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Laforest steps down from Harlequin 

Friday, 10 June 2016
Harlequin Asia Pacific regional vice-president Michelle Laforest will step down from the position, effective from 17 June, after 15 years with the publisher. Laforest has decided to leave Harlequin to...

Sharma wins 2016 International Dublin Literary Award

Family Life cover Friday, 10 June 2016
US author Akhil Sharma has won the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award for his novel Family Life (Faber). The award, worth €100,000 (A$152,270), is presented annually for a novel written...

Ginninderra Press celebrates 20th birthday

Friday, 10 June 2016
Adelaide-based independent publisher Ginninderra Press is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Founded in Canberra in 1996, Ginninderra Press moved its operation to Port Adelaide in 2008. Owner and publisher...

Rakuten closes UK online store

Friday, 10 June 2016
Japanese eretailer Rakuten is closing its UK online store following a review of its European operations, reports the Bookseller. Rakuten will also exit the Spanish and Austrian markets as part...

Ngaio Marsh Award 2016 longlist announced

Thursday, 9 June 2016
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Inside the Black Horse (Ray Berard, Mary Egan Publishing) Made...

Lambda literary awards 2016 winners announced

Thursday, 9 June 2016
The winners of the 2016 Lambda literary awards, known as the ‘Lammys’, have been announced. The awards celebrate excellence in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) writing published in the...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week 

Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Please note that, due to the Queen's Birthday holiday on Monday (in all states except Queensland and Western Australia), the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 16 June. The deadline for...

Small publisher spotlight: Inkerman & Blunt 

Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Established in 2013, Melbourne-based Inkerman & Blunt publishes poetry, prose and nonfiction of ‘originality, intelligence and beauty’. Founder Donna Ward spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series: Describe...

Mudgee Readers’ Festival 2016 program announced

Tuesday, 7 June 2016
The Mudgee Readers’ Festival in regional NSW has announced the program for its 2016 festival, to be held from 13-14 August. Festival guests include Jane Caro, Sami Shah, Emily Maguire,...

Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2016 shortlists announced

Monday, 6 June 2016
The 2016 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The three shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for an established Australian female writer are: A Few...

Israeli government repeals fixed price book law

Monday, 6 June 2016
The Israeli government has repealed legislation in force since 2014 that prohibits discounts on new books in the first 18 months of publication, reports Israel National News. The law, which...

Kulkarni wins 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Monday, 6 June 2016
Parashar Kulkarni has become the first Indian writer to win the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘Cow and Company’. The £5000 (A$9586) prize is presented annually to the...

YA Book Prize 2016 winner annouced

Friday, 3 June 2016
The Bookseller’s 2016 YA Book Prize has been awarded to free-verse novel One by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury). Crossnan’s winning novel is about ‘conjoined twins Grace and Tippi, who, after years of...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now

Friday, 3 June 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in July and August 2016. Author Chris Owen and illustrator Chris Nixon’s picture book Pandamonia (Fremantle Press, August) received five...

‘Chasing Shadows’ wins UK Sports Book Award

Friday, 3 June 2016
Australian authors Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge have won the Cricket Book of the Year award at the UK Cross Sports Book Awards, for Chasing Shadows (Hardie Grant), a biography...

King to leave MUP to form PR agency 

Friday, 3 June 2016
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) marketing and publicity manager Terri King is leaving the company after 10 years. King told Books+Publishing she will be joining forces with former MUP publicist Dina Kluska and...

On tour: Tamora Pierce 

Thursday, 2 June 2016
US author Tamora Pierce has written a number of YA series, including ‘The Song of the Lioness’ and the ‘Circle of Magic’. She will be travelling to Australia for the...