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Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

Wednesday, 3 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. Fiction & poetry Susan Hurley (Eight Lives, Affirm)...

Book buyer spotlight: ALS Library Services’ Philippa Siebert

Wednesday, 3 July 2019
As a member of the acquisitions team at Adelaide-based ALS Library Services, Philippa Siebert has been helping libraries stock their shelves for over a decade. She spoke to Books+Publishing for our...

Is YA okay?: The state of Australian young adult literature

Wednesday, 3 July 2019
With reports from the UK showing a sharp decline in sales of YA fiction, Jackie Tang explores whether the Australian market is experiencing similar changes. When UK trade publication the...

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 3 July 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) A Sand Archive (Gregory Day, Picador) A Stolen...

Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2019 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 3 July 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Birth to three years A Monster in...

Brown wins 2019 ALS Gold Medal

Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Pam Brown has won the 2019 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for her poetry collection click here for what we do (Vagabond). Brown’s collection was chosen from a shortlist...

Five Mile sells UK, US and Canadian rights to Love Your Body

Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Five Mile has sold UK, US and Canadian rights to Jessica Sanders’ picture book Love Your Body (illus by Carol Rossetti) to the Quarto Group. With the latest deal, made...

Publishers Weekly

Tuesday, 2 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...

Boochani, Fidler, Winch announced in first line-up for Ubud 2019

Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced its first guests for the 2019 festival, which will run from 23–27 October in Ubud, Indonesia. Headlining the festival is Kurdish-Iranian journalist...

A&U acquires local rights to C S Pacat YA trilogy

Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to C S Pacat’s YA trilogy ‘Dark Rise’. In the trilogy, which is set in an alternate London, ‘the heroes and villains...

KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award longlist announced

Monday, 1 July 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Kill Your Darlings (KYD) Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted authors and their works are: Pamela Baker for ‘Dark Glass’ (fiction) Shelley Burr...

Charts this week

Monday, 1 July 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton Fourth Estate 2 Everything Is F*cked (combined editions) Mark Manson HarperCollins 3 Unsolved James Patterson Century 4...

Two Australians longlisted for 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award

Thursday, 27 June 2019
In the UK, the longlist for the £30,000 (A$54,500) Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award has been announced, with Australian writers Paddy O'Reilly and Paul Dalla Rosa making the 18-strong...

Black Inc. sells Anna Krien’s forthcoming novel to UK

Thursday, 27 June 2019
Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ and Canada) to Anna Krien’s debut novel Act of Grace (Black Inc., October) to Serpent’s Tail. Editor Hannah Westland acquired...

Sparrow wins 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism

Thursday, 27 June 2019
Jeff Sparrow has won the 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism for his essay ‘A Place of Punishment: No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani’ (Sydney Review of Books). Sparrow was...

Africa Rising summit: ‘African publishing is the new frontier’

Wednesday, 26 June 2019
‘If Iceland, with 300,000 people, can sustain literary culture, why not Africa, where there are 40 million speakers of Yoruba, or 60 million Hausa, and 100 million speaking Swahili?’—In the...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Sales Fiction Barbara J Zitwer of the Barbara J Zitwer Agency has sold North American rights to A Room Called Earth (Madeleine Ryan) to Penguin Random House USA imprint Penguin Press...

ABR announces Behrouz Boochani Fellowship

Wednesday, 26 June 2019
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced its inaugural $10,000 Behrouz Boochani Fellowship, presented in association with the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne. The fellowship...

Publicity round-up

Wednesday, 26 June 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. Fiction & poetry Omar Sakr (The Lost Arabs, UQP)...