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Read A Lot Books celebrates 30 years

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Read A Lot Books, in the WA city of Geraldton, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with giveaways and competitions during the month of March. In its 30 years of operation,...

‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ wins Audie award

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The audiobook edition of Heather Morris' novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz (narrated by Richard Armitage, Bolinda, released in the US by HarperAudio) has won the 2019 Audie Award for fiction....

A&U acquires Morris-Marr book on Pell

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a book by investigative journalist and broadcaster Lucie Morris-Marr, who broke the story in the Herald Sun that Cardinal George Pell...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday (Victoria, South Australia, ACT and Tasmania), the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 14 March. The deadline...

SLV ‘retires’ Centre for Youth Literature

Tuesday, 5 March 2019
State Library Victoria (SLV) has announced that it will be 'retiring the Centre for Youth Literature sub-brand' and will bring its teen programming under general SLV programming. SLV says that...

Inky Awards 2019 longlists announced

Tuesday, 5 March 2019
The longlists for the 2019 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by State Library Victoria (SLV) for local and international fiction, poetry, anthologies and graphic novels written...

Hogan wins Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2019

Tuesday, 5 March 2019
Writers Victoria has announced that author and academic Eleanor Hogan has been awarded the $15,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates. Her...

Springer Nature shares journal articles on ResearchGate

Monday, 4 March 2019
Springer Nature is sharing articles from its journals on academic social networking site ResearchGate, reports the Bookseller. In a pilot program spanning three months, the company will upload full-text articles...

Garner honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature

Monday, 4 March 2019
Helen Garner has won the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over...

UNSW academic wins international book award

Monday, 4 March 2019
Robin Derricourt’s Unearthing Childhood: Young Lives in Prehistory (Manchester University Press) has won the Archaeology and Ancient History PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Unearthing Childhood is...

Sunday, 3 March 2019
Allen & Unwin is thrilled to be publishing the explosive new novel by Heather Rose—the award-winning author of The Museum of Modern Love—in October 2019.

From the publisher

Sunday, 3 March 2019
'I read this novel in a fever, utterly gripped and racing to know more as Heather's amazing story unfolded. I could not have been more astonished or delighted by Bruny—without...

And from A&U staff

Sunday, 3 March 2019
‘Bruny is totally original. It’s both a page-turning thriller and a literary tour de force that makes you want to savour every sentence. At its heart is an outrageous premise,...

About the author

Sunday, 3 March 2019
Heather Rose is the Australian author of eight novels. Her seventh novel The Museum of Modern Love won the 2017 Stella Prize. It also won the 2017 Christina Stead Prize and the...

Events

Sunday, 3 March 2019
Heather Rose will be available for events during October. If you are interested in holding an event with Heather, please contact Christine Farmer email: ChristineF@allenandunwin.com

Reading copy giveaway

Sunday, 3 March 2019
Be one of the first to read Bruny. Email us at marketing@allenandunwin.com with 'Bruny' in the subject line for your chance to receive one of 10 proof copies.

Saturday, 2 March 2019
Explosive, timely, resonant and relatable. Whisper Network was bought in a big-money pre-empt by the US, UK and ANZ just 24 hours after submission. Sales have been agreed to in...

About the author

Saturday, 2 March 2019
Chandler Baker got her start ghostwriting novels, including a book series that has sold more than one million copies. She grew up in Florida, attended the University of Pennsylvania and...

Advance praise

Saturday, 2 March 2019
'Exciting and sprinkled with razor-sharp insights about what it is to be a woman today, Whisper Network is a witty and timely story that will make you cheer for sisterhood.' —Liv Constantine, USA...

Reading copy giveaway

Saturday, 2 March 2019
Be one of the first to read Whisper Network. Email  marketing@hachette.com.au with ‘Whisper Network reading copy giveaway’ in the subject line for your chance to secure one of 20 copies.

Sample chapter

Saturday, 2 March 2019
Take a sneak peek at Whisper Network here.

Friday, 1 March 2019
This new series about a bewildered sloth and a sly old fox is perfect for adults and children who like their picture books funny and more than a bit cheeky.

 

 

 

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