Quote of the week
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
‘By steering boys away from books by and about women, we are teaching them that women’s stories are not interesting or important, and that women cannot be empathised with’—Author Lili...
Australia Council publishing delegation to travel to US
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The Australia Council will select a delegation of up to six Australian rights sellers, literary agents and publishers to visit the US in 2018. The New York Publishers Program 2018...
RiP Amelia Edwards
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Walker Books’ founding art director Amelia Edwards has died, aged 77. Sebastian Walker employed Edwards to establish the Walker Books London office in 1978. She was the art director for...
New Zealand Book Awards 2018 longlists announced
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The longlists for the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles are: Fiction The New Animals (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press) The Beat of the Pendulum...
RiP Jill Barklem
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Children’s author and illustrator Jill Barklem has died, aged 66. Barklem’s ‘Brambly Hedge’ stories sold more than seven million copies, and were adapted for television in 1996. Barklem’s publisher, Ann-Janine Murtagh...
Attendance up at SPN conference; children’s books a growth area for small publishers
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) sixth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 16-18 November. With attendance up on last year, SPN general manager Matthia...
Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes 2017 winners announced
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Tasmania Book Prize for best book with Tasmanian content in any...
Dark Mofo festival announces new ‘literature, film and ideas’ program
Monday, 27 November 2017
Tasmania’s midwinter festival Dark Mofo will incorporate a new ‘literature, film and ideas’ program into its June 2018 festival. The Dark and Dangerous Thoughts (DDT) program will ‘comprise a curated...
Charts this week
Monday, 27 November 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 5 Ingredients - Quick & Easy Food Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph...
Coleman’s ‘Terra Nullius’ sold to North America
Friday, 24 November 2017
Hachette Australia has sold US and Canadian rights to Claire G Coleman’s debut speculative-fiction novel Terra Nullius to US independent publisher Small Beer Press. Small Beer Press publisher Gavin J...
‘Anaesthesia’ wins 2017 Waverley Library Award
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Melbourne journalist Kate Cole-Adams (Text) has won the Waverley Council’s Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for 2017....
Junior doctor’s memoir wins BAMB Readers’ Choice Award
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Junior-doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s memoir This is Going to Hurt (Picador) has won the Books are My Bag (BAMB) Readers’ Choice Award in the UK. Kay’s memoir, which also won the...
‘Their Brilliant Careers’ to publish in the UK in 2018
Thursday, 23 November 2017
UK independent publisher Eye Books will publish Ryan O’Neill’s novel Their Brilliant Careers (Black Inc.) in the UK in April 2018. Editor-at-large Scott Pack said he will present the first...
BILBY Awards 2017 winners announced
Thursday, 23 November 2017
The winners for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Early...
Christmas predictions: Perth booksellers Bill Liddelow from Boffins Books and Jane Seaton from Beaufort Street Books
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Boffins Books co-owner...
RiP Pat Hutchins
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
UK children’s book creator Pat Hutchins has died, aged 75. Hutchins wrote and illustrated more than 40 books for young readers, including Rosie’s Walk and Good-Night, Owl!. In 1974 Hutchins...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
‘Where you shop is of course entirely your choice, but it’s important to really make that choice a conscious one’—Readings managing director Mark Rubbo makes the case for supporting independent...
RiP Shannon Michael Cane
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Shannon Michael Cane, curator of the New York Art Book Fair, has died, aged 43. The Melbourne expatriate moved to New York in 2008, and in 2013 took over the...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold ANZ audio rights to How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness (Andrea Owen) to Bolinda Audio. Children’s—A&U...
Costa Book Awards 2017 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2017 Costa Book Awards have been announced. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award are: Reservoir 13 (Jon McGregor, 4th Estate) Under a Pole...
SWF 2018 schools program announced
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced the line-up for the 2018 Primary and Secondary School Days programs, to be held from 2 to 7 May. Former UK children’s laureate,...
Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano’s ‘The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con’
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
‘Rather than simply recounting Gibson’s story, Donelly and Toscano contextualise her meteoric rise to fame by situating it at the nexus of several forces—a burgeoning, whitewashed wellness industry that eschews...
Siberry wins HGE Ampersand Prize for middle-grade novel ‘Gloop’
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Lisa Siberry has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) Ampersand Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her middle-grade novel ‘Gloop’. ‘Gloop’ is a ‘funny and atmospheric middle-grade mystery’ about 12-year-old science...
Stella Prize launches Read Up resource
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
The Stella Prize has launched a series of reading lists for young people aged 15-24 ‘to help guide their thinking about sexuality, relationships, gender, minds and bodies, and diverse cultures’....
Charts this week
Monday, 20 November 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 The Midnight Line Lee Child Bantam Press 3 5 Ingredients: Quick...
Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Awards 2017 winners announced
Monday, 20 November 2017
The winners of the 2017 Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime, have been announced. New South Wales writer Rowena Harding-Smith won the $1500 first prize for her short...
‘The Invisible War’ wins the 2017 Most Underrated Book Award
Friday, 17 November 2017
The graphic novel The Invisible War by Ailsa Wild, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti, Ben Hutchings and Jeremy Barr (Scale Free Network) has won the Small Press Network’s Most Underrated Book...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017 shortlists announced
Friday, 17 November 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette) The Last Days...
Hachette acquires ‘The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village’ in two-book deal
Friday, 17 November 2017
Hachette has acquired world rights to debut author Joanna Nell’s The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village in a two-book deal negotiated by Haylee Nash at The Nash Agency. The...
‘The Town’ sold to US, European territories
Friday, 17 November 2017
Faber has sold the rights to Shaun Prescott’s novel The Town, published in Australia by Brow Books, into the US and several European territories. The novel has been sold to...
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