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S&S to reissue Trioli’s ‘Generation F’ 

Thursday, 17 October 2019
Simon & Schuster (S&S) will reissue journalist Virginia Trioli’s Generation F in November, with a new foreword and afterword by the author. Originally published by Heinemann imprint Minerva in 1996, Generation...

Noni moves to PRH after eight-way auction

Thursday, 17 October 2019
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to a new series from YA author Lynette Noni titled 'The Prison Healer'. Rights were acquired in an eight-way auction via...

‘Supper Club’ wins 2019 Not the Booker

Thursday, 17 October 2019
English writer Lara Williams has won the Guardian’s 2019 Not the Booker Prize for her debut novel Supper Club (Hamish Hamilton). For the second year running, the judges overruled the public...

Publishing in a time of political instability

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
'As publishers we should be publishing political books from the left, from the right, from the centre. It's important we’re not retreating back to publishing the sort of liberal books...

Scribe acquires book on Hong Kong protest movement

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom has acquired world rights to City on Fire: The fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran, an Australian writer and lawyer who has lived in Hong...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Sales Nonfiction Murdoch Books has sold French-language and Dutch-language rights to The Fit Foodie Meal Prep Plan (Sally O’Neil) to Marabout Publishing and Forte Uitgevers respectively. Thames & Hudson Australia...

Oz, NZ authors and illustrators on 2019 White Ravens list

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Several books by Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators have been included in the 2019 White Ravens list for international children’s and youth literature. The Australian titles on the...

Lawyer Stewart Levitt launches $20,000 poetry prize 

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Human rights lawyer Stewart Levitt has launched the biennial $20,000 Levitt Indigenous Poetry Prize for poems that ‘reflect Indigenous social, personal and political issues’. Entrants need not be Indigenous or...

Shortlist for India’s JCB Prize for Literature announced

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
The shortlist for India's richest literary award, the Rs 2.5 million (A$51,800) JCB Prize for Literature, has been announced. The shortlisted works of fiction are: Ib’s Endless Search for Satisfaction...

Scrivenor wins 2019 Ray Koppe Residency

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Hayley Scrivenor has won the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)’s 2019 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency for her manuscript ‘The Push Back’. Scrivenor’s manuscript tells the story of a young...

Taking stock: Hachette’s Next Stock Date system 

Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Hachette’s Next Stock Date system aims to provide booksellers with timely, accurate data. After spending more than two years developing it, Hachette has offered to share what they’ve learned with...

Book designer spotlight: Imogen Stubbs

Tuesday, 15 October 2019
A love of publishing sparked by the Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT led to studying graphic design, eventually landing Imogen Stubbs a job at Text Publishing, where she...

Atwood, Evaristo tie for Booker Prize 2019

Tuesday, 15 October 2019
The 2019 Booker Prize has been jointly awarded to Bernadine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) and Margaret Atwood for The Testaments (Chatto & Windus). It is the third...

Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 14 October 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, 14 October 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Bad Guys Episode 10: The Baddest Day Ever Aaron Blabey Scholastic 2 Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life Kitty Flanagan Allen...

Tokarczuk, Handke awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature

Friday, 11 October 2019
Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke have been awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature, after the Swedish Academy postponed the 2018 prize following sexual assault allegations. Tokarczuk received...

All bases covered: Karys McEwen on book design 

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Karys McEwen discusses the subtle ways that book design impacts students and librarians. Book design is not something that I spend a lot of time considering, or at least that...

SLNSW Children’s Library to open next week

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
The Children’s Library at the State Library of NSW (SLNSW) will open to the public for the first time on 12 October, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The Children’s Library...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Sales Fiction Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia has sold North American rights to You Don’t Know Me, The Hidden Hours and a new untitled work (all Sara Foster) to...

Quiet achiever: Jessica Horrocks’ career journey

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Jessica Horrocks, designer and production coordinator at Text Publishing, was recently named Emerging Designer of the Year at the 2019 Australian Book Design Awards. She shares her career journey. Having...

 

 

 

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