WBN published Thursday this week
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Due to the public holiday in Victoria on Monday, 14 March, the Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) will be published on Thursday, 17 March this week. Classifieds and job advertisements for inclusion...
HarperCollins acquires Blurton memoir
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to The Bachelorette star Brooke Blurton's memoir Big Love, in a publishing deal across all editions including audio. Blurton is also collaborating with Bigambul and Wakka...
International Booker 2022 longlist announced
Friday, 11 March 2022
The longlist for the 2022 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$90k), has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Cursed Bunny (Bora Chung, trans by Anton Hur, Honford Star) After The Sun...
Penguin Literary Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Friday, 11 March 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. The shortlisted manuscripts are: 'On a Bright Hillside in Paradise' by Annette Higgs, about a...
Books in the media this weekend 12–13 March
Friday, 11 March 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Burning Questions (Margaret Atwood, Chatto & Windus) Continuous Creation (Les Murray,...
ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 11 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins publishing division HQ have announced the shortlist for the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The winner will receive...
Posavec, Quick win Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize
Thursday, 10 March 2022
In the UK, Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick have won the £10,000 (A$18,000) Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for I Am a Book. I Am a Portal to the...
Warburton appointed ALIA CEO
Thursday, 10 March 2022
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the appointment of Cathie Warburton as its new CEO, replacing Sue McKerracher who left the organisation in January. Warburton has experience...
MacLehose Press acquires two new Papathanasiou novels
Thursday, 10 March 2022
MacLehose Press, an imprint of Hachette-owned UK publisher Quercus, has acquired world rights to two new novels by Peter Papathanasiou in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary....
ASA, writers festivals receive RISE funding
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA), the Australian Short Story Festival and the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival have each received funding in the seventh and final round of...
Chidgey, Mason longlisted for 2022 Women’s Prize
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand writers Catherine Chidgey and Meg Mason have been longlisted for the £30,000 (A$54,000) Women’s Prize for Fiction. Chidgey, the author of six novels, is longlisted for Remote Sympathy,...
Wang appointed Australian Children’s Laureate 2022–23
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) has named Gabrielle Wang as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2022–23. Melbourne-based Wang is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 20 books, including...
APA: proposed copyright changes would ‘gift’ publishing rights to libraries
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have, in separate responses to the federal government’s proposed copyright amendment bill, highlighted their concern that the draft bill...
Australian bookshop tour: Potts Point Bookshop
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Potts Point Bookshop is an award-winning bookseller located in Sydney’s CBD. With staff that have over 50 years of bookselling experience between them, the shop has been widely recognised by...
A&U acquires trans and gender diverse anthology
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the anthology Nothing to Hide: Voices of trans and gender diverse Australia. Edited by Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Yves Rees and...
A&U acquires Kostakis YA novel
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a new novel by YA author Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something. The queer contemporary YA novel is, according to the publisher,...
George Haddad on ‘Losing Face’
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
George Haddad's Losing Face (May, UQP) follows the lives of an intergenerational Lebanese-Australian family living in Western Sydney. Told primarily from the perspective of young protagonist Joey, Haddad's narrative reveals the complexities...
NZ National Reading Survey: number of readers dips slightly
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura has published the results from its 2021 National Reading Survey, which found the number of adults who read has dropped slightly since the poll was...
Black Inc. acquires second Blaine book
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Black Inc. has acquired ANZ rights to Australian Gospel, the second work of nonfiction by Lech Blaine, via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. In 1983, a three-year-old boy named Elijah is...
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
The winners of the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. Presented biennially by the South Australian government, the awards offer a total prize pool of $167,500. The...
Ahmed awarded 2022 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Monday, 7 March 2022
Munira Tabassum Ahmed is the recipient of the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellowship, which offers professional development up to the value of $5000 for an editorial project or work of writing...
ILF announces new ambassador, relocation to Hachette offices
Monday, 7 March 2022
Wiradjuri astrophysicist and science communicator Kirsten Banks has been announced as a new ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). 'We are excited to have Kirsten Banks as our newest...
‘Solid’ year for B&N: Daunt
Monday, 7 March 2022
In the US, Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt has told Publishers Weekly that 2021 was ‘another year of solid growth’ for the chain, with sales for the first eight...
Books in the media this weekend 5–6 March
Friday, 4 March 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Diagnosis Normal (Emma A Jane, Ebury) Son of Sin (Omar Sakr,...
Portside Review receives $60k DFAT grant
Friday, 4 March 2022
The Centre for Stories' journal Portside Review has been awarded $60,000 in funding as one of four recipients of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s (DFAT) Australian Cultural Diplomacy...
HarperCollins acquires Cheers illustrated nonfiction guide
Friday, 4 March 2022
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to The New Rulebook, a work of illustrated nonfiction by psychologist and educator Chris Cheers. Cheers gained thousands of Instagram followers during the rolling Melbourne...
Amazon to close all physical bookstores
Friday, 4 March 2022
In the US, Amazon is closing all 24 of its physical bookshops after opening the first in November 2015, reports Publishers Weekly. First launching in Seattle, the chain spread to...
Stella Count 2019/20: gender parity achieved for first time
Thursday, 3 March 2022
The results of the 2019 and 2020 Stella Counts (delayed due to Covid) have been announced, showing that representation of women and non-binary authors in Australian book reviews has reached...
BWF 2022 program announced
Thursday, 3 March 2022
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs 3–8 May, has been announced. Over 100 artists will appear at more than 200 events for the 60th celebration...
Libel claim against HarperCollins UK dismissed
Thursday, 3 March 2022
In the UK, the High Court has dismissed a libel claim brought against HarperCollins and author Tom Burgis over the 2020 book Kleptopia: How dirty money is conquering the world...
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