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ABIA 2018 longlists announced

Thursday, 8 March 2018
The longlists for the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Force of Nature (Jane Harper,...

Eight authors win 2018 Windham-Campbell prizes

Thursday, 8 March 2018
Eight authors from around the world have received 2018 Windham-Campbell prizes. The recipients in each category are: Fiction Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda/UK) John Keene (US) Nonfiction Olivia Laing (UK) Sarah...

Pantera acquires the Author People

Thursday, 8 March 2018
Pantera Press has acquired boutique publishing company the Author People from co-founder Lou Johnson. The purchase will see Pantera take on US rights to A Thousand Shards of Glass by...

Historical fiction debut tops the chart

Thursday, 8 March 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz tops the fiction list for February. The novel is based on the true story of Lale Sokolov—the tattooist of the title—and his future wife, Gita Fuhrmannova, whom...

Women lead Australian book-to-film adaptations

Thursday, 8 March 2018
On International Women’s Day it is heartening to share the news that Australia’s key film funding body, Screen Australia, has announced that its most recent round of funding, which includes...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Sales Fiction Clare Forster at Curtis Brown Australia has sold North American rights to The Jade Lily and The Cheapside Jewels (both Kirsty Manning) to William Morrow via Stacy Testa...

NLA celebrates 50th anniversary with exhibition

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is holding an exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the library building’s construction and to further explore the year 1968 in history. The...

Atkins wins 2018 Romantic Novel of the Year

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
In the UK, author Dani Atkins has won the 2018 Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year award for her novel This Love (S&S). Facilitated by the Romantic Novelists' Association, the Romantic...

Kostakis nominated for Lammy award

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
YA author Will Kostakis has been announced as a finalist in the 30th annual Lambda Literary Awards—known as the ‘Lammys’—for his book The Sidekicks (Penguin). The Lammys celebrate achievement in...

Shop fitout for sale

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Collins Booksellers Bacchus Marsh has a full shop fitout available for $20,000. High quality, and still in very good condition. Please contact via email for photos and further details. Available...

‘WBN’ published Thursday next week

Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday (Labour Day in Victoria, Adelaide Cup Day in South Australia, Canberra Day in ACT and Eight Hours Day in Tasmania),...

HarperCollins launches unpublished manuscript prize

Tuesday, 6 March 2018
HarperCollins has launched The Banjo Prize, an annual unpublished manuscript prize for Australian commercial fiction. The winner of the prize will receive a publishing contract with HarperCollins and an advance...

RiP Neil McDonald

Monday, 5 March 2018
Author and film historian Neil McDonald has died, aged 77. McDonald published several books, including 200 Shots (A&U), a pictorial account of Australians fighting on the Kokoda Track and Kokoda Front Line:...

‘Overland’ Neilma Sidney Prize winners announced

Monday, 5 March 2018
The winner and runners-up for Overland’s second Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for travel-themed short fiction have been announced. Laura Elvery’s story ‘Unspooling’—about a woman ‘overwhelmed by a pair of...

B&N to open five ‘prototype’ stores

Monday, 5 March 2018
Barnes & Noble has announced it will open five ‘prototype stores' after disappointing third-quarter sales, reports Publishers Weekly. The ‘prototype stores' will be 14,000 square feet (1300 square metres) in...

Pascoe honoured for Lifetime Achievement in Literature

Monday, 5 March 2018
Bunurong writer Bruce Pascoe 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...

Generation Women Sydney storytelling event

Friday, 2 March 2018
Generation Women Sydney’s second female storytelling event is on Wednesday March 7 at the Giant Dwarf Theatre, Redfern. Join writer Fiona Wright, social commentator, Jane Caro, literary manager, Polly Rowe,...

Readings Carlton store robbed

Friday, 2 March 2018
Readings’ flagship bookstore in Carlton has been robbed, with the burglars stealing a safe containing more than $10,000, reports the Age. Readings managing director Mark Rubbo said the crime happened...

Glover longlisted for Walter Scott Prize 2018

Friday, 2 March 2018
Australian writer Dennis Glover has been longlisted for the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for The Last Man in Europe (Black Inc.). Glover’s novel about the writing of George Orwell’s classic,...

 

 

 

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