Authors with ‘common themes’ form writers collective Subterranean Ink
Friday, 25 November 2016
Four Australian authors whose work shares ‘common themes’ have created a writers collective to improve their chances of reaching bookstores. Brendan Murphy, who is contracted to US-based Assent Publishing for...
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ tops A&R readers poll
Thursday, 24 November 2016
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird finished on top of Angus & Robertson Bookworld’s ‘Top 130 Books Ever’ readers’ poll, run for the first time since 2010 to mark A&R’s...
‘Financial Times’ Business Book of the Year winner announced
Thursday, 24 November 2016
In the UK, Sebastian Mallaby’s The Man Who Knew (Bloomsbury) has won the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. Chosen from a shortlist of six,...
Lucashenko wins Copyright Agency fellowship; $115m distributed to members in 2015-16
Thursday, 24 November 2016
Melissa Lucashenko has been named the 2016 Copyright Agency Cultural Fund Author Fellow, worth $80,000 after the prize money doubled from its inaugural year in 2015. Lucashenko will use the...
Costa Book Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Thursday, 24 November 2016
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2016 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The four titles shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award are: This Must be the Place (Maggie...
Melbourne CBD building to include ‘highly curated’ street-level public library
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
A 70-storey residential and commercial building approved for the Melbourne CBD will include a street-level public library run in collaboration with Victoria University, reports Architecture Australia. Architect Jean Nouvel said the...
Sydney Uni library offers fine amnesty by donating to Koori Centre
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
The University of Sydney is offering a reduction in fines on overdue library items, with the proceeds being donated to the Koori Centre to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
Woman paid $1500 to read ‘Don Quixote’ at the NLA
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Canberra woman Moira Christie will be paid $1500 to read Don Quixote as part of the National Library of Australia’s (NLA) Money to Read program, reports ABC News. In an...
Steed awarded 2016 Dromkeen Librarian’s Award
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has presented this year’s Dromkeen Librarian’s Award to Sarah Steed, senior manager of content and engagement for Libraries ACT. Steed has worked for more...
Deakin academics to research teen reading habits
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
A team of seven researchers at Melbourne’s Deakin University is working on a study of Australian adolescents’ recreational reading habits in the digital era. Researcher Leonie Rutherford told Books+Publishing that the pilot...
Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Award 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
True crime author Ruth Wykes has won the 2016 Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Award, presented at Sisters in Crime’s 25th anniversary convention in Melbourne on 19 November. Wykes was awarded...
‘How Machines Work’ wins Royal Society young people’s book prize
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
In the UK, David Macaulay’s How Machines Work (Dorling Kindersley) has won the Royal Society young people’s book prize for the best science books for children, reports the Guardian. Macaulay’s...
Landers wins 2016 Waverley Library Award
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Filmmaker and historian Rachel Landers has won the 2016 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for her book Who Bombed the Hilton? (NewSouth). Landers was presented with the...
Christmas closing list: submissions due this Monday 28 November
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Publishers and distributors are asked to advise Books+Publishing of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Monday 28 November. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book Newsletter on Wednesday 7...
Lester awarded 2016 Dromkeen Medal
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Children’s book author Alison Lester has been awarded the 2016 Dromkeen Medal at a presentation at the State Library of Victoria (SLV). Lester is the author and illustrator of numerous...
BAME prize chair labels publishers ‘pathetic’ after lack of submissions to inaugural award
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
In the UK, the chair of the inaugural £1000 (A$1695) Jhalak prize for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers has called publishers ‘pathetic’ after the award received fewer submissions...
Australian, NZ authors on 2017 International Dublin longlist
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Ten books by Australian authors and six by New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award. Books by Australian authors on the longlist are: Clade...
New Zealand Book Awards 2017 longlists announced
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
The longlists for the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Wish Child (Catherine Chidgey, Victoria University Press) A Briefcase,...
Copyright Agency announces shortlist for Author Fellowship
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
The Copyright Agency has announced the shortlist for its 2016 Author Fellowship, worth $80,000. The shortlisted authors and their proposed works are: Georgia Blain, for a memoir that is ‘a...
UWAP to drop awards submissions in 2017
Monday, 21 November 2016
University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) will no longer enter its titles for Australian book awards from 2017. UWAP director Terri-ann White said in a letter to UWAP authors that...
New owner for Mary Martin Southgate
Monday, 21 November 2016
Medical researcher Jaye Chin-Dusting has purchased Mary Martin Bookshop in Southgate, Melbourne, from the previous owners Graham and Margaret Brookes, who have decided to retire after running the business for...
ABC’s ‘The Book Club’ to host year-end special
Monday, 21 November 2016
ABC TV’s The Book Club will present an hour-long special program on Tuesday, 13 December to discuss 2016’s best books. The ‘Five of the Best 2016’ program will see hosts...
Bad S-x in Fiction Award 2016 shortlist announced
Monday, 21 November 2016
In the UK, the Literary Review has announced the books shortlisted for the 2016 Bad S-x in Fiction Award. The six shortlisted titles are: A Doubter’s Almanac (Ethan Canin, Bloomsbury),...
Wheatle wins ‘Guardian’ children’s fiction prize
Monday, 21 November 2016
Alex Wheatle has won the 2016 Guardian children’s fiction prize for his YA novel Crongton Knights (Atom Books), the second book in a planned trilogy ‘set on a fictitious inner...
Australian romance readers’ survey released; erotica and rural romance decline in popularity
Friday, 18 November 2016
The Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA) has released the results of its annual readers’ survey, based on 275 respondents. This year’s survey saw a drop in the popularity of erotica...
National Book Award 2016 winners announced
Friday, 18 November 2016
In the US, the winners of the 2016 National Book Awards have been announced. Colson Whitehead won the fiction award for The Underground Railroad (Fleet), which traces a slave’s flight...
Bloomsbury launches literary crime and thriller imprint
Friday, 18 November 2016
Bloomsbury has launched a new imprint that specialises in literary crime, thrillers and suspense, called Raven Books. The imprint, led by UK-based editorial director Alison Hennessey, will launch in January...
Carter to be adapted for BBC radio’s ‘Crime Down Under’ season
Friday, 18 November 2016
Fremantle Press has sold radio dramatisation rights to Alan Carter’s first book in the ‘Cato Kwong’ series, Prime Cut, to BBC radio drama in the UK. The deal will see...
Booktopia makes ‘BRW’ Fast 100 for the seventh time
Friday, 18 November 2016
Online bookseller Booktopia has made the Business Review Weekly’s (BRW) annual Fast 100 for the seventh time. Booktopia’s revenue grew from $12m in 2011 to $80.7m in 2016. It came...
Drury, Hannam and Walsh awarded NSW Sales Rep of the Year awards
Friday, 18 November 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of its 2016 NSW Sales Rep of the Year awards. Simon & Schuster’s Kay Drury and Allen & Unwin’s Mark Hannam...
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