Ernest Scott Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Monday, 27 April 2020
The shortlist for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Bedlam at Botany Bay (James Dunk, NewSouth) The Seventies: The personal, the political...
‘The Yield’ takes hat-trick at 2020 NSW Prem’s Awards
Monday, 27 April 2020
The Yield by Tara June Winch (Hamish Hamilton) has swept the 2020 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, winning Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and...
Abadee launches new books podcast with Copyright Agency relief funding
Friday, 24 April 2020
Books writer and festival moderator Nicole Abadee has received Copyright Agency Covid-19 relief funding to produce a new books podcast. Abadee told Books+Publishing the weekly Books, Books, Books podcast would...
Lotterywest establishes $159m Covid-19 relief fund
Friday, 24 April 2020
The WA State Government has allocated Lotterywest's direct grants budget to a new Covid-19 relief fund, worth up to $159 million. The funding will be used to support organisations helping...
APA says Liberal members likely distributed ‘well over 1000 copies’ of leaked Turnbull memoir, as initial 45,000 print run ‘almost exhausted’
Friday, 24 April 2020
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to make an ‘emphatic statement’ that he and the government will ‘uphold the private property rights of Australian...
Nielsen offers one-off sales reports for ASA members seeking JobKeeper as book market experiences ‘sharp decline’
Thursday, 23 April 2020
Nielsen Book will provide free one-off sales reports for Australian Society of Authors (ASA) members seeking evidence of reduced revenue in order to apply for JobKeeper payments. The arrangement is...
NZ booksellers to begin trading again as restrictions eased, but supply ‘tricky’
Thursday, 23 April 2020
New Zealand’s booksellers are preparing to recommence trade from early next week, with the country’s Covid-19 restrictions due to be eased from late Monday, 27 April. New Zealand has been...
Hardie Grant reaches settlement with adviser who distributed leaked Turnbull memoir
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Hardie Grant has reached a settlement with Scott Morrison senior adviser Nico Louw, who allegedly distributed leaked electronic copies of Malcolm Turnbull's memoir A Bigger Picture, and the publisher will...
‘When the Ground is Hard’ wins LA Times Book Prize for YA
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
When the Ground is Hard by Sydney-based writer Malla Nunn (A&U) has won the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for young adult literature. Nunn was shortlisted for the award...
HarperCollins acquires ANZ rights to Jabour book on ‘the most miserable generation yet’
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new nonfiction book on millennials by journalist and novelist Bridie Jabour. The as-yet-untitled book on ‘the most miserable generation yet’ was acquired...
Writing WA moves Love to Read Local campaign forward amid Covid-19
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Writing WA’s Love to Read Local initiative, originally intended as a week-long celebration of WA books and storytelling scheduled for May, has been adapted and brought forward in response to...
ANZ writers shortlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
One Australian and two New Zealand writers are among the finalists for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Australian writer Andrea E Macleod was shortlisted for her story ‘The Art...
Booked Out launches virtual visits with Copyright Agency funding
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
The speakers agency Booked Out has received funding from the Copyright Agency’s Covid-19 emergency funding to run a new project during Term two. 'Reaching Out' is a discrete project that...
‘A Treacherous Country’ wins 2020 Vogel
Monday, 20 April 2020
A Treacherous Country by K M Kruimink is the winner of the 2020 The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Publisher...
Bloomsbury announces salary reductions, issues shares in response to Covid-19
Monday, 20 April 2020
Bloomsbury Australia’s parent company in the UK has asked the majority of employees to take a pay cut for three months, while Friday afternoons will be paid time off for...
Hardie Grant to refer unauthorised distribution of Turnbull memoir to AFP
Monday, 20 April 2020
Hardie Grant Publishing will refer the alleged distribution of a pirated edition of Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir A Bigger Picture to the Australian Federal Police. 'The nature and breadth of this...
Five ANZ publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
Monday, 20 April 2020
Australian publishers Affirm Press, Hardie Grant Egmont and Windy Hollow Books, and New Zealand's Huia Publishers and Oratia Media, have been shortlisted for the 2020 Bologna Prize for Best Children’s...
Pantera acquires Hamouda family memoir
Friday, 17 April 2020
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to a memoir by Australian father–daughter pair Lamisse and Hazem Hamouda, from Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. The joint memoir, told from alternating perspectives,...
ASA, ALIA and APA launch list to connect authors with schools, libraries
Friday, 17 April 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA), Australian Publishers Association and Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have collaborated to develop a new online listing of authors and illustrators available for...
Shaw sells Turner’s ‘Hang Him When He Is Not There’ to US
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold US and Canadian rights to Nicholas Turner's novel Hang Him When He Is Not There to US indie publisher Zerogram. The sale is the...
McKinty, McTiernan shortlisted for international thriller award
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Adrian McKinty and Dervla McTiernan have been shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Awards 2020. McKinty was shortlisted for the best hardcover novel for his book The Chain (Hachette),...
MWF 2020 to take place online
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which is scheduled to run 7–16 August 2020, will deliver a smaller online program due to the Covid-19 crisis. 'Our team is at home thinking, reading...
ABA launches new website as authors, booksellers and publishers adapt to business under lockdown
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Australia’s booksellers, publishers, authors and industry bodies are seeking new and different ways to connect with readers during the Covid-19 restrictions. ABA launches new Love Your Bookshop site The Australian...
Heath wins IBBY Ena Noël award
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Jack Heath has won the 2020 Ena Noël Award, a biennial prize administered by the Australian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) to encourage emerging...
Hill wins 2020 Stella Prize for ‘See What You Made Me Do’
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Jess Hill has won the 2020 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her investigation of domestic violence See What You Made Me Do (Black Inc.). Judging panel chair Louise Swinn said See...
S&S acquires debut women’s fiction ‘Grace Under Pressure’
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired ANZ rights to debut women’s fiction novel Grace Under Pressure by Sydney-based food and travel writer Tori Haschka. Rights were acquired from Catherine Drayton...
Andrew’s Bookshop closes permanently
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Andrew’s Bookshop in Ivanhoe, Melbourne, has closed permanently. The store, which has operated for 36 years, was due to close this month, but shut earlier due to Covid-19. In a...
Redundancies expected as Lonely Planet reduces global publishing operations; Melbourne office to close ‘almost entirely’
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Lonely Planet will reduce its publishing operations with immediate effect, including essentially shuttering its Melbourne and London offices, due to the economic impact of Covid-19. In an email to staff...
Debut novel ‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’ to be reprinted in first week
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Affirm Press will reprint Pip Williams' debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words after impressive sales in its first week of publication. Published on 31 March, The Dictionary of Lost...
APA, ASA make agreement with schools for virtual storytime
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Teachers are able to continue to read stories to students learning from school or at home during the Covid-19 outbreak, following an industry arrangement for school storytimes. For the duration...
« Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 Next page »
