Friday, 5 December 2014
Hachette Australia has announced it has signed a ‘multi-book publishing deal’ with bestselling nonfiction author Peter FitzSimons.‘This signing reunites Peter with one of his very first publishers, Hachette’s Non-Fiction Publisher...

Friday, 5 December 2014
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has won the 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers.Arnott, who was shortlisted for the prize in 2013, was announced as the winner at the Express...

Friday, 5 December 2014
Paul Kelly has won this year’s Walkley Book Award for Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation (MUP).Kelly received the award during the Walkley Awards for Excellence...

Friday, 5 December 2014
Poet, novelist and essayist David Brooks has been awarded an Australia Council Fellowship for literature.Brooks will use to the fellowship, worth $100,000 over two years, to ‘undertake research and development...

Thursday, 4 December 2014
Australia Post will offer permanent Saturday delivery for Express Post parcels to ‘specific delivery areas’ from 9 January 2015, the organisation announced in a statement.The service is optional and will...

Wednesday, 3 December 2014
The ABC’s The Book Club announced the results of its Classic Beach Books poll on 2 December.The top 10 book are: The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough, HarperCollins) The Girl with...

Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Dan Ruffino has been appointed managing director of Simon & Schuster Australia, replacing Lou Johnson, who announced her resignation in September.Ruffino has worked in the publishing industry in Australia and...

Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Author, editor and Literary Minded blogger Angela Meyer has been appointed commissioning editor at the Five Mile Press.Meyer will be working on the publisher’s adult list, focussing on nonfiction and...

Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers.Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online.BooksellersIf you are a bookseller, please complete the survey here.Publishers/distributorsIf...

Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter on 10 December will be the last for 2014.The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2015 will be published on 7 January.Any news or advertisements for...

Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Claire Smiddy has been appointed manager of the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA).Smiddy previously held positions at the Wheeler Centre, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and Yarra City Council. She...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
The Readings Foundation has announced nine Victorian organisations that will share $123,880 worth of grants. The grant recipients are: Somebody’s Daughter Theatre: $10,000 to ‘add a storytelling/writing program for the...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Dunedin in New Zealand has been designated a UNESCO Creative City of Literature. The city is one of four newly designated Cities of Literature, the others being Granada, Spain; Heidleberg,...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
The Australia Council has announced the successful applicants in its ‘new work’ grant categories. Fiona McFarlane (The Night Guest, Penguin) and Courtney Collins (The Burial, A&U) are among the authors...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Ross Halpin has won the inaugural Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer Writers Award. The award, worth $1000, is planned to be an annual prize for books ‘with a Jewish theme’ published by...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Six Australian publishers will visit India in January as the Australia Council’s first delegation to the country. An Australia council spokesperson told Books+Publishing the delegation would ‘promote Australian literature at festivals...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
New genre publisher Horror Australis will publish its first title in 2015. Cthulhu: Deep Down Under is an anthology of fiction about H P Lovecraft’s ‘Cthulhu mythos transposed to Australia’....

Monday, 1 December 2014
The winners of the inaugural AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced.The winners in each category are:Best new author:J L PerryBest established author:Amy AndrewsAuthor of the year:Annie Seaton Cover of...

Monday, 1 December 2014
Jamie Oliver is climbing up the bestsellers chart in the lead-up to Christmas. Three of his titles are among the week’s fastest movers, with Jamie’s Comfort Food (Michael Joseph) at the...