S&S acquire Masen romance series
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to two novels in a new romance series from Kat T Masen. Described as a ‘small-town billionaire romance series’, the series...
Flanagan wins 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
In the UK, Question 7 by Australian author Richard Flanagan (Knopf) has won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$96,097), becoming the first author to win both this...
‘Nuked’ wins 2024 Walkley Book Award
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Andrew Fowler has won the 2024 Walkley Book Award for Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty (MUP). Walkley judges said: ‘Andrew Fowler’s razor-sharp analysis uses extensive research and interviews...
Amplify Bookstore’s summer reading recommendations
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Amplify Bookstore is an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, founded by Jing Xuan Teo and Marina Sano. Here, they share...
Karina May recommends
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
The best rom-com I’ve read this year is The Wedding Forecast by Nina Kenwood. It’s everything I’d want in a rom-com—addictive, delightful and featuring New York. I was also lucky enough to...
Karina May on ‘That Island Feeling’
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Karina May is an avid romance reader and journalist turned author of ‘lively love stories for wanderlusters’, including Never Ever Forever and Duck à l’Orange for Breakfast. Her fourth novel, That...
Bergmoser’s ‘The Hunted’ to be adapted for screen
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Writer and director John Michael McDonagh, with Film Constellation and CAA Media Finance, will adapt The Hunted, a novel by Gabriel Bergmoser (HarperCollins), for film in Australia in 2025. The...
Lloyd, Hart to launch Pink Shorts Press
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Co-founders Margot Lloyd and Emily Hart have announced the establishment of new publishing venture Pink Shorts Press, which will launch in Adelaide during Adelaide Writers' Week in March 2025. Lloyd...
QBD to open Ballarat store
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
QBD Books has announced it will open a new bookstore at Stockland Wendouree in Ballarat, Victoria. Authors appearing at the grand opening on 23 November will include Amy Doak with...
Australian authors launch Summer Reading for MPs campaign
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
A group of over 90 Australian authors and other members of the literary community have given Australian federal parliamentarians a ‘carefully curated package of books on the Middle East to...
National Book Network to close in US
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
In the US, Publishers Weekly (PW) reports that independent distributor National Book Network (NBN) will close next year. The forthcoming closure follows the collapse of Small Press Distribution (SPD) in...
WH Smith revenue up as it plans US expansion
Monday, 18 November 2024
In the UK, travel bookseller WH Smith has announced its total revenue in its travel category was up 11% for the year ended 31 August 2024. In its preliminary results...
Diversity Works outlines ‘areas for improvement’ in PANZ member ‘baseline’ survey report
Monday, 18 November 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ), in collaboration with Diversity Works, has released a report communicating findings from a diversity baseline...
Yen Press joins Hachette, ADS for ANZ sales and distribution
Monday, 18 November 2024
Hachette Australia, Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand, and Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) have announced Yen Press has partnered with the organisations for their sales and distribution services throughout Australia and Aotearoa...
UWAP acquires Smith’s YA novel
Monday, 18 November 2024
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Pip Smith’s YA novel The Pull of the Moon. Inspired by the Janga/SIEV-221 tragedy in December 2010, The Pull of the Moon...
Jones receives Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature
Monday, 18 November 2024
Gail Jones has won the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, ‘recognising her impressive body of work and her ongoing mentoring of young writers’. The award ‘acknowledges the...
Inaugural DANZ festival announced
Monday, 18 November 2024
The Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Children's Book Award organisation (DANZ) has announced it is planning a children’s book festival. In a brief statement in which it launched...
Wright, Tiffany 2024 Melbourne Prize winners
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, and Carrie Tiffany has won the $10,000 Writers Prize. A member of the Waanyi Nation of the Southern Highlands of...
Storylines Notable Book Award 2024 winners
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa has announced the 2024 Storylines Notable Book Award winners. This year’s winners are: Te Reo Māori A Ariā me te...
Saleh and Treloar joint winers of 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced joint winners for the 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award: Sara M Saleh for Songs for the Dead and the Living (Affirm) and Lucy Treloar...
Booktopia announces staff appointments
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Online bookseller Booktopia has announced a number of staff appointments, following the acquisition of the business by digiDirect owner Shant Kradjian. Sophie Higgins, among whose previous roles is the position...
UQP acquires Wood middle-grade novel
Thursday, 14 November 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to a new middle-grade novel by Fiona Wood, titled The Boy and the Dog Tree, in a two-book deal, via Katelyn...
A&U acquires Beaumont thriller
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Liar’s Game, the third book in Jack Beaumont’s Frenchman series of thrillers, via Laura Bonner of WME. In the new book,...
Booktopia Group insolvent since at least 31 January; entities put into liquidation
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Booktopia Group Limited creditors have voted in favour of the resolution that Booktopia Group Limited—and associated entities Booktopia Pty Ltd, Making I. T. Better Pty Ltd, and Virtual Lifestyles Pty...
Submit your Christmas closing dates
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
To be included in Books+Publishing’s annual list of publishers’ and distributors’ trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon on Tuesday 26...
Gale and Golding to depart Scribe in restructure
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Scribe has announced that trade sales manager Sarina Gale and senior editor David Golding will leave the company after a restructure. Gale and Golding, both based in Melbourne, will leave...
Hardie Grant leadership changes
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Hardie Grant (HG) has announced a new leadership team, following the announcement that Julie Pinkham will be stepping down from the position of group managing director after 27 years with...
HarperCollins acquires Johnston novel ‘The Revisionists’
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Revisionists, a new novel by Michelle Johnston, via Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary. The publisher said the book ‘examines the malleability of...
Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for ‘Orbital’
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
In the UK, Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$97,635), for Orbital (Vintage). Orbital takes place over a single day in the life of six astronauts...
Sophie Clark recommends
Tuesday, 12 November 2024
Dark Heir by C S Pacat! I blame the brilliance of that book for the world-class reading slump I’ve been in for much of this year. It was quite simply...
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