Charles Massy’s ‘Call of the Reed Warbler’
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
‘Call of the Reed Warbler has echoes of Thoreau’s Walden, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Jared Diamond’s Collapse, and will appeal to anyone interested in issues of sustainability and environment....
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
‘I've got a real view about bureaucrats and politicians talking about literacy all the time, and at the same time libraries and librarians are disappearing, sort of seemingly one after...
Book blogger spotlight: Trish Talks Texts
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Trish Buckley is a teacher-librarian who brings a critical perspective to YA literature. ‘I have been reading YA novels since I was a teenager, so that’s 30-odd years of context,...
Bailey’s ‘The Dark Lake’ optioned for screen
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Hopscotch Features has optioned the film and TV rights to Sarah Bailey’s crime thriller The Dark Lake (A&U), via Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management. The Dark Lake, which was...
Varuna announces recipients of 2018 Residency Fellowships
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Varuna, the Writers House, has announced the recipients of the 2018 Varuna Residency Fellowships. The writers and their projects are: The Mick Dark flagship fellowship Donna Mazza for her short...
Affirm Press sells White’s VPLA-winning novel into nine territories
Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Affirm Press has sold rights to Christian White’s forthcoming The Nowhere Child, previously called Decay Theory, into nine overseas territories. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Affirm acquired the rights to...
Sports Writers Festival 2017 program launched
Monday, 25 September 2017
The program has been announced for this year’s Sports Writers Festival, which runs in Melbourne from 28 October to 4 November. Among the guests speaking at the event are broadcaster...
Hardie Grant acquires Pembroke’s ‘well-timed’ book on Korea
Monday, 25 September 2017
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights (excluding the US and Canada) to Australian historian Michael Pembroke’s ‘well-timed’ book on Korea, to be published next year. In Korea: Where the American...
Australian Family Therapists’ Award for Children’s Literature 2017 winners announced
Monday, 25 September 2017
The winners of the 2017 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. Saving Jazz by Kate McCaffrey (Fremantle Press) has won the $1500 Older Readers Award, and...
Charts this week
Monday, 25 September 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 91-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye David Lagercrantz Hachette 3 The Barefoot Investor...
Blanchard wins inaugural Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award
Friday, 22 September 2017
Jacqueline Blanchard has won the Institute of Professional Editors’ (IPEd) inaugural Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as The Rosie, for her editorial work on All Fall Down (Matthew Condon, UQP)....
2017 Australian Short Story Festival program announced
Friday, 22 September 2017
The program for the 2017 Australian Short Story Festival has been announced. Founded by Margaret River Press director Caroline Wood and MidnightSun publisher Anna Solding, this year’s festival will run...
Introducing #LoveOzYA
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Several years ago a group of Australian YA authors and supporters launched the grassroots campaign #LoveOzYA to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles. Think Australian...
Kirkus Prize 2017 finalists announced
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The finalists have been announced for the 2017 Kirkus Prize, sponsored by the US publication Kirkus Reviews. The awards are presented in three categories—fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature—with each...
‘The Silent Invasion’ tops YA bestsellers chart
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The Silent Invasion—the first book in a new YA dystopian trilogy from novelist James Bradley—is at the top of the Australian YA bestsellers chart for August. It’s followed by In the...
Oz YA under the spotlight
Thursday, 21 September 2017
In this newsletter, we shine a spotlight on Australian young adult (YA) fiction. In our profile, we speak to literary agent, editor and YA advocate Danielle Binks about the state...
CBCA Book of the Year Awards announced
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The winners of the prestigious Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. They include: One Would Think the Deep (Claire Zorn, University of Queensland...
Era Publications launches children’s reader series in China
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Era Publications, a family owned educational publisher with a focus on English-language teaching, has partnered with Chinese publisher New Century Publishing to publish 1.7 million copies of its ‘WINGS’ children’s...
CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia...
Educational Publishing Awards 2017 winners announced
Thursday, 21 September 2017
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2017 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The graphic novel The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales (Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti,...
Book blogger spotlight: The Unlikely Bookworm
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Londoner-turned-Sydneysider Lucy Pearson blogs about books and travel at The Unlikely Bookworm. Pearson reviews and recommends a range of fiction and nonfiction, and will soon be launching a series of...
Ali Alizadeh’s ‘The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc’
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
‘Written in sparse, immediate language from multiple perspectives, it is the result of 20 years of research and writing by Alizadeh. His intense admiration of and fascination with Jeanne is...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold simplified Chinese character rights to The Ancestor Game (Alex Miller) to QingDao. Penguin Random House Australia has sold North American rights to Year of...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
‘To have Australian stories disappear and get other stories cheaper from other countries doesn't mean you get the same thing. It doesn't mean you learn about yourselves, your neighbours, the...
Scholastic acquires Kelly Gardiner middle-grade time-travel series
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Scholastic has acquired world rights to ‘The Fire Watcher Chronicles’, a new middle-grade fantasy trilogy by historical fiction and YA author Kelly Gardiner. ‘The Fire Watcher Chronicles’ is a ‘time-slip’...
Waverley Library Award 2017 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, and the Military History Prize, have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the Waverley Library Award for...
Fine wins 2017 Royal Society Science Book Prize
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Melbourne-based British author Cordelia Fine has won the £25,000 (A$42,185) Royal Society Prize for Science Book of the Year for her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered...
‘Financial Times’ 2017 Business Book of the Year shortlist announced
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
In the UK, the shortlist for the £30,000 (A$50,655) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted titles are: The One...
HGE acquires four-book adventure series by Sydney bookseller in six-figure deal
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has acquired world rights to four books in a new adventure series by Sydney bookseller and debut author Jeremy Lachlan, in a six-figure deal that followed...
RiP Agnes Nieuwenhuizen
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Youth literature advocate and author Agnes Nieuwenhuizen has died, aged 79. Nieuwenhuizen established the first Schools Days at the Melbourne Writers Festival in 1994, leading to the establishment of the...
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