Victorian libraries to celebrate Australian Reading Hour with ‘Dressmaker’ exclusive
Monday, 2 November 2020
More than 40 Victorian library services will promote a shared online Victoria Reads event to celebrate Australian Reading Hour on 12 November. The event, to be hosted by new Public...
‘Printed on Stone’ wins Victorian Premier’s History Award
Monday, 2 November 2020
Printed on Stone: The lithographs of Charles Troedel (Amanda Scardamaglia, Melbourne Books) has won the Victorian Premier’s History Award, as part of the Victorian Community History Awards. Scardamaglia’s book, about...
No ‘Daily’ on Tuesday
Monday, 2 November 2020
Please note that, due to the Melbourne Cup holiday on Tuesday, the next Daily newsletter will be published on Wednesday, 4 November. This week's Weekly Book Newsletter will be published...
French bookshops to re-enter lockdown
Friday, 30 October 2020
French bookshops and libraries will close for at least 15 days from 30 October, as the country enters a second lockdown to curb the rise in Covid-19 cases, reports the...
Wollongong Writers Festival 2020 program announced
Friday, 30 October 2020
The program for the eighth Wollongong Writers Festival, which will run online from 23 to 29 November, has been announced. Helen Garner, Tara June Winch, Bruce Pascoe, Dervla McTiernan and...
‘Smart Ovens for Lonely People’ wins 2020 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Friday, 30 October 2020
The winner of the 2020 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction is Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan (Brio). Readings Carlton manager Joe Rubbo, who judged the award...
Six Australian nominees for 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Friday, 30 October 2020
Six Australian authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. The Australian candidates are: Jeannie...
‘The Unforgiven’ shortlisted for UK sports book award
Friday, 30 October 2020
Ashley Gray’s The Unforgiven (Pitch Publishing) has been shortlisted for the UK-based William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. The Unforgiven tells the story of the 20 West Indies...
Wakefield announces YA horror anthology winning submissions
Thursday, 29 October 2020
Wakefield Press has announced the winning submissions to its national callout for contributions to its YA fiction anthology Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales. The four winning stories are: An 'intense,...
Inaugural $50k Historical Novel Prize shortlist announced
Thursday, 29 October 2020
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlist for the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize. The shortlisted novels are: Master of My Fate (Sienna Brown, Vintage) Shepherd (Catherine...
McClymont receives Danger Lifetime Achievement Award
Thursday, 29 October 2020
Walkley Award–winning investigative journalist Kate McClymont is the winner of the 2020 Danger Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Bad: Sydney Crime Writers Festival. ‘Kate McClymont is a genuine investigative journalist....
When worlds collide: Alison Gibbs on ‘Repentence’
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Alison Gibbs's 1970s–set novel Repentance (Scribe, January) is the story of a small Australian town that undergoes radical change when newcomers face off against the locals over the logging of...
Christmas buyers’ picks: Nicola Martin at Dymocks Sydney
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
In the lead-up to Christmas 2020, Books+Publishing is asking book buyers across the country to share the titles they’re investing in for the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar. In...
Text acquires Webb ‘anti-usage’ guide
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to an 'anti-usage' language guide by ABC journalist Tiger Webb. Webb is the ABC’s language research specialist, providing broadcasters with pronunciation guidelines, updating the...
QBD to open two new Melbourne stores as Covid restrictions ease
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
The QBD bookselling chain has opened a new Parramatta store and will open two new stores in Melbourne before Christmas. The Parramatta store, in Westfield Shopping Centre, opened on 24...
‘Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands’ wins Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
In the UK, Hazel V Carby has won the £25,000 (A$46,750) Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso), reports the Bookseller....
Ibrahim wins 2020 Heyman Mentorship Award
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
HarperCollins Australia and Kathryn Heyman of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program have announced Naima Ibrahim as the winner of the 2020 Heyman Mentorship Award. Ibrahim’s winning fiction manuscript follows 10-year-old...
Copyright Agency grants to Castagna, Cohen, Ord, Savage
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Felicity Castagna, Bernard Cohen, Mandy Ord and Ellena Savage are among the six recipients of a combined $95,000 from Copyright Agency as part of its most recent Create Grants. Castagna...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Please note that due to the Melbourne Cup holiday in Victoria on Tuesday, 3 November, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 5 November.
‘Hello Friend We Missed You’ wins 2020 Not the Booker
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Welsh writer Richard Owain Roberts has won the Guardian’s 2020 Not the Booker Prize for his debut novel Hello Friend We Missed You (Parthian Books). Roberts’ novel won the public vote...
NewSouth acquires Janke’s ‘True Tracks’
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
NewSouth has acquired world English-language rights to True Tracks: Working with Indigenous knowledge and culture by Terri Janke of law firm Terri Janke and Company. ‘For Indigenous people, arts, language...
Layton launches Larrikin House
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
James Layton, CEO of children’s book reseller Learning Discovery, has launched a new children’s book publisher, Larrikin House. Larrikin House plans to publish 20 books per year, with an initial...
Affirm acquires Stubbins memoir
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Melbourne writer Sinéad Stubbins’s debut memoir In My Defence, I Have No Defence, via Danielle Binks and Jacinta of Jacinta di Mase Management...
Larsen launches Debut Books
Monday, 26 October 2020
Former bookseller and product manager at Penguin Books Australia Katherine Larsen has established independent Melbourne-based publisher Debut Books. Debut Books will launch in December with the first of a collection...
Arts South Australia announces latest grant recipients
Monday, 26 October 2020
Arts South Australia has announced the successful recipients in its latest round of Arts and Culture Grants. Among the 25 successful applicants of the August 2020 round are the following...
Danger Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Monday, 26 October 2020
The Bad: Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced the shortlist for this year’s Danger Prize, awarded for the best book, film, podcast or TV drama about Sydney and crime. The...
Bird’s ‘The Air Year’ wins Forward Poetry Prize
Monday, 26 October 2020
In the UK, Caroline Bird’s poetry collection The Air Year (Carcanet) has won the £10,000 (A$18,320) Forward Prize for best poetry collection, reports the Bookseller. Judging panel chair Alexandra Harris described...
‘Mophead’ takes PANZ Book Design Awards hat-trick
Monday, 26 October 2020
The winners of the 2020 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh (Auckland University Press) took a hat-trick at the...
Robotham wins Gold Dagger
Monday, 26 October 2020
Michael Robotham has won the 2020 UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger for Good Girl Bad Girl (Hachette). Good Girl Bad Girl was one of six titles shortlisted for...
Papas wins 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
Monday, 26 October 2020
Perth writer Maria Papas has won the 2020 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript for 'I Belong to the Lake', a work of literary fiction about a family's...
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