Oz middle-grade novel ‘The Shark Caller’ optioned for film
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Dianne Wolfer’s middle-grade novel The Shark Caller (Random House) has been optioned for film by New Zealand producers Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton at Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions Wolfer’s...
Echo acquires world rights to d’Alpuget’s fiction backlist
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s Echo imprint has acquired world rights to bestselling novelist Blanche D’Alpuget’s backlist. Echo will publish the last two titles in D’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series in...
Charts this week
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 5 Ingredients - Quick & Easy Food Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph 2 The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin...
Griffiths wins 2017 ACT Book of the Year
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Tom Griffiths has won the 2017 ACT Book of the Year for his nonfiction book The Art of Time Travel (Black Inc.). Griffiths was chosen from a shortlist of five,...
Adaptations win at AACTA Awards 2017
Friday, 8 December 2017
The 2017 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards have been announced, with many of the awards going to book-to-screen adaptations. The feature film adaptation of Saroo Brierley’s...
Brio acquires O’Neill’s ‘The Drover’s Wife’ reinterpretations; acquires new debut novel by Vincent Silk
Friday, 8 December 2017
Xoum imprint Brio has acquired Ryan O’Neill’s The Drovers Wives, a collection of 99 remixes and reinterprations of Henry Lawson’s The Drover’s Wife. In the collection, O’Neill reimagines Lawson’s classic...
Jack Heath’s ‘The Hangman’
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
‘Yes, the hero of Jack Heath’s debut adult novel is a cannibal detective. Readers able to abide this grisly affliction will easily lose themselves in this dark, bone-rattling thriller. Those...
Christmas predictions: Gavin Williams from Matilda and Lindy Jones from Abbey’s
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Gavin Williams, owner...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
‘We had to go back to basics and ask again: What are books and stories for? Of course, they are for children. But where do they fit into the world...
Library manager wins top gong at inaugural NT Digital Excellence Awards
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Alice Springs Town Council library services manager Georgina Davison has won the Minister’s gold award and community benefit award at the inaugural Northern Territory Digital Excellence Awards, reports Information Age....
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Sales Nonfiction—Allen & Unwin has sold world English-language (ex-ANZ) rights to Fight Like a Girl (Clementine Ford) to OneWorld Publications; Korean rights to The Mekong: Second Edition (Milton Osborne) to...
Indie Book Awards 2018 longlists announced
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2018 Indie Book Awards for books published in 2017. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Long Way from...
Online book club launches YA event
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Online young adult book club the YA Room has programmed a one-day young adult (YA) event in Melbourne at the Wheeler Centre. ‘YA Day’, which will be held on 28...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 shortlists announced
Monday, 4 December 2017
The 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction A New England Affair (Steven Carroll, HarperCollins) Australia Day (Melanie Cheng, Text) The Life to...
AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards 2017 winners announced
Monday, 4 December 2017
The winners for the 2017 AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Book of the year Nineteen Letters (Jodi Perry, Hachette) Author of the...
Charts this week
Monday, 4 December 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph 2 The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 3...
Winners announced for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017
Friday, 1 December 2017
The winners of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Their Brilliant Careers (Ryan O’Neill, Black Inc.) Poetry Headwaters (Anthony...
Wagner awarded 2017 Dromkeen Medal
Friday, 1 December 2017
The State Library Victoria (SLV) has awarded the 2017 Dromkeen Medal to Erica Wagner, publisher of books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin. Wagner has worked as...
Milligan wins 2017 Walkley Book Award for ‘Cardinal’
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Investigative journalist Louise Milligan has won the 2017 Walkley Book Award for Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell (MUP). Milligan’s book was chosen from a shortlist of three....
Christmas predictions: Kym Bagley and Rivis Donnelly from Dymocks Melbourne
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
In a new series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In our latest instalment, Dymocks...
Where popular meets the professional: Genre Con 2017
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
GenreCon 2017 was the conference’s biggest yet. The biennially-staged writers conference aimed at genre writers sold out its registrations with 240 attendees, up from 190 in 2015. Fantasy writers were...
Jan O’Connell’s ‘A Timeline of Australian Food’
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
‘A Timeline of Australian Food expertly fills a gap in our understanding of Australian food history. If there is a quibble, it is only that the reader is often left wanting...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Sales: Fiction—Black Inc. has sold UK rights to Their Brilliant Careers (Ryan O’Neill) to Eye Books. (See news.) Hachette has sold US and Canadian rights to Terra Nullius (Claire G Coleman) to Small...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
‘By steering boys away from books by and about women, we are teaching them that women’s stories are not interesting or important, and that women cannot be empathised with’—Author Lili...
Australia Council publishing delegation to travel to US
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The Australia Council will select a delegation of up to six Australian rights sellers, literary agents and publishers to visit the US in 2018. The New York Publishers Program 2018...
RiP Amelia Edwards
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Walker Books’ founding art director Amelia Edwards has died, aged 77. Sebastian Walker employed Edwards to establish the Walker Books London office in 1978. She was the art director for...
New Zealand Book Awards 2018 longlists announced
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The longlists for the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles are: Fiction The New Animals (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press) The Beat of the Pendulum...
RiP Jill Barklem
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Children’s author and illustrator Jill Barklem has died, aged 66. Barklem’s ‘Brambly Hedge’ stories sold more than seven million copies, and were adapted for television in 1996. Barklem’s publisher, Ann-Janine Murtagh...
Attendance up at SPN conference; children’s books a growth area for small publishers
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) sixth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 16-18 November. With attendance up on last year, SPN general manager Matthia...
Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes 2017 winners announced
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Tasmania Book Prize for best book with Tasmanian content in any...
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