Hachette acquires Burr crime debut in two-book deal
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Hachette has acquired world rights to two crime novels by Canberra debut author Shelley Burr in a ‘hotly contested’ international auction. The six-figure, two-book deal was struck between Hachette Australia...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2021 winners announced
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2021 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Selected from shortlists announced in June, the winning titles in each category are: Picture fiction...
Bourke wins 2021 Stanner Award
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Sarah Bourke has won the 2021 Stanner Award, presented biannually by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to the best academic manuscript written by an...
Ingram announces local name change
Monday, 13 September 2021
Ingram has announced that its local operation Lightning Source Australia has been renamed Ingram Content Group Australia. The company said the name was changed in order to ‘create a more consistent...
Canongate revenue up 16% in 2020
Monday, 13 September 2021
In the UK, Canongate Books recorded a turnover of £13.9 million (A$26.1m) in 2020, up 16% on its 2019 result, reports the Bookseller. The company’s pre-tax profit totalled £2.6 million...
NZ awards news: Kake wins NZ Writers’ Award, Yang wins Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize
Monday, 13 September 2021
Jade Kake has won the 2021 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Writers’ Award, worth NZ$25,000 (A$24,150)....
EPAA 2021 winners announced
Friday, 10 September 2021
The winners of the 2021 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) have been announced. The winners in each category are: Secondary publisher of the year Jacaranda Primary publisher of the year...
Amazon, Big Five seek to dismiss indie booksellers’ price-fixing claim
Friday, 10 September 2021
In the US, Amazon and the Big Five publishers have made separate filings asking a federal court to dismiss the latest iteration of a price-fixing claim filed against them on...
Queensland Literary Awards 2021 winners announced
Friday, 10 September 2021
The winners of the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced. Visual artist Fiona Foley was awarded the $25,000 Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance for her...
Ghosh to headline Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Perth
Thursday, 9 September 2021
Writing WA has announced the program for the inaugural Ubud Readers & Writers Festival (URWF) Perth, running from 8–10 October at the Rechabite Hall in Perth's CBD. UWRF Perth will...
Clarke wins Women’s Prize for Fiction for ‘Piranesi’
Thursday, 9 September 2021
In the UK, Susanna Clarke has won the £30,000 (A$56,100) Women's Prize for Fiction for her second novel Piranesi (Bloomsbury), reports the Bookseller. Clarke’s novel, published long after her award-winning...
$100k Historical Novel Prize longlists announced
Thursday, 9 September 2021
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlist for the second annual ARA Historical Novel Prize and the inaugural longlist for its children's and young adult (CYA) category....
RISE funding for Australia Reads, latest awards
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
The Australia Reads campaign and ALIA’s Online Storytime initiative are among the latest recipients of the federal government’s RISE funding. A new bookshop, The Chestnut Tree, has opened in Melbourne’s...
#BookTok 101: Your guide to a major new force in publishing
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
TikTok's #BookTok hashtag recently saw backlist titles It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S) and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid, S&S) make their way into the...
Wainwright Prizes for nature, conservation writing winners
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
In the UK, the winners of the Wainwright Prizes for nature and conservation writing have been announced, reports the Bookseller. James Rebanks won the nature category for English Pastoral (Allen...
Banjo Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
HarperCollins Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Banjo Prize for an unpublished work of commercial fiction. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘My Father the Whale’ (Gina Perry) ‘The Wishbone...
Lucy’s People: An Ethiopian Memoir
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
A story of a country and a life. Young Ethiopian engineer Mesfin survives the brutal communist Derg. He works all over his motherland. Then, he must choose: stay or flee?...
Monica McInerney on ‘Marcie Gill and the Caravan Park Cat’
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Marcie Gill and the Caravan Park Cat (Puffin, November) is Monica McInerney's first book for children. Set in South Australia, it follows Marcie Gill as she tackles family troubles with...
Scribe acquires Rooke’s book about Colin Manock
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Scribe has acquired world rights in A Witness of Fact: The peculiar case of chief forensic pathologist Colin Manock by Drew Rooke. Scribe’s publisher, Henry Rosenbloom, described the book as ‘a...
A&U acquires ‘Fancy Meeting You Here’
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Fancy Meeting You Here from superstar duo Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus. Evie is a thirty-year-old wannabe screenwriter who spends her...
Chinese book market up 11%
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Books sales in the Chinese retail book market in the first half of 2021 are up 11.45% compared to the same time last year, according to Open Book Data. Sales...
Murchison wins $10k ACU Poetry Prize
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Hobart-based poet Anna Murchison has won the 2021 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Poetry Prize, Australia's richest poetry award. Murchison receives $10,000 for her poem ‘Child of Gath-hepher’. Carolyn Masel was...
Australian Short Story Festival 2021 program announced
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
After being cancelled in 2020, the Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF) will be held in Adelaide from 5–7 November 2021. The 2021 program features established authors including Maxine Beneba Clarke...
‘The Rain Heron’ wins Age Book of the Year
Monday, 6 September 2021
Robbie Arnott has won the 2021 Age Book of the Year for his novel The Rain Heron (Text). It's the 40th time the award has been presented following a nine-year hiatus....
Change to bestsellers charts
Monday, 6 September 2021
Please note the Nielsen bestsellers data for the week ending 28 August 2021 was published in Books+Publishing on Friday, 3 September. The bestsellers data will now be published each Friday.
Richell Prize 2021 longlist announced
Monday, 6 September 2021
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the longlist for the 2021 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The longlisted writers will be judged on the first three...
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2021 winners announced
Monday, 6 September 2021
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners of the 2021 NSW Premier's History Awards, worth $15,000 each. Selected from shortlists announced in August, the winning titles in...
US book industry faces supply chain challenges
Monday, 6 September 2021
In the US, various factors are putting increasing pressure on the book industry’s supply chain, reports Publishers Weekly. The challenges include shortages of truck drivers and trailers, congestion at the...
Wright wins 2021 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
Friday, 3 September 2021
David Thomas Henry Wright has won the 2021 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for A Condensed History of the Australian Camel. Judge Roanna Gonsalves described Wright’s entry as ‘a work...
Rushdie to publish next book on Substack
Friday, 3 September 2021
Salman Rushdie plans to serialise his next book on the online platform Substack, the Bookseller reports. Rushdie’s new book The Seventh Wave—a 35,000-word novella about a ‘film director and an...
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