Hardie Grant acquires ‘Max Gawn Captain’s Diary’
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Max Gawn Captain’s Diary by Melbourne Football Club captain Max Gawn, in a deal negotiated by Anthony McConville at Mac’s Sports Promotions. Gawn’s book...
Varuna launches pilot Western Sydney writers fellowship
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has launched a new fellowship focussing on stories and writers from Western Sydney. Western Sydney Lamplight is a fortnight-long intensive pilot program for 12 writers...
PRH Melbourne office moves to Southbank
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced its Melbourne office is moving. The publisher will move from its current location at 707 Collins Street in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct to a new...
Booksellers celebrate LYBD in and out of lockdown
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
This year’s Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) took place on Saturday, 9 October, with official celebrations by the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) taking place online due to the ongoing lockdown...
Amplify Bookstore’s Christmas picks
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Amplify Bookstore, an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, shares the shop's top picks in anticipation of the gift-giving season. This...
Rooney turns down translation rights offer from Israeli publisher
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Irish novelist Sally Rooney has turned down an offer to have her latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber), translated into Hebrew by Israeli publisher Modan, reports the Guardian....
Scribble’s ‘I am the Subway’ wins World Illustration Award
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
I am the Subway by Kim Hyo-eun, translated by Deborah Smith and published in English by Scribble, has won the professional children’s publishing category in the 2021 World Illustration Awards....
Milnes appointed ILF COO
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced the appointment of Mike Milnes to the newly created position of chief operating officer (COO). Milnes will take on responsibilities previously held by...
Hachette acquires Collier debut memoir
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Hachette has acquired world rights to Inconceivable, a memoir by Alexandra Collier, in a deal brokered by Sharne McGee at Liberty Artist Management. Inconceivable chronicles Collier’s decision to join ‘the...
Bloomsbury withdraws Haigh cookbook
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
In the UK, Bloomsbury has withdrawn a cookbook by Michelin-starred chef and former MasterChef contestant Elizabeth Haigh from circulation, reports the Bookseller. Makan: Recipes from the heart of Singapore was...
PRH acquires new Toltz novel
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired Here Goes Nothing, the new novel by Steve Toltz. Publisher Nikki Christer acquired ANZ rights from Elizabeth Sheinkman at Peters, Fraser & Dunlop,...
Rogers appointed Echo MD
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Bonnier Books UK has appointed Juliet Rogers as managing director of its Sydney-based imprint Echo Publishing. Rogers, who was most recently CEO of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), has...
Ultimo acquires Mikosza memoir
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Homesickness, a literary memoir by Janine Mikosza, in a deal brokered by Melanie Ostell at Melanie Ostell Literary. Homesickness investigates the author's own...
Bragg Prize for Science Writing shortlist announced
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: 'The COVID–climate collision’ by Jo Chandler (Griffith Review) ‘Everlasting free-fall’ by...
NSW retail to reopen after lockdown
Monday, 11 October 2021
After over 100 days of restrictions, New South Wales has reached its reopening target of 70% of the population being fully vaccinated with two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bookshops...
Italian book sales rise 29%
Monday, 11 October 2021
In Italy, book sales have risen by 29% in the first nine months of the year, compared to the same period in 2020, reports Publishing Perspectives. According to data from...
Transit Lounge acquires Meyer’s ‘Moon Sugar’
Monday, 11 October 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Moon Sugar by Melbourne author Angela Meyer, in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary. Moon Sugar is Meyer’s second novel...
Agius appointed MD of Welbeck ANZ
Monday, 11 October 2021
Welbeck has announced the appointment of Bernadette Agius as managing director of its local business. Currently general manager of Bonnier Books imprint Echo Publishing, Agius is the first appointment to...
Richell Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Friday, 8 October 2021
Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) have announced the shortlist for the 2021 Richell Prize for emerging writers. The shortlisted writers were judged on the first three chapters...
Books in the media this weekend
Friday, 8 October 2021
This week’s round-up will be updated as data is available. National The Saturday Paper Bodies of Light (Jennifer Down, Text) Love & Virtue (Diana Reid, Ultimo) Philosophy for Spiders: On the low theory...
MWF to launch podcast, free digital events
Friday, 8 October 2021
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced it will release more than 50 cancelled events from its 2021 program as podcasts from 13 October, with a further five events from First...
Gurnah awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature
Friday, 8 October 2021
Zanzibar-born British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, reports Publishers Weekly. Gurnah was named winner at a ceremony at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm...
Balint, Meany win 2021 Viva la Novella prize
Thursday, 7 October 2021
The 2021 Viva la Novella prize has been awarded to Christine Balint for Water Music and Helen Meany for Every Day is Gertie Day. Both novellas have been published by Seizure....
McDaid receives Todd New Writer’s Bursary for ‘dark, funny novel’
Thursday, 7 October 2021
In Aoteoroa New Zealand, Amy McDaid is the recipient of the Todd New Writer’s Bursary, this year worth NZ$23,870 (A$22,730). McDaid will use the bursary to complete a first draft...
Giller Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Thursday, 7 October 2021
In Canada, the shortlist for the C$100,000 (A$109,250) 2021 Giller Prize for the best Canadian fiction published in English has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: What Strange Paradise (Omar...
Goldsmiths Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Thursday, 7 October 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize, worth £10,000 (A$18,700), has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: Checkout 19 (Claire-Louise Bennett, Jonathan Cape) Assembly (Natasha Brown, Hamish Hamilton) A...
Monash Publishing appoints Carlomagno publisher
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Monash University Publishing has announced the appointment of Black Inc. publisher Julia Carlomagno to the newly created role of publisher, as Monash Publishing moves ‘away from largely scholarly output towards...
Stephanie Parkyn on ‘The Freedom of Birds’
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
The Freedom of Birds (A&U, December) is Stephanie Parkyn's third novel, completing the loose historical trilogy that began with Into the World and Josephine's Garden (A&U). As the French Empire...
November reviews round-up
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Come November two highly anticipated essay collections from two prominent Australian scholars will be hitting bookshelves: Another Day in the Colony (Chelsea Watego, UQP) and Doing Politics: Writing on public...
National Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
In the US, the finalists for the 2021 National Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr, Fourth Estate) Matrix (Lauren Groff, William...
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