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Junior doctor’s memoir wins BAMB Readers’ Choice Award

Thursday, 23 November 2017
Junior-doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s memoir This is Going to Hurt (Picador) has won the Books are My Bag (BAMB) Readers’ Choice Award in the UK. Kay’s memoir, which also won the...

Sales up 79% across UK small presses

Thursday, 23 November 2017
UK indie book distributor Inpress has reported a 79% increase in sales across 60 of its smallest publishing clients in the past year, reports the Guardian. Inpress managing director Sophie...

‘Their Brilliant Careers’ to publish in the UK in 2018

Thursday, 23 November 2017
UK independent publisher Eye Books will publish Ryan O’Neill’s novel Their Brilliant Careers (Black Inc.) in the UK in April 2018. Editor-at-large Scott Pack‏ said he will present the first...

Laniyuk named ‘Overland’ writer-in-residence

Thursday, 23 November 2017
Melbourne-based writer Laniyuk Garcon-Mills has been selected for the 2017 Overland Writers Residency, which was open to Indigenous writers this year. As part of the three-month residency, Laniyuk, who prefers to...

BILBY Awards 2017 winners announced

Thursday, 23 November 2017
The winners for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Early...

Christmas predictions: Perth booksellers Bill Liddelow from Boffins Books and Jane Seaton from Beaufort Street Books

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Boffins Books co-owner...

‘The Invisible War’ authors to appear on Books+Arts, 3RRR radio and Fairfax papers

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
The Invisible War, winner of the 2017 Most Underrated Book Award, is a graphic novel set in World War I, and combines action with ‘an exciting style of science writing...

Quote of the week

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
‘Where you shop is of course entirely your choice, but it’s important to really make that choice a conscious one’—Readings managing director Mark Rubbo makes the case for supporting independent...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold ANZ audio rights to How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness (Andrea Owen) to Bolinda Audio. Children’s—A&U...

‘Books+Publishing’ sexual harassment survey closing on Friday

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Books+Publishing is inviting anyone working in the Australian book industry to complete a survey on sexual harassment in the industry. The decision to conduct a survey was prompted by evidence...

Costa Book Awards 2017 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2017 Costa Book Awards have been announced. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award are: Reservoir 13 (Jon McGregor, 4th Estate) Under a Pole...

Amazon Australia to begin selling products on Thursday

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Amazon has told its Australian suppliers that it will begin selling products to ‘a small number of customers’ on Thursday 23 November. Amazon said in an email to suppliers: ‘To...

SWF 2018 schools program announced

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced the line-up for the 2018 Primary and Secondary School Days programs, to be held from 2 to 7 May. Former UK children’s laureate,...

Nielsen BookScan to merge trade, academic panels in 2018

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Nielsen BookScan Australia has announced it will merge its trade and academic book sales panels in 2018 ‘in order to report on all print book sales via one complete service’....

Anabel Pandiella to join Pantera Press

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Independent publisher Pantera Press is delighted to announce that Anabel Pandiella will be joining the rapidly growing team as Marketing and Publicity Director in January 2018. Anabel has worked at...

NewSouth Books: 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
NewSouth Books would like to congratulate the following publishers shortlisted for the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: Fiction Extinctions (Josephine Wilson, UWAP) 9781742588988 Poetry Fragments (Antigone Kefala, Giramondo) 9781925336191 Australian...

Bonnier Publishing Australia congratulates authors in Readings’ ‘Best of 2017’

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s children’s imprint, Five Mile, is proud to have its first ever junior fiction series included in Readings’ Top 10 Junior Fiction Books of the year. Congratulations to...

Harper Entertainment Distribution Services: Christmas Deliveries 2017

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) is pleased to advise the following changes to help our customers in the lead up to Christmas. The minimum order value will be reduced to...

NYPL unveils US$317m ‘masterplan’

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
In the US, the New York Public Library (NYPL) has unveiled the US$317m (A$418m) ‘masterplan’ for its flagship Stephen A Schwarzman Building, reports Publishers Weekly. The library said the plan...

Scotland trials national ‘One Card’ program

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Scotland has launched a trial of a ‘One Card’ program in Scottish libraries, reports the Bookseller. Five councils are taking part in the six-month pilot program, which will be extended...

Redhill wins Canada’s Giller Prize for ‘Bellevue Square’

Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Toronto author Michael Redhill has won Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize—the country’s richest literary award—for his novel Bellevue Square (Doubleday Canada). Bellevue Square tells the story of a woman who tries to track...