Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror (David Kilcullen) to Tantor Media. Children’s—Scholastic has sold Korean rights...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
‘For me it is a real problem when we don’t reflect the society we live in. It’s not good for books, or culture, or commercially. We are going to become...
Charts this week
Monday, 10 October 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Working Class Boy Jimmy Barnes HarperCollins 2 The 78-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 3 The Girl on the Train (Film Tie In)...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
‘Here’s a scale I use to measure the quality of a writer’s diet: Fifty Shades of Grey is KFC and The Swan Book is the vegetables you grow in your...
Susan McCreery’s ‘Loopholes’
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
‘To succeed, microfiction must combine efficiency of text with immediacy of imagery and neat narrative twists, all in a space small enough for a single reading. It’s an artform that...
Screen stories: Australian books adapted for film and TV
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
The past five years has seen a significant rise in Australian books adapted for the screen, with adaptations currently making up nearly 50% of Australian TV and film producers’ slated...
Small publisher spotlight: Niche Press
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Founded in 2014, Melbourne-based Niche Press specialises in ‘quirky smaller-scale publications’ that might get overlooked by the mass market. ‘We use a different model that actively involves the creator in...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Nero has sold the film and television option to Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion (Clare Press) to Essential Media; and ANZ audio rights...
Charts this week
Monday, 3 October 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Working Class Boy Jimmy Barnes HarperCollins 2 The 78-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 3 Harry Potter and the Cursed...
#LoveOzYA gathers momentum
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
A grassroots campaign to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles has been gathering momentum, writes Sophie Teague. To read this article, first published in Think Australian 2016,...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
‘We can never stay still because our consumers don’t just love books, they love YouTube, film, and so on … they’re not just readers, they’re consumers’— MD of Penguin Random...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Sales Nonfiction—ABC Books has sold the TV and film option to The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made (Fiona Katauskas) to CJZ via the Cameron Creswell Agency. Children’s—ABC...
Small publisher spotlight: UWA Publishing
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
UWA Publishing was launched in 1935 at the University of Western Australia in Perth to produce textbooks for its students, and has since expanded into general fiction, poetry and nonfiction....
Maxine Beneba Clarke and Van T Rudd’s ‘The Patchwork Bike’
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
‘This deceptively simple story by author Maxine Beneba Clarke is beautifully written and incredibly powerful. It uses evocative language and onomatopoeia to flesh out a world so physically different from...
Charts this week
Monday, 26 September 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 78-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 2 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child J K Rowling, Jack Thorne &...
Hannah Kent’s ‘The Good People’
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
‘Hannah Kent’s much-anticipated second novel is a thoroughly atmospheric and involving read with beautifully turned descriptions that show off Kent’s craft’ … read Lindy Jones’ full review here.
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
‘When writing a review, my rule of thumb is always to benchmark a fellow writer’s novel against cluster munitions, rather than against the work of Marcel Proust’—UK author Chris Cleave...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Sales Fiction—Scribe has sold UK and Commonwealth audio rights to The Heart of Henry Quantum (Pepper Harding) to Bolinda. Nonfiction—Black Inc. (La Trobe University Press) has sold Chinese rights to...
The rights stuff 2016
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Each year Books+Publishing surveys Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading and book exports. To read the results from the latest survey, published...
Small publisher spotlight: Spineless Wonders
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Launched in 2011, Sydney-based publisher Spineless Wonders specialises in short Australian stories in various formats. ‘In 2010, when I was writing, reading and teaching short fiction, there simply was no...
Charts this week
Monday, 19 September 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 78-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 2 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne &...
Santa baby: A Junior Christmas preview
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Anna Low from Potts Point Bookshop and Deb Force and Kate O’Donnell from the Younger Sun share their Christmas highlights for kids, from new releases to evergreen classics, in the...
Small publisher spotlight: Empowering Resources
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Founded in Victoria in 2015, Empowering Resources specialises in children’s picture books and junior novels that ‘help people of any age explore complex and difficult emotional issues’. ‘We pride ourselves...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Sales Fiction—A&U has sold UK rights to Swimming Home (Mary-Rose MacColl); UK rights to The Teacher’s Secret (Suzanne Leal); Norwegian rights to Castle of Dreams (Elise McCune); ANZ audio rights...
Clementine Ford’s ‘Fight Like a Girl’
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
‘Fight Like a Girl is fuelled by Ford’s clear-eyed defiance and refusal to compromise, and by her powerful combination of personal testimony and political polemic’ … read Veronica Sullivan’s full...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
‘Their immediate reaction was that all New Zealand fiction was Kiwiana, a slice of not-very-enjoyable life, plodding and dull’—a New Zealand Book Council research report has found most readers have...
Charts this week
Monday, 12 September 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 78-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 2 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child J K Rowling, Jack Thorne &...
Tim Winton’s ‘The Boy behind the Curtain’
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
‘Taken as a whole, this collection comes across as a fragmentary memoir, a patchwork of memories and recollections. Winton narrates the audiobook himself, a recommendation in itself for Winton fans’...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
Sales Children’s—EK Books has sold simplified Chinese character rights to Tottie & Dot and Peas in a Pod (both Tania McCartney & Tina Snerling); and simplified Chinese character rights to...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
‘I don’t believe in national literature per se. I do believe in Australian writing, conceived mostly in obscurity, frequently in poverty, almost always in adversity’—Richard Flanagan delivers his first public...
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