Goodreads adds free audiobook samples
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Starting this week, Goodreads will provide free audio samples for 180,000 titles through a new ‘Listen’ icon on its website, reports DBW. The samples will be taken from the digital catalogue of...
Adler to chair Victorian creative industries taskforce
Thursday, 23 April 2015
The Victorian government has announced a new taskforce to ‘steer the future’ of Victoria’s creative industries, to be chaired by Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Louise Adler. The taskforce will...
On tour: Meet the author Claire Tomalin
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Claire Tomalin is the author of Charles Dickens: A Life, Jane Austen: A Life, The Invisible Woman (all Penguin), and several other literary biographies. She will be appearing at the...
Peter Porter Poetry shortlist announced
Thursday, 23 April 2015
The shortlist for the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced.The shortlisted poems are: ‘As Wasps Fly Upward’ (Judith Beveridge) ‘Vantage’ (Eileen Chong) ‘Janus’ (Toby Fitch)...
HGE Ampersand Project expands to include middle-grade manuscripts
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) Ampersand Project for unpublished writers has been opened to authors of middle-grade fiction—aimed at readers aged eight and up—for the first time in 2015.The project, which has been...
New US bookstore to specialise in self-published books
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
In the US, a new bookstore has opened in Florida that is dedicated to books by self-published authors, reports Publishers Weekly. Gulf Coast Bookstore, run by self-published authors Patti Brassard...
‘The Strays’ wins 2015 Stella Prize
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
The Strays by Emily Bitto (Affirm Press) has won the 2015 Stella Prize for women’s writing. Bitto was presented with the $50,000 prize at an awards ceremony in Melbourne on...
Google prioritises ‘mobile-friendly’ websites in new search algorithm
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
A change to Google’s search algorithm has come into effect which ranks ‘mobile-friendly’ websites higher in searches on smartphones and tablets. The change occurred on 21 April following an announcement by Google in February. Australian digital marketing...
Queensland’s first train-station library opens
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
A book exchange has recently opened at a train station in Queensland, reports ABC News.The library, located at the ticket counter of Wacol train station in Brisbane’s western suburbs, opened three months ago...
ALIA board election results announced
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
The results of the Australian Library and Information (ALIA) 2015 board election have been announced. Fiona Emberton and Ghylene Palmer have been elected as directors and will take up their...
Mood upbeat at LBF 2015
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
This year’s London Book Fair ran from 14-16 April, returning to the Olympia centre in West London for the first time since 2005. The mood was ‘upbeat’ and the ‘domestic noir and quirky...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
SalesFiction—Penguin has sold UK, US and German rights to Hot Little Hands (Abigail Ulman) to Viking, Spiegel & Grau and Kein & Aber respectively. UQP has sold French rights to...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
‘When I was growing up as an editor in trade publishing, a house was perceived to have done exceptionally well if it made double-digit profitability in a given year. The...
On tour: Meet the author James Patterson
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
James Patterson is the bestselling author of the ‘Alex Cross’ and ‘Women’s Murder Club’ series, among many others. His latest book is Rafe’s Aussie Adventure (with Martin Chatterton, Random House)...
On tour: Meet the author Daniel Mendelsohn
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Daniel Mendelsohn is an author and classicist, whose books include a collection of critical essays Waiting for the Barbarians (NY Review of Books); a memoir The Lost (HarperCollins); The Complete...
On tour: Meet the author Xinran
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Xinran is a Chinese journalist and author based in London. Her latest book Buy Me the Sky (Random House) looks at the social impact of China’s One Child Policy. She...
A wild ride: Gary Kemble on ‘Skin Deep’
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Gary Kemble’s debut novel Skin Deep (Echo Publishing) is ‘an imaginative, fast-paced page-turner that combines crime-writing with a delightful serving of the supernatural’, writes reviewer Deborah Crabtree. She spoke to...
ALS Gold Medal longlist announced
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
The longlist for the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced.The longlisted titles are: Amnesia (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) Golden Boys (Sonya Harnett, Hamish Hamilton) Keeps (L K...
Wagner to launch children’s book publisher Billy Goat Books
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Author Michael Wagner is launching a new children’s book publisher Billy Goat Books.The first Billy Goat title, Pig Dude, is written by Wagner and illustrated by Adam Nickel, and is scheduled...
Middleton wins 2015 Vogel
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Murray Middleton has won this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for his short-story collection When There’s Nowhere Else to Run.The book was chosen by author Rohan Wilson, bookseller Jenny Barry and the...
Pulitzer Prize 2015 winners announced
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
The 2015 Pulitzer Prizes were announced in New York on 20 April. The Fiction award was presented to All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (HarperCollins)—‘an imaginative and...
Family memoir ‘Cracking the Code’ optioned for film
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Film rights to Stephen and Sally Damiani’s family memoir Cracking the Code (Random House) have been optioned by M4 Entertainment (formerly Mushroom Pictures), with script development already in progress. Executive...
Finalists withdraw from Hugo Awards
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Two authors and a fanzine shortlisted for the Hugo Awards have withdrawn their work, claiming that alleged right-wing activists are skewing the voting process, reports the Bookseller. The awards, which...
Wheeler Centre announces new ‘hot desk’ fellowships
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
The Wheeler Centre has announced its latest round of ‘hot desk’ fellowships. Twenty writers will participate in the fellowship this year, including seven in the first intake from 11 May...
Adichie, Murakami on ‘Time’ magazine’s 100 most influential list
Monday, 20 April 2015
Authors Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Haruki Murakami are on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In Time, Radhika Jones writes that Adichie’s ‘greatest...
Vogel 2015 shortlist announced
Monday, 20 April 2015
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award have been announced.The four shortlisted titles are: Animal Etiquette (Stephanie Barham), ‘a punk version of Brideshead Revisited set in 1930s Britain’;...
US Indies Choice Book Awards 2015 winners announced
Monday, 20 April 2015
The American Booksellers Association has announced the winners of the 2015 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E B White Read-Aloud Awards, as voted for by independent booksellers in the...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 20 April 2015
True stories are in demand this week, as two memoirs top the highest new entries and fastest movers charts. Somebody That I Used to Know (The Five Mile Press), Bunkie...
Inaugural History Writers’ Festival to be held this weekend
Friday, 17 April 2015
The inaugural History Writers’ Festival will be held at Readers’ Feast Bookstore in Melbourne this weekend, the 18-19 April.Interviews with authors and panel discussions will be held every two hours on...
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu collaboration among LBF ‘buzz books’
Friday, 17 April 2015
A book about joy by the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu was one of the ‘buzz books’ at this year’s London Book Fair, reports the Bookseller. The Book of...
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