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Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

Monday, 5 August 2019
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint RRP 1 The 117-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan $14.99 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons $29.95 3 4 Ingredients...

Book-to-screen adaptations pitched at 2019 Books at MIFF

Friday, 2 August 2019
The 13th annual Books at MIFF (BaM) event, run by Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market, was held at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on 1 August. Representatives from publishing and...

Morris shortlisted for Glass Bell Award

Friday, 2 August 2019
In the UK, Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) has been shortlisted for the Glass Bell Award. Selected from a longlist of 12, the shortlisted titles are: Our House (Louise Candlish,...

UWAP acquires On’s poetry collection ‘Turbulence’

Friday, 2 August 2019
The UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Thuy On’s debut poetry collection Turbulence. ‘It’s a really surprising first book by a sharp poetic mind with an acute sensibility...

Liminal Fiction Prize longlist announced

Friday, 2 August 2019
Liminal magazine has announced the longlist for the inaugural Liminal Fiction Prize. The longlisted authors and their works are: Bryant Apolonio, for ‘Bad Weather’ Kasumi Borczyk, for ‘Cheese Me Please’...

‘Too Much Lip’ optioned for screen adaptation

Thursday, 1 August 2019
Melissa Lucashenko’s Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning novel Too Much Lip (UQP) has been optioned for screen by production company Cenozoic Pictures. The deal, which was negotiated by Lucashenko’s agent Alex...

Ngaio Marsh Award 2019 shortlist announced

Thursday, 1 August 2019
The shortlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best crime novel This Mortal Boy (Fiona Kidman,...

Shortlists for 2019 NSW Premier’s History Awards announced

Thursday, 1 August 2019
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2019 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The shortlisted works in each category are: Australian history prize Taking Liberty: Indigenous...

ALA denounces Macmillan’s new ebook lending restrictions

Wednesday, 31 July 2019
‘When a library serving many thousands has only a single copy of a new title in ebook format, it’s the library, not the publisher, that feels the heat. It’s the...

Publicity round-up

Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Books+Publishing’s weekly publicity round-up covers forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Nonfiction Memoir & biography David Glasheen (Millionaire...

Taking control of your TBR pile: Mischa Parkee’s top picks for forthcoming children’s titles

Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Mischa Parkee, primary school teacher and children’s specialist at Sydney’s Better Read Than Dead, shares her top picks for forthcoming children’s titles. There comes a time when any reader must...

All hands on deck: Inside The Little Bookroom with Michael Earp

Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Situated in Melbourne’s inner north, The Little Bookroom is Australia’s oldest dedicated children’s bookshop. In his bookseller’s diary, children’s literature specialist Michael Earp reveals how a combination of experience, new ideas...

It’s not easy being green: Adelaide’s Pop-up Bookshop boycots HEDS

Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Adelaide’s Pop-up Bookshop co-owner Kate Treloar tells Books+Publishing why she decided to boycott a major book distributor on environmental grounds. In June, Adelaide’s Pop-up Bookshop announced on Facebook that it...

Book designer spotlight: Mark Campbell

Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Mark Campbell got his break in the book industry at Hardie Grant Books, where he worked in marketing before moving over to design. He is currently head of design at...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Sales Fiction Helen Leake and Gena Ashwell of Dancing Road Productions have optioned the screen rights to Bitter Wash Road (Garry Disher, Text) via Jenny Darling & Associates (see news). Children’s Scholastic has sold...

NT Literary Awards 2019 winners announced

Wednesday, 31 July 2019
The winners of this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Short story award ($1000) ‘Centring’, by Glen Hunting Poetry award ($1000) ‘Lyapirtneme/No...

Lucashenko wins 2019 Miles Franklin for ‘Too Much Lip’

Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Melissa Lucashenko has won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her sixth novel, Too Much Lip (UQP). Lucashenko is the third Indigenous author to win the Miles Franklin in...

Lindfield Bookshop & Children’s Bookshop to close

Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Lindfield Bookshop & Children’s Bookshop in Sydney’s North Shore will close at the end of August after 46 years of operation. Owner Scott Whitmont said it’s with ‘considerable sadness’ that...

Disher’s ‘Bitter Wash Road’ optioned for screen

Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Producers Helen Leake and Gena Ashwell of Adelaide-based production company Dancing Road Productions have optioned the screen rights to Garry Disher’s Bitter Wash Road (Text), via Jenny Darling & Associates. First published in 2013,...

Dalla Rosa shortlisted for 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award

Tuesday, 30 July 2019
Australian writer Paul Dalla Rosa has been shortlisted for the £30,000 (A$54,500) Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Dalla Rosa is shortlisted for his story ‘Comme’, originally published in Granta...

Publishers Weekly

Monday, 29 July 2019
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 for a limited time. This edition features an investigation into...