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An Elephant on Your Nose

Wednesday, 21 November 2018
MI6-trained former Australian intelligence operative Warren Reed has released his third spy novel, An Elephant on Your Nose, throwing the spotlight on Asia’s emerging influence in global espionage. British intelligence operative...

Christmas closing list: Submissions due Monday

Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Publishers and distributors are asked to submit their Christmas closing dates by 5pm, Monday 26 November. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book Newsletter on Wednesday 5 December. This is...

Publishers Association of NZ: Christmas drinks

Wednesday, 21 November 2018
The end of the year is fast approaching and PANZ invites you and your colleagues to join us for a festive drink and nibbles to celebrate another successful year. Where:...

Be part of Harry Potter Book Night February 2019

Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Harry Potter Book Night 2019 will be held Thursday 7th February. With the theme of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, it’s perfectly timed for back-to-school season in Australia! Bookstores...

Allen & Unwin congratulates Alison Lester

Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Allen & Unwin is thrilled to congratulate Alison Lester on winning the prestigious Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018. This is the first time a children’s author has won the prize,...

‘A Memoir of a Male Escort’ to be withdrawn

Wednesday, 21 November 2018
This is to be withdrawn from sale by New Holland Publishers. Please be advised that should any retailers have copies of A Memoir of A Male Escort (IBSN 9781760790028) it's...

Edugyan wins Canada’s Giller Prize for ‘Washington Black’

Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Canadian author Esi Edugyan has won Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize—the country’s richest literary award—for her novel Washington Black (Serpent's Tail). Set in 19th century Canada, Washington Black tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who...

Douglas-Kinghorn wins 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize

Monday, 19 November 2018
Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn has won the 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers for her entry ‘The Invisible Sea’. Douglas-Kinghorn was selected from a shortlist of nine writers and receives a cash...

Jasanoff wins US$75,000 Cundill Prize in History

Monday, 19 November 2018
US author and academic Maya Jasanoff has won Canada's 2018 Cundill Prize in History—the largest international prize for a work of history, worth US$75,000 (A$102,500)—for her book The Dawn Watch: Joseph...

‘Invisible Boys’ wins T A G Hungerford Award

Friday, 16 November 2018
Perth-based YA writer Holden Sheppard has won the 2018 City of Fremantle T A G Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript for Invisible Boys, a YA novel about a group...

ABA announces 2018 Vic, NSW reps of the year

Friday, 16 November 2018
Mandy Wildsmith from Hardie Grant Books has been named Victorian Rep of the Year by the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), while Simon Rannard from Penguin Random House (PRH) has been...

National Book Award 2018 winners announced

Friday, 16 November 2018
The winners of the 2018 US National Book Awards have been announced. Sigrid Nunez has won the fiction award for her novel The Friend (Riverhead), which follows a woman who is...

‘Chernobyl’ wins 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction

Friday, 16 November 2018
Ukrainian-American author and historian Serhii Plokhy has won the £30,000 (A$53,880) 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction for his book Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy (Allen Lane). Chosen from a shortlist of six,...

Rising stars

Thursday, 15 November 2018
Australian debut novelists Kirsten Alexander and Holly Ringland may not be familiar names in international publishing circles yet, but they soon will be. Alexander’s Half Moon Lake has just sold...

Debut novel ‘Half Moon Lake’ sold to US, Canada

Thursday, 15 November 2018
US and Canadian rights to Kirsten Alexander’s debut novel Half Moon Lake (Penguin Random House Australia, January 2019) have been sold to Hachette Book Group’s Grand Central imprint. The novel...

Samuel Wagan Watson wins Patrick White Literary Award

Thursday, 15 November 2018
Poet, essayist, scriptwriter and performer Samuel Wagan Watson has won the Patrick White Literary Award, which is traditionally presented to authors who ‘have made a significant but inadequately recognised contribution...