New Bridget Jones book due in October
Monday, 8 August 2016
Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries, a new novel by Helen Fielding based on her columns in the UK’s Independent newspaper, will be published by Jonathan Cape on 11 October. The...
Northern England indie publishers form alliance
Monday, 8 August 2016
Four indie publishers based in northern England have launched an alliance to showcase their work to an international market, reports the Bookseller. Established by Manchester-based Comma Press, the Northern Fiction...
Children’s publishing and bookselling seminar ‘hailed as a success’
Friday, 5 August 2016
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) say they hope to run more joint events centring on the children’s sector, after the success of the ‘Between the...
Royal Society 2016 Science Book Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 5 August 2016
In the UK, the Royal Society has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Science Book Prize for ‘outstanding popular science books’ written for a non-specialist audience. The six titles on...
Hill wins Women’s Leadership in Media award
Friday, 5 August 2016
Freelance journalist Jess Hill, whose book Power & Control will be published by Black Inc. in 2017, has been awarded the inaugural Women’s Leadership in Media award for her long-form...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Friday, 5 August 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 15 reviews of books publishing in September and October 2016. Art critic Jennifer Higgie’s debut picture book There’s Not One (Scribble, September) received the highest...
‘Forbes’ releases list of top-earning authors; Patterson remains on top
Thursday, 4 August 2016
Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s top earning authors. For a third year James Patterson remains at the top of the list, earning an estimated US$95 million...
‘Harry Potter’ bestselling book in the UK in a decade; two million copies sold in the US
Thursday, 4 August 2016
In the UK, publisher Little, Brown has said the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playscript has sold 680,000 print copies in the first three days of sale to make...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
‘It’s great to have that one book bringing people into bookshops, it has a real knock-on effect to other books’—Pages & Pages co-owner Jon Page tells SmartCompany how the release...
Steven Amsterdam’s ‘The Easy Way Out’
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
‘Steven Amsterdam’s previous books Things We Didn’t See Coming and What the Family Needed are heavy with apocalyptic vision and metaphor, so his latest novel will immediately strike his fans...
What is a bestseller?: Cutting the sales figures
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
When it comes to the question ‘what is a bestseller’, ‘the answer could easily be “how long is a piece of string?”’, writes Nielsen Book Australia general manager Shaun Symonds,...
Text acquires Booker-longlisted ‘His Bloody Project’; brings forward ‘Schooldays of Jesus’
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to Graeme Macrae Burnet’s 2016 Man Booker Prize-longlisted crime novel His Bloody Project, and will publish the book on 29 August. Set in the...
A&U to publish series co-authored by NBA star Patty Mills and Jared Thomas
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired a three-book junior fiction basketball series by Australian NBA player and Olympian Patty Mills and author Jared Thomas. The series is loosely based on Mills’...
Schwirtlich receives ALIA’s Redmond Barry Award
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has awarded the prestigious Redmond Barry Award to National Library of Australia (NLA) director-general Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. Schwirtlich will be presented with the award at...
ALIA Information Online conference 2017 draft program released
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released the draft program for its 2017 Information Online conference, which runs from 13-17 February in Sydney. The keynote speakers confirmed for...
APA announces Educational Publishing Awards Australia 2016 shortlists
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2016 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The shortlists in each category are: Primary Student Resource—Mathematics (Numeracy) ‘ORIGO Big Books for...
Australian authors shortlisted for 2016 CWA Dagger awards
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Australian authors Tim Baker and Mark Brandi have been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2016 Dagger awards. Sydney-born Baker’s ‘multi-stranded new examination of the JFK assassination’ Fever City...
S&S India to publish local titles
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) Indian division, S&S India, will launch its own local publishing program in 2017, reports Publishers Weekly. Launched in 2011, S&S India currently markets titles from the...
CAUL/ASA Fellowships 2016 announced
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced the winners of the 2016 CAUL/ASA Fellowships, worth $10,000 each. Founding editor and publisher...
APA, ALIA strike deal for libraries to use book covers in promotions
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have come to an agreement to allow libraries to use book covers to promote books and authors....
Hachette, EWF announce 2016 Richell Prize longlist
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival have announced the 2016 Richell Prize for emerging writers longlist. The 19 longlisted writers and their works are: ‘The Illusion of Islands’ by...
Jolley Prize 2016 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
The shortlist for the Australian Book Review’s (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, worth a total of $12,500, has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Ash’ by Anthony Lawrence ‘Glisk’...
Turkish government closes 29 publishing houses
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
The Turkish Publishers Association (TPA) has reported that 29 Turkish publishing houses have been closed as part of a state crackdown following the attempted military coup staged against president Recep...
HarperCollins appoints Hedley as NZ publisher
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
HarperCollins has appointed Alex Hedley as its New Zealand publisher, replacing Finlay MacDonald, who left for a role outside publishing, in the position. Hedley has been general nonfiction publisher at...
The ‘Saturday Paper’ announces new essay prize
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
The Saturday Paper and cosmetics company Aesop have announced a new $15,000 ‘major’ essay award, named in honour of the late author Donald Horne. The Horne Prize will be awarded...
‘Griffith Review’ 2016 Novella Project winners announced
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
The winners of the Griffith Review’s Novella Project competition have been announced. The winning authors and their works are: ‘Muse’ by Melanie Cheng ‘A fulcrum of infinities’ by Graham Lang...
Lohrey awarded ANU creative arts fellowship
Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Tasmanian author Amanda Lohrey is the recipient of the Australian National University’s (ANU) 2016 H C Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship, designed to allow artists to ‘engage in a period of...
2015 Stella Count revealed; judges for 2016 prize announced
Monday, 1 August 2016
The 2015 Stella Count, which compiles statistics showing how many books by women and men were reviewed in Australian publications and the gender of reviewers, has been revealed. Overall, 59%...
Indigo Books launches book recommendation app
Monday, 1 August 2016
Canadian bookseller Indigo Books and Music has launched Reco, a new social networking app that allows readers to rate and recommend the books, reports the Financial Post. The app, which...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 1 August 2016
Australian author Liane Moriarty’s new release Truly Madly Guilty (Pan) has unseated Jojo Moyes’ Me Before You film tie in (Michael Joseph) from the top spot of the overall bestsellers...
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