Lucashenko wins 2019 Miles Franklin for ‘Too Much Lip’ Archive
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Melissa Lucashenko has won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her sixth novel, Too Much Lip (UQP). Lucashenko is the third Indigenous author to win the Miles Franklin in...
RITA Awards 2019 winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2019 RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas. Among the winners in the 13 categories...
Disher’s ‘Bitter Wash Road’ optioned for screen Archive
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Producers Helen Leake and Gena Ashwell of Adelaide-based production company Dancing Road Productions have optioned the screen rights to Garry Disher’s Bitter Wash Road (Text), via Jenny Darling & Associates. First published in 2013,...
Dalla Rosa shortlisted for 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award Archive
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Australian writer Paul Dalla Rosa has been shortlisted for the £30,000 (A$54,500) Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Dalla Rosa is shortlisted for his story ‘Comme’, originally published in Granta...
Macmillan puts embargo on new release ebooks to libraries Archive
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
In the US, Macmillan has announced a two month embargo on all its imprints’ library ebooks effective 1 November, reports Publishers Weekly. The move comes after a year-long trial where...
Publishers Weekly Archive
Monday, 29 July 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This edition features an investigation into...
Scholastic income down 55% despite sales rise Archive
Monday, 29 July 2019
In the US, Scholastic has reported a 2019 fiscal year operating income of US$25 million (A$36.2m), a 55% drop on the previous year despite sales rising 2% to US$1.65 billion...
WA Premier’s Book Awards winners announced Archive
Monday, 29 July 2019
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an emerging writer ($15,000) The Sky Runs...
Berbay to expand publishing program in 2020 Archive
Monday, 29 July 2019
Melbourne-based children’s publisher Berbay Books will double its publishing list from eight to 16 titles in 2020, as well as publishing its first graphic novel, chapter book and junior fiction...
RiP Margaret Fulton Archive
Friday, 26 July 2019
Scottish-born Australian cookery author, journalist and commentator Margaret Fulton has died, aged 94. First published by Paul Hamlyn in 1968, The Margaret Fulton Cookbook became an important reference for cooking...
Hammer shortlisted for UK Dagger award for first-time authors Archive
Friday, 26 July 2019
Chris Hammer's novel Scrublands (A&U) has been shortlisted at the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards. Published in the UK by Wildfire, Hammer’s novel is shortlisted for the 2019...
Baskin wins industry recognition award at ORIAs Archive
Friday, 26 July 2019
Booktopia deputy CEO and CTO Wayne Baskin has won in the industry recognition category at the 2019 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAs). Booktopia was nominated for the best pureplay retailer...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2019 winners announced Archive
Friday, 26 July 2019
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced the winners of the 2019 Book Design Awards. Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing (Sean Mallon & Sébastien Galliot, Te Papa Press),...
PRH acquires debut thriller in two-book deal Archive
Friday, 26 July 2019
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired world rights to Tasmanian author Kyle Perry’s crime/suspense thriller debut, The Bluffs, in a two-book deal with the Nash Agency. Set in the Tasmanian...
Ned Kelly Awards 2019 longlists announced Archive
Thursday, 25 July 2019
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The longlisted titles in each category are: Best first fiction...
The Weekend (Charlotte Wood, A&U) Archive
Thursday, 25 July 2019
After Sylvie’s sudden death, her three closest friends—former restaurateur Jude, public intellectual Wendy and actress Adele—must renegotiate the boundaries of their lifelong foursome. As they retreat to Sylvie’s isolated beach...
Melbourne City of Lit Booksellers in Residence announced Archive
Thursday, 25 July 2019
The Melbourne City of Literature has announced the four Victorian booksellers who will spend a week in an overseas bookshop, as part of its Booksellers in Residence program. The Booksellers...
Amazon UK begins releasing weekly sales charts Archive
Thursday, 25 July 2019
Amazon UK has this week launched Amazon Charts, a weekly book bestseller list tracking sales and reads of fiction and nonfiction, reports the Bookseller. Its the first time print and...
UK Booksellers Association urges shops to go green Archive
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
‘Booksellers can take the lead in their communities, and in the trade—where there is already a high awareness of the challenge—and the green manifesto is designed as a key step...
Vancouver Public Library banned from walking in Pride Parade Archive
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
In Canada, the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) has banned the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) from walking in its annual Pride Parade, due to the library’s ‘decision to provide a platform...
National Archives needs funding doubled, 200 extra staff, claims panel Archive
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
A government-appointed panel claims the National Archives needs its funding doubled and an extra 200 staff hired in order to survive, reports the Canberra Times. In a submission made to...
Holiday book haul: Junior Christmas 2019 preview Archive
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Kelsey Oldham rounds up some local highlights from publishers’ 2019 Christmas lists. (See our adult fiction and nonfiction highlights here.) Aussie favourites Some of our most celebrated Australian children’s authors...
Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$88,875) prize are: The Testaments (Margaret Atwood, Chatto & Windus, September) Night Boat...
Lorne Beach Books for sale Archive
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Bookshop for sale Lorne Beach Books, Lorne, Vic Opened in 1999 by David and Meryl Bartak after 20 years of owning and operating Black Mask Books in Toorak Rd, South...
Murdoch Books to publish new book from feminist icon Gloria Steinem Archive
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Murdoch Books is pleased to announce it will publish The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off! by Gloria Steinem later this year, in Australia...
Update on the NewSouth move to ADS in Australia and New Zealand Archive
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Please be advised booksellers should change their systems at COB on Thursday 25 July to order all NewSouth Books from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS). All backorders held at TLD will...
Inner Traditions/Bear & Company partners with Simon & Schuster Archive
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Simon & Schuster Australia is pleased to announce a new sales and distribution partnership with independent publisher, Inner Traditions/Bear & Company in Australia and New Zealand from 1 October 2019....
‘Stone Girl’ wins 2019 Readings YA book prize Archive
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Eleni Hale has won the 2019 Readings Young Adult Book Prize for her novel Stone Girl (Penguin). Hale’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the $3000 prize,...
UK Booksellers Association launches green bookselling manifesto Archive
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) has launched ‘Green Bookselling: A Manifesto for the BA, Booksellers and the Book Industry’, as it calls on the trade to reduce its...
Work begins on new edition of government style manual Archive
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
The federal government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has appointed Canberra-based communications agency Ethos CRS to lead the development of the seventh edition of the Australian government’s Style Manual, which for...
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