Marlee Jane Ward’s ‘Psynode’
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
‘Both the original novella and its sequel are powerful, gripping and fresh. Ward effortlessly plays around with language. Her dialogue feels authentically young and edgy, and she captures the diversity...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Spanish rights in Latin America to Silver Wattle (Belinda Alexandra) to Ediciones B Mexico SA de CV. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth audio rights...
Dempster to step down after MWF 2017
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) artistic director and CEO Lisa Dempster will step down following this year’s festival, which runs from 25 August to 3 September. Dempster was appointed in 2012...
Chidgey wins NZ$50,000 fiction prize at New Zealand Book Awards
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
The winners of the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards were announced at a ceremony at the Auckland Writers Festival on 16 May. Catherine Chidgey won the NZ$50,000 (A$46,380) fiction prize...
RWA releases 2017 conference program ‘Love Gone Wild’
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has released the program for its 2017 conference, to be held in Brisbane from 11-13 August under the theme ‘Love Gone Wild’. International guests...
‘Ruby’ romance awards 2017 finalists announced
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
The finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year award, known as ‘the Ruby’, have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Long Romance...
Australian authors shortlisted for Locus Awards
Monday, 15 May 2017
Several Australian authors and illustrators have been named as finalists for the Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing. Garth Nix is a finalist in the young adult category for...
Charts this week
Monday, 15 May 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Into the Water Paula Hawkins Doubleday 2 A Court of Wings and Ruin Sarah J Maas Bloomsbury 3 The Fix David Baldacci...
18,000 attend Clunes Booktown Festival 2017; sellout sessions with Kent, Ford
Friday, 12 May 2017
Around 18,000 visitors attended this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival in Victoria, which ran from 6-7 May. The number of visitors is about the same as the previous two festivals. A...
Book blogger spotlight: Reading Matters
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
UK-based Australian blogger Kim Forrester started Reading Matters in 2004 to help her remember what she was reading. Now she likes to focus on ‘books that may have slipped under...
Margaret Hamilton: A life in children’s books
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Former children’s book publisher Margaret Hamilton AM recently retired from the national board of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) after 57 years with the organisation. In her retirement...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
‘In Australia we are all, increasingly, being denied participation in, and exposure to, art and arts criticism’—Anwen Crawford on ‘the crisis in Australian arts coverage’ in the Monthly.
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold world German-language rights to Bonkers (Michelle Holman) to Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur. Scribe has sold UK & Commonwealth audio rights to The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy...
Margaret Hamilton: A life in children’s books
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Former children’s book publisher Margaret Hamilton AM recently retired from the national board of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) after 57 years with the organisation. This is an...
Inga Simpson’s ‘Understory: A Life with Trees’
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
‘While each of Simpson’s novels has shown a strong connection to land and nature, this book allows her to expand her observations and concerns, and to preserve and celebrate her...
PRH acquires ‘subversive’ boarding school YA debut
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired the rights to Margot McGovern’s contemporary YA debut Neverland. Random House Young Readers publisher Zoe Walton acquired ANZ rights and English-language rights in Asia via Jacinta...
EWF 2017 program launched
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced its full 2017 program, which runs from 14-23 June in venues across Melbourne’s CBD, Footscray and Dandenong. The festival will open with ‘an...
Join the club: Small children’s publishers building book clubs
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Driven by a lack of access to media and retailers, concerns over literacy and a desire to instil a love of reading, small children’s publishers are investing in new ways...
Teen talk: A S King, Randa Abdel-Fattah and Will Kostakis on this year’s Reading Matters conference
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Authors A S King, Randa Abdel-Fattah and Will Kostakis will be participating in this year’s Reading Matters conference. Jackie Tang finds out what they’ll be discussing at the conference—and what...
Pan Macmillan, Waterstones among the winners at British Book Awards
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Pan Macmillan has been named Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards for the second time in three years, reports the Bookseller. Pan Macmillan’s consumer sales were up...
New ILF app to help children in remote WA community read in their first language
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has launched a new app in Ngaanyatjarra and English languages for the Warburton community in Western Australia. The app, which was developed as part of...
Affirm acquires ‘The Uncollected Plays of Shaun Micallef’
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Affirm Press has acquired a collection of playscripts by comedian Shaun Micallef, to be published next year. In a statement, Affirm publishing director Martin Hughes said the company wants to...
CBCA partners with party supplies company
Monday, 8 May 2017
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has partnered with Australian party supplies company The Party People to promote Children’s Book Week. The CBCA said the partnership will enable it...
Charts this week
Monday, 8 May 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 2 The Fix David Baldacci Macmillan 3 Against All Odds Danielle Steel Macmillan 4 Work Strife...
Ditmar Awards 2017 ballot announced
Friday, 5 May 2017
The ballot for the 2017 Ditmar Awards was announced on 10 April. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel The Grief Hole (Kaaron Warren, IFWG) The Lyre Thief (Jennifer Fallon, HarperCollins)...
Hawthorne, Henke and Richards receive Vic Supreme Court Inspire Awards
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Writers Susan Hawthorne, Frances Henke and Kate Richards have been presented with Inspire Awards for Best Achievement in Writing, administered by the Victorian Supreme Court’s Funds in Court Division. The...
Cece wins 2017 Text Prize
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Adelaide-based author Adam Cece has won the 2017 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for his middle-grade manuscript ‘The Extremely Weird Thing That Happened in Huggabie Falls’. The...
‘Books+Publishing’s guide to the Miles Franklin longlist
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Nine titles are vying for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award, including four from multinational publishers and five from small, independent publishers. Read Books+Publishing’s reviews of all nine titles here.
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
‘This year’s longlist, unusually, is nearly all contemporary and urban’—State Library of NSW Mitchell librarian Richard Neville on the Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist
Anna Spargo-Ryan’s ‘The Gulf’
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
‘Just a year after her debut novel The Paper House was released to enthusiastic reviews, Anna Spargo-Ryan returns with another impressive novel that will have readers feeling every emotion experienced...
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