Ryan resigns from PRH
Thursday, 3 December 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) publishing manager Louise Ryan has resigned after 16 years with the company. Ryan joined Penguin/Pearson in early 2005 and has been in the role of...
Final WBN next week
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Please note that next week's Weekly Book Newsletter will be the final one of the year. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisement submissions is 12 noon Tuesday, 8 December.
Christmas closing list 2020
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Books+Publishing has collated company closing dates for the Christmas and New Year holiday period. (more…)
Online SPN conference a ‘great success’
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) ninth Independent Publishing Conference was held online on 26–27 November, with organisers hailing the event a ‘great success’. SPN general manager Tim Coronel told Books+Publishing...
Lessons from the past: Lorraine Marwood on ‘Footprints on the Moon’
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Lorraine Marwood's middle-grade verse novel Footprints on the Moon (UQP, February) follows Sharnie as she navigates beginning high school during the tumult of Australian society in 1969. Reviewer Erin Wamala...
Walker acquires Uhlmann picture book
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to author and journalist Chris Uhlmann's debut picture book The Useless Tune, via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell agency, Cameron’s Management. The Useless...
Red Ventures acquires Lonely Planet
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Red Ventures has announced it has acquired Lonely Planet from NC2 Media for an undisclosed amount. Red Ventures, a platform of digital businesses including US-based travel website The Points Guy,...
Publishing’s meritocracy myth
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
This year’s Beatrice Davis Fellow Radhiah Chowdhury spoke to a range of BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) publishing professionals in the UK about what one respondent identified as the...
Reed to retire BookExpo
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
BookExpo, the largest publishing trade show in the US, is being retired by Reed Exhibitions, reports Publishers Weekly. Book-focused events BookCon and Unbound will also be retired. Organiser ReedPop, a...
Hachette UK lifts entry-level salaries, boosts pay transparency
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Hachette UK has announced it is raising its entry-level salaries to a minimum of £24,000, will share salary ranges at higher levels of seniority and will introduce transparency on its...
Masson appointed SPN chair, Webster steps down
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
The Small Press Network (SPN) has appointed Christmas Press publisher Sophie Masson as president, replacing Michael Webster, who has stepped down after six years in the role. Webster, who was...
‘Honeybee’ named Dymocks Book of the Year 2020
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Craig Silvey's novel Honeybee (A&U) has been named Dymocks Book of the Year for 2020. Chosen from a shortlist of six, Silvey's novel was voted for by Dymocks booksellers across the country,...
Australia Council announces $2m Re:imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives fund
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
The Australia Council has announced $2 million in funding has been allocated to the new Re:imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives fund. Offered in two streams—‘cultural and creative solutions’ and ‘industry collaborations'—the...
Wakefield acquires Webster’s ‘That Thing I Did’
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to YA novel That Thing I Did by Allayne Webster, via Jane Novak. ‘That Thing I Did is a rollicking road trip with a...
How did picture book sales fare during lockdown?
Monday, 30 November 2020
In her final op-ed as Books+Publishing’s Junior columnist for 2020, Adele Walsh looks at how the sales of new picture books—the most tactile of reading experiences—fared during lockdown, and recommends a few...
Southern-Reid wins Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award 2020
Monday, 30 November 2020
The winners of the 2020 Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime, have been announced. Bermagui, NSW–based writer Jessica Southern-Reid won the $1500 first prize for her story about...
WestWords wins Western Sydney business award
Monday, 30 November 2020
Western Sydney not for profit literary organisation WestWords has won the Excellence in Arts and Culture category in the 2020 Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence. The awards acknowledge the...
‘The Eighth Life’ wins Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Monday, 30 November 2020
The Eighth Life (Nino Haratischvili, trans by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, Scribe) has won the UK’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, reports the Bookseller. The Eighth Life, an...
Day wins Patrick White Award
Monday, 30 November 2020
Novelist Gregory Day has been named the winner of the $15,000 Patrick White Award for 2020. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of his 1973...
HarperCollins acquires Pung, Ng children’s books
Monday, 30 November 2020
HarperCollins Children’s Books Australia has acquired world rights to two books by author Alice Pung and illustrator Sher Rill Ng at auction via Clare Forster at Curtis Brown Australia and...
MTC to adapt Pung’s ‘Laurinda’
Friday, 27 November 2020
Alice Pung’s YA novel Laurinda (Black Inc.) will be adapted for the stage, as part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) Next Stage writers’ program and the Playwrights giving circle. Actor...
SPN Book of the Year Award shortlist announced
Friday, 27 November 2020
The shortlist for the Small Press Network (SPN) book of the year award has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Forgotten Corners: Essays in search of an island’s soul (Pete...
Court dismisses defamation case against Cannane, HarperCollins
Friday, 27 November 2020
A federal court judge has dismissed a defamation case brought by two doctors against HarperCollins and author Steve Cannane relating to Cannane’s 2016 book Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story...
Bertelsmann to acquire S&S
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House (PRH), has announced it will acquire Simon & Schuster (S&S) from media company ViacomCBS for US$2.175 billion (A$2.95b). In a statement, Bertelsmann...
Beatles bio wins £50k Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction
Thursday, 26 November 2020
English writer and critic Craig Brown has won the £50,000 ($90,900) Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction for One Two Three Four: The Beatles in time (Fourth Estate). Brown's biography tells the...
PRH NZ announces scholarship for Māori and Pasifika students
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRH NZ) has announced a new publishing scholarship for Māori and Pasifika students. The Penguin Random House Māori and Pasifika Publishing Scholarship aims to reduce barriers...
Dovey wins 2020 Bragg Prize for Science Writing
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Ceridwen Dovey has won the 2020 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for ‘True Grit’, first published in Wired. Dovey receives $7000. Her winning article explores the unexpected problems...
Christmas closing list 2020
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Company Last day of business in 2020 First day of business in 2021 About3 (trading as CoInfo) Wednesday, 23 December (closing midday) Thursday, 14 January Alliance Distribution Services Closed only...
Art work: Fiona McGregor on ‘Buried Not Dead’
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Reviewer Cher Tan describes Fiona McGregor's essay collection Buried Not Dead (Giramondo, February), which brings together art criticism, memoir and reportage written over 25 years, as a 'lively and unpretentious' work...
A window on the world: Stephanie Smee’s career journey
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Stephanie Smee is a Sydney-based French translator who worked as a lawyer before pivoting to literary translation. She has recently translated books including Hannelore Cayre's Dagger Award–winning crime novel The...
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