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The meteoric rise of manga

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Books+Publishing investigates what’s behind the current manga boom, and how it’s impacting publishers’ local comics and graphic novel lists. It’s no secret that in 2021 the modest growth of the...

Ultimate Australia Travel List

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Lonely Planet's Ultimate Australia Travel List has been revealed. Win one of 10 copies! For the first time, the team at Lonely Planet and its panel of industry experts have...

Change for White Goat Press

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Publisher: White Goat Press ISBN prefix: 97817343872; 97809893731; 97989852069 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 May 2022 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk

Blue Hour (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sarah Schmidt’s second novel, following her award-winning debut See What I Have Done, is an intensely absorbing emotional journey through motherhood and trauma set against the turbulent 20th century. In...

Tedeschi wins 2022 Calibre Essay Prize

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sydney-based classical musician Simon Tedeschi has won the 2022 Calibre Essay Prize for his essay ‘This Woman My Grandmother’. Tedeschi, whose debut Fugitive, will be published by Upswell this month,...

Edgar Awards 2022 winners announced

Monday, 2 May 2022
Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published or produced in 2021....

Araluen wins Stella Prize for ‘Dropbear’

Friday, 29 April 2022
Evelyn Araluen has won the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear (UQP), the first time a poetry collection has won the award. In the prize's 10th year, Araluen receives an additional...

Career path: Erica Wagner

Thursday, 28 April 2022
Erica Wagner has worked in publishing for over 30 years, starting out as a trainee children's editor at Penguin Australia and going on to spend 20 years at the helm...

Macquarie University launches author survey

Thursday, 28 April 2022
Macquarie University has launched a national survey investigating the practices of Australian authors in the contemporary national and international book industry. The survey, which follows on from a similar study...

Swedish paper company to shut four of five mills

Thursday, 28 April 2022
UK publishing industry figures have expressed concern that the current paper crisis will worsen as Swedish paper company Stora-Enso moves to divest four of its five paper mills, reports the...

Dorothy Hewett Award 2022 shortlist announced

Thursday, 28 April 2022
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well as manuscript development and a...

Molloy wins 2021 Anne Elder Award

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Australian Poetry has announced Audrey Molloy's The Important Things (Gallery Press) as the winner of the 2021 Anne Elder Award for a first book of poetry. According to the 2021 prize...

Local authors longlisted for CWA Daggers

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Several Australia-based authors have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers' Association's (CWA) 2022 Dagger Awards. Jacqueline Bublitz has been longlisted for the Gold Dagger for best novel for her...

Wheeler Centre 2022 Hot Desk fellows

Tuesday, 26 April 2022
The Wheeler Centre has announced the successful applicants for its 2022 Hot Desk Fellowships. The 21 Hot Desk fellows are: Julia Bak Kasumi Borcyzk J R Burgmann Aurelia St Clair...

No ‘Daily’ on Monday

Friday, 22 April 2022
The Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not be published on Monday, 25 April, due to the Anzac Day public holiday. The next Daily will be published Tuesday, 26 April.

£50k Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced

Friday, 22 April 2022
In the UK, the shortlist for the £50,000 (A$88,400) Wolfson History Prize has been announced. The shortlisted works of history are: The Ottomans: Khans, caesars and caliphs (Marc David Baer,...

WBN published Thursday next week

Thursday, 21 April 2022
Due to the Anzac Day public holiday on Monday, 25 April the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 28 April next week. The deadline for classified and job...

Ondaatje Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Thursday, 21 April 2022
The shortlist for this year’s £10,000 (A$17,500) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced. The annual award recognises the book ‘of highest literary merit—fiction, nonfiction or poetry—which best...

Advance your grammar and writing skills

Thursday, 21 April 2022
Leading teacher and editor Deb Doyle has developed these unique colour-coded course notes to meet your needs: Grammar and Punctuation: The basics The Parts of Speech: Nouns, verbs and the...

Lauren Draper recommends

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
I adored Rhiannon Wilde’s debut novel Henry Hamlet’s Heart (UQP). It’s such a beautiful and warm novel, and perfectly balances the teenaged experience of friendship, futures, and first loves. I...

Lauren Draper on ‘The Museum of Broken Things’

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Lauren Draper's debut YA novel The Museum of Broken Things (Text, June) follows 18-year-old Reece, who finds herself living in a small beachside town. With multiple plotlines, and featuring a cast of...

 

 

 

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