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Booktopia launches $5k Favourite Australian Book award

Monday, 20 January 2020
Booktopia has launched the Favourite Australian Book (FAB) award, replacing its annual Australia’s Favourite Author poll. The author of the winning book, as determined by an online poll open to...

Johnson wins 2020 Peter Porter Poetry Prize

Monday, 20 January 2020
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced A Frances Johnson as the winner of the 2020 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, for her poem ‘My Father’s Thesaurus’. Johnson receives $7000. The...

Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 20 January 2020
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 edition includes a look at...

Charts this week 

Monday, 20 January 2020
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Bluey: Time to Play! Bluey Penguin 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Bluey: The Beach Bluey Penguin...

PRH sells ‘The Tiny Star’ to US 

Friday, 17 January 2020
Penguin Random House Australia has sold North American rights to Mem Fox’s picture book The Tiny Star (illus by Freya Blackwood) to Knopf Books for Young Readers. Editorial director of...

‘Future Fit’ shortlisted for UK Business Book Award

Friday, 17 January 2020
In the UK, Andrea Clarke's book Future Fit (Major Street) has been shortlisted in the 2020 Business Book Awards. Shortlisted in the International Book category, Future Fit looks at disruption and...

Australian Romance Readers Awards 2019 finalists announced

Thursday, 16 January 2020
The finalists for the 2019 Australian Romance Readers Awards have been announced. Six authors have been shortlisted for the favourite Australian romance author category. They are: Alissa Callen Kelly Hunter...

The decline in new-title publishing

Wednesday, 15 January 2020
'New-title publishing has become much riskier and more expensive for all publishers. They naturally react to that by publishing fewer new titles, and that describes the tactics of just about...

Introducing the new WBN 

Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Welcome to the new-look Weekly Book Newsletter! In 2020, we’re streamlining the WBN to focus more on features and analysis. We’ll still round up the week’s biggest news stories here,...

RiP Renée Senogles 

Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Publishing professional Renée Senogles died on 19 December 2019, aged 40. Senogles was US marketing and publicity manager for Hardie Grant, within the Chronicle Books office in San Francisco. She...

Desire Lines (Felicity Volk, Hachette) 

Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Desire Lines is a heartrending love story between a man struggling to overcome the struggles of a deeply traumatic childhood and a woman who, frankly, deserves better. At a market...

Robinson wins 2019 T S Eliot Prize

Wednesday, 15 January 2020
In the UK, writer and performer Roger Robinson has won the 2019 T S Eliot Prize for poetry for his collection A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press), reports the Bookseller....

Indie Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Leading Edge Books has announced the shortlists for the 2020 Indie Book Awards for the best Australian books published in 2019. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction There...

Ventura sells UK rights to ‘Paris Savages’

Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Ventura Press has sold UK rights to Katherine Johnson’s novel Paris Savages to independent publisher Allison and Busby. Paris Savages, which was written as part of Johnson’s PhD, is based...

ABR announces Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2020 shortlist

Tuesday, 14 January 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Precision Signs’ (Lachlan Brown) ‘That Wadjela Tongue’ (Claire G Coleman)...

ACT Book of the Year 2019 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 14 January 2020
The shortlist for the 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award was announced in December. The shortlisted titles are: Made by Humans: The AI Condition (Ellen Broad, MUP) Book of...

UWAP announces 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist

UWAP logo Tuesday, 14 January 2020
In December, UWA Publishing announced the shortlist for the 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette’...

Costa Book Awards 2019 category winners announced

Monday, 13 January 2020
In the UK, the five category winners for the 2019 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The five winners were chosen from shortlists announced in November 2019. The winning authors each...

Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 13 January 2020
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, 13 January 2020
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Bluey: Time to Play! Bluey Puffin 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Dog Man: Fetch-22 Dav Pilkey...

Book events in 2020

Tuesday, 7 January 2020
January International Cairo Book Fair, Egypt (22 January–4 February) International Kolkata Book Fair, India (29 January–9 February) Jaipur Literature Festival, India (23–27 January) New Delhi World Book Fair, India (4–12...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Sales Fiction Scribe has sold world audio and large print rights to Small Mercies (Richard Anderson, April 2020) to Ulverscroft. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold North American rights and UK &...

 

 

 

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