Booking ahead: 2017 fiction preview
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Each year we ask publishers to tell us about their most anticipated titles for 2017. Read about their top adult fiction titles from the latest issue of Books+Publishing magazine here.
Small publisher spotlight: Connor Court Publishing
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Founded in 2005 in Ballarat, Victoria, and now based in Redland Bay, Queensland, Connor Court Publishing specialises in titles that ‘challenge the status quo’. Founder Anthony Cappello says what makes...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
‘I found it a very curious and problematic choice ... It’s a prize for literature, not for literature and songwriting’—Readings managing director Mark Rubbo responds to the decision to award...
Digital Writers Festival 2016 program announced
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
The program for the Emerging Writers’ Festival’s Digital Writers’ Festival, which runs from 1-11 November, has been announced. More than 20 events will take place online during the festival, including panels,...
Fraillon shortlisted for 2016 ‘Guardian’ children’s fiction prize
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Australian author Zana Fraillon’s The Bone Sparrow (Lothian) has been shortlisted for the 2016 Guardian children’s fiction prize. Fraillon’s novel for middle-grade readers is a coming-of-age story about the friendship...
Victorian Community History Awards 2016 winners announced
Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Pam Baragwanath and Ken James have won the top prize at the 2016 Victorian Community History Awards (VCHA) for their self-published book These Walls Speak Volumes: A History of Mechanics’...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Monday, 17 October 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Forever Young (Steven Carroll, HarperCollins) The Life of Houses (Lisa Gorton,...
Charts this week
Monday, 17 October 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Working Class Boy Jimmy Barnes HarperCollins 2 The Girl on the Train (Film Tie In) Paula Hawkins Black Swan 3 The 78-Storey...
Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2016 winners announced
Monday, 17 October 2016
The winning titles for this year’s Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Birth to three years Once I...
SPN Independent Publishing Conference 2016 program announced
Friday, 14 October 2016
The Small Press Network (SPN) has launched the program for its 2016 Independent Publishing Conference, which will run at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 9-12 November. The four-day conference...
NZ publisher Eunoia signs with Chinese house
Friday, 14 October 2016
New Zealand publisher Eunoia Publishing has signed an agreement with Chinese Universe & Publishing Media Company that will see each publish books from the other publisher in their respective countries....
Second Rock & Roll Writers Festival to be held in Brisbane next year
Friday, 14 October 2016
The second Rock & Roll Writers Festival will be held in Brisbane from 1-2 April 2017. The first festival, which was held in April this year, received ‘enthusiastic coverage and...
Black Inc. to publish kids’ guide to inaugural AFL Women’s season
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Black Inc. has acquired the rights to A Footy Girl’s Guide to the Stars of 2017, a children’s book by ‘Outer Sanctum’ podcast hosts Alicia Sometimes and Nicole Hayes, which...
CWA Dagger awards announced; Australian author wins Debut Dagger for an unpublished writer
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Australian writer Mark Brandi has won the Debut Dagger for an unpublished writer at this year’s Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards in the UK. Brandi was recognised for his...
Avan Judd Stallard’s ‘Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent’
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
‘This remarkable book is about an imaginary place: Terra Australis Incognita, the Unknown Southern Land. Avan Judd Stallard tells the story of a geographical obsession and how it developed in...
Reflections from differently angled mirrors: Terri-ann White on diversity in publishing
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
The publishing industry needs to take a closer look at the diversity of its workforce and its books, argues UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White in her latest column for Books+Publishing...
Small publisher spotlight: Melbourne Books
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Founded in 2001, Melbourne Books publishes a ‘unique range of Melbourne themed books covering subjects from food, music and culture to architecture and sport’, including the bestselling Moroccan Soup Bar...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror (David Kilcullen) to Tantor Media. Children’s—Scholastic has sold Korean rights...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
‘For me it is a real problem when we don’t reflect the society we live in. It’s not good for books, or culture, or commercially. We are going to become...
Book bites: In the picture
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Several forthcoming picture books take younger readers on a journey abroad, and around Australia. Scribe’s children’s imprint Scribble has translated two ‘modernist picture-book classics’ from the late 1960s into English....
‘Griffith Review’, Queensland Literary Awards announce fellowship program
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Up to six Queensland writers’ fellowships will be awarded each year over the next two years under a new program launched by the Griffith Review and the Queensland Literary Awards....
NZ PM’s Awards for Literary Achievement 2016 announced
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Atholl Anderson, Marilyn Duckworth and David Eggleton are the recipients of 2016 New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, in recognition of their ‘outstanding contribution to New Zealand literature’....
New logo for Five Mile
Monday, 10 October 2016
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s children’s imprint Five Mile has unveiled a new logo as part of its rebranding. In a statement, the publisher said the logo’s illustrative element ‘loosely references the...
Charts this week
Monday, 10 October 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Working Class Boy Jimmy Barnes HarperCollins 2 The 78-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 3 The Girl on the Train (Film Tie In)...
Educational Publishing Awards 2016 winners announced
Friday, 7 October 2016
The winners of the Australian Publishers Association’s (APA) Educational Publishing Awards for 2016 were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 6 October. RIC Publications was named Publisher of the...
Dymocks Kids’ Top 51 list announced
Friday, 7 October 2016
Dymocks has revealed its Kids’ Top 51 list for 2016, with more than 26,500 votes received from Booklovers members. The top 10 books on the list are: The ‘Harry Potter’...
Book bites: Teen talk
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Nicole Hayes’ previous YA novels The Whole of My World and One True Thing have won her many fans. Her latest, A Shadow’s Breath (Random House, February), begins with a...
Dead ringer: ‘The Turnkey’ by Allison Rushby
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Allison Rushby’s middle-grade novel The Turnkey is a ‘page-turning mystery’ set in London’s Highgate Cemetery during the Blitz. Reviewer Maria H Alessandrino spoke to the author. Read her review here....
School ties: Partnerships between bookstores and schools
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Danielle Binks explores different partnerships between bookstores and schools. At the 2016 Leading Edge Books Conference, the Best Business Idea award was presented to Amelia Lush from Better Read Than...
Choose your own adventures: 2017 children’s and YA preview
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Publishers tell Jackie Tang about their standout titles for kids and teens in 2017, from plucky new junior-fiction protagonists to YA genre hybrids. Next year will see the launch of...
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