First authors announced for Byron Writers Festival
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist William Finnegan and novelist and memoirist Cheryl Strayed are among the first guests announced for the 20th Byron Writers Festival, which runs from 5-7 August....
Charts this week
Monday, 16 May 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Last Mile David Baldacci Macmillan 2 The Obsession Nora Roberts Hachette 3 The Apartment Danielle Steel Bantam 4 The Hidden Oracle...
‘I Got This Hat’ to be read for 2016 National Simultaneous Storytime
Friday, 13 May 2016
I Got This Hat (Jol and Kate Temple, illus by Jon Foye, ABC Books) will be read at this year’s National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS), to be held at 11am on...
MUP sells film rights to ‘Modern Love’
Friday, 13 May 2016
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has sold the film rights to Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed (Kendrah Morgan & Lesley Harding) to Richard Keddie of The Film...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
‘Removing PIRs will result in the swamping of the Australian market with overseas products where the economies of scale are vastly different’—Spinifex Press publisher Susan Hawthorne argues against the repeal...
Small publisher spotlight: Click-Cloud Publishing
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Established in 2014, Sydney-based Click-Cloud Publishing specialises in children’s fiction, adult nonfiction and Macedonian translations. ‘All of our books have a cultural theme, whether it’s Indigenous, Russian, Chinese or Macedonian,...
Melanie Joosten’s ‘A Long Time Coming: Essays on Ageing’
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
‘Combining memoir, research and interviews, Joosten sheds light on the crises facing the elderly, and interrogates the “invisible turning point where we begin to punish the old for existing rather...
Neighbourhood watch: Strengthening ties between Oz and NZ publishing
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Melbourne Writers Festival program manager Jo Case travelled to New Zealand earlier this year to explore the opportunities and challenges for closer ties between our neighbouring publishing industries. Read her...
Roy Morgan survey: fewer adults reading books than five years ago; kids more likely to enjoy reading
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
A lower proportion of Australian adults are reading books than they were five years ago, but kids aged six to 13 are now slightly more likely to enjoy reading, according...
Christian wins 2016 Text Prize
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Playwright and former teacher Claire Christian has won the 2016 Text Prize for YA and Children’s Writing for her manuscript Beautiful Mess. The winning manuscript, which was shortlisted under the...
Feminist Writers Festival announced for Melbourne
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
A new Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) has been established and will partner with the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) in its inaugural year. The festival, co-founded by academic Cristy Clark and...
Little Rebels Children’s Book Award 2016 winner announced
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
In the UK, I am Henry Finch by Viviane Schwarz and Alexis Deacon (Walker Books) has won this year’s Little Rebels award for radical children’s fiction, reports the Bookseller. The...
Grant designs: Bookstores on their James Patterson grant projects
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Carody Culver looks at how five recipients of the Australian Booksellers Association James Patterson grants are faring with their proposals, and what they’ve learnt from the process. What do you...
Unstuck in the middle: Middle-grade fiction in Australia
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Middle-grade children’s fiction is underrepresented—and often misunderstood—in Australian publishing, writes Danielle Binks. When people talk about younger readers, the language often invokes building and architecture—gateway literature, foundation years—and for good...
Talkback: Too many writers’ festivals?
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Does Australia have too many writers’ festivals? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. While there are a lot of writers’ festivals, it’s not the number that’s the problem. What is problematic is...
Charts this week
Monday, 9 May 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Last Mile David Baldacci Macmillan 2 The Obsession Nora Roberts Hachette 3 The Apartment Danielle Steel Bantam 4 Life as I...
New Zealand YA review site launches
Friday, 6 May 2016
A group of New Zealand writers and editors associated with the journal New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa have launched a website for reviewing and discussing New Zealand YA books. Hooked...
Scholastic publishes first Kids & Family Reading Report on children’s reading habits
Friday, 6 May 2016
Scholastic has released the findings from its first Kids & Family Reading Report Australia, a survey of 1748 children aged six to 17 and parents exploring family attitudes and behaviours...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
‘PIR represents the little ledge of copyright security, the small acre, on which we have created a respected publishing industry, one of the largest in the world, and a treasure...
Small publisher spotlight: Monash University Publishing
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Melbourne-based Monash University Publishing released its first titles in 2010. It ‘combines a traditional concern for rigorous, open-minded scholarship and editorial precision and quality, with a contemporary sense of style...
Jane Harper’s ‘The Dry’
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
‘It is with this grim setting that we are drawn into Jane Harper’s world, which, though thoroughly steeped in the lore of crime fiction, does its best to subvert expectations...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Sales Fiction—Sandy Wagner at Sandy Wagner Creative Agents has sold world rights to Billy Sing (Ouyang Yu) to Transit Lounge. Text has sold rights to The Best of Adam Sharp...
A novella approach: Nick Earls on the ‘Wisdom Tree’ series
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Nick Earls’ Gotham (Inkerman & Blunt) is the first of five interlinked novellas that will be released each month from May to September. ‘The typical publishing approach to “Wisdom Tree” as...
18,000 attend Clunes Booktown Festival; Bligh, Grant among the bestsellers
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Around 18,000 visitors attended the 10th annual Clunes Booktown Festival in Victoria, which ran 30 April to 1 May. The number of visitors was approximately the same as last year,...
Text Prize 2016 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their manuscripts are: Sarah Bainbridge for ‘Eternal’, ‘an atmospheric and...
Charts this week
Monday, 2 May 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Obsession Nora Roberts Hachette 2 Crazy Weird:WeirDo Anh Do Scholastic 3 The Treehouse Fun Book Jill Griffiths & Andy Griffiths Pan...
Small publisher spotlight: Ford Street Publishing
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Melbourne-based Ford Street Publishing specialises in children’s and YA books, and released its first titles in 2007. ‘I don’t apply for grants from the Australia Council or other funding bodies,...
ALA reveals ‘most frequently challenged books’ in 2015
Thursday, 28 April 2016
The American Library Association (ALA) has released a list of most frequently challenged books in 2015. Topping the list was Looking for Alaska (John Green, HarperCollins), followed by Fifty Shades...
Pearce and co: a history of the Hobart Bookshop
Thursday, 28 April 2016
‘I started at the Hobart Bookshop almost 10 years ago—a trifling anniversary considering this year sees 70 years since the shop’s patriarch, Cedric Pearce, began in bookselling. Cedric passed away...
Julie Koh’s ‘Portable Curiosities’
Thursday, 28 April 2016
‘Armed with an uncanny ability to capture the zeitgeist of the time, … Julie Koh’s darkly satirical and convulsively funny short-story collection Portable Curiosities is as unsettling as it is...
« Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 Next page »
