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Publishers Weekly

Monday, 11 November 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This...

Charts this week

Monday, 11 November 2019
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Blue Moon Lee Child Bantam Press 2 The Night Fire Michael Connelly Allen & Unwin 3 The Last Paradise Di Morrissey Macmillan...

Australians nominated for 2020 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals

Friday, 8 November 2019
A number of Australian authors and illustrators have been nominated for the 2020 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. Karen Foxlee (Lenny's Book of Everything, A&U), Paul Jennings (A Different Land,...

Fyfe wins 2019 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing

Friday, 8 November 2019
Melissa Fyfe's article ‘Getting cliterate’ (Good Weekend) has won this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing. Fyfe receives $7000. Her winning article describes the work of urologist Helen...

Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2019 winners announced

Friday, 8 November 2019
The winners of the 2019 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards have been announced. Chosen from shortlists announced in July, the winning titles are: Birth to three years Let’s Go...

The decline of the midlist author

Thursday, 7 November 2019
‘You want to be debut, literary, or bestselling; you don’t want to be midlist. The midlist is like the middle class; it’s the group that gets squeezed. They don’t get...

Diversity in UK publishing: what’s changed?

Thursday, 7 November 2019
In 2017 BookBrunch feature writer Julie Vuong reported on the UK book industry’s efforts to encourage diversity. Two years on, she considers the industry’s progress. Here we are: two years...

My life in books: Tim Gott from Devonport Bookshop

Thursday, 7 November 2019
Tim and Anne Gott have owned the Devonport Bookshop for almost 25 years. In his bookseller’s diary, Tim shares stories from his bookselling career and observations on Devonport’s urban renewal....

Long-term appeal: Marketing a series

Thursday, 7 November 2019
How—and to whom—do publishers market books as part of series? Bec Kavanagh spoke to Hardie Grant Egmont and Scholastic about their approaches to creating buzz that transforms into longevity. In two...

Rights round-up

Thursday, 7 November 2019
Sales Fiction Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia has sold US and UK rights to In the Clearing (J P Pomare, Hachette) in a two-book deal to global Hachette imprints...

Walkley Book Award 2019 shortlist announced

Thursday, 7 November 2019
The Walkley Book Award 2019 shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up (Gabrielle Chan, Vintage) See What You Made Me Do (Jess Hill, Black...

Herrick’s YA novel ‘By the River’ wins German Youth Literature Prize

Thursday, 7 November 2019
NSW-based author Steven Herrick’s YA novel By the River (A&U) has won Germany’s Youth Literature Prize in the young adult division. First published in 2004, By the River follows 14-year-old...

A&U sells ‘Pain and Prejudice’ to US, UK

Thursday, 7 November 2019
Allen & Unwin has sold rights to Gabrielle Jackson’s Pain and Prejudice to Piatkus in the UK and Greystone Books in North America. Published in Australia in October, Pain and...

Pantera acquires new Amal Awad novel

Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to journalist and author Amal Awad’s third novel, Control on the Way Down, a work of women’s fiction. Awad’s novel is about a Muslim...

Black Inc. acquires El Sayed’s memoir ‘Muddy People’

Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to Sara El Sayed’s debut memoir Muddy People, a ‘smart, funny, terrifically lively exploration of growing up as a Muslim Australian in the outer...

Publishers Weekly

Monday, 4 November 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This...

McTiernan wins Barry Award for best paperback original

Monday, 4 November 2019
Dervla McTiernan has won the Barry Award for best paperback original for her 2018 novel The Ruin (HarperCollins). The annual literary crime awards, named for American critic and crime fiction...

Charts this week

Monday, 4 November 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 When All is Said & Done Neale Daniher Macmillan 2 The Night Fire Michael Connelly Allen & Unwin 3 Kitty Flanagan's 488...

Pascoe, Gaiman to headline 2020 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas weekend

Friday, 1 November 2019
The program for Perth Festival’s Literature & Ideas weekend, running from 21–23 February 2020, has been announced. Based around the themes of land, money, power and sex, the literature and...

Drewe wins 2019 Colin Roderick Literary Award for ‘The True Colour of the Sea’

Friday, 1 November 2019
Robert Drewe has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award 2019 and the H T Priestley Medal for his short story collection The True Colour of the Sea (Hamish Hamilton)....

Pomare’s ‘In the Clearing’ sold to US, UK in two-book deal

Thursday, 31 October 2019
US and UK rights to J P Pomare’s In the Clearing (Hachette) have been sold in a two-book deal to global Hachette imprints Mulholland Books US and Hodder UK. The...

Tighe, Walker announced as inaugural ABR Rising Stars

Thursday, 31 October 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the inaugural ABR Rising Stars, a new initiative to support young ABR writers and critics supported by Creative Victoria and Create NSW. Alex...

‘A Fistful of Shells’ wins 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

Thursday, 31 October 2019
In the UK, historian Toby Green has won the £25,000 (A$46,750) Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise...

Lake wins 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize for ‘The Bible in Australia’

Thursday, 31 October 2019
Meredith Lake has won the 2019 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences’ (CHASS) Australia Book Prize, for her book The Bible in Australia: A cultural history (NewSouth). Lake’s...

Melissa Lucashenko argues for tax-free literary prizes

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
'It's a bit of a kick in the guts to win a major prize only to learn you're going to lose a third of it or maybe more for the...

Climate change and MBS books popular at nonfiction-focused Frankfurt 2019

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Nonfiction titles dominated this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (16–20 October), with books on climate change and Mind Body Spirit (MBS) in demand, according to a number of Australian publishers who...

Justin Ractliffe on reaching heavy and light readers

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Penguin Random House ANZ publishing director Justin Ractliffe travelled to the United States earlier in 2019 to study consumer insights and data as part of his Copyright Agency Cultural Fund...

Best book forward: 2020 fiction preview

Wednesday, 30 October 2019
New books by Evie Wyld, Kate Mildenhall, Alice Pung and Jamie Marina Lau are among next year’s most anticipated releases. Sarah Farquharson rounds up the best locally authored fiction and...

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