Survey finds Canadians reading more local authors
Monday, 31 July 2017
In Canada, the government-sponsored organisation BookNet has published the results from a survey of Canadian book buyers’ reading habits, reports Publishers Weekly. The survey found 44% of Canadian book buyers...
SLV 2017 Creative Fellowships announced
Monday, 31 July 2017
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its 2017 Creative and Specialist Fellowships, including several writers working on book projects. The recipients of the Creative Fellowships,...
Dymocks Waurn Ponds wins top award at Dymocks conference
Monday, 31 July 2017
Dymocks Waurn Ponds in Geelong has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2017 Dymocks national conference, which was held on the Gold Coast from 23-25 July. Dymocks...
Canberra Writers Festival 2017 program launched
Friday, 28 July 2017
The program has been announced for the second annual Canberra Writers Festival, which will run from 25-27 August. International guests appearing at the festival include UK novelist Samantha Shannon, Dutch...
Affirm to publish junior fiction series by ‘Bondi Rescue’ lifeguard
Friday, 28 July 2017
Affirm Press will publish a children’s fiction series by Bondi Rescue lifeguard Trent ‘Maxi’ Maxwell in 2018. The series will be co-written by David Lawrence, author of the ‘Fox Swift’...
‘The Commuter Pig Keeper’ wins 2017 Diagram Prize
Friday, 28 July 2017
The Commuter Pig Keeper: A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Pigs when Time is your Most Precious Commodity (Michaela Giles, Old Pond Publishing) has won the 2017 Diagram Prize for the...
Whitehead wins 2017 Arthur C Clarke Award
Friday, 28 July 2017
Colson Whitehead has won the 2017 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction for his novel The Underground Railroad (Orbit), reports the Guardian. The Underground Railroad—a ‘fantastic reimagining of US slavery’—has...
New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now
Friday, 28 July 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 14 reviews of books publishing in August, September and October. Four books received 4.5 stars, including Jeremy Chambers’ ‘nostalgic 1980s coming-of-age story’ Suburbia (Text, October). ‘Chambers’ writing feels...
Harper shortlisted for UK Dagger award for best crime novel
Friday, 28 July 2017
Jane Harper has been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2017 Gold Dagger award for best crime novel of the year. Harper’s novel is one of six novels...
Soon (Lois Murphy, Transit Lounge)
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Five four-wheel drives with tinted windows roll slowly, mysteriously, through a small Australian town during a winter solstice. Their purpose is unknown, their arrival an ominous portent. When they depart,...
Two Steps Forward (Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist, Text)
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Martin, a divorced English engineer, and Zoe, a widowed American artist, are each at a turning point in their lives. Unexpectedly alone, without money or young families to care for,...
Brief encounters: Chris Feik on ‘Writers on Writers’
Thursday, 27 July 2017
In October, Black Inc. is launching its new ‘Writers on Writers’ series with two titles: On John Marsden by Alice Pung and On Kate Jennings by Erik Jensen. These short,...
On tour: Reni Eddo-Lodge
Thursday, 27 July 2017
British journalist and activist Reni Eddo-Lodge is the author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Bloomsbury) and will be one of the international guests at...
NT Literary Awards 2017 winners announced
Thursday, 27 July 2017
The winners of this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Short Story Award ‘This is where you come from’ by Miranda Tetlow...
Man Booker Prize 2017 longlist announced
Thursday, 27 July 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$81,973) prize are: 4 3 2 1 (Paul Auster, Faber) Days without...
Fox wins Walkley Women’s Leadership in Media Award
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Catherine Fox has won the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award for her nonfiction book Stop Fixing Women (NewSouth), as well as articles for the ABC and the Australian....
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Sales Fiction—Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold Spanish-language rights to Voss (Patrick White) to Impedimenta; and German-language rights to The Twyborn Affair, The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of...
Book love and burnout: Alexandra Payne on the ‘unexpected challenges of working in publishing and bookselling’
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
‘Like most in the industry, I read manuscripts, proposals and works in progress out of work hours. If I choose to read a book in my non-work time, I feel...
Dark Matters
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Dark Matters: A novel by Susan Hawthorne We always think that bad things can’t happen in our country. But they do. In a dawn raid, Kate is arrested. She is...
German universities to let Elsevier contracts lapse
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
In Germany, 13 additional universities have announced they will not renew their subscriptions with Dutch publishing company Elsevier once they end in December, joining around 60 other institutions that allowed...
Brisbane libraries staff take industrial action over pay offer
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Brisbane City Council library staff are among the council staff taking protected industrial action in response to the council’s 2.5% pay rise offer, reports the Courier Mail. Services Union secretary...
Book blogger spotlight: Bec’s Books
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Rebecca Gough is a self-described ‘perpetual internet presence’ who blogs about YA and middle-grade titles, with a focus on fantasy and sci-fi. After realising that Instagram’s space for captions was...
Writers Victoria launches professional development series for women of colour
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Writers Victoria has announced it will run a series of professional development opportunities for women of colour writers in late 2017 and 2018. The program will include paid commissions of new...
Solomun launches The Rights Hive agency
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Former Penguin Random House (PRH) and Five Mile Press rights manager Natasha Solomun has launched a new rights agency, The Rights Hive, to provide representation of foreign and subsidiary rights...
B&N investor urges company to sell itself
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
In the US, an asset management firm with a ‘meaningful’ stake in Barnes & Noble has sent a letter to the company urging it to sell the business, reports Publishers...
Create NSW to fund ‘creative hubs’ in Western Sydney
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Create NSW has contributed over $400,000 in funding to create eight hubs for a ‘diverse mix of arts, screen and digital projects and organisations’ in Western Sydney. The Western Sydney...
HarperCollins publisher Lisa Berryman relocates office
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Lisa Berryman, HarperCollins Publisher of Children’s and YA Books, has moved office in Melbourne and please note her new contact details: Level 11, HWT Tower, 40 City Rd, Southbank, Victoria,...
Designer Peter Long now freelance
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Designer Peter Long has left his position as Senior Designer at Black Inc. Books and is now working freelance once again. Long is a committee member of the Australian Book...
‘The Bone Sparrow’ wins inaugural Readings YA Prize
Tuesday, 25 July 2017
Zana Fraillon has won the inaugural Readings YA Prize for her novel The Bone Sparrow (Hachette). Fraillon’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the $3000 prize, which...
Brisbane Writers Festival program announced
Tuesday, 25 July 2017
The program has been announced for the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival, which runs from 6-10 September. Over 100 authors will appear at the festival, including Canadian novelist Anosh Irani, who...
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