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Recipients of CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants announced

Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) have announced the four recipients of the 2018 CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants, each worth NZ$5000 (A$4590). The winner...

Kuala Lumpur named World Book Capital for 2020

Monday, 24 September 2018
Kuala Lumpur (KL) has been named as the UNESCO World Book Capital (WBC) for 2020. The city was selected due to its 'strong focus on inclusive education' and emphasis on 'accessible...

Funder quits as judge for Horne Prize

Monday, 24 September 2018
Author Anna Funder has quit the judging panel for the Horne Prize, after a rule change about which judges were not consulted, reports the Australian. Prize organisers made changes to...

Booktopia wins people’s choice award at Telstra Business Awards

Monday, 24 September 2018
Online bookseller Booktopia has won the people’s choice award at the national finals of the Telstra Business Awards. Announced at an awards dinner on 20 September, the national award win...

Spinifex encourages readers to celebrate International Bibliodiversity Day

Friday, 21 September 2018
Spinifex Press is encouraging readers to buy a book that has been published by an independent publisher and sold by an independent bookseller to celebrate International Bibliodiversity Day on 21...

Leading Edge restructures, Marinov departs

Friday, 21 September 2018
Leading Edge Group has restructured its business and Leading Edge Books national group manager Galina Marinov has been made redundant. Leading Edge has dissolved its group teams, including the books...

Educational Publishing Awards 2018 winners announced

Friday, 21 September 2018
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2018 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). Promoting Literacy Development was named Primary Publisher of the Year and Oxford University...

Man Booker Prize 2018 shortlist announced

Friday, 21 September 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Milkman (Anna Burns, Faber) Washington Black (Esi Edugyan, Serpent’s Tail) Everything Under (Daisy Johnson, Jonathan Cape) The...

Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing 2018 shortlist announced

Friday, 21 September 2018
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Amid fear and guns, polio finds a refuge’ (Jo Chandler, Undark)...

Lester shortlisted for Melbourne Prize for Literature

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Prolific children’s author and former Australian Children’s Laureate Alison Lester has been shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature. The award is presented triennially to a Victorian author whose body...

Introducing CSIRO Publishing’s children’s list

Thursday, 20 September 2018
In 2015 CSIRO Publishing launched its first children’s book Phasmid, the story of the rediscovery of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect previously believed to be extinct. The publisher has...

‘Alpacas with Maracas’ tops Australian picture book bestsellers chart

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Australian picture book bestsellers: August Alpacas with Maracas, the follow-up to Matt Cosgrove’s bestselling Macca the Alpaca, is at the top of the Australian picture book bestsellers chart for August....

Children’s, parenting titles popular at Beijing Book Fair

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Australian publishers who attended the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) in August have reported an interest in children’s, parenting and education titles. Ventura Press director Jane Curry sold the rights...

‘Room on Our Rock’ sold into multiple territories

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Scholastic Australia has sold US, Japanese, German, French, Brazilian and Turkish rights to the picture book Room on Our Rock (Kate & Jol Temple, illus by Terri Rose Baynton). Exploring...

Annual funding for Icelandic publishers may lead to drop in book prices

Thursday, 20 September 2018
The Icelandic government has announced ISK 400 million (A$4.9m) in annual grant funding for book publishers as part of a plan to promote the Icelandic language, reports Iceland Review. Beginning...

‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Synchronicity Films will adapt Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) as a television drama miniseries. The project is currently in development, with Australian writer-producer Jacquelin Perske to adapt Morris’...

T A G Hungerford Award 2018 shortlist announced

Thursday, 20 September 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 City of Fremantle T A G Hungerford Award has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'Father of the Lost Boys' (Yuot Alaak) 'She Came to...

PRH offers $100k funding for kids’ booksellers amid Puffin brand revival

Thursday, 20 September 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced it will offer a total of $100,000 in funding to booksellers that run children’s reading programs. Australian bookstores with a dedicated children’s book...

RiP Tony Catt

Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Sales representative and agent Tony Catt has died, aged 90. Tony and his wife, Pauline, came to Australia from England as 'ten-pound poms' and settled in Hobart, where Catt worked...

The Binding

Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives...

Podcast spotlight: The Monthly Hour

Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Launched in 2018, The Monthly Hour is a podcast companion to The Monthly magazine, described as ‘an essential hour of news, culture and ideas that [offers] insight into each issue...

RiP Albert Ullin

Wednesday, 19 September 2018
The Little Bookroom founder Albert Ullin has died, aged 88. Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1930, Ullin moved to Australia in 1939 before the outbreak of World War II. In...

ALIA announces ‘Truth, Integrity, Knowledge’ campaign for 2019

Wednesday, 19 September 2018
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced a new campaign that will promote the library profession throughout 2019. The Truth, Integrity, Knowledge (TIK) campaign will focus on ‘why librarianship...

Patterson donates £50k to UK school libraries

Wednesday, 19 September 2018
US author James Patterson is donating £50,000 (A$91,400) to school libraries in the UK, in partnership with Scholastic UK Book Clubs, reports the Bookseller. £25,000 (A$45,700) will be made available...

‘Libraries Change Lives’ campaign launched in Victoria

Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Public Libraries Victoria Network (PLVN) and State Library Victoria (SLV) have begun a statewide campaign to raise awareness and grow funding for Victorian public libraries. The Libraries Change Lives campaign, launched...