‘Now That I See You’ wins 2021 Vogel Archive
Monday, 3 May 2021
Now That I See You by Canberra author Emma Batchelor is the winner of this year's $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age...
Shortlist announced for £40k Wolfson History Prize Archive
Monday, 3 May 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for the £40,000 (A$76,200) Wolfson History Prize shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Survivors: Children’s lives after the Holocaust (Rebecca Clifford, Yale University Press)...
Day wins 2021 Nature Writing Prize Archive
Friday, 30 April 2021
Gregory Day has won the 2021 Nature Writing Prize for his work 'The Watergaw'. Dave Witty was highly commended for 'The Lone Tree of Mackay', and Michael Bradley received an...
Vogel Award 2021 shortlist announced, winner announced today Archive
Friday, 30 April 2021
The shortlist has been announced for the 2021 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of 35. The three titles on this year’s shortlist are:...
Lagardère makes ‘peace agreement’ between shareholders Archive
Friday, 30 April 2021
In France, Hachette Livre parent company Lagardère has confirmed the group’s transformation into a joint-stock company as part of a ‘peace agreement’ to end all legal disputes between shareholders, reports...
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 shortlist announced Archive
Thursday, 29 April 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Now in its 26th year, the £30,000 (A$53,600) prize is presented annually to the best...
‘Phosphorescence’ wins 2021 ABIA Book of the Year Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The winners of the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. In the business awards, Penguin Random House Australia won publisher of the year while the University of...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Iowa City’s The Haunted Bookshop Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookshops in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. In Iowa...
Baxter’s ‘New Animal’ sells to US, UK, optioned for TV Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
US rights to Ella Baxter's debut novel New Animal (A&U) have been sold to independent publisher Two Dollar Radio by The Book Group on behalf of Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary....
Stella Prize and NSW Prem’s winners, industry moves Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Evie Wyld has won this year’s Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her novel The Bass Rock (Vintage). Meanwhile, Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their...
Cameron Nunn on ‘Echo in the Memory’ Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
The historical YA novel Echo in the Memory (Walker, June) took author Cameron Nunn 10 years and a PhD in the history of child convicts to write. The book features...
The Other Half of You (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s latest novel continues the story of Bani Adam, a young Lebanese Muslim man growing up in Sydney. Bani, the protagonist of Ahmad’s 2018 novel The Lebs, now...
UK publisher consumer sales up 7% in 2020 Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
In the UK, Publishers Association (PA) figures show UK book sales—particularly fiction and audiobooks—soared in 2020, with consumer sales up 7% on 2019 despite bookshop closures, reports the Guardian. The...
UWAP announces 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives a cash prize of $10,000, as well as manuscript development...
Closing down sale Archive
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Australian Bookmarks and Bookplates will be closing on 30 June, 2021 or when stocks run out. Bookmarks: 50% discount Over 90 bookmark designs including unicorns, angels, fairies, animals, humorous, inspirational...
Echo in the Memory (Cameron Nunn, Walker Books) Archive
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Cameron Nunn presents an ambitious work of historical fiction in his latest novel Echo in the Memory. Seamlessly telling the stories of two adolescents existing almost 200 years apart, the...
Lagardère in discussions to revamp company governance Archive
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
In France, the Lagardère group, owner of Hachette Livre, has confirmed that negotiations are under way to transfer the group into a joint stock company, reports the Bookseller. The move...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Ellen van Neerven has scooped the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with their poetry collection Throat (UQP). Van Neerven’s collection was awarded the overall $10,000 book of the year award,...
Liminal, Pantera establish $10,000 nonfiction prize Archive
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Liminal magazine and Pantera Press have announced a new nonfiction writing prize for First Nations writers and writers of colour. The winner of the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize receives...
Publisher halts Philip Roth biography after sexual assault allegations Archive
Monday, 26 April 2021
In the US, publisher W W Norton has halted the distribution and promotion of Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth: The biography after several women accused Bailey of grooming and sexual assault....
Pham, Kruimink and Tu named SMH 2021 Best Young Australian Novelists Archive
Monday, 26 April 2021
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced its 2021 Best Young Australian Novelists, all of whom have been chosen for debut novels. The writers are: K M (Kate) Kruimink for...
Wyld wins 2021 Stella Prize for ‘The Bass Rock’ Archive
Friday, 23 April 2021
Evie Wyld has won the 2021 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her novel The Bass Rock (Vintage). Judging panel chair Zoya Patel said the novel was ‘a consuming and perplexing...
International Booker Prize shortlist announced Archive
Friday, 23 April 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize for translated fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: At Night All Blood is Black (David Diop, trans from French by...
S&S US to publish Pence books despite staff petition Archive
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Simon & Schuster US (S&S) will proceed with publishing two books by former US vice president Mike Pence despite a petition from staff, reports the Bookseller. In the petition, staff...
ABA conference program, Readings Children’s Book Prize winner Archive
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
The program for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association conference, to be held in person and online from 20–22 June at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, has been announced. In awards...
Change for Shawline Publishing Group Archive
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Publisher: Shawline Publishing Group Old distributor: Novella Distribution New distributor: Shawline Publishing Group Changeover date: 1 May 2021 Returns cut-off: 11 June 2021 Contact URL: Novella Distribution
Change for Red Wheel Weiser Archive
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Old distributor: Brumby Sunstate New distributor: NewSouth Books Changeover date: 1 May 2021
NewSouth Books to distribute Red Wheel/Weiser Archive
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Global Publishers Group representing sales, marketing and distribution of Red Wheel/Weiser announces it has appointed NewSouth Books to manage sales, marketing, and distribution for Red Wheel/Weiser in Australia effective 1...
We Were Not Men (Campbell Mattinson, Fourth Estate) Archive
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Campbell Mattinson’s We Were Not Men charts the story of twin brothers Jon and Eden in an episodic exploration of male kinship. Told from Jon’s perspective, the book begins with the...
Lisa Emanuel on ‘The Covered Wife’ Archive
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Lisa Emanuel's 2019 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award–shortlisted debut The Covered Wife (Pantera, June) centres on Sarah, a lawyer whose new relationship leads to involvement with an oppressive and...
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