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Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

Covid-19 reveals crisis in arts funding

Wednesday, 8 April 2020
'Covid-19 is an opportunity to ask ourselves as a nation why we take our artists and cultural organisations for granted. Why, even in an emergency, can’t we find the money...

Barker launches rights agency for children’s and YA 

Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Former rights director and managing director at Hardie Grant Egmont Annabel Barker has launched a literary and rights agency, specialising in children’s writing and illustration. Annabel Barker Agency will sell...

Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 8 April 2020
The shortlist for the £30,000 (A$60,000) International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Surge (Jay Bernard, Chatto & Windus) Flèche (Mary Jean Chan, Faber) Inland (Téa...

ABDA Awards shortlists announced

Tuesday, 7 April 2020
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlists for the 2020 Australian Book Design Awards. Chosen from longlists announced in February, the shortlisted titles in each category are:...

Shaw launches Shaw Literary 

Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Martin Shaw, formerly agent-at-large at Alex Adsett Publishing Services and book buyer for Readings, has launched his own literary agency. Shaw Literary will represent Shaw’s current list of authors, including...

NT Writers Festival postponed until October

Tuesday, 7 April 2020
The NT Writers Festival has been postponed due to Covid-19 and is now scheduled to take place from 1 to 4 October in Darwin. Festival director Fiona Dorrell said the...

Kristoff longlisted for Glass Bell Award

Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Jay Kristoff’s Darkdawn (Harper Voyager) has been longlisted for the UK’s Glass Bell Award. Presented by London bookstore Goldsboro Books, the prize celebrates the best storytelling across all genres of...

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Monday, 6 April 2020
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Henry Turnip (Chloe Jasmine Harris, Walker Books) 

Thursday, 2 April 2020
Henry Turnip is a panda who likes strawberry jam sandwiches with the crusts cut off, reading about the ocean, and his seven sets of blue-striped overalls. He dislikes mess, too...

The Dark Tide (Alicia Jasinska, Penguin) 

Thursday, 2 April 2020
The island city of Caldella is sinking, and the only way to hold back the tide is through an annual ritual sacrifice performed by the cold, distant Witch Queen. When...

EWF 2020 to take place ‘entirely online’

Thursday, 2 April 2020
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF), which runs from 16–23 June, usually in Melbourne, will take place online as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Festival organisers ‘made the proactive decision...

Change Starts with Us (Sophie Beer, Little Hare) 

Wednesday, 1 April 2020
This brightly coloured and accessible book sets out to empower young children and familiarise them with ways in which even the littlest of us can have an impact our world....

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 1 April 2020
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to On the Line: Notes from a factory (Joseph Ponthus, trans by Stephanie Smee, July) to Bolinda. Nonfiction Black Inc. has...

Pub dates: To move or not to move

Wednesday, 1 April 2020
‘The great debate is over what to do with forthcoming books: Do you move them, like the new James Bond movie ... Or do you plow ahead, and hope the...

CBCA Awards 2020 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 31 March 2020
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Older readers The Boy Who Steals Houses...

Bothroyd wins ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize

Monday, 30 March 2020
Sally Bothroyd has won the inaugural ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for her manuscript ‘Brunswick Street Blues’. Bothroyd, who is a director of the Northern Territory Writers Centre and former journalist,...

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Monday, 30 March 2020
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