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Man Group withdraws Booker sponsorship

Tuesday, 29 January 2019
In the UK, hedge fund company Man Group has withdrawn its sponsorship of the Booker Prize. The sponsorship departure will not affect this year’s awards cycle for the Man Booker...

B+P launches round-up of forthcoming publicity

Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Books+Publishing has launched a weekly publicity round-up, covering forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. The publicity round-up is...

Makkai, Laymon win 2019 ALA Andrew Carnegie Medals

Tuesday, 29 January 2019
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medals. The fiction prize was awarded to Rebecca Makkai for The Great Believers (Fleet) and the nonfiction...

Wattpad launches data-driven publishing division

Friday, 25 January 2019
In the US, online storytelling platform Wattpad is launching a publishing division called Wattpad Books. Producing both print and ebooks, Wattpad Books will launch its list in September 2019 with...

Dymocks launches Wiggles shop

Friday, 25 January 2019
Chain retailer Dymocks has become the new retail partner for children’s entertainment group the Wiggles, offering a range of books and merchandise via a dedicated online store. Dymocks negotiated a...

Scriven wins Margaret River Short Story Competition

Friday, 25 January 2019
Writer Kit Scriven has won the 2019 Margaret River Short Story Competition for his story ‘We’ll Stand in That Place’. Catherine Noske came in second place with her story ‘Thylacine’,...

No ‘Daily’ on Monday

Friday, 25 January 2019
Please note that, due to the Australia Day holiday in lieu on Monday, the next Daily newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 29 January.

Writer and blogger Yang detained in China

Thursday, 24 January 2019
Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been detained by Chinese authorities, reports SBS News. A critic of the Chinese government and an advocate for democracy, Yang previously worked in the Chinese...

Goldsmiths Prize expands eligibility criteria

Thursday, 24 January 2019
In the UK, the Goldsmiths Prize has expanded its eligibility criteria, allowing authors of any nationality to enter, as long as they have resided in the UK or the Republic of...

ASA pens open letter condemning unauthorised lending

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
'Australian authors, along with their counterparts around the world, are struggling to generate a sustainable income from their work ... While authors are happy for their work to be read...

RiP Garry Evans

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Harbour Publishing House director Garry Evans has died, aged 50. Evans, along with his wife Michelle, owned and operated Harbour Bookshop in Ulladulla, NSW, and founded the publishing house in...

RiP Barrie Dunstan

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Business and investment journalist Barrie Dunstan has died, aged 80. Starting his journalism career at the Argus in 1955, Dunstan then moved to the Age in 1958 and was promoted to finance...

About the book

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
A woman. A war. A child that changed everything. Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave is a luminous and profoundly moving novel about the people we rescue...

About the author

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Frances Liardet is a child of the children of the Second World War. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and studied Arabic at...

Praise for ‘We Must Be Brave’

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
‘This is storytelling at its best’—Sarah Winman, author of Tin Man  ‘It broke my heart and glued it together again. Just perfect’—Jill Mansell, author of Rumour Has It ‘A story both epic...

Digital assets

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Read a sample chapter of We Must Be Brave here. See the Reading Group Guide for a conversation with Frances Liardet here.

Reading copy giveaway

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Be one of the first to read We Must Be Brave. Email Eliza.Auld@harpercollins.com.au with ‘We Must Be Brave’ in the subject line for your chance to secure one of ten copies.

The Sparkle Pages

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
‘Is marriage just a series of texts about where the children are and whether we need milk until one of you dies?’ Susannah Parks—wife, mother, cleaner of surfaces and runner...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Please note that, due to the Australia Day public holiday in lieu on Monday, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 31 January. The deadline for classifieds and...

Edgar Awards 2019 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
In the US, the shortlists for the 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (the Edgars) have been announced. The Edgars honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published or produced...

National Book Critics Circle Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
In the US, the shortlists for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been announced. The finalists include: Fiction Milkman (Anna Burns, Faber) Slave Old Man (Patrick Chamoiseau, trans by Linda...

Tumarkin’s ‘Axiomatic’ sold to US

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Brow Books has sold North American and Spanish-language rights to Axiomatic (Maria Tumarkin). North American rights were sold to California-based nonprofit publisher Transit Books, with publisher Adam Levy describing Tumarkin’s...

Last chance: Please complete our post-Christmas survey

Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. The survey deadline has been extended to Thursday, 24 January. This is your last chance to complete the survey....

ASA ‘outraged’ by unauthorised lending of scanned books

Tuesday, 22 January 2019
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has joined with international authors’ associations in condemning the activities of the Internet Archive’s Open Library in its unlicensed lending of scanned copies of...

Berbay sells board book series to US, UK

Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Berbay Publishing has sold North American and UK rights to a series of three board books by Tokyo-based illustrator Chihiro Takeuchi. Catherine Drayton from InkWell Management sold North American and...

 

 

 

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