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Ipswich purchases land for new CBD library

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Ipswich City Council in regional Queensland has taken ownership of a 1.3 hectare parcel of land in the Ipswich CBD in preparation for a new $150m city library and entertainment...

All-white Carnegie Medal longlist prompts CILIP review 

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
The UK’s Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) will launch an independent review as a result of the controversy surrounding its 2017 Carnegie Medal longlist, reports the Bookseller. As previously...

The missing beat: Benjamin Ludwig on ‘Ginny Moon’

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
One of the first titles from Harlequin Australia’s new HQ imprint is US author Benjamin Ludwig’s debut novel Ginny Moon (May), ‘a unique and compelling narrative that gets deep inside...

Stella Prize 2017 shortlist announced

Stellla Prize shortlist Wednesday, 8 March 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe) The Hate Race (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette)...

Harlequin to launch new imprint HQ

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Harlequin Australia has announced it will launch a new imprint called HQ in April. The publisher, a division of HarperCollins ANZ, said the imprint will ‘showcase quality fiction with a focus on...

Hachette UK acquires ebook publisher Bookouture

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
In the UK, Hachette has acquired independent ebook publisher Bookouture in order to share expertise between the two companies, reports the Bookseller. Bookouture was founded four years ago by former...

Tapper, Stewart join Giramondo

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Giramondo Publishing has appointed two new staff to its editorial team. Nick Tapper has been appointed commissioning editor. Tapper previously worked as editor at Mossenson Art Foundation, and at art-and-design...

Grenville wins OzCo Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award

Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Kate Grenville has won the 2017 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The award, formerly known as the Writers’ Emeritus Award, recognises ‘the achievements of eminent literary writers...

ILF’s Great Book Swap launches today

Tuesday, 7 March 2017
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation’s (ILF) Great Book Swap launches today with a special event with ILF ambassador Justine Clarke and the Indigenous students at Villawood East Public School in Sydney....

New Zealand Book Awards 2017 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 7 March 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Wish Child (Catherine Chidgey, Victoria University Press) Love as...

Leading Edge Books announces conference program 

Monday, 6 March 2017
Leading Edge Books has released the program for its 2017 conference, to be held from 19-21 March at the Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort & Spa. The opening address will be...

British Cover Design Awards 2017 winners announced

Monday, 6 March 2017
The winners of the 2017 Academy of British Cover Design Awards have been announced, reports the Bookseller. Among the winners are: Mass-market Jack Smyth for Girls on Fire (Robin Wasserman, Little,...

Small Australian presence at 2017 TIBE

Friday, 3 March 2017
Readings managing director Mark Rubbo reports from this year’s Taipei International Book Exhibition: The first Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) was held in 1987, which made this year’s fair the...

Arrowsmith-Young tops PWF bestseller list 

Friday, 3 March 2017
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young’s The Woman Who Changed Her Brain (HarperCollins) has topped the Perth Writers Festival’s bestseller list, supplied by festival bookseller Dymocks Claremont. Arrowsmith-Young’s nonfiction title was followed by two local...

New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now 

Friday, 3 March 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in April 2017. Seven of the books scored four stars from our reviewers, including Mammoth Mistake, the first book in the...

PRH to publish books by Obamas

Thursday, 2 March 2017
Penguin Random House has acquired world rights to two books by former US President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama in a deal reportedly worth US$65m (A$85m). According...

Roberts-Orr appointed artistic director of EWF

Thursday, 2 March 2017
Melbourne writer, editor and producer Izzy Roberts-Orr has been appointed artistic director and co-CEO of the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF). Roberts-Orr is a former co-director of the National Young Writers’...

 

 

 

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