiction...
Children’s publishing and bookselling seminar ‘hailed as a success’
Friday, 5 August 2016
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) say they hope to run more joint events centring on the children’s sector, after the success of the ‘Between the...
Royal Society 2016 Science Book Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 5 August 2016
In the UK, the Royal Society has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Science Book Prize for ‘outstanding popular science books’ written for a non-specialist audience. The six titles on...
Hill wins Women’s Leadership in Media award
Friday, 5 August 2016
Freelance journalist Jess Hill, whose book Power & Control will be published by Black Inc. in 2017, has been awarded the inaugural Women’s Leadership in Media award for her long-form...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Friday, 5 August 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 15 reviews of books publishing in September and October 2016. Art critic Jennifer Higgie’s debut picture book There’s Not One (Scribble, September) received the highest...
Student assessment: Meet the 2016 Inky Awards judges
Thursday, 4 August 2016
Each year, a panel of teen judges from around the country select the shortlist for the Inky Awards for youth literature. Books+Publishing’s 16-year-old work experience student Alexandra Pixton spoke to...
‘Forbes’ releases list of top-earning authors; Patterson remains on top
Thursday, 4 August 2016
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s top earning authors. For a third year James Patterson remains at the top of the list, earning an estimated US$95 million...
‘Harry Potter’ bestselling book in the UK in a decade; two million copies sold in the US
Thursday, 4 August 2016
In the UK, publisher Little, Brown has said the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playscript has sold 680,000 print copies in the first three days of sale to make...
Paper, scissors, glue: Jennifer Higgie on ‘There’s Not One’
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Art critic and editor Jennifer Higgie’s debut picture book There’s Not One (Scribble, October) is a ‘simple story’ that teaches children the unique nature of things in a wider landscape...
Sweet rhymes: Joel Moore on ‘Mulga’s Magical Musical Creatures’
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Joel Moore—known also by his alias Mulga—is a mural artist, designer and poet, who has turned his hand to picture books. Reviewer Suzanne Garcia calls Mulga’s Magical Musical Creatures (Lothian,...
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ sales ‘exceed expectations’ of publisher, retailers
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Sales of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play script have exceeded expectations, according to the book’s local publisher Hachette. Hachette Australia joint managing director Justin Ractliffe told Books+Publishing...
Text acquires Booker-longlisted ‘His Bloody Project’; brings forward ‘Schooldays of Jesus’
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to Graeme Macrae Burnet’s 2016 Man Booker Prize-longlisted crime novel His Bloody Project, and will publish the book on 29 August. Set in the...
Small publisher spotlight: Clan Destine Press
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Genre specialist Clan Destine Press, based in regional Victoria, first began publishing in 2010. Publisher Lindy Cameron spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe your company in...
A&U to publish series co-authored by NBA star Patty Mills and Jared Thomas
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired a three-book junior fiction basketball series by Australian NBA player and Olympian Patty Mills and author Jared Thomas. The series is loosely based on Mills’...
Book-to-screen adaptations pitched at Books at MIFF 2016
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
The 10th annual Books at MIFF (BaM) event, run by Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market, was held at the Forum Theatre on Friday, 29 July. Representatives from publishing...
Regional BBC channels, libraries partner for grassroots ‘Book of the Month’ club
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
In the UK, 40 local BBC radio stations are partnering with local libraries to create a grassroots on-air ‘Book of the Month’ club across the country, reports the Bookseller. The...
Schwirtlich receives ALIA’s Redmond Barry Award
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has awarded the prestigious Redmond Barry Award to National Library of Australia (NLA) director-general Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. Schwirtlich will be presented with the award at...
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