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Paterson to lead Atlantic Books Australia, VPLAs shortlists

Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Pan Macmillan publishing director Cate Paterson is leaving the company to lead Atlantic Book Australia, a new division of Allen & Unwin. In other moves news, Louise Adler will leave...

US ed publishers sue Shopify over alleged selling of pirated material

Wednesday, 8 December 2021
In the US, educational publishers have filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for Eastern Virginia accusing ecommerce platform Shopify of selling pirated material, reports Goodereader. Pearson Education, Macmillan...

Upcoming change of distribution for Head of Zeus: order and returns cut-off dates

Wednesday, 8 December 2021
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 1st February 2022.We...

New creative direction to celebrate 40 years of Tim Winton’s writing

Wednesday, 8 December 2021
To celebrate 40 years of Tim Winton’s publishing career, Penguin Random House Australia has announced plans to re-release 18 of his titles—from the earliest novels and collections of stories and...

Melbourne City of Lit meets Wonju’s Tudeukgol Bookshop

Wednesday, 8 December 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. In the...

Indie Book Awards 2022 longlists announced

Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction After Story (Larissa Behrendt, UQP) The Good Wife of...

Perlroth wins FT and McKinsey Book of the Year, Keefe donates £10k over sponsor’s actions

Tuesday, 7 December 2021
In the UK, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The cyber weapons arms race (Nicole Perlroth, Bloomsbury) has won the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey Book of...

VPLAs 2022 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 7 December 2021
The shortlists for the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted and highly commended works in each category are: Fiction After Story (Larissa Behrendt, UQP) Bodies of...

Aitken wins 2021 Patrick White Award

Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Poet Adam Aitken is the winner of this year’s $15,000 Patrick White Award. Aitken is the author of several books of poetry including Archipelago (Vagabond Press), shortlisted in 2018 for...

Kars wins Cundill History Prize for Blood on the River

Monday, 6 December 2021
Marjoleine Kars has won the US$75,000 (A$107,100) 2021 Cundill History Prize for Blood on the River: A chronicle of mutiny and freedom on the wild coast, reports the Bookseller. For Blood on...

The Next Chapter 2022 recipients announced

Friday, 3 December 2021
The Wheeler Centre has announced the recipients of the 2021 Next Chapter grants for developing writers, worth $15,000 each. The 10 recipients are: Jumaana Abdu Jose da Costa Josie/Jocelyn Deane...

McCartney wins Waterstones Book of the Year for ‘The Lyrics’

Friday, 3 December 2021
In the UK, Waterstones has named Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present (Allen Lane) its Book of the Year for 2021, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones MD James Daunt said,...

Distribution of Sebold memoir halted after man jailed for her rape exonerated

Thursday, 2 December 2021
The UK and US publishers of Alice Sebold’s bestselling memoir Lucky (Picador) have stopped the book’s distribution following the author’s apology to the man who was last week exonerated of...

McLean donates $1 million to Stella Prize

Thursday, 2 December 2021
Sydney-based philanthropist Paula McLean, a long-time patron of the Stella Prize, has committed a gift of up to $1 million to the prize’s Stella Forever Fund, which aims to secure...

Send us your Christmas closing dates

Wednesday, 1 December 2021
To be included in Books+Publishing's annual list of publishers' and distributors' trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon, Tuesday, 7 December....

Final ‘WBN’ for 2021 next week

Wednesday, 1 December 2021
The final Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) for 2021 will be published next Wednesday, 8 December. Classifieds, job advertisements and Christmas closing dates for inclusion in the final WBN should be...

Vale Doug MacLeod

Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Author, poet, playwright, screenwriter, songwriter and editor Doug MacLeod died on 22 November, aged 62. MacLeod wrote 26 books for children and young adults, published in Australia and around the...

Melbourne City of Lit meets Exeter’s Crediton Community Bookshop

Wednesday, 1 December 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Meet the community-owned...

Hammer, Jubelin joint 2021 Danger Prize winners

Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Trust (Chris Hammer, A&U) and I Catch Killers (Gary Jubelin with Dan Box, HarperCollins) have jointly won the 2021 Danger Prize. Administered by the BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival, the...

Applications for the 2022 black&write! Writing Fellowships are now open

Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Hachette Australia is delighted to continue their partnership with State Library of Queensland for their annual black&write! Writing and Editorial Fellowships for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writers. Having originally...