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National Biography Award 2024 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works, selected from a record 107 entries and including five...

Tinsel time: Christmas 2024 biographies and memoirs

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
From a soccer superstar to familiar faces in children's entertainment, and an equally wide range of non-celebrity (but far from ordinary) stories, Books+Publishing rounds up the local adult biography and...

Robbie Egan: ‘A centralised ecommerce platform … would be transformative’

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Robbie Egan is CEO of BookPeople, the Australian Booksellers Association. Here, he argues that the mainstream media’s 'gloom and doom' narrative following Booktopia’s entry into voluntary administration has been 'quarantined...

Ultimo Press acquires Watts novel

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Elegy, Southwest, the second novel by Madeleine Watts, in a deal brokered by Lucy Luck at C&W Agency, London, on behalf of Anna...

Meet the Rising Stars: Riikka Dunn

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement...

Raelke Grimmer on ‘White Noise’

Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Raelke Grimmer is an author and linguist from the Northern Territory. Her debut young adult novel, White Noise (UWAP, September 2024), is set in Darwin and explores grief, autism, friendship and...

Raelke Grimmer recommends

Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Eta Draconis by Brendan Ritchie. I loved this novel not only for the vivid depictions of place and landscape but also for the resilience and determination of the characters. The...

Romantasy surge puts second-quarter US print sales up

Tuesday, 9 July 2024
In the US, a huge increase in print book sales in the adult fantasy category has contributed to overall unit sales of print books increasing 1.1% in the second quarter...

Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024 longlist announced

Tuesday, 9 July 2024
The longlist for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, which has increased in value to $50,000, has been announced. The 14 longlisted titles, chosen from 235 entries, are: Saltwater...

Walker acquires YA novel from Kate, Angourie Rice

Monday, 8 July 2024
Walker Books has acquired rights to a second young adult novel from Angourie Rice and Kate Rice. Titled Operation School Ball, the novel is described by the publisher as ‘an edgy...

CWA Dagger 2024 winners announced

Monday, 8 July 2024
In the UK, the winners of the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards have been announced, reports the Bookseller. Among the winners across 13 categories was Tell Me What I...

Weissman wins 2024 Crystal Kite award

Monday, 8 July 2024
US-born author Elissa Weissman, who lives in Aotearoa New Zealand, has won the Australia, New Zealand and Oceania division of this year’s Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards, presented by the...

Authors among 2024 NAIDOC Week award finalists

Monday, 8 July 2024
The National NAIDOC Committee has announced the winners of the 2024 NAIDOC Week Awards. Among the winners was artist and cultural leader Alick Tipoti, who is a fluent Kala Lagaw...

Wright wins 2024 ALS Gold Medal

Monday, 8 July 2024
The winner of the 2024 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal is Alexis Wright for Praiseworthy (Giramondo). The win is the third for Wright, who joins Patrick White and David...

Varuna announces 2024 Writer’s Space recipients

Monday, 8 July 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the 12 recipients of the 2024 Writer’s Space fellowships for writers with disability and/or who are D/deaf. Participants in the 2024 program will...

APA pauses Educational Publishing Awards

Thursday, 4 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has paused the Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA) for 2024. In a statement, the APA said that its Schools Educational Publishing Committee (SEPC), as project...

Hachette appoints Naoum as publishing director, promotes Collett

Thursday, 4 July 2024
Hachette has appointed Joel Naoum as publishing director, effective 22 July, and has promoted Katrina Collett to the position of product and production director, effective immediately. Naoum joined Pan Macmillan...

NewSouth acquires Rawson creative nonfiction book

Thursday, 4 July 2024
NewSouth has acquired world rights to a creative nonfiction book from Jane Rawson, titled Human/Nature: On life in a wild world, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. Human/Nature is described by the...

MidnightSun acquires Gold novel

Thursday, 4 July 2024
MidnightSun Publishing has acquired world rights to the novel Shift by Irma Gold, via Sarah McKenzie of Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. Set in the South African township where the 1955...

Transit Lounge acquires Sayer memoir

Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to No Dancing in the Lift, a memoir from author Mandy Sayer, via Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary Management. Described by Transit Lounge...

Booktopia appoints administrators

Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Online bookseller Booktopia has appointed McGrathNicol as voluntary administrators of the company and its subsidiaries. Listed as insolvent are Booktopia Group Limited and associated entities Booktopia Pty Limited, Making I....

UQP acquires Vowles debut novel

Wednesday, 3 July 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to a debut novel from screenwriter and author Thomas Vowles, titled The End of Everything. ‘A psychological thriller set in Melbourne’s queer scene, The End...

Tinsel time: Christmas 2024 fiction

Wednesday, 3 July 2024
From the big names to the surprising debuts (and a whole lot of crime in between), Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local adult fiction titles releasing in time for Christmas...

Meet the Rising Stars 2024: Justin Wolfers

Wednesday, 3 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement...

Creative Australia international program recipients announced

Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Creative Australia has announced the recipients of grants through its international programs. The programs include the International Travel Fund, the International Engagement Fund and the International Touring and Presentation Fund,...