Perth Festival Literature & Ideas 2022 program announced
Monday, 24 January 2022
The full line-up has been announced for the 2022 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program, which will be spread across three days in February, on Saturday, 19 February and the...
UK book sales by value set new record: Nielsen
Monday, 24 January 2022
In the UK, Nielsen BookScan has recorded 2021 as the biggest ever year for print book sales by value, reports the Bookseller. In 2021, there was a total of £1.82...
Lawrence wins 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Friday, 21 January 2022
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Anthony Lawrence as the winner of the 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘In the Shadows of Our Heads'. Lawrence receives...
PANZ sets new conference date; BookUp scheduled for June
Thursday, 20 January 2022
The Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) has announced the rescheduled PANZ International Conference is due to be held at Cliftons in Auckland on Friday, 4...
ABA announces ICYMI 50 campaign details
Thursday, 20 January 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has released details of its February campaign, Your Booksellers' ICYMI 50—Must-read new Australian books you might have missed. The campaign, which received $20,000 Copyright Agency...
Forging Silver into Stars
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Discover the world of Brigid Kemmerer’s New York Times bestselling Cursebreaker trilogy through new eyes in this irresistible, standalone companion series. 'A world that you will never want to leave.'...
New appointments at HarperCollins and Bloomsbury, Hazel Rowley shortlist
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Michelle Weisz as publishing director of HarperCollins Australia’s children’s books division. Weisz replaces Cristina Cappelluto, who has joined Bloomsbury Australia as managing director. The...
WBN published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter will be published Thursday, 27 January, due to the public holiday on Wednesday, 26 January.
UK government delays decision on copyright changes
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
The UK government has decided not to make changes to copyright exhaustion laws following a consultation period, reports the Bookseller. The Intellectual Property Office (IPO), which launched a consultation last...
Vale Keri Hulme
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand writer Keri Hulme, author of The Bone People, the first New Zealand novel to win the Booker Prize, died in December 2021 aged 74. First published by...
Indie Book Awards 2022 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Leading Edge Books has announced the shortlists for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Chosen from longlists announced in December 2021, the shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Treasure and...
Please complete our Christmas survey
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. We are accepting submissions until Monday, 31 January. Booksellers...
2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
The shortlists for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. Presented by the South Australian government, the biennial awards offer a total prize pool of $167,500. The...
Staff moves at Text
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Text Publishing farewelled Stef Italia at the end of 2021, after five wonderful years. Stef will be much missed, and we wish her every success in her new career path....
Magabala announces recipients of 2021 scholarships
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Magabala Books has announced the six recipients of its 2021 Creative Development Scholarships. The scholarships provide recipients with the support to complete creative development projects throughout 2022. The six recipients...
Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2022 shortlist announced
Monday, 17 January 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical work. The 10 shortlisted writers and their...
Taylor wins 2021 T S Eliot Prize
Monday, 17 January 2022
In the UK, Joelle Taylor has won the 2021 T S Eliot Prize, worth £25,000 (A$47,360), for her collection C+nto & Othered Poems (The Westbourne Press), reports the Bookseller. C+nto & Othered...
The Wheeler Centre receives $6.1m Creative Vic funding
Monday, 17 January 2022
Creative Victoria has announced the 113 arts and cultural organisations that will share in $85 million in grants as part of the state government's new multi-year Creative Enterprises and Creative Ventures programs. Among...
Americans reading fewer books: Gallup poll
Friday, 14 January 2022
A new Gallup poll shows Americans read an average of 12.6 books during the past year, fewer than the average of 15.6 in 2016 and the smallest number Gallup has...
Pilkey tops US print bestsellers
Thursday, 13 January 2022
In the US, children’s book author Dav Pilkey’s Mothering Heights (Dog Man #10) was the bestselling print book in 2021—one of three of Pilkey’s titles to crack the top 25,...
ASA survey 2021: Author earnings ‘unsustainable’
Thursday, 13 January 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) 2021 survey, which received over 800 responses from members, has found author earnings are continuing to decline. The 2020 survey, which was open to...
PMLA winners, ACCC lodges case against Booktopia
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Late last year, the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced. Amanda Lohrey, who won the fiction prize for her novel The Labyrinth, was also named the...
UK, Ireland bookshop numbers grow for fifth consecutive year
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Data from the UK Bookseller’s Association (BA) shows the number of independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland has grown for the fifth year in a row, reports the Bookseller....
Orphan Rock
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney’s slums to the wide avenues of the...
Sue Whiting recommends
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
I have recently read and loved Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee. Oh my, can that woman write. Such a magical, yet also so very real, tale, full of heart and...
Upcoming change of distribution for Head of Zeus: order and returns cut-off dates
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Following the recent purchase of Head of Zeus by Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury will take over distribution of Head of Zeus (HoZ) titles in Australia and New Zealand from 1 February 2022....
Change for Sunway University Press
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Publisher: Sunway University Press ISBN prefix: 9789675492; 97896713697 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 January 2022 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Sue Whiting on ‘Pearly and Pig and the Great Hairy Beast’
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Expert worrier Pearly Woe and her pet Pig are a remarkable pair. Representatives of the Adventurologists Guild, they travel Antarctica searching for Pearly’s missing parents, in a new book for...
US print book sales up 8.9% in 2021
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
In the US, print book sales were up 8.9% in 2021 compared to 2020, according to NPD BookScan data, reports Publishers Weekly. A total of 825.7 million print book were...
ACCC lodges case against Booktopia
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has lodged a case with the Federal Court against Booktopia, alleging the online bookseller made ‘false or misleading representations to consumers about their...
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