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RWA announces 2024 Ruby winners

Monday, 19 August 2024
Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2024 Romantic Book of the Year Awards, known as the Ruby Awards. The winners in each category are: Romantic...

German bookselling chain, trade publication to close

Monday, 19 August 2024
In Germany, Weltbild, once one of the country’s largest bookselling operations, is closing down on 31 August, while the German book trade paper BuchMarkt will close on 31 December after...

New QBD store in Queensland

Monday, 19 August 2024
QBD has announced it will open a new store in Orion Springfield Central in Ipswich, Queensland. Trent Dalton, Heather Morris and Lauren Jackson will feature in the store opening. This...

Oliver appointed Blak & Bright artistic director

Monday, 19 August 2024
First Nations literature festival Blak & Bright has announced the appointment of Bebe Oliver as the new artistic director and CEO of the festival. Oliver takes over from Jane Harrison,...

CBCA Book of the Year 2024 winners announced

Friday, 16 August 2024
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners of the 2024 Book of the Year Awards. This year, the CBCA shadow judging winners were announced simultaneously. Now...

Readings Young Adult Prize 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 15 August 2024
Readings has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Readings Young Adult Book Prize. This year’s six shortlisted books are: A Way Home (Emily Brewin, MidnightSun) Blind Spot (Robyn Dennison, Text)...

A&U acquires Grynberg personal development title

Thursday, 15 August 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Living a Life of Greatness by podcaster Sarah Grynberg. ‘Sarah believes greatness is fulfilment and purpose in life, and she shows it’s...

S&S acquires Amerena debut novel

Thursday, 15 August 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired ANZ rights to I Want Everything, a debut novel by Dominic Amerena, in a pre-emptive offer, via agent Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary....

APA announces editors selected for Children’s Editorial Program intensive

Thursday, 15 August 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the 26 editors selected to participate in the Children’s Editorial Program’s inaugural initiative, the Picture Book Editing Intensive, taking place in October 2024....

Gregg overall winner at New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults

Thursday, 15 August 2024
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Stacy Gregg (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Pūkeko, Ngāti Maru Hauraki) has won the overall Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the 2024 New Zealand Book...

Booksellers report dramatic sales drop during Olympic Games

Thursday, 15 August 2024
In Paris, booksellers have reported significant sales drops during the 2024 Olympic Games, reports the Bookseller. English-language Abbey Bookshop in the city’s Latin Quarter reported sales on the Monday before...

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 15 August 2024
Creative Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Anam (André Dao, Hamish Hamilton) Restless Dolly Maunder...

Royal Society science book prize 2024 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 14 August 2024
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The six titles shortlisted for the £25,000 (A$48,482) award, selected...

Yin on ‘The Conscious Style Guide’

Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Karen Yin is an award-winning writer and editor. She created the Conscious Style Guide, a resource website for writers, editors and others interested in conscious language, as well as the...

Books pitched at MIFF 2024

Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Books at MIFF, an event that promotes books to potential screen rights buyers at the Melbourne International Film Festival, took place again this year, on last Thursday, 8 August. The...

Affirm acquires Cleary debut historical fiction

Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Madeleine Cleary’s debut historical novel, The Butterfly Women. Set in 1863, the novel tells a story of Australia ‘that the newspapers and history...

Rochelle Siemienowicz recommends

Wednesday, 14 August 2024
If You Go by Alice Robinson (Affirm) is an amazing book that works as both tense, speculative fiction and as a nuanced, philosophical exploration of divorce, motherhood and the moments...

Rochelle Siemienowicz on ‘Double Happiness’

Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne-based author, journalist and film critic. Her debut fiction novel, Double Happiness (MidnightSun, October 2024), ‘explores the intricacies, challenges and taboos surrounding polyamory and ethical non-monogamy’, according...