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Robert Harris wins Walter Scott Prize 

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
British author Robert Harris has won the £25,000 (A$45,167) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for An Officer and a Spy (Arrow), reports the Bookseller. The judges described An Officer...

Wakefield appoints ‘geek in residence’

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Wakefield Press has appointed Simon Collinson as the publisher’s ‘geek in residence’ until September. The role, which is part-funded by the Australia Council, will involve Collinson ‘developing ways to enhance Wakefield’s...

Writers Vic launches ‘Writers Book Club’

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Writers Victoria has launched a new ‘professional development and networking opportunity’ for published writers, who will ‘use a newly released Australian novel as a starting point for facilitated conversation and...

Exisle acquires Rennie’s ‘Art in Nature’

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Exisle has acquired Art in Nature, the first book by photographer David Rennie. Rennie was the 2013 winner of the Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year competition. His...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold world English-language audio rights to Cleanskin Cowgirls (Rachael Treasure). Nonfiction—HarperCollins has sold Polish rights to Fast, Fresh, Simple (Donna Hay); and Dutch rights to The New Classics...

RiP Pat Rosier 

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
New Zealand author Pat Rosier has died, aged 72.Spinifex Press publishers Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne write:‘New Zealand author Pat Rosier died on Friday. A well known figure in New...

RiP David Ell 

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Australian publisher David Ell has died, aged 74. Bridging the Gap publisher Kathryn Lamberton writes: ‘David founded David Ell Press in the late 1970s and was an influential small publisher...

Makumbi wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Monday, 16 June 2014
Ugandan author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for ‘Let’s Tell This Story Properly’. The £5000 (A$9030) prize is presented annually to the best piece of...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 16 June 2014
John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin) is on top of this week’s bestsellers chart, up from second spot last week. The film tie-in edition of the same title is...

Self-publishing sales increase by 79% in UK 

Monday, 16 June 2014
In the UK, the market share for self-published books grew by 79% in 2013, according to Nielsen statistics, reports the Guardian. UK consumers bought 18 million self-published books last year...

Stanley and Harrison win 2014 black&write! fellowships

Monday, 16 June 2014
Adrian Stanley and Jane Harrison are the winners of the 2014 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships. Each of the fellowships are worth $10,000 and include publication by Magabala Books. Stanley’s novel...

Robinsons Bookshop unveils Melbourne Emporium store

Friday, 13 June 2014
Robinsons Bookshop has unveiled its new store in Melbourne’s Emporium shopping complex.The Emporium store, which began trading on 11 June, is ‘designed as a library in an old mansion—similar to...

Juan Gabriel Vásquez wins IMPAC Dublin award 

Friday, 13 June 2014
Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez has won 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Sound of Things Falling (Bloomsbury), translated from the original Spanish. The €100,000 (A$144,000) award,...

Charles Wright named US Poet Laureate 

Friday, 13 June 2014
In the US, the Library of Congress has named Charles Wright as the country’s next Poet Laureate, reports The New York Times. Wright, a retired professor at the University of...

Canberra bookstore Gaslight Books to close 

Friday, 13 June 2014
Canberra bookstore Gaslight Books will close on 2 August after 25 years of operation. The Fyshwick store, which specialises in crime and detective fiction, science fiction, fantasy and horror, was...

PANZ Book Design Awards 2014 shortlists announced

Friday, 13 June 2014
The shortlists for the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the PANZ Young Designer of the Year Award, have been announced.The titles shortlisted in the best...

Digital press ideePOP launched 

Thursday, 12 June 2014
A new digital press specialising in longform nonfiction has launched.ideePOP is the brainchild of Simon Clews, director of Melbourne University’s Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers, director of Reader’s Feast...

Australian Book Design Awards adds indie category

Thursday, 12 June 2014
The Australian Book Design Awards has added a new category to this year’s awards. ‘Affectionately dubbed the “Indie 1000”’, the new category is ‘designed for independent publishers and self-published books...

Bookstores to run Chicago Independent Bookstore Day 

Thursday, 12 June 2014
In the US, nine independent bookstores will run a Chicago Independent Bookstore Day on 12 July, following the success of the California Bookstore Day on 3 May, reports Publishers Weekly. The bookstores are offering free...

Over 14,000 attend EWF 2014

Thursday, 12 June 2014
Over 14,000 people attended the 2014 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), the second festival under director Sam Twyford-Moore, breaking last year’s box office and attendance records.General manager Kate Callingham told Books+Publishing...

NZ bookstore Atlantis Books expands 

Thursday, 12 June 2014
New Zealand bookstore Atlantis Books, based in the North Island town of Rotorua, is expanding its business to the neighbouring town of Tokoroa, reports Booksellers NZ.Atlantis Books co-owners Greg Price and...

RWA ‘Ruby’ award finalists announced

Wednesday, 11 June 2014
The finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year award, known as ‘the Ruby’, have been announced.The finalists in each category are:‘Short sexy’: What the...

 

 

 

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