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Uhlmann, Lewis adaptation to screen on Foxtel next year

Tuesday, 23 June 2015
A six-part miniseries based on the novels Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code by Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis (HarperCollins) will screen next year on Foxtel’s Showcase channel.The show will begin...

Landman, Grill win Carnegie, Greenaway medals

Tuesday, 23 June 2015
In the UK, Tanya Landman has won the Carnegie Medal for Buffalo Soldier (Walker Books) and debut author and illustrator Will Grill has won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Shackleton’s...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 22 June 2015
A largely unchanged top 10 bestsellers chart this week is topped by The Mindfulness Colouring Book (Emma Farrarons, Boxtree), with Dork Diaries: Drama Queen (Rachel Renee Russell, S&S) the only new...

Tuffield to leave Affirm Press 

Monday, 22 June 2015
Affirm Press has announced that publisher Aviva Tuffield has decided to leave the company.Affirm publisher and CEO Martin Hughes said in a statement: ‘We are sorry to lose Aviva, as...

First-day UK sales of ‘Grey’ ‘record-breaking’

Monday, 22 June 2015
UK publisher Cornerstone has described first-day sales of E L James’ Grey as ‘record-breaking’ for an adult paperback in the UK, reports the Bookseller. The publisher did not release exact figures,...

Fairfax introduces direct links to Booktopia

Monday, 22 June 2015
Book reviews on Fairfax’s the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald websites now include links to buy books directly from online bookseller Booktopia.‘While bricks-and-mortar bookshops are essential to our book industry, Booktopia...

Jones, Whittaker win 2015 black&write! fellowships

Monday, 22 June 2015
Jannali Jones and Alison Whittaker are the winners of the 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships.Each fellowship is worth $10,000 and includes publication by Magabala Books.Jones’ novel My Father’s Shadow is ‘an...

Mudgee Readers’ Festival 2015 program announced

Friday, 19 June 2015
The Mudgee Readers’ Festival (MRF) in regional NSW has announced the program for its 2015 festival, to be held on 15 and 16 August. The line-up includes authors Don Watson, Ramona...

Oyster introduces feature to reduce ereading eyestrain

Friday, 19 June 2015
Ebook subscription service Oyster has introduced a new feature designed to reduce ereading eyestrain by adjusting a device’s screen to the light around it, reports Publishers Weekly. Lumin, which is...

PRH, Amazon reach sales agreement

Friday, 19 June 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) has signed new print and ebook sales agreements with in the US and the UK, reports the Bookseller. PRH was the last of the big five...

Dymocks Hay Street to reopen

Thursday, 18 June 2015
Dymocks’ flagship store in Perth will reopen in July.The Hay Street store, which closed on 14 June as its lease had come to an end, announced on its Facebook page...

Jim Crace wins IMPAC Dublin award

Thursday, 18 June 2015
British author Jim Crace has won the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Harvest (Picador). The €100,000 (A$205,140) award is presented annually for a novel written in...

France named 2017 FBF guest of honour

Thursday, 18 June 2015
France has been named as the guest of honour at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF), reports the Bookseller. This is the second time the country has been guest of...

Bookstores shortlisted for online retail awards 

Thursday, 18 June 2015
Several bookstores have been shortlisted for the 2015 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAS).Booktopia is a finalist in the Best Pure-Play Online Retailer and Best Online Customer Service category; The Co-op is...

Edmond wins Creative NZ Michael King Fellowship

Thursday, 18 June 2015
New Zealand author Martin Edmond is the recipient of this year’s Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, worth NZ$100,000 (A$83,717). Edmond, who won the 2013 NZ Prime Minister’s Award for Literary...

New bookstore, writing workshop opens in Trentham 

Thursday, 18 June 2015
A new bookstore has opened in the regional Victorian town of Trentham.Writer and teacher Brenda Glover opened Dr B’s Bookstore at the beginning of June. The store stocks Australian and international...

Amazon to pay self-published authors ‘per-page-read’

Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Amazon will pay self-published authors in its Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners Lending Library on a new pay-per-page-read model from 1 July, reports Publishers Weekly. The change is in response...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 17 June 2015
SalesChildren’s—Scholastic has sold Canadian English- and French-language rights to Our Love Grows (Anna Pignataro) and Thelma the Unicorn (Aaron Blabey); and Australian English-language audio rights to Crocodile Beat (Gail Jorgensen...

SLV wins top international design award

Wednesday, 17 June 2015
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has taken out the award for ‘overall service design in public sector services’ in the international Good Design Awards, reports Government News. The SLV...

NSW State Library awards announced

Wednesday, 17 June 2015
The recipients of the Honours of the Library Council of NSW have been announced at an awards ceremony at the State Library of NSW. Established in 2014, the honours are...

International library news

Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Ferguson wins US ‘Library of the Year’In the US, the Ferguson Municipal Public Library (FMPL) in Missouri has been voted the Gale/Library Journal ‘Library of the Year’ for 2015. FMPL was...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 17 June 2015
‘It is vital to have a seat at the big table—grass roots organic growth is not possible in a world driven by head office accounts’—publisher Jane Curry on how small...