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ALIA submits to ParentsNext Senate inquiry; government ignores advice Archive

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Following a Senate inquiry into the federal government's ParentsNext welfare program, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) is urging public libraries to report ParentsNext case workers who are operating...

NSW government announces funding for Vision Australia Library Archive

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The NSW government has announced $500,000 funding per year for Vision Australia’s library service, starting in 2020. Administered by the State Library of NSW and commencing 1 July 2019, the...

Peggy Frew’s ‘Islands’ Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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...

NewSouth congratulates NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlisted publishers Archive

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
NewSouth Books congratulates the following authors and publishers on their inclusion in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlist: Gerald Murnane for Border Districts (Giramondo), Maria Tumarkin for Axiomatic (Brow...

Toney wins inaugural Carter Brown Mystery Writing Award Archive

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Wilson Toney’s novel Alibi for a Dead Man has won the inaugural Carter Brown Mystery Writing Award for an unpublished manuscript. Judges praised the novel for its plotting, sharp dialogue...

Two Nobel Prize in Literature awards scheduled for 2019 Archive

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded twice this year after the Swedish Academy postponed 2018’s event over a sexual assault scandal, reports the Bookseller. In a statement, the...

Read A Lot Books celebrates 30 years Archive

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 Archive

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....

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 shortlists announced Archive

Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The shortlists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The New Ships (Kate Duignan, Victoria University Press) The Cage...

A&U acquires Morris-Marr book on Pell Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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...

UK Romantic Novel Awards winners announced, inaugural Jackie Collins Award announced Archive

Tuesday, 5 March 2019
In the UK, the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced the winners of the 2019 Romantic Novel Awards, as well as an inaugural prize in partnership with Simon & Schuster...

Inky Awards 2019 longlists announced Archive

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 Archive

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...

‘From the Earth’ honoured in NYRF visual books competition Archive

Tuesday, 5 March 2019
From the Earth: World’s Great, Rare and Almost Forgotten Vegetables (Peter Gilmore, photography by Brett Stevens, Hardie Grant) has been honoured at the New York Rights Fair’s (NYRF) Talking Pictures:...

Springer Nature shares journal articles on ResearchGate Archive

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 Archive

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 Archive

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...