Paterson to head new Atlantic Books division at A&U
Monday, 6 December 2021
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced the establishment of a new division, Atlantic Books Australia, to be led by Cate Paterson. Paterson, who will join A&U as publishing director of...
The Next Chapter 2022 recipients announced
Friday, 3 December 2021
The Wheeler Centre has announced the recipients of the 2021 Next Chapter grants for developing writers, worth $15,000 each. The 10 recipients are: Jumaana Abdu Jose da Costa Josie/Jocelyn Deane...
Dymocks Melbourne hires security after alleged check-in assault
Friday, 3 December 2021
Dymocks Collins Street, in Melbourne’s CBD, has hired professional security after an alleged assault on a staff member working as a Covid-19 marshal. ABC Online reports the member of staff...
McCartney wins Waterstones Book of the Year for ‘The Lyrics’
Friday, 3 December 2021
In the UK, Waterstones has named Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present (Allen Lane) its Book of the Year for 2021, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones MD James Daunt said,...
Adler appointed AWW director
Friday, 3 December 2021
Louise Adler has been appointed director of Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW), taking over from Jo Dyer who announced earlier this year that the 2022 event would be her last. Adler,...
Distribution of Sebold memoir halted after man jailed for her rape exonerated
Thursday, 2 December 2021
The UK and US publishers of Alice Sebold’s bestselling memoir Lucky (Picador) have stopped the book’s distribution following the author’s apology to the man who was last week exonerated of...
Stout wins MidnightSun cover design competition
Thursday, 2 December 2021
Abby Stout has been named the winner of MidnightSun’s 2021 book cover design competition. The competition, which ran during October, encouraged Australian designers to submit cover design concepts for two...
UQP acquires new Lucashenko novel ‘Edenglassie’
Thursday, 2 December 2021
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to a new novel by 2019 Miles Franklin winner Melissa Lucashenko in ‘a major, competitive deal’ brokered by Alex Adsett...
McLean donates $1 million to Stella Prize
Thursday, 2 December 2021
Sydney-based philanthropist Paula McLean, a long-time patron of the Stella Prize, has committed a gift of up to $1 million to the prize’s Stella Forever Fund, which aims to secure...
Send us your Christmas closing dates
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
To be included in Books+Publishing's annual list of publishers' and distributors' trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon, Tuesday, 7 December....
Final ‘WBN’ for 2021 next week
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
The final Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) for 2021 will be published next Wednesday, 8 December. Classifieds, job advertisements and Christmas closing dates for inclusion in the final WBN should be...
Amplify Bookstore’s 2022 picks
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Amplify Bookstore, an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, shares the shop’s picks for 2022, including a focus on titles coming...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Exeter’s Crediton Community Bookshop
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Meet the community-owned...
SPN conference 2021: ‘stimulating, diverse and accessible’
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
The 10th annual Small Press Network (SPN) Independent Publishing Conference was held online on 25–27 November. The 2021 conference ran entirely online for the second year running, but returned to...
‘The Underdogs’ series sells to North America
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has sold North American rights to ‘The Underdogs’ series by Kate and Jol Temple (illus by Shiloh Gordon) to Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random...
Hammer, Jubelin joint 2021 Danger Prize winners
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Trust (Chris Hammer, A&U) and I Catch Killers (Gary Jubelin with Dan Box, HarperCollins) have jointly won the 2021 Danger Prize. Administered by the BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival, the...
Ultimo acquires new Henry-Jones novel
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Eliza Henry-Jones’s latest novel Salt and Skin, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson of Curtis Brown. Salt and Skin follows a troubled...
Young wins first prize in Scarlet Stiletto Awards 2021
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the winners of the 2021 Scarlet Stiletto Awards. Canberra-based, first-time crime writer Hayley Young won first prize and receives $1500 for her outback police...
Angry Robot acquires Gold Coast BookTokker debut
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
UK publisher Angry Robot has acquired world, translation and audio rights to Ledge, the adult fantasy debut by Australian BookTokker Stacey McEwan, via Amy Collins of Talcott Notch Literary Agency....
Sheldrake wins 2021 Royal Society Science Book Prize
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
In the UK, Merlin Sheldrake has won the £25,000 (A$46,600) Royal Society Science Book Prize for Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures...
SPN Book of the Year 2021 winners announced
Monday, 29 November 2021
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the joint winners of the 2021 SPN Network Book of the Year Award (BOTY). The winning books, both essay collections, are: Echoes (Shu-Ling...
‘Still Life’ named Dymocks 2021 Book of the Year
Monday, 29 November 2021
UK author Sarah Winman’s novel Still Life (Fourth Estate) has been named Dymocks Book of the Year for 2021. In 1944, over one night in a ruined wine cellar of...
UK PA data find growth in audiobook, fiction sales
Monday, 29 November 2021
In the UK, data from the Publishers Association (PA) shows substantial growth in audiobook and fiction sales, reports the Bookseller. The figures show audiobook sales in the first six months...
S&S acquires Wright biography
Monday, 29 November 2021
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired world rights to the biography of Australian surfer Owen Wright. In 2015 Wright was on the brink of a world title only to have...
New survey: Engaged readers behind pandemic book sales
Friday, 26 November 2021
A national survey by Australia Reads has found 75% of Australians read at least one book a year, with 25% indicating they had not read or listened to a book...
Walkley Book Award 2021 longlist announced
Friday, 26 November 2021
The Walkley Book Award longlist for 2021 has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Toxic: The rotting underbelly of the Tasmanian salmon industry (Richard Flanagan, Penguin) Red Zone: China’s challenge...
ADS adds carriers, staff, says booksellers can ‘start to expect high volumes’
Friday, 26 November 2021
Australian Distribution Services (ADS) has announced it is working with ‘multiple carriers’ and has added staff to work through supply congestion in the lead up to Christmas. The distributor said...
Aus picture books chosen for IFLA catalogue
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Ten Australian picture books have been selected for the third edition of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Picture Books exhibit, which will be launched at...
HarperCollins UK book found to have defamatory claims
Thursday, 25 November 2021
A UK high court judge has ruled that numerous passages in Catherine Belton’s book Putin’s People, published in the UK by William Collins, are defamatory of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich,...
‘Amnesia Road’ wins 2021 Nib Literary Award
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Luke Stegemann's book Amnesia Road: Landscape, violence and memory (NewSouth) has won Waverley Council’s $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. Amnesia Road is a literary examination of historic violence...
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