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Season’s readings: 2018 Christmas highlights 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
Sarah Farquharson and Nathania Gilson round up this year’s Christmas highlights. Fiction as you like it This Christmas features new offerings from several bestselling Australian authors: Rosalie Ham returns with...

Tracking changes: Jacqueline Kent on ‘A Certain Style’ 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
Seventeen years after A Certain Style was first published, Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Australia’s first full-time book editor Beatrice Davis is being reissued for a new generation of publishing aficionados....

Mapping the future: The state of travel guidebooks 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
Jackie Tang talks to Lonely Planet’s Chris Zeiher, APA Publications’ Agnieszka Mizak and former Dymocks category manager Ali Hammond about the state of the travel guidebook. Australians are travelling more...

Your store: Training wheels 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
Brisbane bookshop Avid Reader and the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) have launched an all-day booksellers’ training program that will include sessions on using Nielsen BookScan; the financial realities of running...

The Christmas wrap-up: 2018 children’s highlights 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
Jackie Tang picks some highlights from publishers’ Christmas lists. Headliners Several high-profile authors have new titles out this Christmas, including national treasure Alison Lester who has three picture books: Tricky’s...

Book bites: A taste of books to come 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
The next chapter Hot off the news that ‘The Bad Guys’ is being developed for an animated feature film by US production company Dreamworks, Aaron Blabey is back with a...

Stretching the truth: Jack Heath on ‘The Truth App’ 

Thursday, 30 August 2018
The Truth App (Scholastic, September) is the first book in YA author Jack Heath’s five-book junior-fiction series 'Liars', described by reviewer Heath Graham as a ‘non-stop action-adventure ride’ for readers who want ‘techno-thrillers...

Growing pains: Karen Foxlee on ‘Lenny’s Book of Everything’

Thursday, 30 August 2018
Karen Foxlee’s middle-grade novel Lenny’s Book of Everything (A&U) is ‘bittersweet tale about heartbreak and healing’ with ‘a sense of whimsy that never feels forced’. Reviewer Karys McEwen spoke to the author. Lenny’s brother...

‘100 Dogs’ named Sainsbury’s children’s book of the year

Thursday, 30 August 2018
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has announced the winners of the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, reports the Bookseller. The children’s book of the year prize was awarded to 100 Dogs (Michael Whaite, Puffin), which...

Hope Prize winners announced

Thursday, 30 August 2018
The winners of the Brotherhood of St Laurence's 2018 Hope Prize for short stories have been announced. Finnegan Kruckemeyer won the $10,000 first prize for ‘Like Dresses in a Tree’;...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 29 August 2018
‘Our jacket art often has social media in mind, as we often create animated gifs, profile icons, and moving images that expand on the book jacket art and are designed...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Sales Fiction Text has sold Italian rights to The Helpline (Katherine Collette) to Garzanti. Acquisitions Fiction UQP has acquired world rights to The Trespassers (Meg Mundell, see news). Nonfiction Allen...

Fiona Wright’s ‘The World Was Whole’ 

Wednesday, 29 August 2018
‘In this exquisite follow-on from her award-winning memoir-in-essays Small Acts of Disappearance, Fiona Wright continues to set the standard for the essay form in Australia.’ ... read Jo Case's full...

RiP Mirka Mora

Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Melbourne-based, French-born artist Mirka Mora has died, aged 90. Mora and her husband, Georges, arrived in Melbourne in 1951 after surviving the Holocaust, and became entrenched in the city's bohemian...

Jacobson wins 2018 Thomas Shapcott Prize

Tuesday, 28 August 2018
Poet Anna Jacobson has won the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for her manuscript ‘I know I may not escape unscathed’. Jacobson receives $2000 and a publishing contract with University...

Charts this week 

Monday, 27 August 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 104-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Scrublands Chris...

Gentill, Bailey win 2018 Ned Kelly Awards

Sunday, 26 August 2018
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The Best Crime Novel was presented to Sulari Gentill for...

Jameyson wins 2018 Lady Cutler Award

Friday, 24 August 2018
The School Magazine editor Karen Jameyson has won this year’s Lady Cutler Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for distinguished service...

UQP acquires Mundell’s second novel

Thursday, 23 August 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to The Trespassers, the second novel by Melbourne-based author Meg Mundell. Martin Shaw from Alex Adsett Publishing Services sold rights...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 22 August 2018
'It’s only once the book has done well elsewhere that some of the chains will take more copies ... It is as though the customer has to prove that there...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 22 August 2018
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin has sold German rights to The Yellow House (Emily O’Grady), and the film option to producers Lucy Hayes and John Tummino (see news); and Dutch...

 

 

 

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