Booktopia sells stake in Welbeck ANZ
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Online bookseller Booktopia has sold its share in Welbeck Publishing Australia New Zealand (Welbeck ANZ) for $1.5 million. Booktopia, which invested $3 million for a 25% stake in Welbeck ANZ...
Copyright Agency funding: Au, Tsao receive $25k Create grants, new fellowship for young writers
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Twenty-one arts organisations have received a total of $274,517 in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. The major capital city writers’ festivals and Byron Writers’...
Hachette Aotearoa launches Moa Press
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Hachette Aotearoa has established a new imprint, Moa Press, which ‘aims to champion a diverse range of voices, representing a multitude of cultures and perspectives from within Aotearoa New Zealand’....
UWAP acquires Akhurst YA novel
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired ANZ rights to Graham Akhurst’s young adult novel Borderland, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Set in Brisbane and the fictional rural town of...
Ross wins first prize in 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards
Monday, 5 December 2022
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. ‘Tuesday Jocks’ by Fin J Ross won first prize ($2000); last year’s winner Hayley Young won...
Text acquires new Lohrey novel
Monday, 5 December 2022
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to Amanda Lohrey's new novel The Conversion, via Lyn Tranter of Australian Literary Management. The Conversion follows Zoe, who leaves Sydney for a small...
A&U acquires Bolton debut ‘Life Itself’
Monday, 5 December 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Trish Bolton’s debut novel Life Itself. Rights were acquired by A&U publisher Jane Palfreyman and executive editor Genevieve Buzo. Life Itself...
Hessel wins Waterstones Book of the Year for ‘The Story of Art Without Men’
Monday, 5 December 2022
In the UK, Waterstones has named Katy Hessel’s The Story of Art Without Men (Hutchinson Heinemann) its Book of the Year for 2022, reports the Bookseller. Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in...
HarperCollins acquires Whitlam biography by Bramston
Friday, 2 December 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired Troy Bramston’s biography of former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam. The currently untitled work will be a ‘thorough, highly readable’ biography drawing on newly discovered archival...
Pantera acquires James book on human sexuality
Friday, 2 December 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Kinky History: The stories behind our intimate lives, past and present by Esmé Louise James. Drawing on James’s popular online lecture series Kinky...
George appointed Booktopia chair
Friday, 2 December 2022
Online bookseller Booktopia has appointed Retail Food Group (RFG) executive chairman Peter George as its new chair. George replaces Chris Beare in the role, who resigned yesterday, 1 December after...
‘All That She Carried’ wins 2022 Cundill History Prize
Friday, 2 December 2022
Harvard professor Tiya Miles has won the 2022 Cundill History Prize, worth US$75,000 (A$110,000), for All That She Carried: The journey of Ashley’s sack, a Black family keepsake (Tiya Miles, Random...
NZ PM’s Awards for Literary Achievement winners announced
Friday, 2 December 2022
Creative New Zealand has announced the recipients of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$56,000) each. In recognition of their contribution to New Zealand literature, Stephanie...
Books in the media this weekend, 3–4 December
Friday, 2 December 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Admissions: Voices within mental health (ed by David Stavanger, Radhiah Chowdhury...
Agents pledge to not submit work to HarperCollins US
Thursday, 1 December 2022
More than 150 literary agents have signed an open letter pledging not to submit new work to HarperCollins US in support of striking workers, reports the Bookseller. Approximately 250 unionised...
UQP announces new First Nations Classics series
Thursday, 1 December 2022
UQP has announced the launch of a First Nations Classics series, with the first instalment to be released in June 2023. The publisher said the inspiration behind the new series...
Gilliatt joins Left Bank Literary
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Former Allen & Unwin (A&U) publishing director Tom Gilliatt has joined Left Bank Literary (LBL) as an agent. Gilliatt joined A&U in 2014 and finished in late September this year....
Sorrento Writers Festival announce new writing prize
Thursday, 1 December 2022
The Sorrento Writers Festival, a new four-day event created by former bookseller Corrie Perkin and scheduled for April 2023 on Victoria’s Morning Peninsula, has established a $5000 new writing prize....
Authors survey: Indie publishing, satisfaction up; income ‘remains challenging’
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Macquarie researchers Jan Zwar, Paul Crosby and David Throsby have released the findings of the team’s National Survey of Australian Book Authors, following on from a similar 2015 survey and...
Trade Christmas closing dates 2022
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Books+Publishing has collated company closing dates for the Christmas and New Year holiday period (see table below). The Books+Publishing office will close on Wednesday, 14 December and reopen Monday, 9...
SPN conference 2022 ‘demonstrated breadth of Australian publishing’
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
The 11th annual Small Press Network (SPN) Independent Publishing Conference was held last week, 24–26 November, in a hybrid event taking place at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre, the State Library Victoria...
Cornegé to leave UQP
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) marketing and publicity manager Louise Cornegé has been appointed marketing and campaigns manager at the Conversation and will leave UQP on 15 December. Appointed in 2019,...
Hunterland joins Affirm sales team
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Affirm Press has announced the appointment of Jane Hunterland as the publisher’s Queensland account manager. Hunterland, who comes to the role with 12 years’ experience as an account manager for...
Two Brabon novels to Ultimo
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ and UK rights to two new novels by Katherine Brabon, in a deal via Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. In Body Friend, the narrator leaves...
Harry Hartog Penrith to open in April
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Berkelouw Books will open a new Harry Hartog-branded store in Penrith in April 2023. The 750sqm Harry Hartog Penrith store will be located at 384 High Street Penrith, and will...
‘A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth’ wins Royal Society Science Book Prize
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
In the UK, Henry Gee has won the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize for A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 billion years in 12 chapters (Picador),...
Elfy Scott recommends
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Gina Rushton’s The Most Important Job in the World (Macmillan) is a remarkable book (and I’m not just saying this because she was one of the brilliant journalists who I...
Elfy Scott on ‘The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About’
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Known for her accessible reporting on complicated issues, journalist and presenter Elfy Scott investigates complex mental health conditions in her debut book The One Thing We've Never Spoken About (Pantera,...
Nash re-elected to Booktopia board; CFC funding ‘hampered by EGM and board activity’
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Booktopia founder and former CEO Tony Nash was re-elected to the company’s board at yesterday’s annual general meeting (AGM). Nash, who was given notice to step away from executive management...
National Survey of Australian Book Authors 2022 findings released
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Macquarie researchers Jan Zwar, Paul Crosby and David Throsby have released the findings of the team’s National Survey of Australian Book Authors. The research, which follows on from a similar...
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