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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...

Three Sara Foster novels sold to US in six-figure deal

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia has sold North American rights to three novels by Perth-based author Sara Foster to Blackstone Publishing in a six-figure deal. Blackstone Publishing acquired rights...

Voss Literary Prize 2019 longlist announced

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Flames (Robbie Arnott, Text) Book of Colours (Robyn Cadwallader, Fourth Estate) The Making of Martin...

CHASS Australia Book Prize 2019 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia...

National Book Award 2019 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
In the US, the shortlists for the 2019 National Book Award have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Trust Exercise (Susan Choi, Serpent’s Tail) Sabrina & Corina: Stories (Kali Fajardo-Anstine, One...

Amazon launches Kindle for kids

Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Amazon has launched a Kindle for children, marking the first time the company has designed a device specifically for kids. The Kindle Kids Edition, priced at A$182.50, includes the standard...

Brow Books acquires Dao’s debut novel 

Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Brow Books has acquired world rights to André Dao’s debut novel, which has the working title Anamnesis, or A Book No Longer Discussed Today. Set in Ho Chi Minh City,...

APA announces new industry conference BookUp

Tuesday, 8 October 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced a new conference for the Australian book industry called BookUp. Aimed at ‘all book publishing people’, the one-day event will explore the future...

Charts this week 

Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Testaments Margaret Atwood Chatto & Windus 2 The 117-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 3 The Bad Guys Episode...

Richell Prize 2019 shortlist announced

Logo for the Richell Prize, featuring a swooping bird Monday, 7 October 2019
Hachette Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: 'The Earth Starts Talking' (Ayla Black) 'The Blind Pussy...

Masson joins MidnightSun with spec-fic YA novel

Monday, 7 October 2019
MidnightSun Publishing has acquired world rights to Sophie Masson’s YA speculative fiction novel The Ghost Squad. Set in ‘an alternative yet jarringly familiar reality’, The Ghost Squad follows 16-year-old Polly...

Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 7 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 edition features a holiday gift...

No Place for an Octopus (Claire Zorn, UQP) 

Thursday, 3 October 2019
This is Claire Zorn’s first picture book and it comes as rather a surprise—she is well known as an author of novels for young adults, for which she has won...

I See, I See (R Henderson, A&U) 

Thursday, 3 October 2019
This extremely clever book will be loved by kids, who will want to turn it upside down to read it again as soon as they finish it—and it will be...

 

 

 

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