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Charts this week 

Monday, 7 March 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer Macmillan 2 15th Affair James Patterson Century 3 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Fourth...

On tour: Jon Klassen

jon klassen author photo Thursday, 3 March 2016
Canadian author Jon Klassen’s We Found a Hat, the third book in his picture-book trilogy (Candlewick Press) that includes I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat,...

HarperCollins acquires Jimmy Barnes autobiography

Thursday, 3 March 2016
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Cold Chisel frontman Jimmy Barnes’ autobiography in a two-book deal. The two volumes of Barnes’ autobiography will span the singer’s childhood and career and...

RiP Louise Rennison 

Wednesday, 2 March 2016
English author Louise Rennison has died, aged 63. Rennison is best known for her YA book series ‘Confessions of Georgia Nicolson’, with the first two books—Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging...

Quote of the week

Wednesday, 2 March 2016
‘A lot of editors are women, particularly in Australia, and I think that comes down to women wanting to work in something they really love doing and being prepared to...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Sales Fiction—A&U has sold rights to The Lake House (Kate Morton) in the following territories: Estonian to Varrak; Bulgarian to Colibri; Russian to Exmo; Turkish to Alfa Basim Dayim Dagitim;...

Helen Garner’s ‘Everywhere I Look’ 

Wednesday, 2 March 2016
‘I’d probably give Helen Garner five stars for her shopping list; I’ve loved her work since Monkey Grip was published in 1977, the year I began selling books’ … read...

Does publicity sell books? A case study 

Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Last year, Captain Honey publishers Roz Hopkins and Natalie Winter successfully crowdfunded their illustrated children’s book Mummy and Mumma Get Married. In a recent blog post, Hopkins writes about the...

Kinokuniya to sell graphic novels with exclusive covers

Tuesday, 1 March 2016
In the US, bookstore chain Books Kinokuniya will collaborate with publishers to bring out variant covers for a selection of English-language graphic novels, reports Publishers Weekly. The titles include the...

Readings to open two new stores 

Tuesday, 1 March 2016
Independent Melbourne bookseller Readings will open two new bookstores: a children’s and YA bookstore next door to its Lygon Street store in Carlton, and a store in the Westfield Doncaster...

Australian, NZ publishers nominated for Bologna Prize

Monday, 29 February 2016
Australian publishers Wilkins Farago and Berbay Publishing and New Zealand publisher Book Island have been nominated in the Oceania region for the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publishers of the...

Charts this week 

Monday, 29 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Fourth Estate 2 Brotherhood in Death J. D. Robb Hachette 3 The Dressmaker (film...

S&S creates Muslim-themed children’s imprint

Thursday, 25 February 2016
In the US, Simon & Schuster has created a new children’s book imprint dedicated to publishing books that feature Muslim characters and stories, reports the New York Times. Salaam Reads...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 24 February 2016
‘[I’m] grateful to Pan Macmillan for the foresight to set up the imprint in the first place’— Momentum publisher Joel Naoum on Pan Macmillan’s decision to scale down the publishing...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Sales Fiction—Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia has sold rights to See What I Have Done (Sarah Schmidt) in the following territories: ANZ to Hachette Australia in a two-book deal;...

Josephine Rowe’s ‘A Loving, Faithful Animal’ 

Wednesday, 24 February 2016
‘Like [Rowe’s] stories, A Loving, Faithful Animal distils the small incidents of ordinary life into moments of resonance and grace, but assuredly weaves them together across the longer form’ …...

RiP Kim Gamble 

Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Illustrator Kim Gamble has died, aged 63. Gamble was the illustrator of the ‘Tashi’ series, written by Barbara and Anna Fienberg, and helped to create the character with the mother-daughter...

RiP Harper Lee 

Wednesday, 24 February 2016
American author Harper Lee has died, aged 89. Lee was the author of two novels: Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird (Arrow), which has sold more than 40 million copies...

RiP Umberto Eco 

Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Italian author Umberto Eco has died, aged 84. Eco was the author of the bestselling The Name of the Rose (Vintage), a murder mystery set in a medieval Italian monastery,...

Speakers announced for ABA, LEB conferences

Wednesday, 24 February 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Leading Edge Books (LEB) have announced the keynote speakers for their 2016 conferences, which will be held in Canberra in May. US bookseller and...

Charts this week 

Monday, 22 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Brotherhood in Death J. D. Robb & Angharad Kowal Hachette 2 Blue Danielle Steel Bantam 3 The Dressmaker (film tie-in) Rosalie Ham...

PRH acquires supernatural YA series ‘Valentine’ from AAPS

Thursday, 18 February 2016
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired the rights to debut author Jodi McAlister’s supernatural YA series ‘Valentine’ in a multi-book deal from Alex Adsett Publishing Services. The series follows four...

Alice Grundy on OzCo’s exploratory trip to India

Wednesday, 17 February 2016
The Australia Council for the Arts supported a delegation of publishers and writers’ festival programmers to travel to India from 13-25 January to ‘investigate artistic development, market and exchange opportunities...

 

 

 

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