Atkins wins 2018 Romantic Novel of the Year Archive
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 Archive
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...
New spec fic festival announces headliners Kaufman, Kristoff and Canavan Archive
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The creators of the Morning Bell literary podcast have announced a new festival focusing on speculative fiction and ‘the craft of writing’. The Speculate Literary Festival will run on Saturday...
Shop fitout for sale Archive
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 Archive
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),...
Text offers readers a money-back guarantee, and booksellers unlimited reading copies Archive
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Text is offering a love-it-or-your-money-back guarantee on Robert Hillman’s moving literary/commercial crossover The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted. Drawing comparisons with The Book Thief and Jasper Jones for its accessibility and emotional pull, the novel tells...
Pullman calls out publishers’ ‘damaging’ corporate approach Archive
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Philip Pullman has called out 'the ecology of the book world', in which profit margins for publishers are rising, while the money authors are paid for their work is decreasing,...
HarperCollins launches unpublished manuscript prize Archive
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HarperCollins has launched The Banjo Prize, an annual unpublished manuscript prize for Australian commercial fiction.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...
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2018 shortlists announced Archive
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
The shortlists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The New Animals (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press) Salt Picnic...
Schmidt wins inaugural MUD Literary Prize for debut fiction Archive
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Sarah Schmidt's See What I Have Done (Hachette) has won the inaugural MUD Literary Prize, awarded to a debut novelist. As part of the prize, Schmidt received a cash prize...
RiP Neil McDonald Archive
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 Archive
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...
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2018 winners announced; Winton donates prize money to Ningaloo Reef protection Archive
Monday, 5 March 2018
The winners of the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature were announced at a ceremony on 3 March as part of Adelaide Writers’ Week. The winners in each category are:...
B&N to open five ‘prototype’ stores Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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,...
Strout wins 2018 Story Prize Archive
Friday, 2 March 2018
Elizabeth Strout has won the 2018 Story Prize for Anything is Possible (Viking). Chosen from a shortlist of three that also included The King is Always above the People (Daniel...
Inky Awards 2018 longlist announced Archive
Thursday, 1 March 2018
The longlists for the 2018 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...
February and March reviews unlocked Archive
Thursday, 1 March 2018
Reviews of children’s and YA new releases published in February and March are now free to view on the Books+Publishing website. They include: Picture books A Boat of Stars: New...
Clued up: Jacqueline Harvey on ‘Breaking News: Kensy and Max Book One’ Archive
Thursday, 1 March 2018
‘Alice-Miranda’ and ‘Clementine Rose’ author Jacqueline Harvey assembles a world of espionage and mystery in Breaking News: Kensy and Max Book One (Random House, March), which reviewer Natalie Crawford says...
The new normal: Adam Cece on ‘The Extremely Weird Thing That Happened in Huggabie Falls’ Archive
Thursday, 1 March 2018
Adam Cece won the 2017 Text Prize for The Extremely Weird Thing That Happened in Huggabie Falls (Text, April). Reviewer Holly Harper describes it as ‘a funny read full of...
New fiction prize launched for Indian writers Archive
Thursday, 1 March 2018
British-Indian novelist Rana Dasgupta has announced the foundation of the JCB Prize for Literature—an award that aims to foster greater translation between Indian languages, and to communicate to readers everywhere...
How to Win a Nobel Prize (Barry Marshall & Lorna Hendry, illus by Bernard Caleo, Piccolo Nero) Archive
Thursday, 1 March 2018
Ten-year-old Mary loves science, and dreams of one day winning a Nobel Prize. When her mother arranges for her to meet the Australian Nobel laureate Barry Marshall, Mary stumbles on...
HGE sells US rights to Sydney bookseller’s middle-grade debut Archive
Thursday, 1 March 2018
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has sold US rights to Sydney bookseller Jeremy Lachlan’s middle-grade adventure novel Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds to Lerner Publishing imprint Carolrhoda Books....
Munoz announced as inaugural digital writer in residence Archive
Thursday, 1 March 2018
Gabriella Munoz has been announced as Writers Victoria’s inaugural digital writer in residence. As part of her residency, Munoz will receive professional development including six paid commissions of 800-1000 words...
Rights round-up Archive
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Sales Fiction Penguin Random House has sold German-language rights to True Blue and Drifter’s Song (both Sasha Wasley); and Czech rights to The Chocolate Tin (Fiona McIntosh), No Job for...
25,000 books removed from Queensland library Archive
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
The public library in Redbank Plains, near Ipswich, has shifted 25,000 books from its collection in order to clear more space for extra public computers and new meeting rooms, reports...
Text sells ‘The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted’ into North America Archive
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Text Publishing has sold North American rights to Robert Hillman’s forthcoming novel The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted to Putnam and Penguin Canada ‘for a significant sum’. Hillman’s book, which...
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