Cornelius wins $234k Windham-Campbell Prize
Thursday, 14 March 2019
Playwright Patricia Cornelius is one of eight winners of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize, which recognises English-language writers who ‘have left their mark on the world of literature or theatre’ and...
Espoo City Library, Finland wins LBF award
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Espoo City Library in Finland has been awarded the library of the year award at the London Book Fair (LBF), as part of the fair's International Excellence Awards. Judges said...
Hachette launches modern classics list
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Hachette has announced its first cross-publisher modern classics list to be published in its international territories, including Australia, New Zealand, India and Ireland. Hachette Essentials comprises a curated selection of...
LBF International Excellence Awards winners announced
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
London Book Fair (LBF), in association with the UK Publishers Association, has announced the winners of the International Excellence Awards. The bookstore of the year award went to Fang Suo...
Parrish nominated in Lambda Literary Awards
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Australian Canada-based comics artist Tommi Parrish has been announced as a finalist in the 31st annual Lambda Literary Awards—known as the ‘Lammys’—for their book The Lie and How We Told...
Four ANZ publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Four Australian and New Zealand publishers have been nominated for the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. The shortlisted publishers are Scribble Kids’...
UK audiobook boom continuing with 13% growth in 2018
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
In the UK, Nielsen BookScan reports that audiobooks have grown by 13% in volume during 2018. At the London Book Fair (LBF) Quantum Conference, Nielsen said that the audiobook boom...
Echo acquires Iain Ryan’s third novel
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Iain Ryan’s third novel, Sisters Under the Skin, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. Narrated in first and second person, Sisters Under the...
Boochani’s ‘No Friend but the Mountains’ sells into nine territories
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Behrouz Boochani's Victorian Prize for Literature-winning memoir No Friend but the Mountains (Picador) has been sold in nine territories, including the US and the UK, where it sold to Picador...
A&U acquires Hardcastle novel for six-figure sum
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Below Deck, the third book by 25-year-old author Sophie Hardcastle. Zeitgeist Agency director Benython Oldfield sold the book at auction for...
Stavanger shortlisted for €10k Moth Poetry Prize
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Australian poet David Stavanger has been shortlisted for the €10,000 (A$15,930) Moth Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Octonaut’. The prize is run by the publishers of international art and literature...
Stella Prize 2019 shortlist announced
Friday, 8 March 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Little Gods (Jenny Ackland, A&U) The Bridge (Enza Gandolfo, Scribe) Pink Mountain on Locust Island (Jamie...
First novel translated from Uzbek to English wins €20k EBRD Literature Prize
Friday, 8 March 2019
The first novel translated from Uzbek to English has been awarded the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Literature Prize for a translated work of literary fiction. The Devils'...
Wollongong collective launches bookshop, workshop space
Friday, 8 March 2019
A new community collective called Society City is establishing a secondhand bookshop in Wollongong. The member-run collective will operate the bookshop, and will also offer up the space for people...
ASA advises authors to send takedown notices to piracy site
Friday, 8 March 2019
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is advising authors to contact piracy website Ebook Bike and request the removal of their titles. The ASA is 'deeply concerned' by the site's...
YA debut sells to US, Netherlands
Friday, 8 March 2019
Catherine Drayton of Inkwell Management has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Helena Fox's forthcoming YA novel How it Feels to Float (Pan Australia, May) to Penguin US imprint...
Affirm acquires VPLA-shortlisted short-story collection
Friday, 8 March 2019
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut short-story collection by Victorian author Wayne Marshall, which was a runner-up in the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in the unpublished manuscript category. The...
No ‘Daily’ on Monday
Friday, 8 March 2019
Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday (Victoria, South Australia, ACT and Tasmania), the next Daily newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 12 March.
ABIA 2019 longlists announced
Thursday, 7 March 2019
The longlists for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan)...
Storylines announces notable NZ children’s books for 2019
Thursday, 7 March 2019
The Storylines Children’s Trust has announced its 2019 Notable Books list for children’s and young adult books published in the previous year. Notable books in each category are: Picture books...
UK sales of translated fiction grew in 2018
Thursday, 7 March 2019
In the UK, Nielsen Book statistics commissioned by the Man Booker International Prize show that translated fiction sales in the UK grew by 5.5% in 2018, with sales of £20.7...
Publishers Publicity Circle launches Melbourne chapter
Thursday, 7 March 2019
After launching in Australia late last year, the Publishers Publicity Circle (PPC), a networking group for book publicists, is opening a Melbourne chapter. Based on the UK model, which has...
PRH to collectively bargain with editorial, publicity staff
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has agreed to engage in collective bargaining with staff in its editorial and publicity departments. Staff have endorsed the bargaining position and the Media and...
ALIA submits to ParentsNext Senate inquiry; government ignores advice
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Following a Senate inquiry into the federal government's ParentsNext welfare program, the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) is urging public libraries to report ParentsNext case workers who are operating...
Speech: Helen Garner accepts the OzCo Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Earlier this week, Helen Garner was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature at a ceremony in Sydney. The following is her acceptance speech, republished in...
NSW government announces funding for Vision Australia Library
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The NSW government has announced $500,000 funding per year for Vision Australia’s library service, starting in 2020. Administered by the State Library of NSW and commencing 1 July 2019, the...
Readings celebrates 50th anniversary
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Melbourne bookshop Readings is celebrating 50 years since establishing its first store. The original Readings bookshop was founded in Carlton in 1969 by Ross Reading, his wife Dot Reading, and...
Toney wins inaugural Carter Brown Mystery Writing Award
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Wilson Toney’s novel Alibi for a Dead Man has won the inaugural Carter Brown Mystery Writing Award for an unpublished manuscript. Judges praised the novel for its plotting, sharp dialogue...
Two Nobel Prize in Literature awards scheduled for 2019
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded twice this year after the Swedish Academy postponed 2018’s event over a sexual assault scandal, reports the Bookseller. In a statement, the...
Read A Lot Books celebrates 30 years
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Read A Lot Books, in the WA city of Geraldton, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with giveaways and competitions during the month of March. In its 30 years of operation,...
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