Change for Marshall Cavendish International General and Reference list
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International General and Reference list Old distributor: Penguin Random House New distributor: Woodslane Changeover date: 17 April Returns cut-off: Not applicable (previous distribution was 2014)
Varuna: Poetry masterclass residency with Vanessa Kirkpatrick
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Varuna has announced a six-day residency that allows for all participants to be immersed in the writing and crafting of poetry, aiming to extend and explore creative and critical capacities....
Nugent wins Readings Children’s Book Prize 2019
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Carly Nugent has won the 2019 Readings Children’s Book Prize for The Peacock Detectives (Text). Nugent’s title was chosen from a shortlist of six, announced in February. She receives $3000....
HarperCollins acquires three new McTiernan novels
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to three new books from crime writer Dervla McTiernan, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia. The first book in McTiernan’s new deal, which is...
Powers wins 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for ‘The Overstory’
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
In the US, Richard Powers has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Overstory (Vintage). The Overstory tells the story of nine strangers brought together by...
Wheeler Centre 2019 Hot Desk fellowships announced
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
The Wheeler Centre has announced the successful applicants for its 2019 Hot Desk Fellowships. This year, the Wheeler Centre is offering three new fellowships for regional and interstate writers, who...
Text announces Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel shortlist
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors have announced the shortlist for the 2019 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel. The three manuscripts and their authors are:...
Clan Destine Press acquires UK small publisher
Monday, 15 April 2019
Melbourne-based genre specialist Clan Destine Press has acquired Improbable Press, a small UK publisher. Improbable Press began in London in 2015 as a publisher of Sherlock Holmes titles, but will...
Ashurst Business Literature Prize shortlist announced
Monday, 15 April 2019
The shortlist for the 2018 Ashurst Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Big Four: The Curious and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly (Ian...
2019 Scribblers Festival full program announced
Friday, 12 April 2019
The line-up for the second annual Scribblers Festival, which celebrates children's literature and arts, has been announced. Running from 8–12 May in the Perth suburb of Claremont, Scribblers Festival will...
PwC report shows growth in UK bookshops while high street retail declines
Friday, 12 April 2019
Bookshops are one of the top retail growth categories in the UK, according to new research from PricewaterhouseCoopers that also shows a record number of UK shops closed in 2018....
‘Steve Smith’s Men’ wins Wisden Book of the Year 2019
Friday, 12 April 2019
In the UK, Geoff Lemon’s Steve Smith’s Men (Hardie Grant) has won the Wisden Book of the Year award. Lemon’s book is an on-the-ground account of the Test cricket cheating...
Pantera sells 10 Rowland Sinclair mysteries to UK
Friday, 12 April 2019
Pantera Press has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ and Canada) to the first 10 books in the 'Rowland Sinclair Mysteries' series (Sulari Gentill) to independent UK publisher Oldcastle...
‘Uplifting nonfiction’ in demand at LBF
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Australian publishers attending the 2019 London Book Fair have reported an interest in ‘uplifting or inspiring nonfiction’. Allen & Unwin rights manager Maggie Thompson said a big trend in narrative...
Get to know … Murdoch Books
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Think Australian interviewed publishing director Lou Johnson about Murdoch Books' rebranding and forthcoming titles. What makes Murdoch Books unique? A whole combination of things. The fact that we have such...
‘No Friend but the Mountains’ sells into nine territories
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Writer, journalist and Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani’s award-winning memoir No Friend but the Mountains (Picador) has been sold in nine territories, including the US and the UK. Boochani, who is...
‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ and ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 11 April 2019
New paperback editions have propelled Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers to the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in March and Tim Winton’s The Shepherd’s Hut into sixth place....
‘The Erratics’ wins Stella Prize
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Vicki Laveau-Harvie has won Australia’s prestigious Stella Prize for women writers for her memoir The Erratics (Fourth Estate), which tells the story of an estranged daughter who journeys home to...
Hachette UK opens new distribution centre
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Hachette UK CEO David Shelley has opened the company's new Hely Hutchinson distribution centre in Oxfordshire. The 23,000 sqm building, which Shelley described as ‘the best distribution centre in Europe,...
ABIA 2019 shortlists announced
Thursday, 11 April 2019
The shortlists for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U) The Lost Flowers...
Tony Birch on identity and storytelling
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
'What has changed in the last decade, a remarkable shift that critics of festivals ignore, is that Aboriginal writers now appear in greater numbers, and we get to speak for...
The prize is right: Authors on winning an unpublished manuscript prize
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
How does winning an unpublished manuscript prize affect the careers of debut authors? Jackie Tang talks to two recent winners. It’s difficult to ignore the sheer number of unpublished manuscript...
Soeterboek leaves NewSouth for UTS
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Nella Soeterboek, the outgoing director of NewSouth Books, has joined the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion as partnerships manager.
Books at MIFF: Submissions open
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Submissions are now open for the 37ºSouth’s Books at MIFF (BaM) program. Australian and NZ publishers and literary agents who are film rights holders of books that have cinematic potential...
George Robertson Award 2019 winners announced
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
The winners of the 2019 George Robertson Award, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry, were announced by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) on 4 April. The...
Hardie Grant Egmont to publish ‘period guide’ by Yumi Stynes, Melissa Kang
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has acquired world rights to a guide for pre-teens about getting their period, written by journalist Yumi Stynes and Melissa Kang, the longest-serving expert behind the ‘Dolly...
New database explores diversity in children’s books
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
The National Centre for Australian Children’s Literacy (NCACL) has launched a cultural diversity database designed to help librarians, teachers, parents and readers find books that ‘feature Australia’s culturally diverse population’....
Editors Victoria: Dinner meeting
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Editors Victoria is holding a dinner meeting featuring Peter Davies. Formerly the assistant manager, reports and communications, in the Victorian Attorney-General’s department, Davis will reveal the ins and outs of...
New ambassadors, initiatives for 2019 Australian Reading Hour announced
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Australian Reading Hour has announced its ambassadors and several new initiatives for this year’s event, which will be held on 19 September. Mick Elliott, Anthony Field, Karen Manbulloo, Sally Rippin...
Man Booker International Prize 2019 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Celestial Bodies (Jokha Alharthi, trans by Marilyn Booth, Sandstone Press) The Years (Annie Ernaux, trans by...
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