The ‘Australian’ announces new fiction prize as Vogel ends
Monday, 8 April 2024
The winner of this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Award, to be announced in June, will be the last, with the Australian’s literary editor Caroline Overington stating the newspaper will ‘honour [the Vogel’s]...
Books in the media this weekend, 6–7 April
Friday, 5 April 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem (Nam Le, Scribner) ACT The...
S&S Aus launches Summit Books, appoints Palfreyman publishing director
Wednesday, 3 April 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has announced that it will introduce imprint Summit Books in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, following the announcement late last year that the imprint would...
Bleedthrough: censorship and book banning in Australia
Wednesday, 3 April 2024
When Australian writers, publishers, and librarians look at the state of US book banning, we are shocked at the violence and scale of book banning groups. Could attempts to fire...
Magic Counting (Nabeel Khan, illus Tete Garcia, Scribble)
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Magic Counting is a beautifully illustrated book that goes beyond the basics of counting, exploring the magic that can be found in the world of numbers. While counting from one...
Drop into the Ocean (Karen Wasson, illus Marta Tesoro, Hardie Grant Explore)
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Drop into the Ocean: A tour of the world’s oceans and seas is exciting, colourful, entertaining and insightful. Packed with fun facts and well-researched information, it’s the type of book...
What’s That? Australian mammals (Myke Mollard, Woodslane)
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
This educational picture book for young children begins by telling us that every modern mammal descended from a common ancestor from around 180 million years ago, and that it’s up...
Borderlands: Riding the Slipstream (ed by Paul Collins, Ford St)
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Borderlands: Riding the Slipstream is a new Australian anthology for young readers, collating over 40 short stories and poems by well-known children’s authors. Compiled by Paul Collins, who has previously...
Heartsease (Kate Kruimink, Picador)
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Ellen 'Nelly' and Charlotte 'Lot' are as unalike as sisters come, yet they were once inseparable despite this. Lot is Nelly’s elder by eight years—an employment lawyer and single mother...
Books in the media this weekend, 30–31 March
Thursday, 28 March 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Grief Is for People (Sloane Crosley, Serpent's Tail) Lead Us Not (Abbey...
Wright shortlisted for 2024 Dublin Literary Award
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Alexis Wright has been shortlisted for the €100,000 (A$166,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction written in or translated into...
ABIAs 2024 shortlists announced
Thursday, 21 March 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). The APA will announce the business awards shortlists, including the categories of publisher,...
Meet the publisher: Nicola Robinson at the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
After a ‘varied career in educational and trade—both kids and adult—publishing’ Nicola Robinson is ‘now lucky enough to head up the publishing team at the Indigenous Literacy Foundation’ (ILF), which...
Asian-Australian booksellers championing diversity
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Emma Pei Yin is a British-born Hong Kong-Chinese author. She was also nominated for Bookseller of the Year in 2023. In this feature, Emma writes for Books+Publishing on the insights of three Asian-Australian...
Cristy Burne on ‘Ultra Violet’
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Cristy Burne is an award-winning author of children's books published worldwide. She loves mixing science, adventure and creativity in her stories; holds degrees in biotechnology and science communication; and has...
Books in the media this weekend, 16–17 March
Friday, 15 March 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Kind of, Sort of, Maybe... But Probably Not (Imbi Neeme, Viking)...
Affirm Press signs Sweatshop mentees Nour and Barnette
Thursday, 14 March 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to books by Egyptian-Australian writer and journalist Daniel Nour and African-American Australian writer Tyree Barnette. Nour and Barnette were recipients of the 2021 Affirm...
The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Last week, Books+Publishing heard why book publicists are picking and choosing when (or, more often, when not) to put efforts into TikTok coverage. Here, they argue against big launch parties—and...
Christmas Press acquires Kelleher SF novel ‘The Lastling’
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Christmas Press has acquired world rights to The Lastling, a science fiction novel for upper middle-grade readers by Victor Kelleher, via Margaret Connolly of Margaret Connolly and Associates. The Lastling,...
Shankari Chandran on ‘Safe Haven’
Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Australian Tamil lawyer and author Shankari Chandran, who won the 2023 Miles Franklin Award for her novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo), returns with her fourth novel, Safe Haven (Ultimo,...
Books in the media this weekend, 9–10 March
Friday, 8 March 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week's round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Saturday Paper Breath (Carly-Jay...
Book publicity in the TikTok age: What moves the needle now?
Wednesday, 6 March 2024
With the consolidation of print reviews that appear in some of Australia’s key newspapers and a reduction in the number that appear in others, how much effort should publishers expend...
T&H announces sales and marketing staff changes
Monday, 4 March 2024
Thames & Hudson (T&H) has announced several changes to its sales and marketing departments, alongside the upcoming retirement of its head of sales, Louise Lawson. Lawson’s last day with T&H...
Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 March
Friday, 1 March 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The Bullet Swallower (Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Hodder & Stoughton) Pitfall: The race...
MidnightSun acquires Siemienowicz novel ‘Double Happiness’
Thursday, 29 February 2024
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to Double Happiness, a novel by Rochelle Siemienowicz. The publisher said that Double Happiness is ‘a novel about the complexities of polyamorous relationships’. ‘Overcome with...
2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards dates announced
Thursday, 29 February 2024
Creative Australia has announced the dates for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, with the winner announcement brought forward two months from the previous year. Entries for the 2024 awards...
Hardie Grant Explore, Intrepid Travel announce publishing joint venture
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Hardie Grant Explore (HG Explore) has announced a new joint venture with Intrepid Travel to publish a new series of travel books. The list will begin with The Intrepid List,...
Daisley on Walter Scott longlist; Forge promoted at A&U; Overland, Island prize winners
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
In local news this week, Allen & Unwin has promoted Samantha Forge to associate publisher—books for children and young adults, the Conversation has launched a books and ideas newsletter, and Aotearoa...
Bri Lee on ‘The Work’
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Bri Lee is a celebrated author, academic and activist known for nonfiction titles Eggshell Skull (2018), Beauty (2019) and Who Gets to Be Smart (2021). Her debut fiction novel, The...
Conversation launches books and ideas newsletter
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Research-based news and analysis website the Conversation has launched a new books and ideas newsletter. ‘With shrinking space in many newspapers for serious discussion of books and ideas, we think...
