Hardie Grant announces 2022 Spark Prize shortlist
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Spark Prize for narrative nonfiction. The shortlisted entries are: Katerina Bryant for ‘Queen Pawn’ Sam...
Employment in the Australian publishing industry in 2022
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
In July 2022 Books+Publishing (B+P) surveyed more than 300 people about their employment in the Australian book industry, following up on similar surveys in 2013 and 2018. This report focuses on the data...
Dymocks Neutral Bay win top award at in-person conference
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Gina and Colin Pettitt of Dymocks Neutral Bay were awarded the Dymocks Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence in 2022 during the bookselling chain’s annual conference, which ran from 7 to...
Transit Lounge acquires Bacon literary mystery novel
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Serengotti, a literary mystery novel by Eugen Bacon. According to Transit Lounge publisher Barry Scott, Serengotti takes the classic story of a woman...
CWF: ‘the little festival that could’ returns after two years of false starts
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
After being postponed and ultimately cancelled in 2021, the Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) returned in person this month, doubling its audience numbers in comparison to the 2020 CWF hybrid in-person...
Readings announces New Australian Fiction Prize 2022 shortlist
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
The shortlist for the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Cold Enough for Snow (Jessica Au, Giramondo) Hovering (Rhett Davis, Hachette) Losing Face (George Haddad, UQP)...
Pantera acquires Sarago memoir on beauty
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Gigorou: Are you ready to redefine beauty? by Sasha Kutabah Sarago, represented by Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. A former model,...
PRH acquires Bhasin debut
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights for I Look Forward to Hearing from You, the debut novel by Sydney-based writer Nick Bhasin, in a deal agented by...
Beijing International Book Fair delayed until November
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
The Beijing International Book Fair, which was scheduled to open tomorrow 24 August, has been delayed until November. The fair will now run from 24–27 November. According to Publishing Perspectives,...
CJZ options film and TV rights to Jaffé novel
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Production company CJZ has optioned film and television rights for The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison (Meredith Jaffé, HarperCollins), in a deal negotiated by Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown Australia. The...
Barbara Jefferis Award 2022 shortlist announced
Monday, 22 August 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award, worth $50,000. The shortlisted titles are: Bodies of Light (Jennifer Down, Text) Ordinary Matter...
DoJ, PRH present closing arguments
Monday, 22 August 2022
In the US, closing arguments in the Department of Justice (DoJ) antitrust case aiming to block the Penguin Random House (PRH) acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S) were heard on...
Sweatshop acquires Hage book, establishes $10,000 First Nations fellowship
Monday, 22 August 2022
Sweatshop Literacy Movement Inc. has acquired world rights to The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism by anthropologist, public intellectual and cultural critic Ghassan Hage. The book will include new editions...
CBCA announces 2022 Book of the Year Awards
Friday, 19 August 2022
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Book of the Year Awards. The winning books in each category are: Older readers Tiger Daughter (Rebecca...
Books in the media this weekend, 20–21 August
Friday, 19 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Desire: A reckoning (Jessie Cole, Text) Marlo (Jay Carmichael, Scribe) The...
Danger Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Friday, 19 August 2022
The BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlist for this year’s Danger Prize. The all-fiction shortlist is: The Enemy Within (Tim Ayliffe, S&S) Unforgiven (Sarah Barrie, HQ) The...
US market sales down 1.6% in first half of 2022
Friday, 19 August 2022
According to the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) latest StatShot report, the US publishing industry’s revenues were down 1.6% in the first half of 2022, with trade sales flat over...
Nash calls for partial spill of Booktopia board
Friday, 19 August 2022
Booktopia founder Tony Nash has given notice to the company of his intention to call an extraordinary general meeting (EGM), with the purpose of ousting two other board members. Nash...
Margaret and Colin Roderick Award 2022 shortlist announced
Thursday, 18 August 2022
The shortlist for the $20,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) at James Cook University, has been announced. The shortlisted books...
New mentorship program for Tasmanian writers, illustrators
Thursday, 18 August 2022
Arts Tasmania and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced a new mentorship program for writers and illustrators. The 2022 Tasmanian Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program is designed to...
The Campus Bookstore closes down
Thursday, 18 August 2022
The Campus Bookstore, which operated an online store and retail stores at several tertiary institutions in Victoria, has closed both its online and physical stores after declaring insolvency. The not-for-profit...
Oscar and Friends to close Double Bay store
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Oscar and Friends bookshop has announced the closure of its original Double Bay store in Sydney. In a statement, the bookshop said that ‘sadly due to the redevelopment of our...
Readings YA Book Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
The shortlist for the 2021 Readings Young Adult Book Prize has been announced. The shortlisted YA novels are: The Museum of Broken Things (Lauren Draper, Text) Sugar Town Queens (Malla...
Aus market up 4.1%, romance up 77% YTD
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Australian book sales are up by 4.1% in value compared to this time last year, according to Nielsen BookData, which reports Australian book market sales of $544 million year to...
Passion for poetry: Sales in the wake of ‘Dropbear’
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
With sales of nearly 15,000 copies to date, Evelyn Araluen's 2022 Stella Prize winner Dropbear has defied the stereotype of poetry as a traditionally niche and low-selling genre. In our...
Berbay partners with Vision Australia on children’s series
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Berbay Books is partnering with Vision Australia on a new series of children’s books due to be published in 2023. The 32-page hardcover picture books will portray ‘significant Australians living...
Readings buys new warehouse
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Melbourne independent bookselling chain Readings has purchased a new warehouse space in West Melbourne, which will replace the chain’s current Carlton warehouse. ‘We had outgrown our current warehouse space and...
PRH acquires Seaborn debut in two-book deal
Monday, 15 August 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Seaborn’s debut ‘anti-romcom’ novel Perfect-ish, in a two-book deal via Caitlan Cooper-Trent at Curtis Brown. PRH described Perfect-ish as a...
UBD drops XL for Startrack
Monday, 15 August 2022
United Book Distributors (UBD) has announced it will be replacing XL Express with Startrack Express as a main distribution partner alongside FedEx (TNT), effective by later this month. ‘Startrack Express...
Books in the media this weekend, 13–14 August
Friday, 12 August 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Grounded (Alisa Bryce, Text) Provocations (Jeff Sparrow, NewSouth) Should We Fall...
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