PRH acquires Hickey crime debut ‘Cutters End’ Archive
Friday, 5 February 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to debut novel Cutters End by author and playwright Margaret Hickey. In a statement, PRH said Cutters End was a captivating...
Low joins Christchurch WORD festival Archive
Friday, 5 February 2021
The WORD Christchurch festival has appointed Nic Low as program co-director. Originally from Christchurch, Low is a Ngāi Tahu author and arts organiser, who has recently returned to the city...
Fremantle Press launches podcast aimed at writers Archive
Thursday, 4 February 2021
Fremantle Press publisher Georgia Richter has launched a new podcast series ‘aimed at making the Australian publishing industry more accessible to new writers’. Richter, who co-wrote How to Be an...
Transit Lounge acquires Rabin novel Archive
Thursday, 4 February 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Sean Rabin's second novel The Good Captain, via Jessica Craig at Craig Literary. Rabin's debut novel Wood Green, published by Giramondo in Australia...
Waterstones staff petition for furlough raise Archive
Thursday, 4 February 2021
In the UK, a group of current and former Waterstones staff is calling on the bookselling chain to top-up furloughed booksellers’ pay to the minimum wage, after accounts showed the...
Inaugural Little Hare Prize for Illustration shortlist announced Archive
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
The shortlist for Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing’s (HGCP) inaugural Little Hare Prize for Illustration has been announced. The shortlisted artists are: Jennifer Goldsmith Jake Minton Meg Rennie Hyo Young Yim....
A year of transformation: The industry reflects on 2020 Archive
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
The challenges of 2020 affected the Australian publishing in myriad ways, from accelerating digital transformation to disrupting the book supply chain. Here, five industry figures reflect on the ways the...
Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO Archive
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
In the US, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced he will step down from the role and become executive chairman, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Under the transition, Amazon Web...
Nat’s What I Reckon wins 2020 Booktopia FAB Award Archive
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Un-cook Yourself: A ratbag's rules for life by YouTube cooking star Nat’s What I Reckon (Ebury) has won the $5000 Booktopia Favourite Australian Book (FAB) Award for 2020. The author...
Thames & Hudson Australia revenue up 47% in 2020 Archive
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Thames & Hudson Australia (THA) has reported a 47% increase in revenue in 2020, with overall sales of $17.6 million, as ‘consumer price barriers appeared to come down’ during the...
March reviews round-up Archive
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
March looks to be a strong month for nonfiction, with a couple of big-name releases receiving glowing write-ups from Books+Publishing's (B+P) reviewers. Sarah Krasnostein's follow-up to her juggernaut biography The...
Australia Reads becomes ‘always on’ campaign, seeks 2021 ambassadors Archive
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
The Australia Reads initiative will become an ‘always on’ campaign in 2021, extending beyond its key Australian Reading Hour event. ‘Australia Reads will now focus on championing reading and book...
Authors groups ask DoJ to halt PRH acquisition of S&S Archive
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
In the US, the Authors Guild, Open Markets Institute and five other writers’ groups have sent a letter to the Department of Justice, asking the government to block Penguin Random...
Ultimo first title to be Smith book on China Archive
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the Frontline of Xi’s New China by Michael Smith, one of the last Australian journalists to leave China...
McKay wins $100k Victorian Prize for Literature Archive
Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Laura Jean McKay has won Australia’s richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her debut novel The Animals in That Country (Scribe), at this year’s Victorian Premier’s...
Newbery, Caldecott 2021 winners announced Archive
Monday, 1 February 2021
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott medals, reports Publishers Weekly. Tae Keller’s When You...
Scott to represent Australia in Literature Live Around the World event Archive
Monday, 1 February 2021
Writing WA will present a session featuring multi-award-winning Noongar author Kim Scott in conversation with writer and journalist Gillian O’Shaughnessy, as Australia’s contribution to a multi-country Literature Live Around the...
Lindsay opens The Book Nest Mudgee Archive
Monday, 1 February 2021
Portia Lindsay, a former bookseller at Better Read Than Dead and Potts Point Bookshop who now runs the Mudgee Readers’ Festival in Mudgee, NSW, has opened a new bookstore in...
Booktopia reports EBITDA up 506% Archive
Friday, 29 January 2021
Online bookseller Booktopia has reported a 506% increase in its earnings (before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation: EBITDA) for the six months to the end of December 2020 in its...
Publishers, agencies to run their own digital rights fairs Archive
Friday, 29 January 2021
In the UK, Hachette, Pan Macmillan and a number of literary agencies will run their own digital rights fairs in March, following the rescheduling of the London and Bologna book...
S&S acquires Lyons cookbook Archive
Friday, 29 January 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a book by Nathan Lyons, ‘the Australian TikTok sensation behind Kooking With A Koori’. Lyons, a Wiradjuri man, is a...
New Zealand market down 0.3% in 2020 Archive
Thursday, 28 January 2021
New Zealand’s book sales fell by less than 1% in 2020, despite a sustained hard lockdown for almost five weeks from late March, in which the nation’s booksellers were unable...
Full Adelaide Writers’ Week program announced Archive
Thursday, 28 January 2021
The full program has been announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW), which features a total of 147 guests and runs from Saturday, 27 February to Thursday, 4 March 2021. In...
Saleh wins 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize Archive
Thursday, 28 January 2021
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced Sara M Saleh as the winner of the 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, for her poem ‘A Poetics of Fo(u)rgetting’. The judges said of...
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 longlists announced Archive
Thursday, 28 January 2021
The longlists for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Nothing to See (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press) Bug...
Starting small: Emily Riches on Aniko Press Archive
Thursday, 28 January 2021
Sydney-based writer and editor Emily Riches started Aniko Press—a new literary small press that includes a biannual print magazine and online book reviews—in early 2020, and has plans to begin...
S&S acquires Allira Potter nonfiction title Archive
Thursday, 28 January 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a book by psychic Allira Potter. Potter, a Yorta Yorta woman, incorporates Indigenous practices and First Nations knowledge into her...
Roffey wins Costa Book of the Year 2020 Archive
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
In the UK, Monique Roffey has won the £30,000 (A$53,000) Costa Book of the Year for her novel The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story (Peepal Tree Press). The Mermaid...
Kapil wins T S Eliot Prize 2020 Archive
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
In the UK, Bhanu Kapil has won the £25,000 (A$44,330) T S Eliot Prize for Poetry for her collection How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion Poetry). Drawn from a performance...
McDougall wins NZ Sunday Star-Times short story prize Archive
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Wellington author Kirsten McDougall has won the NZ$5000 (A$4672) New Zealand Sunday Star-Times short story competition open category for her story ‘Walking Day’. McDougall, a publicist and literary manager whose...
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