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‘Ducks, Newburyport’ wins 2019 Goldsmiths Prize

Thursday, 14 November 2019
In the UK, Lucy Ellmann has won the £10,000 (A$18,800) Goldsmiths Prize for her eighth novel Ducks, Newburyport (Text). Chosen from a shortlist of six, Ducks, Newburyport follows the internal monologue of...

Open access a ‘laughable’ model for UWA Publishing 

Wednesday, 13 November 2019
'Open access has an important role to play in academic publishing, but it is laughable to claim UWA Publishing’s cultural impact can simply be replaced through open access.'—academic Emmett Stinson...

New decade, new nonfiction: 2020 nonfiction preview 

Wednesday, 13 November 2019
New books by Bruce Pascoe, Julia Baird, Melissa Davey and Miranda Tapsell are among next year’s most anticipated releases. Sarah Farquharson rounds up the best locally authored nonfiction to look...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold rights to Pain and Prejudice (Gabrielle Jackson) to Piatkus in the UK and Greystone Books in North America (see news). Black Inc. has sold...

Balancing act: Gavin Burbidge’s career journey

Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Gavin Burbidge is an account manager at Penguin Random House Australia and a constant figure on the ABA’s shortlists for Victorian rep of the year. He shares his career journey....

Pantera acquires two new Wasley novels 

Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to two new works of women’s fiction by Sasha Wasley, via Alex Adsett Publishing Services. Spring Clean for the Peach Queen follows a woman...

Queensland Literary Awards 2019 winners announced

Wednesday, 13 November 2019
The winners of the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (QLAs) have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of state significance ($25,000) Too...

Australian authors on 2020 Dublin Literary Award longlist

Tuesday, 12 November 2019
Twelve books by Australian authors have been nominated for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. The longlisted books by Australian authors are: Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) The Making of Martin...

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...

State of euphoria: Alison Evans on ‘Euphoria Kids’

Friday, 8 November 2019
Reviewer Jordi Kerr says Alison Evans’ YA novel Euphoria Kids (Echo, February) is ‘a tender, contemporary fairytale about magic, friendship and gender identity’ that follows three trans kids ‘learning to...

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...

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...

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...

 

 

 

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