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Wollongong collective launches bookshop, workshop space

Friday, 8 March 2019
A new community collective called Society City is establishing a secondhand bookshop in Wollongong. The member-run collective will operate the bookshop, and will also offer up the space for people...

YA debut sells to US, Netherlands

Friday, 8 March 2019
Catherine Drayton of Inkwell Management has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Helena Fox's forthcoming YA novel How it Feels to Float (Pan Australia, May) to Penguin US imprint...

Affirm acquires VPLA-shortlisted short-story collection

Friday, 8 March 2019
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut short-story collection by Victorian author Wayne Marshall, which was a runner-up in the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in the unpublished manuscript category. The...

No ‘Daily’ on Monday

Friday, 8 March 2019
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday (Victoria, South Australia, ACT and Tasmania), the next Daily newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 12 March.

ABIA 2019 longlists announced

Thursday, 7 March 2019
The longlists for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan)...

UK sales of translated fiction grew in 2018

Thursday, 7 March 2019
In the UK, Nielsen Book statistics commissioned by the Man Booker International Prize show that translated fiction sales in the UK grew by 5.5% in 2018, with sales of £20.7...

Change for Anderson Press

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Publisher: Anderson Press Old distributor: PRH New distributor: Walker Books Changeover date: 1 August 2019 Returns cut-off date: 30 August 2019 (See classified.)

Peggy Frew’s ‘Islands’

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
'[Islands] is a work of great compassion and insight: one which reveals the naive, hopeful, sometimes angry, heartbreak that children hold in their hearts as they attempt to become adults...

Readings celebrates 50th anniversary

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Melbourne bookshop Readings is celebrating 50 years since establishing its first store. The original Readings bookshop was founded in Carlton in 1969 by Ross Reading, his wife Dot Reading, and...

Andersen Press to be distributed by Walker Books

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Walker Books Australia is delighted to announce that they have taken on the Australian and New Zealand distribution of award winning UK publishing house, Andersen Press, beginning August 2019. Andersen...

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...

 

 

 

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