Lucashenko wins 2019 Miles Franklin for ‘Too Much Lip’
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Melissa Lucashenko has won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her sixth novel, Too Much Lip (UQP). Lucashenko is the third Indigenous author to win the Miles Franklin in...
Lindfield Bookshop & Children’s Bookshop to close
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Lindfield Bookshop & Children’s Bookshop in Sydney’s North Shore will close at the end of August after 46 years of operation. Owner Scott Whitmont said it’s with ‘considerable sadness’ that...
RITA Awards 2019 winners announced
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2019 RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas. Among the winners in the 13 categories...
Disher’s ‘Bitter Wash Road’ optioned for screen
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Producers Helen Leake and Gena Ashwell of Adelaide-based production company Dancing Road Productions have optioned the screen rights to Garry Disher’s Bitter Wash Road (Text), via Jenny Darling & Associates. First published in 2013,...
Dalla Rosa shortlisted for 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Australian writer Paul Dalla Rosa has been shortlisted for the £30,000 (A$54,500) Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Dalla Rosa is shortlisted for his story ‘Comme’, originally published in Granta...
Macmillan puts embargo on new release ebooks to libraries
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
In the US, Macmillan has announced a two month embargo on all its imprints’ library ebooks effective 1 November, reports Publishers Weekly. The move comes after a year-long trial where...
Scholastic income down 55% despite sales rise
Monday, 29 July 2019
In the US, Scholastic has reported a 2019 fiscal year operating income of US$25 million (A$36.2m), a 55% drop on the previous year despite sales rising 2% to US$1.65 billion...
WA Premier’s Book Awards winners announced
Monday, 29 July 2019
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an emerging writer ($15,000) The Sky Runs...
Berbay to expand publishing program in 2020
Monday, 29 July 2019
Melbourne-based children’s publisher Berbay Books will double its publishing list from eight to 16 titles in 2020, as well as publishing its first graphic novel, chapter book and junior fiction...
Hammer shortlisted for UK Dagger award for first-time authors
Friday, 26 July 2019
Chris Hammer's novel Scrublands (A&U) has been shortlisted at the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards. Published in the UK by Wildfire, Hammer’s novel is shortlisted for the 2019...
Baskin wins industry recognition award at ORIAs
Friday, 26 July 2019
Booktopia deputy CEO and CTO Wayne Baskin has won in the industry recognition category at the 2019 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAs). Booktopia was nominated for the best pureplay retailer...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2019 winners announced
Friday, 26 July 2019
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced the winners of the 2019 Book Design Awards. Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing (Sean Mallon & Sébastien Galliot, Te Papa Press),...
PRH acquires debut thriller in two-book deal
Friday, 26 July 2019
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired world rights to Tasmanian author Kyle Perry’s crime/suspense thriller debut, The Bluffs, in a two-book deal with the Nash Agency. Set in the Tasmanian...
Ned Kelly Awards 2019 longlists announced
Thursday, 25 July 2019
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The longlisted titles in each category are: Best first fiction...
Melbourne City of Lit Booksellers in Residence announced
Thursday, 25 July 2019
The Melbourne City of Literature has announced the four Victorian booksellers who will spend a week in an overseas bookshop, as part of its Booksellers in Residence program. The Booksellers...
Amazon UK begins releasing weekly sales charts
Thursday, 25 July 2019
Amazon UK has this week launched Amazon Charts, a weekly book bestseller list tracking sales and reads of fiction and nonfiction, reports the Bookseller. Its the first time print and...
Vancouver Public Library banned from walking in Pride Parade
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
In Canada, the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) has banned the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) from walking in its annual Pride Parade, due to the library’s ‘decision to provide a platform...
Constant Reader’s Jay Lansdown to take over Pages & Pages
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Jay Lansdown, owner of Sydney bookshop The Constant Reader, has agreed to take over the Pages & Pages Booksellers store in Mosman. Lansdown plans to move into the shop in...
National Archives needs funding doubled, 200 extra staff, claims panel
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
A government-appointed panel claims the National Archives needs its funding doubled and an extra 200 staff hired in order to survive, reports the Canberra Times. In a submission made to...
Holiday book haul: Junior Christmas 2019 preview
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Kelsey Oldham rounds up some local highlights from publishers’ 2019 Christmas lists. (See our adult fiction and nonfiction highlights here.) Aussie favourites Some of our most celebrated Australian children’s authors...
Good tidings we bring: Christmas 2019 preview
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
Sarah Farquharson rounds up this year’s top locally authored Christmas titles. (See our kids and YA Christmas highlights here.) Blockbuster fiction The small press with one of the biggest books...
Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$88,875) prize are: The Testaments (Margaret Atwood, Chatto & Windus, September) Night Boat...
‘Stone Girl’ wins 2019 Readings YA book prize
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Eleni Hale has won the 2019 Readings Young Adult Book Prize for her novel Stone Girl (Penguin). Hale’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the $3000 prize,...
UK Booksellers Association launches green bookselling manifesto
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) has launched ‘Green Bookselling: A Manifesto for the BA, Booksellers and the Book Industry’, as it calls on the trade to reduce its...
Work begins on new edition of government style manual
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
The federal government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has appointed Canberra-based communications agency Ethos CRS to lead the development of the seventh edition of the Australian government’s Style Manual, which for...
Wakefield sells debut YA novel to US
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Wakefield Press has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to debut novel Making Friends with Alice Dyson (Poppy Nwosu) to Walker Books US for a five-figure sum. Wakefield publisher Margot Lloyd...
The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Nonfiction shortlist announced
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Melbourne-based literary magazine The Lifted Brow and RMIT’s non/fictionLab have announced the shortlist for their Prize for Experimental Nonfiction. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Katerina Bryant, for ‘Where...
KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award shortlist announced
Monday, 22 July 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Shelley Burr for ‘Wake’ (fiction) Lisa Emanuel for...
Publishers, authors concerned over Audible’s audio-to-text program
Monday, 22 July 2019
In the US, publishers, literary agents and authors have expressed concern that Audible’s proposed program Captions, which transcribes audio to text alongside its audiobooks, infringes on rights holders, reports Publishers...
Two women awarded Japan’s top literary awards
Friday, 19 July 2019
In Japan, novelists Natsuko Imamura and Masumi Oshima have been awarded two of the country’s top literary awards, reports Kyodo News. Imamura was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for her novel...
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