Is female leadership in publishing impeded by motherhood?
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
In this edited extract from The Return of Print? Contemporary Australian Publishing (ed by Aaron Mannion & Emmett Stinson, Monash University Publishing), Sarah Couper interviews several women in senior positions...
Thien wins Canada’s Giller Prize
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
In Canada, Madeleine Thien has won the C$100,000 (A$97,050) Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Granta), chosen from a shortlist of six. The judges...
Eight things to take home from Frankfurt
Monday, 7 November 2016
Former Books+Publishing publisher Andrew Wilkins attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, and came away with eight lessons for publishers, agents and booksellers. A week later than usual, this year’s Frankfurt...
Roth donates personal book collection to Newark library
Thursday, 3 November 2016
US author Philip Roth has bequeathed his personal book collection to Newark Library in New Jersey, reports the New York Times. The collection comprises close to 4000 volumes and will...
Small Press Network’s MUBA 2016 shortlist announced
Thursday, 3 November 2016
The Small Press Network (SPN) had announced the shortlist for this year’s Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA), sponsored by Booktopia. The shortlisted titles are: The Floating Garden (Emma Ashmere, Spinifex...
Harper Entertainment Distribution Services Christmas schedule
Thursday, 3 November 2016
Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) is pleased to advise the following changes to help our customers in the lead up to Christmas. The minimum order value will be reduced to...
‘The Chimes’ wins best novel at World Fantasy Awards 2016
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
New Zealand author Anna Smaill’s debut novel The Chimes (Sceptre) has won the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, announced on 30 October at the World Fantasy Convention in...
On tour: Kate Summerscale
Thursday, 27 October 2016
UK author Kate Summerscale’s latest book The Wicked Boy (Bloomsbury) is the true story of a Victorian-era juvenile murder case that echoes the ‘outrageous plots’ of a penny dreadful novel. She...
European authors’ average earnings at €17,500, report finds
Friday, 21 October 2016
A newly released European Commission report has found that authors in Europe earned on average €17,500 (A$24,986) per year, reports the Bookseller. The findings, based on data collected in 2015,...
Book sales up, losses reduced at Atlantic
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
UK publisher Atlantic Books has recorded a 21% increase in sales last year, from £5m (A$8m) in 2014 to £6m (A$9.6m) in 2015, while overall losses dropped from £405,000 (A$649,300)...
Dendy Direct gift-card giveaway
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Each month, movie and TV on-demand service Dendy Direct invites an Australian personality to choose their favourite movies as part of a ‘unique cinematic curation’. For October, Tim Winton has chosen his 15...
Under the Love Umbrella (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys, Scribble)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys’ previous collaboration was the superb, award-winning The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade, and their follow-up, Under the Love Umbrella, has a similar charm—if not quite the same...
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Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Yearning potential: Lucy Durneen on ‘Wild Gestures’
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
UK writer Lucy Durneen’s Wild Gestures debut short story collection will be published by South-Australian publisher MidnightSun in January. It is an ‘intriguing collection’ of ‘psychologically acute portraits … shaped...
Texas bans 15,000 books from state prisons
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
In the US, the banning of Dan Carter’s Wolf Boys (A&U) in Texas prisons has highlighted the state’s aggressive stance on banning books, reports the Guardian. Carter’s nonfiction book about...
The Waterfowl Are Drunk! (Kate Liston-Mills, Spineless Wonders)
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Kate Liston-Mills’ debut collection of fiction is an astute, often moving study of three generations of a small-town family. Set in the author’s native Pambula in regional NSW, it captures...
Griffin Press launches ‘world-first’ digital production line
Thursday, 8 September 2016
Australian printer Griffin Press has launched a ‘world-first’ end-to-end digital book production line in Adelaide, including a new digital cover production facility. The printer collaborated with technology companies HP, Kolbus...
Reminder: Miles Franklin Literary Award announced tonight
Friday, 26 August 2016
The winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award will be announced tonight at the opening night of the Melbourne Writers Festival. The shortlisted titles are: Hope Farm (Peggy Frew, Scribe)...
On tour: Justin Cronin
Thursday, 25 August 2016
US novelist Justin Cronin is the author of the apocalyptic vampire trilogy The Passage, The Twelve and The City of Mirrors (all Orion). Cronin will be appearing at the Melbourne...
The Good People (Hannah Kent, Picador)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Nóra Leahy has suffered great misfortune. It is 1825 in the far west of Ireland, and her beloved husband has just died, most ominously, at a crossroads, only a few...
Kiffy Rubbo: Curating the 1970s (ed by Janine Burke & Helen Hughes, Scribe)
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Sometimes studying the micro gives us the best view of the macro. Reading the essay collection Kiffy Rubbo is one of those experiences. Art curator Kiffy Rubbo provided space and...
Ruling women: Julia Baird on ‘Victoria the Queen’
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Julia Baird’s ‘thoroughly contemporary’ biography of Queen Victoria explores the social evolution of ‘British society during her long reign—particularly that of the position of women’, writes reviewer Jo Case. She spoke...
Wiley acquires publishing software company Atypon
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
In the US, publisher John Wiley & Sons has acquired publishing software company Atypon for US$120m (A$157m), reports the Bookseller. The Silicon Valley-based company develops software that allows publishers to...
A&U acquires debut crime novel ‘The Dark Lake’
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired Melbourne author Sarah Bailey’s debut novel The Dark Lake via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. The Dark Lake is a crime novel set in...
Australian authors shortlisted for 2016 CWA Dagger awards
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Australian authors Tim Baker and Mark Brandi have been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2016 Dagger awards. Sydney-born Baker’s ‘multi-stranded new examination of the JFK assassination’ Fever City...
1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia’s Beginnings (Nick Brodie, Hardie Grant)
Thursday, 28 July 2016
Australia’s documented history is ‘like a manuscript with the opening pages torn off,’ writes Nick Brodie in the opening of his latest book, 1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia’s Beginnings....
Looking for a fair fight: Clementine Ford on ‘Fight Like a Girl’
Thursday, 28 July 2016
Clementine Ford’s debut Fight Like a Girl (A&U, October) is an examination of ‘what it means to be a girl in the world today’, fuelled by Ford’s ‘clear-eyed defiance and...
On tour: Angela Flournoy
Thursday, 28 July 2016
Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House (Black Inc.) is a sprawling domestic drama that tells the story of Detroit through the generations of one family. She will be attending Melbourne Writers...
Goodwood (Holly Throsby, A&U)
Friday, 8 July 2016
It’s fitting that a reviewer once described Australian musician Holly Throsby as ‘a songstress with [the] literary depth of a novelist’, because Throsby is now writing fiction—and her debut, Goodwood,...
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...
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