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Australians on Frankfurt 2024: Busy and upbeat, with no clear ‘book of the fair’

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Australian literary managers and rights agents were among 115,000 trade visitors from 153 countries at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, which ran from 16 to 20 October 2024. The 76th...

Hughes to leave Affirm, Blake and Besliev appointed publishing directors

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced Affirm Press publishing director Martin Hughes will step away from the role at the end of the year. In a statement, S&S said...

HG Explore acquires Wilson’s new book

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Sarah Wilson’s new book, Walk the World Bigger, under its Hardie Grant Explore imprint. In Walk the World Bigger, Wilson brings together ‘the...

QBD 2024 Book of the Year winners announced

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
QBD has announced the winners of the chain's 2024 Book of the Year. The winning titles are: Fiction The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm) Nonfiction The Voice Inside (John Farnham with...

Left Bank Literary to dissolve

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Left Bank Literary has announced that the agency will dissolve as of 1 December. ‘After five wonderful years, Gaby Naher and Grace Heifetz have decided to explore new opportunities outside...

Ali Gripper recommends

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
I am completely enthralled by Nadia Wheatley’s The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift. It’s a true labour of love, brilliantly written and researched, and introduces new generations of readers...

Ali Gripper on ‘Saltwater Cure’

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Sydney-based, award-winning journalist Ali Gripper has contributed features to some of Australia's leading newspapers and magazines. Her first biography, The Barefoot Surgeon (A&U, 2018), told the story of Nepalese eye...

YABBA Awards 2024 winners announced

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards) have been announced. Winning titles and honour books in each category are: Picture storybook Macca the Alpaca (Matt Cosgrove,...

EIBF report: percentage of Australians purchasing books ‘slightly below’ average

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
A study on consumer behaviour by the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) has included Australia among several territories surveyed for the report. Commissioned through EIBF’s RISE Bookselling (‘Resilience, Innovation...

Bloomsbury ‘exploring the opportunity’ of AI deals, Sarah J Maas sales soar

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
In the UK, Bloomsbury has announced its interim results for the six months to the end of August, reporting revenue growth of 32% to £179.8 million (A$354.1m), according to the...

Pan Macmillan to move distribution to TDLC

Monday, 28 October 2024
Pan Macmillan ANZ has announced it will move its Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand distribution from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) to The Distribution and Logistics Company (TDLC) in July 2025....

‘A City on Mars’ wins 2024 Trivedi Science Book Prize

Monday, 28 October 2024
In the UK, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, Particular Books) has won the...

Grundy to manage new Australia Institute imprint

Monday, 28 October 2024
The Australia Institute has announced it will launch its own publishing imprint. Australia Institute Press will be overseen by managing editor Alice Grundy, whose previous trade publishing experience includes working...

‘Personal Score’ longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal

Monday, 28 October 2024
Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity by local author Ellen van Neerven (UQP) is among the titles longlisted for the American Library Association’s (ALA) Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction...

Bancroft awarded 2024 Lady Cutler Award

Monday, 28 October 2024
Bronwyn Bancroft is the recipient of the 2024 Lady Cutler Award, a biennial award presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for distinguished...

City of Fremantle Hungerford Award 2024 winner announced

Friday, 25 October 2024
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes has won the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for his manuscript የተስፋ ፈተና / Trials of Hope. The author receives $15,000 in prize money, a publishing contract with Fremantle...

Pi-O wins 2024 Patrick White Literary Award

Friday, 25 October 2024
Victorian-based poet, publisher and editor π.ο. (Pi-O) has won the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award. Born in Greece in 1951, π.ο. immigrated with his family in 1954 to Australia, where they...

Walkley Book Award 2024 longlist announced

Thursday, 24 October 2024
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 69th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The works longlisted for the Walkley Book Award are: Bright Shining (Julia Baird, Fourth...

Industry bodies, creators sign open letter on AI training

Thursday, 24 October 2024
In the UK, a coalition of trade bodies including the Publishers Association, the Society of Authors, Publishers’ Licensing Services, Independent Publishers Guild, Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society and Association of...