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The Apology

Wednesday, 11 July 2018
A gripping psychological drama about family, betrayal and the limits of forgiveness from a riveting new voice in Australian fiction. Set in Western Sydney, The Apology by Ross Watkins is...

Storyology festival 2018

Wednesday, 11 July 2018
The Walkley Foundation’s Storyology journalism festival will be held in Brisbane and Sydney in July. The festival has a program of public talks and exhibitions that showcase great journalism. Guest...

UK films based on books create 44% more revenue

Tuesday, 10 July 2018
A new research report commissioned by the UK Publisher’s Association (PA) has found that UK-produced films based on books generate 44% more revenue in the British box office (and 53%...

‘Nevermoor’ tops Dymocks Kids’ Top 51 list

Monday, 9 July 2018
Dymocks Booklovers members have cast a combined 5500 votes for their favourite children’s book of all time, with Queensland writer Jessica Townsend’s Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) taking...

BILBY Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Monday, 9 July 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards—the children’s choice book awards for Queensland—have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Early readers Do...

Ned Kelly Awards 2018 longlists announced

Friday, 6 July 2018
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The longlisted titles in each category are: Best crime Marlborough...

Davitt Awards 2018 shortlists announced

Friday, 6 July 2018
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted works in each category are: Adult novel The...

BWF 2018 program announced

Friday, 6 July 2018
The program has been announced for the 2018 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 6-9 September. More than 200 writers will appear at the festival, including human rights barrister...

Tsiolkas announced as final judge for The Next Chapter

Friday, 6 July 2018
The Wheeler Centre has announced author Christos Tsiolkas as the final judge for its $150,000 initiative for developing writers, The Next Chapter. Tsiolkas joins previously announced judges Benjamin Law, Maxine...

Books+Publishing magazine Issue 2 2018

Thursday, 5 July 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s second issue for 2018 is out now! It features 34 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing from July to August. Reviews:  Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue,...

French book sales fell 1.6% in 2017

Thursday, 5 July 2018
French publishing sales fell in 2017 by 1.6% in value to €2.79 billion (A$4.4bn), according to figures from the French Publishers Association (Syndicat National de l’Edition, SNE), reports the Bookseller....

Creative Victoria announces VicArts recipients

Thursday, 5 July 2018
Several literary projects and writers have been included among the recipients in the latest round of Creative Victoria’s VicArts Grants. The program will provide over $1.5 million in funding for...

Books for Cooks change of address

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Books for Cooks has changed its address. The new shop is located at: Books for Cooks 115-121 Victoria St Queen Victoria Market Melbourne VIC 3000 The store's trading hours, phone...

Podcast spotlight: Coffee Pod|cast

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Coffee Pod|cast was established this year by Australian indie press Spineless Wonders, which publishes quality short stories, microliterature and novellas in print, digital and audio. The ethos of Spineless Wonders...

Deo wins 2018 ALS Gold Medal

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Shastra Deo’s debut poetry collection The Agonist (UQP) has won the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Deo’s collection was chosen from a shortlist of six that included Peter Carey,...

Wright awarded 2018 Magarey Medal

Cover of 'Tracker' Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Alexis Wright has won the biennial Magarey Medal for Biography for Tracker (Giramondo). Wright’s biography of Aboriginal leader, thinker and entrepreneur Tracker Tilmouth was chosen from a shortlist of five...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Sales Fiction Alex Adsett at Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold world rights to The Subjugate (Amanda Bridgeman) to Angry Robot. Allen & Unwin has sold the film option to...

UQP sells ‘The Geography of Friendship’ to UK

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Sally Piper’s The Geography of Friendship and 2014 debut novel Grace’s Table to Legend Press, in a two-book...