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Melody Trumpet (Gabrielle Tozer, HarperCollins)

Friday, 9 November 2018
Melody’s parents are world-famous musicians (and narcissistic bores) who expect their only daughter to have inherited their incredible talent, but poor Melody can’t play any instruments and sounds like a...

Walkley Book Award 2018 shortlist announced

Friday, 9 November 2018
The Walkley Book Award 2018 shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The First Casualty (Peter Greste, Viking) No Front Line: Australia’s Special Forces At War in Afghanistan (Chris...

KOALAs 2018 winners announced

Friday, 9 November 2018
The winners of the 2018 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), the children’s choice book awards for New South Wales, have been announced. The winners and honour books in each...

RiP Eleanor Witcombe

Thursday, 8 November 2018
Australian screenwriter and playwright Eleanor Witcombe has died, aged 95. Witcombe's most well-known works were the book-to-screen adaptations of My Brilliant Career (Miles Franklin, HarperCollins), The Getting of Wisdom (Henry Handel Richardson, Text)...

Quote of the week

Thursday, 8 November 2018
‘If we’re not encouraging our boys to read books with girls as the main characters, we’re doing them a great disservice. What are we telling our boys? That stories about...

Amazon’s AbeBooks backflips after booksellers protest

Thursday, 8 November 2018
After two days of striking against Amazon subsidiary AbeBooks, antiquarian booksellers around the world have had success, with the retailer apologising and saying it would reverse the decision that prompted...

Podcast spotlight: Write Through the Roof

Thursday, 8 November 2018
Hosted by speculative fiction author Madeleine D’Este, Write Through the Roof is a podcast for writers who want to improve their craft. Guests have included crime writer Emma Viskic and...

NZ’s first suburban self-service library to open

Thursday, 8 November 2018
New Zealand’s first suburban self-service library will open in Whanganui East on the country’s North Island in January 2019, reports the New Zealand Herald. The new Hakeke Street Library, to be...

Libraries awarded 2018 NLA Community Heritage Grants

Thursday, 8 November 2018
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of its 2018 Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program, including three New South Wales organisations that received grants for library collections. The...

Half Moon Lake

Thursday, 8 November 2018
A missing boy found in America’s Deep South. To whom does Sonny Davenport belong? A gripping debut novel inspired by real events. Coming January 2019. In 1913, on a summer’s...

IPEd: Call for nominations for the 2019 Rosie Award

Thursday, 8 November 2018
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has opened the call for nominations for the 2019 Rosie Award. The Rosie is an award to recognise excellence in editing, as demonstrated in...

Ling Ma wins 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction

Thursday, 8 November 2018
Text congratulates Ling Ma, who has won the $50,000 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction for her novel Severance (ISBN 9781925773279). This is a darkly funny dystopian novel in which, in...

Change for Nippan IPS

Thursday, 8 November 2018
Publisher: Nippan IPS ISBN prefix: 978486505 Old distributor: N/A New distributor: Peribo Changeover date: 5 November 2018 Contact URL: www.peribo.com.au

Change for Sierra Publishing

Thursday, 8 November 2018
Publisher: Sierra Publishing ISBN prefix: 9780992538 9780980764 Old distributor: Dennis Jones & Associates New distributor: Peribo Changeover date: 5 November 2018 Returns not accepted Contact URL: www.peribo.com.au

ADS Distribution Christmas trading hours

Thursday, 8 November 2018
Alliance Distribution Services wishes to advise the following changes to assist customers in maximising opportunities in the period leading up to Christmas. 1. ADS will reduce the normal minimum order...

A&U sells ‘The Museum of Modern Love’ to UK

Thursday, 8 November 2018
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold UK rights to Heather Rose’s The Museum of Modern Love to Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a division of Orion Publishing. A&U rights associate Maggie Thompson...

French publisher wins $342k Turjuman Award

Wednesday, 7 November 2018
French publishing house Actes Sud has won the Turjuman Award, receiving AED 910,000 (A$342,000) for its French translation of The Nature of Despotism by Syrian author Abdul Rahman Al Kawakibi (trans Hala...

Leigh wins 2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing

Wednesday, 7 November 2018
Andrew Leigh has won the 2018 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for 'From bloodletting to placebo surgery’, an excerpt from his book Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World (Black Inc.). Leigh's...

 

 

 

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