Dovey and London share NSW Premier’s People’s Choice Award
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
The Golden Age by Joan London (Vintage) and Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey (Hamish Hamilton) are the joint winners of the 2015 NSW Premier’s People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award is chosen online by...
National Young Writers’ Month 2015 program launched
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Express Media has launched the 2015 program for National Young Writers’ Month, its annual June event for young writers across Australia. This years’ program includes 14 livestreamed discussions with young...
Industry groups respond to Australia Council cuts
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Small Press Network (SPN) have responded to the Australia Council’s decision to suspend and cut some of its programs, following funding cuts to the organisation in...
‘SMH’ 2015 Best Young Novelists announced
Monday, 25 May 2015
The winners of this year’s Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) Best Young Australian Novelists Awards have been announced.The winners are: Michael Mohammed Ahmad (The Tribe, Giramondo) Ellen van Neerven (Heat and...
Australian Book Design Awards 2015 winners announced
Monday, 25 May 2015
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners for the 2015 Book Design Awards at an event in Sydney on 22 May.The winning titles in each category are:Best designed...
Amazon fines publishers for late deliveries
Monday, 25 May 2015
In the UK, Amazon has started fining publishers for late deliveries of books to its warehouses, reports the Bookseller. The retailer has sent a letter to suppliers warning that if...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 25 May 2015
The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins, Doubleday) is the number one bestseller in the top 10 chart this week, followed by last week’s number one, Memory Man (David Baldacci,...
Meek wins 2015 Orwell Prize
Monday, 25 May 2015
In the UK, James Meek has won the £3000 (A$5945) Orwell Prize for his book Private Island (Verso), which explores the phenomenon of privatisation in the UK, reports the Bookseller. The prize...
ALIA reveals most borrowed books
Monday, 25 May 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced Australia’s most borrowed library books for the first quarter of 2015 to mark the start of Library and Information Week, which...
Harlequin Audio launched in the US
Friday, 22 May 2015
In the US, Harlequin has announced the launch of an audiobook imprint Harlequin Audio, reports Publishers Weekly. The imprint plans to release 200 audio titles in its first year, beginning...
Australia Council suspends, cuts programs following funding cuts
Friday, 22 May 2015
The Australia Council has cancelled its June grant round and suspended its six-year funding for organisations program, among other changes following $110m in funding cuts announced in the 2015-16 federal budget.The...
Pan Mac wins publisher and book of the year at 2015 ABIAs
Friday, 22 May 2015
The winners of the 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on 21 May.Pan Macmillan was one of the big winners of the night, taking out the...
Copyright Agency Fellowships announced
Friday, 22 May 2015
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of its inaugural Publisher Fellowships to ‘conduct study or research into digital publishing, emerging business models and technologies’.The recipients are: Chrysoula Aiellou, Scholastic,...
Bloomsbury profit, revenue up
Thursday, 21 May 2015
In the UK, Bloomsbury has reported slight growth in profit and revenue in the 12 months to the end of February, reports the Bookseller. The publisher reported revenue of £111.1m...
Sampson wins 2015 Finch Memoir Prize
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Alan Sampson has won the 2015 Finch Memoir Prize for his entry Schools of Fish.Sampson, a Queensland high-school principal renowned for ‘transforming weak schools into centres of academic excellence’, writes in his...
UK report finds more children enjoy reading but gender gap remains
Thursday, 21 May 2015
In the UK, a literacy survey has found that reading for enjoyment among young people has increased, but the gap between girls and boys in terms of reading for pleasure...
Balancing at the precipice: Antonia Hayes on ‘Relativity’
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Author Antonia Hayes has been a bookseller, book publicist and co-director of the National Young Writers’ Festival. Her debut novel Relativity (Viking) is a family drama interwoven with cosmology and quantum...
Behind the clichés: Honey Brown on ‘Six Degrees’
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Honey Brown is the Aurealis Award-winning, Miles Franklin Award-longlisted author of the novels Red Queen (Penguin) and The Good Daughter (Viking). Her latest short-story collection Six Degrees (Ventura Press, August)...
Marozzi’s ‘Baghdad’ wins 2015 Ondaatje Prize
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
In the UK, the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been awarded to Justin Marozzi for his history book Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood (Penguin). The annual £10,000 (A$19,600)...
László Krasznahorkai wins 2015 Man Booker International Prize
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has won the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. The £60,000 (A$117,600) biennial prize is awarded to a living author, whose body of work is available in...
Shortlist for 2015 Vic Prem’s unpublished manuscript award announced
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Dry (Jane Harper) Nikolai the Perfect (Jim McIntyre) Fine (Michelle Wright). The judges also...
International library news
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Chinese architect creates secluded beach libraryIn China, a 5000 square foot library has been built on a secluded beach that can only be reached on foot, reports the Daily Mail....
Swift ‘One Card’ system coming to Victorian libraries
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
The Swift Library Consortium has announced that the ‘One Card’ system will be available in all 100 Victorian public libraries that are part of the Swift group from 1 July...
New Devonport Library draws record numbers in first three months
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
In New Zealand, the new Devonport Library (Te Pātaka Kōrero o Te Hau Kapua) has recorded more than 93,369 visits since it opened in February, more than triple the number...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
‘The transparent policies and programs of the old Australia Council—supported for 45 years by both sides of politics—look positively utopian’—two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author Rodney Hall on cuts to the...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
SalesFiction—Spinifex Press has sold Turkish rights to Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis to Güldünya Publishing. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audiobook rights to Interestingly Enough: The Life of Tom Keneally...
Close to 60 indie bookstores attend 2015 Leading Edge Conference
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Representatives from close to 60 independent bookstores from across Australia attended this year’s Leading Edge Book conference, held in Melbourne from 15-16 May.Leading Edge marketing manager Galina Marinov told Books+Publishing...
Folio Society ends prize sponsorship
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The Folio Society will not renew its sponsorship of The Folio Prize, the annual £40,000 (A$78,360) award for best English-language fiction published in the UK, after completing its two-year agreement...
Melbourne Prize for Literature opens; new $20,000 essay category announced
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Entries have opened for the triennial Melbourne Prize for Literature, which includes a new $20,000 prize for an essay.The Writers Prize, which is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund,...
On Tour: Meet the author David Mitchell
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
David Mitchell is the genre-hopping author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, his latest novel (both Sceptre). He will be touring in May, visiting Brisbane, Melbourne...
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