Charts this week
Monday, 21 November 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Double Down:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Night School Lee Child Bantam 3 The Midnight Gang David Walliams HarperCollins...
Drury, Hannam and Walsh awarded NSW Sales Rep of the Year awards
Friday, 18 November 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of its 2016 NSW Sales Rep of the Year awards. Simon & Schuster’s Kay Drury and Allen & Unwin’s Mark Hannam...
Hall wins Charlotte Waring Barton Award for an unpublished children’s author
Thursday, 17 November 2016
Danika Hall has won the 2016 Charlotte Waring Barton Award, presented annually by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) NSW branch to an unpublished NSW author of children’s or...
Rebekah Clarkson’s ‘Barking Dogs’
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
‘Each story is a glimpse into the private struggles and quiet hopes of its residents, old and new. Strung together, they form a distinctly Australian allegory of urban sprawl, McMansions...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
‘I am sad that not much has changed since the second-wave of feminism in the seventies argued that the personal is political. I watch young mothers in the publishing industry...
Attendance up at SPN conference; small presses remain strong in nonfiction, reports Nielsen
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) fifth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 9-12 November, with an extra half day of programming this year for...
Campbelltown Council exploring library programs for children with autism
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Campbelltown Council in Sydney will run a trial program for children with autism, reports the Daily Telegraph. A motion for the council to prepare a report on options to improve...
RiP James McNeish
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
New Zealand author and playwright James McNeish has died, aged 85. McNeish was the author of nine novels, 14 nonfiction works, four plays and a large number of articles and...
RiP Patsy Rowe
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Queensland author and former marketing manager at New Holland Publishers Patsy Rowe has died. Rowe specialised in books on etiquette and engaged in several speaking engagements every year on the...
Is female leadership in publishing impeded by motherhood?
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
In an edited extract from The Return of Print? Contemporary Australian Publishing (ed by Aaron Mannion & Emmett Stinson, Monash University Publishing), Sydney writer and editor Sarah Couper interviews several...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Sales Children’s—Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold world rights to Quark’s Academy of Questionable Science (Catherine Pelosi) to Hachette for publication in August 2017; and world rights to Blast Off! (Shelly Unwin)...
Redgum to publish winners of 2016 Young Writers’ Award
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Children’s book imprint Redgum will publish the winners of its 2016 Young Writers’ Award this month. The two books are Heart of a Home, an ‘emotional short story’ by 11-year-old...
Catton, Horrocks among NZ Art Awards winners
Monday, 14 November 2016
The 2016 New Zealand Art Awards winners have been announced, with a number of writers among those honoured. Writer Eleanor Catton and cartoonist and graphic novelist Dylan Horrocks are among...
Charts this week
Monday, 14 November 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Double Down: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 The Four Legendary Kingdoms Matthew Reilly Macmillan 3 The Wrong Side...
KROC Awards 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
The winners of this year’s Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Pig...
Small publisher spotlight: About Kids Books
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
About Kids Books was launched in 2015 in Wollongong, NSW, by author Di Bates, and specialises in novels for middle-grade readers. ‘So many Australian publishers these days seem to focus...
Eight things to take home from Frankfurt
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Former Books+Publishing publisher Andrew Wilkins attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, and came away with eight lessons for publishers, agents and booksellers. Read his report here.
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
‘It seems that the psychological thriller is to the adult world what the YA dystopian trend is to children’s—publishers are almost tired of hearing about it, but they’re definitely interested...
Libby Angel’s ‘The Trapeze Act’
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
‘The brutal and tragic circus tales in The Trapeze Act will appeal to fans of Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, while the family drama and Australian history will delight any modern literature reader’...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
The winners of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 8 November in Canberra. The winners in each category are: Fiction (joint winners) The Life of Houses (Lisa...
Booksellers NZ proposes World Booksellers Conference for Dunedin in 2018
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Booksellers NZ has made a formal proposal for the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) to hold its 2018 conference in Dunedin, New Zealand. The two-day conference would be held...
Sales, acquisitions successes for Australian publishers at Frankfurt
Monday, 7 November 2016
‘New voices in literary fiction’, crime fiction, nature writing and ‘narrative nonfiction for female readers’ were among the trends observed by Australian attendees at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, which...
Eight things to take home from Frankfurt
Monday, 7 November 2016
Former Books+Publishing publisher Andrew Wilkins attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, and came away with eight lessons for publishers, agents and booksellers. A week later than usual, this year’s Frankfurt...
Oz, NZ authors and illustrators on 2016 White Ravens list
Monday, 7 November 2016
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators have been included in the 2016 White Ravens list for international children’s and youth literature. The Australian titles...
Charts this week
Monday, 7 November 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Four Legendary Kingdoms Matthew Reilly Macmillan 2 The Wrong Side of Goodbye Michael Connelly Allen & Unwin 3 Small Great Things...
KOALAs 2016 winners announced
Friday, 4 November 2016
The 2016 winners of New South Wales’ annual children’s choice awards, the Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), have been announced. The winners and honour books in each category are:...
2016 AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards nominees announced
Friday, 4 November 2016
The nominees for the 2016 AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced. The nominees in each category, are: Best New Author Caroline Beecham Melanie Coles Athena Daniels Diane Demetre Marilyn...
Twentieth Century Fox options rights to ‘Nevermoor’
Friday, 4 November 2016
Twentieth Century Fox has optioned the film rights to Australian author Jessica Townsend’s forthcoming middle-grade novel Nevermoor, the first book in a trilogy acquired by Hachette US, UK and Australia...
Amazon introduces illustrated children’s stories app
Friday, 4 November 2016
In the US, Amazon has introduced a new app featuring short, illustrated stories designed to look like text-chat for young readers, reports Publishers Weekly. The app, offered at an introductory price...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 3 November 2016
‘Our success showed there was an appetite for female writers. Of course, this meant that the big publishing houses soon realised there was a market in feminism; we gave muscle...
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