Rights round-up
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth (excluding ANZ) rights to The Weight of a Human Heart (Ryan O’Neill) to Lightning Books. (See news.) Bonnier Books UK has...
Leigh Sales’ ‘Any Ordinary Day’
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
'Using her incisive journalistic skills, Sales presents the reader with both scientific research and vivid descriptions of her own and others’ encounters with tragedy. She presents the research with a...
Podcast spotlight: The First Time Podcast
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Launched in 2018, The First Time is a weekly podcast about the first time someone publishes a book. Supported by the ACT Writers Centre, Writers Victoria and RMIT University, each...
Digital Book World: Bradley Metrock on interactive books, accessibility and voice-first publishing
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Digital Book World (DBW) executive producer Bradley Metrock offers some insights on the topics that will be covered DBW conference, which will run from 2-4 October in Nashville, USA. The...
SPN announces Isdahl, Dattner as conference keynotes
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the keynote speakers for the 2018 Independent Publishing Conference, which runs from 22-24 November 2018 in Melbourne. Danika Isdahl, production manager at US-based...
Vivas to join Hardie Grant Egmont as publisher
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has appointed Ana Vivas to the newly created role of publisher. In her new role at HGE she will 'champion the picture books and children's fiction...
Giramondo acquires McGregor’s ‘photoessay memoir’ on ‘Indelible Ink’
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Giramondo has acquired world rights to a ‘photoessay memoir’ called A Novel Idea by Sydney author and performance artist Fiona McGregor, via Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary Agency. A...
Text dominates shortlist for 2018 CHASS Australia Book Prize
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Australia Book Prize, with Text Publishing responsible for all three shortlisted titles. The...
Horne Prize backflips on rule change, Marr and Funder quit as judges
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
The Saturday Paper and Aesop have removed a controversial rule change to the Horne Prize, acknowledging that the changes ‘were restrictive and should not have been included’. As a result...
UK children’s book market reports growth; YA down 22%, children’s nonfiction up 10.2%
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
In the UK, the children's book market has reported steady growth between August 2017 and August 2018, reports the Bookseller. The children's market has shown overall growth of 0.7% by...
Third O’Neill title sold to UK’s Lightning Books
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
UK publisher Lightning Books has acquired UK and Commonwealth (excluding ANZ) rights to Ryan O’Neill’s 2012 debut short story collection The Weight of a Human Heart, reports Book Brunch. Lightning...
Booktopia wins people’s choice award at Telstra Business Awards
Monday, 24 September 2018
Online bookseller Booktopia has won the people’s choice award at the national finals of the Telstra Business Awards. Announced at an awards dinner on 20 September, the national award win...
Charts this week
Monday, 24 September 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Clockmaker's Daughter Kate Morton Allen & Unwin 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Ottolenghi Simple Yotam...
Educational Publishing Awards 2018 winners announced
Friday, 21 September 2018
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2018 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). Promoting Literacy Development was named Primary Publisher of the Year and Oxford University...
Man Booker Prize 2018 shortlist announced
Friday, 21 September 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Milkman (Anna Burns, Faber) Washington Black (Esi Edugyan, Serpent’s Tail) Everything Under (Daisy Johnson, Jonathan Cape) The...
Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2018 shortlist announced
Friday, 21 September 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Amid fear and guns, polio finds a refuge’ (Jo Chandler, Undark)...
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
Thursday, 20 September 2018
Synchronicity Films will adapt Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) as a television drama miniseries. The project is currently in development, with Australian writer-producer Jacquelin Perske to adapt Morris’...
T A G Hungerford Award 2018 shortlist announced
Thursday, 20 September 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 City of Fremantle T A G Hungerford Award has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Father of the Lost Boys' (Yuot Alaak) 'She Came to...
PRH offers $100k funding for kids’ booksellers amid Puffin brand revival
Thursday, 20 September 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced it will offer a total of $100,000 in funding to booksellers that run children’s reading programs. Australian bookstores with a dedicated children’s book...
RiP Tony Catt
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Sales representative and agent Tony Catt has died, aged 90. Tony and his wife, Pauline, came to Australia from England as 'ten-pound poms' and settled in Hobart, where Catt worked...
BWF wrap-up: Dalton tops bestsellers
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
This year’s Brisbane Writers festival (BWF), which ran from 6 to 9 September, was programmed by guest artistic director Carl Lindgren, who worked with the theme ‘What the World Needs...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Sales Fiction Caroline Dawnay at United Agents sold UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada and ANZ) rights to The Beat of the Pendulum (Catherine Chidgey) to Lightning Books (see news). Children’s...
Podcast spotlight: The Monthly Hour
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Launched in 2018, The Monthly Hour is a podcast companion to The Monthly magazine, described as ‘an essential hour of news, culture and ideas that [offers] insight into each issue...
Karen Foxlee’s ‘Lenny’s Book of Everything’
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
'Foxlee’s writing is brimming with perfectly constructed moments that merge into a truly sensational, heart-wrenching read. This is the kind of book that makes a reader feel grateful it exists' ......
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
‘Books are the last frontier of freedom and wilderness for kids, for imagining dangerous things, for imagining craziness and worst-case scenarios’—Children's author Andy Griffiths on putting the anarchy back into...
RiP Albert Ullin
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
The Little Bookroom founder Albert Ullin has died, aged 88. Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1930, Ullin moved to Australia in 1939 before the outbreak of World War II. In...
‘Ottilie Colter’ sells for ‘record’ sum in three-book German deal
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold German-language rights to Rhiannon Williams’ Ottilie Colter and the Narroway Hunt, plus two further books by Williams, to Random House Germany imprint cbj Verlag, after a...
NZ author Chidgey’s ‘The Beat of the Pendulum’ sold to UK
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
UK imprint Lightning Books has acquired New Zealand author Catherine Chidgey's 2017 novel The Beat of the Pendulum (Victoria University Press), reports the Bookseller. Caroline Dawnay at United Agents sold UK...
MUP acquires Hanson-Young book on slut-shaming
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has acquired ANZ rights to En Garde by Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young. ‘Senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s private life became a matter of public interest when she was...
The Little Bookroom to hold kids book festival in Melbourne
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Melbourne children’s bookshop The Little Bookroom will hold its first kids book festival in October, called Kids Book Fest. Held at the Fitzroy Town Hall, the one-day event will feature...
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