Bookish dates for 2017
Thursday, 12 January 2017
January Jaipur Literature Festival: 19-23 January Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: 31 January February Taipei International Book Exhibition: 8-13 February JLF Melbourne: 11-12 February ALIA Information Online Conference (Sydney): 13-17 February...
RiP Simon Milne
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Simon Milne, who worked in the Australian book industry for many years as a marketing communications director at HarperCollins ANZ, marketing and communications manager at Leading Edge Group and general...
Dead ringer: Q&A with Allison Rushby, author of ‘The Turnkey’
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Allison Rushby’s forthcoming middle-grade novel The Turnkey (Walker Books, March) is a ‘page-turning mystery’ set in London’s Highgate Cemetery during the Blitz. Read reviewer Maria H Alessandrino’s interview with Rushby here.
Alison Evans’ ‘Ida’
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
‘Written by a genderqueer author, and with a rare wealth of gender diverse characters, Ida is a landmark book in Australian YA. It is about trying to find the right...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Sales Nonfiction—Zeitgeist Media Group has sold Turkish and simplified Chinese character rights to The Art of Reading (Damon Young) to Maya and Gingko Books, respectively. Children’s—Fremantle Press has sold Dutch-language...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
‘Australian fiction and nonfiction greatly appeals to Hollywood … our language is the same, but our landscape very different so there is a real sense of graduated adaptation’—newly appointed LA-based...
‘Dropping In’ makes 2017 IBBY disability books selection
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Geoff Havel’s Dropping In (Fremantle Press) has been included in the 2017 IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Selection of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities. Havel’s...
MWF and Jaipur Literature Festival launch program for JLF Melbourne
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced it will partner with Jaipur Literature Festival to present JLF Melbourne, a two-day ‘pop-up’ festival running from 11-12 February that will celebrate ‘the best...
Scribe acquires book on Belle Gibson cancer hoax
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Scribe has acquired world rights to The Woman Who Fooled the World, a book on the Belle Gibson cancer hoax by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the Fairfax journalists who...
Costa Book Awards 2016 category winners announced
Monday, 9 January 2017
In the UK, the five category winners for the 2016 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The winners are Days Without End (Sebastian Barry, Faber) for best novel; Golden Hill...
Charts this week
Monday, 9 January 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Double Down: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 The Bikini Body 28-Day Healthy Eating & Lifestyle Guide Kayla Itsines...
Charts this week
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them J K Rowling Hachette 2 Guinness World Records 2017 Guinness World Records 3 Double Down:Diary...
Charts this week
Monday, 19 December 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Double Down: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them J K Rowling Hachette...
UQP acquires Lucashenko novel ‘Too Much Lip’
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
UQP acting-CEO and publisher Madonna Duffy has acquired world rights to Melissa Lucashenko’s new novel Too Much Lip. Partly inspired by Ned Kelly and the Beverley Hillbillies, Too Much Lip...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Sales Fiction—A&U has sold UK audio rights to Goodwood (Holly Throsby); Dutch and UK audio rights to Fearless (Fiona Higgins); UK rights to three books in the ‘Phryne Fisher’ series...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
‘There’s not as many standout titles from big Australian names as there were last year. People seem to be responding more to independent literary fiction and trying new authors, which...
A&U acquires Lambie memoir
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Allen & Unwin will publish a memoir by independent Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie in mid-2017, reports the Australian. The publisher said Lambie’s story is of ‘a very ordinary Australian who...
RiP Georgia Blain
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Author Georgia Blain has died, aged 51. Blain was the author of several adult and YA novels, the short story collection The Secret Lives of Men (Scribe) and the memoir...
Small publisher spotlight: Melbournestyle Books
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Run by author, illustrator and publisher Maree Coote, Melbournestyle Books is a publisher and design studio that specialises in illustrated works for adults and children, inspired by ‘original, meaningful Melburniana’....
RiP Anne Deveson
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Journalist, author and social commentator Anne Deveson has died, aged 86. Deveson was the author of the memoirs Resilience (A&U) and Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War from an...
The smaller picture: Challenges and opportunities for small presses
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Small presses have been lauded for their investment in literature and new Australian authors, yet they continue to face challenges around funding, distribution and their role in an evolving publishing...
Candice Fox’s ‘Crimson Lake’
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
‘Candice Fox, winner of two Ned Kelly Awards and co-author with the bestselling James Patterson, has unleashed another taut, gripping crime thriller that is as accomplished as her publishing history...
HarperCollins acquires McTiernan, Ringland debuts
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to two novels by first-time Australian authors. Perth-based writer Dervla McTiernan’s crime novel The Rúin was acquired by publisher Anna Valdinger in a two-book deal...
Diversity initiative ‘Voices from the Intersection’ to hold publisher speed pitching day
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Authors Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina have launched a volunteer initiative Voices from the Intersection (VFTI), with the aim of providing publication and mentorship opportunities to emerging YA and children’s...
Charts this week
Monday, 12 December 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them J K Rowling Hachette 2 Double Down:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 3...
Indie Book Awards 2017 longlists announced
Monday, 12 December 2016
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2017 Indie Book Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette) Between a...
Watts, Witherspoon to adapt ‘Penguin Bloom’ for film
Friday, 9 December 2016
Australian actress Naomi Watts has partnered with US actress and film producer Reese Witherspoon and US film producer Bruna Papandrea to option the rights to Penguin Bloom (Cameron Bloom &...
Black Inc. acquires memoir from Scribe Nonfiction Prize shortlistee
Friday, 9 December 2016
Black Inc. publisher Aviva Tuffield has acquired a memoir from 24-year-old Queensland writer Lech Blaine, who was shortlisted for this year’s Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. Blaine’s Car Crash:...
ABA appoints conference coordinator, announces new staff roles
Thursday, 8 December 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has appointed Helen Papadimitriou as its 2017 conference and trade exhibition coordinator following the departure of marketing and conference manager Steve Jones. ABA CEO Joel...
Drawing from experience: An interview with Quarto director Marcus Leaver
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
International publisher Quarto—which partners with Murdoch Books in Australia—celebrated its 40th birthday this year. Portia Lindsay spoke to director Marcus Leaver about artistry and innovation in illustrated publishing. Read her...
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