Last Hong Kong bookshop selling titles banned in China closes
Monday, 5 November 2018
The last bookshop in Hong Kong selling titles banned by the Communist Party of China has closed, reports the Guardian. People Book Café, situated in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay district,...
Angel wins 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award for ‘The Trapeze Act’
Monday, 5 November 2018
Poet Libby Angel has won the 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award for her debut novel The Trapeze Act (Text). The $50,000 award, which is administered by the Australian Society of Authors...
No ‘Daily’ on Tuesday
Monday, 5 November 2018
Please note that, due to the Melbourne Cup holiday on Tuesday, the next Daily newsletter will be published on Wednesday, 7 November.
HarperCollins UK named on Best Employers for Race list
Friday, 2 November 2018
HarperCollins UK is the only publisher to have been named as one of 70 of the best UK employers for race diversity and equality, reports BookBrunch. The Best Employers for Race...
Cundill History Prize 2018 finalists announced
Friday, 2 November 2018
In Canada, the finalists have been announced for the Cundill History Prize, which rewards ‘the best history writing in English’. Chosen from a shortlist of eight, the finalists are: Prairie...
Fashion designer Dinnigan to create two books for Berbay
Friday, 2 November 2018
Berbay Publishing has acquired world rights in a two-book deal to picture books by fashion designer Collette Dinnigan. Dinnigan said: 'I spend more time now reading children's books having a six-year-old...
S&S acquires Archie Roach memoir
Friday, 2 November 2018
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired world rights to a yet-to-be-titled memoir by singer-songwriter Archie Roach. Roach, who is part of the Stolen Generations, is also known as a campaigner...
Lifelong learning: Younger readers editions
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Kelsey Oldham investigates the role played by younger readers editions in the growth of children’s nonfiction. It’s a well-established fact that adult nonfiction titles sell strongly in Australia. In 2018...
Powles, Collison, Pati win inaugural Women Poets’ Prize
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Three poets have been announced as the winners of the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize: New Zealand-born Nina Mingya Powles and London-based poets Claire Collison and Anita Pati. Established in honour of...
Philosopher Nussbaum wins US$1m Berggruen Prize
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Philosopher and classicist Martha Nussbaum has won the US$1 million (A$1.4m) Berggruen Prize, which is awarded annually to ‘thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a...
New specialist kids agency launched
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Lawyer and writer Justine Barker has launched a new literary agency focusing on children’s and YA books. Mayfair Literary Agency will represent authors writing picture books, junior fiction, middle-grade and...
Book industry figures to attend Australia Fest in India
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Australian authors, publishers and literary festival programmers are among the guests at Australia Fest, a six-month festival comprising more than 75 events across 20 Indian cities. Supported by the federal...
State Library NSW announces partnership to make oral histories publicly accessible
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced it will partner with four NSW public libraries to make local oral histories from their archives available to the public. Central West Libraries, Ryde...
US libraries to be supplied with opioid overdose-reversing drug
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
In an effort to reduce drug-related deaths in the United States opioid epidemic, biopharmaceutical company Emergent BioSolutions has announced that it will supply the opioid overdose-reversing drug naxolone, known by...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Please note that due to the Melbourne Cup holiday in Victoria on Tuesday, 6 November, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 8 November.
SLQ wins 2018 VALA award for innovation
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has won an industry innovation award, presented by Victorian organisation VALA—Libraries, Technology and the Future, for its Tunley Braille Globe Project. The project involved...
State Library of WA showcases newly restored heritage films
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) has begun a project to restore and digitise its collection of 14,500 films, reports the West Australian. In late October SLWA partnered with local...
Books+Publishing: Change of email addresses
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Books+Publishing staff members are using new email addresses on the booksandpublishing.com.au domain. Please see the updated email addresses in the 'contact us' section at the end of the newsletter. Our...
Foundry658 announces successful applicants for Bootcamp
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Business development program Foundry658, an initiative from State Library Victoria (SLV) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), has announced the successful applicants for its inaugural bootcamp sessions....
PRH acquires majority stake in Brazilian publisher Companhia das Letras
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired a majority stake of 70% in Brazilian publisher Companhia das Letras. PRH previously acquired a 45% stake in the Brazilian publishing house in 2012,...
Kassabova’s ‘Border’ wins UK Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Scotland-based Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova has won the 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (Granta). Chosen from a shortlist...
First authors announced for 2019 Adelaide Writers’ Week
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
A number of authors have been announced for the 2019 Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 2-7 March 2019. Among the international authors attending the festival are Nigerian poet and...
‘On the Java Ridge’ wins 2018 Colin Roderick Award
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Jock Serong’s On the Java Ridge (Text) has won the 2018 Colin Roderick Award and the HT Priestley Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook...
YABBAs 2018 winners announced
Wednesday, 31 October 2018
The winners of the 2018 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Do Not Open This Book Again!...
Shelf talk: Crime pays
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
As readers wave goodbye to those long lazy days surrounded by books and blankets, there are a few killer books coming out over summer to spark a bit of danger...
Shelf talk: Fantastic fiction
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
The new year is the time I always tell myself I’m going to step back a bit and recover from the Christmas retail frenzy. I never do though, since there...
Shelf talk: Women’s stories
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Humour is back in a big way in women’s fiction, starting in February with The Rosie Result (Text). Could there be a more fitting title to the final book in...
Written in the stars: Minnie Darke on ‘Star-crossed’
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Minnie Darke’s Star-crossed (Michael Joseph, March) follows an aspiring journalist who begins to tinker with her paper’s astrology section after learning that her crush consults his horoscope whenever he’s faced with making...
Books+Publishing magazine Issue 4 2018
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s fourth—and final—issue for 2018 is out now! It features 30 reviews of forthcoming adult and children’s books due to be published between December 2018 and March 2019. Reviews: Of the 17 adult...
Bound together: Kate Richards on ‘Fusion’
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Kate Richards’ Fusion (Hamish Hamilton, February 2019) tells the story of conjoined twins, their carer, and an injured stranger who is brought into their isolated bush home. Reviewer Jacqui Davies described...
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