Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 shortlist announced
Monday, 2 July 2018
The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The shortlisted books in each category are: Picture fiction Can You Find Me? (Gordon Winch,...
PRH India buys Hindi-language publisher Hind Pocket Books
Monday, 2 July 2018
Penguin Random House India has acquired Hind Pocket Books, one of the oldest and best-known Hindi-language publishers in India, reports the Bookseller. Established in 1958, Hind Pocket Books predominantly publishes...
ABC Books signs gardening book by Costa Georgiadis
Monday, 2 July 2018
ABC Books has acquired the first book by landscape architect and Gardening Australia host Costa Georgiadis. The as-yet-untitled gardening book will possess Georgiadis’ ‘unique, inimitable and delightful approach to nurturing...
Higgins appointed GM of Dymocks Books
Monday, 2 July 2018
Dymocks has announced that Sophie Higgins, current head of marketing and merchandise, has been promoted to the role of Dymocks Books general manager, effective from 1 July. In her new...
Hachette signs FitzSimons for six-book deal
Monday, 2 July 2018
Hachette Australia has signed a six-book deal with author Peter FitzSimons. Negotiated directly with FitzSimons, the six-book deal will begin with Mutiny on the Bounty, which tells the story of...
S&S, Gibbs partner with Fairfax on ‘Good Food Guide’
Monday, 2 July 2018
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) and former Lantern publishing director Julie Gibbs will partner with Fairfax Media to publish the 2019 edition of the Good Food Guide. Released in October...
Slam poets to represent Australia in the US
Monday, 2 July 2018
Four Melbourne-based slam poets will compete in the US National Poetry Slam in August this year. Poet Tenda McFly, the winner of a slam event held during the inaugural Melbourne...
Royal Society of Literature admits 40 fellows under the age of 40
Friday, 29 June 2018
In the UK, the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) has appointed 40 new fellows as part of its 40 Under 40 initiative, which aims to ‘welcome a new generation of writers...
New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now
Friday, 29 June 2018
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains five reviews of books publishing in September. Reviewer Simon McDonald gave 4.5 stars to Stephanie Bishop’s third novel, Man Out of Time (Hachette), describing it as 'a...
Hinkler and Bookoli launch mass-market UK publisher
Friday, 29 June 2018
Melbourne-based children’s publisher Hinkler Books and UK children’s publisher Bookoli are launching a new mass-market publisher based in the UK. Curious Universe UK, which is the result of a 50-50...
WA Prem’s Book Awards returns to annual cycle in 2019
Friday, 29 June 2018
The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards will return to an annual format, beginning in 2019. The decision was announced by the Minister for Culture and the Arts David Templeman at...
Govt to offer $48 million ‘innovation fund’ for regional and small publishers
Friday, 29 June 2018
The federal government has established a new fund for regional publishers, small publishers and content providers that produce ‘public-interest journalism with an Australian perspective’. The Regional and Small Publishers Innovation...
The bigger picture: Katherine Collette on ‘The Helpline’
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Katherine Collette’s debut novel The Helpline (Text, September) is a witty and heartfelt story about an insurance probability outcomes mathematician who ends up answering a seniors’ helpline for the local...
Text sells US, UK rights to Collette debut; Hillman picked up by Faber
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Text Publishing has sold North American rights to Katherine Collette’s forthcoming debut The Helpline to Tara Parsons, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) Touchstone division in the US, in a...
UK survey reveals 15% drop in average author earnings since 2013
Thursday, 28 June 2018
In the UK, the latest income survey from the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) has found that writers' average earnings have fallen by 15% since the last review in...
UQP acquires Birch’s new novel ‘The White Girl’
Thursday, 28 June 2018
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired author Tony Birch’s third novel, The White Girl. World (including translation) rights were acquired by UQP publishing director and acting-CEO Madonna Duffy, as...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ to be published globally through HarperCollins
Thursday, 28 June 2018
HarperCollins Australia has announced a global deal for Trent Dalton’s debut Boy Swallows Universe that will see the book published through HarperCollins companies across major English and translation markets. HarperCollins...
Finding your centre: Megan Daley on her career journey
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
‘A school library is at the very centre of creative school communities,’ writes teacher-librarian and book blogger Megan Daley. She shares her career journey. I studied early childhood teaching, always...
HK public libraries remove LGBTQIA+ kids books
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
The Hong Kong government has been accused of moving several LGBTQIA-themed children’s books out of public view in the city's public libraries, following complaints by an anti-gay group, reports the Standard....
Talking less and listening more: Martin Hughes on creating safer workplaces
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Affirm Press publisher Martin Hughes (with senior editor Ruby Ashby-Orr) explores what it means to shape a better culture and create safer workplaces. At the recent Leading Edge Books conference...
Podcast spotlight: Spun Stories
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Established in 2015, Spun: True Stories Told in the Territory evolved from a quarterly live storytelling event in Darwin that showcases ‘extraordinary stories by ordinary people’. Hosted and produced by...
300 attend 2018 ABA Conference; booksellers ‘surviving and thriving’
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Close to 300 booksellers, exhibitors and guest speakers attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference and trade show, which was held in Canberra from 17-18 June. This year, the...
2018 ABA conference: value, volume up YTD; branding, staff management discussed
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Nielsen Book associate director Julie Winters presented an overview of the Australian book market at the 2018 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference. Winters reported that the total book market is...
NSW govt cuts public library funding by 18% in 2018-19 state budget
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
The NSW state budget has cut funding to public libraries by 18%, according to peak body Local Government NSW (LGNSW). The 2018-19 NSW state budget allocated $23.5 million to libraries,...
Mason appointed chair of NLA
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
The federal government has appointed Brett Mason as the new chair of the council of the National Library of Australia (NLA). Mason—a diplomat and academic, as well as a former...
Copyright Agency sues NSW government after unsuccessful mediation
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
After an unsuccessful mediation last week, the Copyright Agency is pursuing a law suit it filed against the New South Wales state government last year over the non-payment of copyright...
Rapper ‘Loki’ wins 2018 Orwell Prize
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
In the UK, Darren McGarvey, also known as the rapper ‘Loki’, has won the £3000 (A$5547) Orwell Prize for Books for Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass (Luath...
Hardie Grant acquires Pascoe’s travel guide
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Hardie Grant Travel has acquired world rights to a travel guide book by Bunurong writer Bruce Pascoe. The as-yet-untitled book will look at places in Australia ‘where evidence of Indigenous...
Goldin’s escape room thriller attracts six-figure North American deal
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Australian author Megan Goldin’s second novel, The Escape Room (Michael Joseph), has sold into North America in a six-figure, two-book deal negotiated by David Gernert of the Gernert Agency on...
Ventura acquires world rights to d’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Blanche D’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series. The first two books in the series, The Young Lion and The Lion Rampant, will be...
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