Byron Bay Writers’ Festival to ‘promote lesser known writers’ in regional roadshow
Friday, 18 July 2014
The Byron Bay Writers’ Festival will run a regional roadshow in the lead-up to this year’s festival to ‘promote lesser known writers’.The roadshow, which has received one-off funding from the...
Australian Book Design Awards 2014 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlist for the 2014 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Best Designed Literary Fiction Book: A Girl is...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2014 longlist announced
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced.The longlisted titles are: The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Granta) Joe Victim (Paul Cleave, Atria) The...
NZSA Best First Book Awards 2014 winners announced
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards have been announced.The winning titles in each category are: Best First Book—Fiction Tough (Amy Head,...
Deraniyagala wins PEN/Ackerley Prize
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The £3000 (A$5487) PEN/Ackerley Prize for a work of memoir or autobiography has been awarded to Sonali Deraniyagala for Wave (Virago), reports the Bookseller. The memoir explores the author’s grief...
The 17th storey: Maxine Beneba Clarke’s tribute to Matt Richell
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Robert Watkins has baked a coffee and cardamom cake. He is Hachette Australia’s commissioning editor. He says the marketing director is likely coming. The publishing director is already there. “Our...
OUP reports ‘impressive’ local growth
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Oxford University Press (OUP) has recorded ‘impressive overall turnover growth’ in Australia and New Zealand, says OUP Australia MD Peter Van Noorden. Van Noorden told Books+Publishing the Australian and New...
Vale Matt Richell
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Matt Richell, CEO of Hachette Australia and chairman of Hachette New Zealand, died in a surfing accident in Sydney on 2 July.Former CEO of Hachette Australia Malcolm Edwards writes:‘Matt was different....
ABC Shop and Co-op recognised in retailer awards
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The ABC Shop and the Co-op were among the retailers recognised in the Australian Retailers Association’s (ARA) 2014 Australian Retailer of the Year Awards.The ABC Shop won the Australian Customer Satisfaction...
Walker Books promotes Van Den Belt, announces new appointments to Aus management team
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Walker Books has promoted Angela Van Den Belt to the position of president, general manager and commercial director of Walker Books Australia and New Zealand. Van Den Belt was previously deputy...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
‘There should be no hard and fast rules concerning book reviewing. That’s because reviewing constitutes a worthy genre in its own right, one that should not be limited by guidelines...
Nonfiction festival launched in regional Victoria
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
A new literary festival billed as Australia’s ‘largest festival to showcase only nonfiction literature, writing and ideas’ will be held in Geelong, Victoria, in August.The Word for Word: National Non-fiction...
Express Media Young Writers Innovation Prize 2014 winners announced
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Express Media has announced the winners of its 2014 Young Writers Innovation Prize.Now in its second year, the prize funds innovative projects in the fields of literature and publishing.Betanarratives has...
Amazon offers Hachette authors 100% ebook royalties; Hachette and Authors Guild respond
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
While the dispute between Amazon and Hachette US over trading terms continues, Amazon has offered authors affected by the dispute 100% of royalties on their ebook sales, reports the Bookseller....
Townsend joins ‘Griffith REVIEW’, Thwaites departs
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
The Griffith REVIEW has announced the appointment of Hamish Townsend as editorial manager. Townsend, who was previously a journalist and communications officer at Griffith University, took up the position in...
Singapore libraries remove children’s titles with gay themes
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
In Singapore, the National Library Board (NLB) has removed from libraries three children’s titles it has deemed inappropriate for children following complaints about their homosexual themes, reports the Straits Times. The...
Hachette to honour Richell with scholarship or foundation
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Hachette has announced it will establish a scholarship or foundation to commemorate Hachette Australia CEO Matt Richell. ‘We plan to work with [Richell’s wife] Hannah to establish a scholarship or...
RiP Nadine Gordimer
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
South African writer Nadine Gordimer has died, aged 90. Gordimer’s literary agency, United Agents, writes: ‘Nadine Gordimer, who in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died peacefully...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold UK English-language rights to Sapphire Skies, White Gardenia, Wild Lavender and Silver Wattle (Belinda Alexandra). Nonfiction—HarperCollins has sold Canadian rights to The New Classics (Donna Hay); and...
Brisbane Square Library’s first Reader-in-Residence completes his term
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Poet David Stavanger has completed his 12-month term as Australia’s first Reader-in-Residence, based at Brisbane Square Library. At his final event on 4 July, Stavanger (aka Ghostboy) read work written...
International library news
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Singapore libraries remove children’s titles with gay themes In Singapore, the National Library Board (NLB) has removed from libraries three children’s titles it has deemed inappropriate for children following complaints about their...
On tour: Meet the author Rachael Herron
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
US-NZ author Rachael Herron is attending the Australian Romance Readers Convention in Sydney in August. Her latest novel is Pack Up the Moon (Bantam). The next instalment in her ‘Cypress...
After the games: Catherine Harris on ‘The Family Men’
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
The Family Men (Black Inc., September) explores the fallout from an AFL football team’s post-season celebration. ‘[It’s] a nuanced indictment of a sporting culture that forgives appalling behaviour in our...
Expect the unexpected: J M Donellan on ‘Killing Adonis’
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
‘Farcical plotlines, secrets, surreal moments and eccentric characters populate the pages’ of J M Donellan’s novel Killing Adonis (Pantera Press, October), which will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson’s films,...
Frank O’Connor short story winner announced
Monday, 14 July 2014
Debut Irish author Colin Barrett has won the 2014 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award—the world’s richest prize for a short-story collection, reports the Guardian. Barrett’s collection Young Skins (Vintage...
Print decline slows in the UK
Monday, 14 July 2014
In the UK, the Bookseller reports that the ‘physical market’ for the first half of the year has fallen by 2.4% to £526 million (A$959 million), with volume sales of...
Australian Christian Book of the Year shortlist announced
Monday, 14 July 2014
The 2014 Australian Christian Book of the Year shortlist has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: C S Lewis and the Body in the Basement (Kel Richards, Strand) Eating Heaven (Simon...
Government should establish first class mail rate, says ABA
Monday, 14 July 2014
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has called on the federal government to establish a first class mail rate in Australia to increase postage costs for overseas retailers sending parcels to...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 14 July 2014
Lost & Found by Perth author and bookseller Brooke Davis (Hachette) has entered the bestsellers chart this week in 10th place after being last week’s highest new entry in 17th place....
New report finds ebooks represent 2.7% of NZ publishing industry sales
Monday, 14 July 2014
A new PwC report, Economic contribution of the New Zealand publishing industry, has found the industry ‘generated or supported a total of [NZ]$382 million [A$358 million] in GDP’.The report analysed...
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