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Nugent wins Readings Children’s Book Prize 2019

Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Carly Nugent has won the 2019 Readings Children’s Book Prize for The Peacock Detectives (Text). Nugent’s title was chosen from a shortlist of six, announced in February. She receives $3000....

HarperCollins acquires three new McTiernan novels

Tuesday, 16 April 2019
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to three new books from crime writer Dervla McTiernan, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia. The first book in McTiernan’s new deal, which is...

Powers wins 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for ‘The Overstory’

Tuesday, 16 April 2019
In the US, Richard Powers has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Overstory (Vintage). The Overstory tells the story of nine strangers brought together by...

Wheeler Centre 2019 Hot Desk fellowships announced

Tuesday, 16 April 2019
The Wheeler Centre has announced the successful applicants for its 2019 Hot Desk Fellowships. This year, the Wheeler Centre is offering three new fellowships for regional and interstate writers, who...

Text announces Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel shortlist

Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors have announced the shortlist for the 2019 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel. The three manuscripts and their authors are:...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2019: Mark Campbell

Tuesday, 16 April 2019
The Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....

Clan Destine Press acquires UK small publisher

Monday, 15 April 2019
Melbourne-based genre specialist Clan Destine Press has acquired Improbable Press, a small UK publisher. Improbable Press began in London in 2015 as a publisher of Sherlock Holmes titles, but will...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2019: Catriona Murdie

Monday, 15 April 2019
The Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....

Ashurst Business Literature Prize shortlist announced

Monday, 15 April 2019
The shortlist for the 2018 Ashurst Business Literature Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Big Four: The Curious and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly (Ian...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2019: Ella Chapman

Friday, 12 April 2019
The Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In this...

2019 Scribblers Festival full program announced

Friday, 12 April 2019
The line-up for the second annual Scribblers Festival, which celebrates children's literature and arts, has been announced. Running from 8–12 May in the Perth suburb of Claremont, Scribblers Festival will...

PwC report shows growth in UK bookshops while high street retail declines

Friday, 12 April 2019
Bookshops are one of the top retail growth categories in the UK, according to new research from PricewaterhouseCoopers that also shows a record number of UK shops closed in 2018....

‘Steve Smith’s Men’ wins Wisden Book of the Year 2019

Friday, 12 April 2019
In the UK, Geoff Lemon’s Steve Smith’s Men (Hardie Grant) has won the Wisden Book of the Year award. Lemon’s book is an on-the-ground account of the Test cricket cheating...

Pantera sells 10 Rowland Sinclair mysteries to UK

Friday, 12 April 2019
Pantera Press has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ and Canada) to the first 10 books in the 'Rowland Sinclair Mysteries' series (Sulari Gentill) to independent UK publisher Oldcastle...

Hachette UK opens new distribution centre

Thursday, 11 April 2019
Hachette UK CEO David Shelley has opened the company's new Hely Hutchinson distribution centre in Oxfordshire. The 23,000 sqm building, which Shelley described as ‘the best distribution centre in Europe,...

ABIA 2019 shortlists announced

Thursday, 11 April 2019
The shortlists for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U) The Lost Flowers...

Meet the ABIA Rising Stars 2019: Alice Wood

Thursday, 11 April 2019
The Australian Book Industry Awards’ (ABIA) Rising Star of the Year is awarded to an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry....

The prize is right: Authors on winning an unpublished manuscript prize

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
How does winning an unpublished manuscript prize affect the careers of debut authors? Jackie Tang talks to two recent winners. It’s difficult to ignore the sheer number of unpublished manuscript...

George Robertson Award 2019 winners announced

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
The winners of the 2019 George Robertson Award, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry, were announced by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) on 4 April. The...

Hardie Grant Egmont to publish ‘period guide’ by Yumi Stynes, Melissa Kang

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has acquired world rights to a guide for pre-teens about getting their period, written by journalist Yumi Stynes and Melissa Kang, the longest-serving expert behind the ‘Dolly...

New database explores diversity in children’s books

Wednesday, 10 April 2019
The National Centre for Australian Children’s Literacy (NCACL) has launched a cultural diversity database designed to help librarians, teachers, parents and readers find books that ‘feature Australia’s culturally diverse population’....