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Dalcher wins Goldsboro Glass Bell for ‘Vox’ Archive

Wednesday, 18 September 2019
In the UK, debut novelist Christina Dalcher has won the £2000 (A$3650) Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for Vox (HQ). Set in an America where women are restricted to speaking no...

Flann wins 2019 Banjo Prize for ‘unbearably tense’ survival thriller Archive

Wednesday, 18 September 2019
HarperCollins has announced Elizabeth Flann as the winner of the 2019 Banjo Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her ‘unbearably tense’ Australian thriller ‘Beware of Dogs’. Flann’s work was chosen...

Zadie Smith, Curtis Sittenfeld to appear at inaugural Broadside feminist festival Archive

Tuesday, 17 September 2019
The Wheeler Centre has announced a two-day feminist ideas festival, Broadside, to be held at the Melbourne Town Hall from 9–10 November. UK author Zadie Smith, US novelist Curtis Sittenfeld,...

FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019 shortlist announced Archive

Tuesday, 17 September 2019
In the UK, the shortlist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: Invisible Women: Exposing data bias...

Black Inc. sells Glover’s ‘The Last Man in Europe’ to UK Archive

Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Dennis Glover’s novel The Last Man in Europe to Edinburgh-based independent publisher Polygon. Glover’s novel, about the writing of...

Parrett’s ‘There Was Still Love’ sold to UK Archive

Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Martin Shaw of Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold UK and Commonwealth rights to Favel Parrett’s third novel, There Was Still Love (Hachette), to Francine Toon at Sceptre, Hodder &...

Ngaio Marsh Award 2019 winners announced Archive

Monday, 16 September 2019
New Zealand writer Fiona Kidman has won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for This Mortal Boy (RHNZ Vintage). The story recreates the life of young Belfast immigrant...

A&U, Wavesound to partner on audiobooks Archive

Monday, 16 September 2019
The majority of new Allen & Unwin titles will be produced as audiobooks under a new partnership between the publisher and Wavesound. The co-publishing program will initially see A&U and...

Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction 2019 longlist announced Archive

Monday, 16 September 2019
In the UK, the longlist for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, has been announced. The 10 longlisted titles are: I Will Never See...

Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2019 winners announced Archive

Monday, 16 September 2019
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2019 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The winners are: Picture fiction The All New Must Have Orange 430 (Michael Speechley, Viking)...

Porter’s ‘Firefly’ wins 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize Archive

Monday, 16 September 2019
In the UK, English writer Henry Porter has won the £15,000 (A$27,250) Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize for his novel Firefly (Quercus). Firefly follows a highly intelligent 13-year-old Syrian refugee who is...

Imago Archive

Monday, 16 September 2019
Global printing solutions: China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, India and Europe. Production management of books, stationery, packaging, toys and games for publishing companies who want to benefit from our...

Boost to events, reader pledges for this year’s Australian Reading Hour Archive

Friday, 13 September 2019
Australian Reading Hour (ARH) has registered 240 events—more than double the number held last year—to be held as part of this year’s campaign, taking place next Thursday 19 September. More...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced Archive

Friday, 13 September 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Stolen Season (Rodney Hall, Picador) Beautiful Revolutionary (Laura Elizabeth...

McLaughlin wins 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award Archive

Friday, 13 September 2019
Irish writer Danielle McLaughlin has won the £30,000 (A$54,000) Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award for her story ‘A Partial List of the Saved’. The story follows two people who...

BWF: YA, women authors top bestsellers Archive

Friday, 13 September 2019
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) bookshop recorded a 5.9 percent growth in sales at the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) bookstore from the previous year, thanks to ‘the strong six-day...

High Infidelity Archive

Thursday, 12 September 2019
At 44, loyal English wife Lara Winters discovers that Brock, her husband of 21 years, has betrayed her. Devastated, desperate, she flees her home in London and heads for the...

Motherling Archive

Thursday, 12 September 2019
Motherling addresses every parent of an adult child’s nightmare. Your child is grown up. He’s got a great job, living a happy life overseas. You don’t have to worry about...

The Sea & Us Archive

Thursday, 12 September 2019
From the Stella Prize-shortlisted author, this is a heart-warming novel about longing, absence and the people we unexpectedly come to love. A young man called Harold rents a room above...

Field of Poppies Archive

Thursday, 12 September 2019
Keen to escape the pressures of city life, Marsali Swift and her husband, William, are drawn to Listowel, a glorious historic mansion in the seemingly tranquil small town of Muckleton....

Almost a Mirror Archive

Thursday, 12 September 2019
Like fireflies to light, Mona and Danny are drawn to the glamour of the Crystal Ballroom and the post-punk music scene of 1980s Melbourne, and into the orbit of musicians...

My Name is Revenge Archive

Thursday, 12 September 2019
On 17 December 1980, two men shot the Turkish consul-general to Sydney and his bodyguard near the consul’s home in Vaucluse. The assassins aimed, fired and vanished. From the assassination...

Parallax: A novel Archive

Thursday, 12 September 2019
Robin Morgan’s most radiant prose, spare but sensuous, welcomes you into her dazzling imagination. This is a story about storytelling—a set of shorter tales which, like Russian dolls, nest and...

Clarke, Dovey among Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship recipients Archive

Thursday, 12 September 2019
Writers Maxine Beneba Clarke and Ceridwen Dovey are among nine artists to be awarded 2019 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, each worth $160,000 over two years. Clarke is the author of...

Dechian wins 2019 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize Archive

Thursday, 12 September 2019
Victoria-based writer Sonja Dechian has won the Australian Book Review’s (ABR) 2019 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘The Point-Blank Murder’. The judges said of the winning story: 'At...

Love wins 2019 Klaus Flugge Prize Archive

Thursday, 12 September 2019
In the UK, Jessica Love has won the £5000 (A$8990) Klaus Flugge Prize for most promising newcomer to children’s picture book illustration for Julian is a Mermaid (Walker Books), reports...

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