A tale from two cities: Bookshop inspiration from London and Paris
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Earlier this year, Readings events manager Christine Gordon embarked on a research trip to observe how the bookstores of Paris and London run their events, and to gather some inspiration...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Sales Nonfiction—UQP has sold world audio rights to Finding a Way (Graeme Innes) to Wavesound. Children’s—Scholastic has sold US and Canadian rights to I Wanna Be a Great Big Dinosaur...
Small publisher spotlight: em PRESS
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
em PRESS, based in central Victoria, released its first book The People of Gariwerd—about the Grampians’ Aboriginal heritage—in 1999. ‘The primary focus of em PRESS is in connecting people to...
First Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2016 authors announced
Tuesday, 19 July 2016
The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has announced the first line-up of authors to appear at its 2016 festival, which will run from 26-30 October in Ubud, Indonesia. Among the...
Booktopia named Telstra Business Awards finalist
Monday, 18 July 2016
Online bookstore Booktopia has been named a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards in the medium sized category for New South Wales. Booktopia was ineligible to enter the awards last...
Charts this week
Monday, 18 July 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 After You Jojo Moyes Penguin 3 The BFG (Film Tie-In) Roald...
Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2016 winners announced
Friday, 15 July 2016
The winners of the 2016 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of New South Wales on 14 July. The $30,000 Nita B...
Wagner’s Billy Goat Books launches book club for young ‘reluctant readers’
Thursday, 14 July 2016
Michael Wagner, children’s book author and founder of boutique publisher Billy Goat Books, has launched an online book club and website to accompany a new series of books aimed at...
Scribble signs fashion designers Kee and Jackson
Thursday, 14 July 2016
Scribe children’s book imprint Scribble has acquired rights to two board books by Australian fashion designers and artists Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, to be released in mid-2017. The books...
Behind the Mike: Mike Shuttleworth on his career in children’s literature
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Mike Shuttleworth is the campaign manager for the Australian Children’s Literature Alliance, which administers the Australian Children’s Laureateship. He has also worked as an events programmer, curator and reviewer. Read...
Small publisher spotlight: Christmas Press
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
NSW-based children’s publisher Christmas Press released its first titles in 2013. ‘We wanted to bring back the kinds of books we’d always loved as children—beautiful illustrated books featuring traditional tales...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Sales Fiction—Exisle has sold Italian and Czech rights to Heartfulness (Stephen McKenzie). Text has sold US rights to The Best of Adam Sharp (Graeme Simsion) to St Martin’s Press, via...
Maxine Beneba Clarke’s ‘The Hate Race’
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
‘Maxine Beneba Clarke’s storytelling in The Hate Race has a heft to it that is at once steeped in history, and also exquisitely and playfully modern; it is lyrical, sincere...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
‘It’s been hard for a decade or more to find much Australian poetry in bookshops, and a folk wisdom circulated that average sales for poetry volumes was miniscule’—UWA Publishing director...
Frankfurt Book Fair launches new illustrators’ prize with $43,000 prize pool
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
The Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) has announced a new international prize for illustrators with a €10,000 (A$14,530) first prize, reports the Bookseller. The prize is divided into five categories: cover...
BBC’s must-read children’s book list too focussed on the classics, warns BookTrust
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
In the UK, literacy charity BookTrust has warned the BBC’s list of ‘must-read’ books for children places too much emphasis on ‘timeless classics’, reports the Daily Telegraph. BookTrust chief executive...
Jolly to retire as Scholastic chairman
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Scholastic International and Scholastic Australia chairman Ken Jolly has announced his retirement after 46 years with the publisher. Jolly joined the then H J Ashton Company in 1970 as a...
Santa baby: Children’s Christmas highlights
Monday, 11 July 2016
Anna Low from Potts Point Bookshop in Sydney and Deb Force and Kate O’Donnell from the Younger Sun in Melbourne share their Christmas highlights for kids, from new releases to...
From little things, big things grow: Behind the scenes of the Kids’ Reading Guide
Monday, 11 July 2016
Sixteen children’s book specialists are currently putting together the 16th annual ABA Kids’ Reading Guide, which is due out in November. Joanne Shiells goes behind the scenes. The Australian Booksellers...
Read it with feeling: Children’s and YA books tackle complex emotions
Monday, 11 July 2016
Carody Culver explores the market for children’s and YA books about complex emotions. Being a kid isn’t always easy. Depression, anxiety, grief, loss—none of these are exclusively adult experiences. Perhaps...
Fraillon longlisted for 2016 ‘Guardian’ children’s fiction prize
Monday, 11 July 2016
Australian author Zana Fraillon’s The Bone Sparrow (Lothian) has been longlisted for the 2016 Guardian children’s fiction prize. One of eight longlisted titles, Fraillon’s novel for middle-grade readers is a...
Charts this week
Monday, 11 July 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 After You Jojo Moyes Penguin 2 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 3 The Girl on the Train...
Over 100 guests attend PANZ international conference
Thursday, 7 July 2016
Over 100 delegates attended the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) International Conference 2016, which ran in Auckland from 30 June to 1 July. The conference, which ran under the...
Henson joins SLV
Thursday, 7 July 2016
Rebecca Henson has been appointed reading and literacy development manager at the State Library of Victoria, responsible for the library’s children’s and family programs and the Centre for Youth Literature...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘The richness of human possibility that is Ozlit’s stock in trade is an affront to the barren and denuded vocabulary both sides of politics employ’—incoming Picador publisher Geordie Williamson reflects...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Sales Fiction—Text has sold French rights to The Best of Adam Sharp (Graeme Simsion) to Laffont; Turkish rights to The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion) to Pegasus; French rights to The...
Dan Disney and Kit Kelen’s ‘Writing to the Wire’
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘Dan Disney and Kit Kelen suggest poetry can “offer us new ways to understand mundane injustices [and] new ways to speak out”. Grand claims, perhaps, but ones borne out by...
RiP Cory Taylor
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Author Cory Taylor has died, aged 61. Taylor’s 2011 debut novel Me and Mr Booker won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Pacific region, and her second novel My Beautiful...
RiP Elie Wiesel
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the memoir Night (Penguin), has died, aged 87. Wiesel was the author of over 50 works of fiction and...
RiP Terry Kitson
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Terry Kitson, former CEO of HarperCollins UK and Australia, has died following a short illness. The Bookseller writes: ‘Kitson started out as a sales rep with Corgi Books at Transworld...
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