Vale Mark Raphael Baker
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Writer Mark Raphael Baker died on 4 May. He was the author of The Fiftieth Gate: A journey through memory, about his parents’ experience during the Holocaust, and the memoir Thirty...
Books in the media this weekend, 20–21 May
Friday, 19 May 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week's round up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Saturday Paper...
Hachette acquires nonfiction from Schlegl, Qin via Law partnership
Friday, 19 May 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired two nonfiction titles via its publishing scout partnership with Australian screenwriter, author and broadcaster Benjamin Law. Adult nonfiction publisher Sophie Hamley acquired ANZ, UK and Commonwealth...
McInnes wins 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Pacific category
Thursday, 18 May 2023
Aotearoa New Zealand author Himali McInnes has won the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Pacific region for her story ‘Kilinochchi’, about a mother who leaves her adopted country...
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, part two
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
In part two of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner share the...
Every Version of You optioned for film
Monday, 15 May 2023
Cognito Entertainment, a new independent film and television production company launched last week in the United States, has optioned Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm) for adaptation into an international...
Dunn appointed distribution director at ADS
Monday, 15 May 2023
Riikka Dunn has been appointed distribution director at Alliance Distribution Services (ADS). Dunn, who started at ADS on Monday, 8 May, joins the business from Ikea, where she gained experience...
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
In part one of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner outline the...
Hollier leaves MUP
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Nathan Hollier has left the publisher. MUP chair Warren Bebbington told Books+Publishing that Hollier had left the publishing house in March, with chief operating officer...
A&U announces Fagan resignation
Friday, 5 May 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced publisher Kelly Fagan has resigned and will be leaving the company. In its statement announcing Fagan's resignation A&U said: 'Kelly joined A&U in October...
Books without barriers: a new guide to accessible inclusive publishing
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
The product of two years’ work by IPEd’s Accessibility Initiative Working Party, based on a review of the international literature and a survey of local publishers, the new publication Books...
Amplify Bookstore’s winter picks
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Amplify Bookstore is an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, founded by Jing Xuan Teo and Marina Sano. Here, they share their...
BookPeople 2023 Book of the Year shortlists announced
Monday, 24 April 2023
BookPeople has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards. The shortlisted titles, chosen from longlists announced earlier this month, are: Adult...
Time to open a bookshop
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Various new bookshops have opened up across Australia this year and the previous year, with most of them being focused on children’s books. We take a brief look at the...
Sad Girl Novel (Pip Finkemeyer, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
When we first meet aspiring writer Kim Mueller, she’s taking a train through Berlin, on her way to see her therapist. She’s wondering if she’s ‘talented or deluded’. She has...
Carl Merrison on ‘Backyard Footy’
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Hailing from Halls Creek, children's author Carl Merrison won a 2020 black&write! fellowship to develop his 'Backyard Sports' picture book series. The first book, Backyard Footy (illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian,...
Books in the media this weekend, 8–9 April
Thursday, 6 April 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Cursed Bunny (Bora Chung, Scribe) Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, Giramondo) Things She...
We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Books+Publishing's rights publication Think Australian talks to author Debra Dank, whose debut is in the running for three NSW Premier's awards and the Stella...
Books in the media this weekend, 1–2 April
Friday, 31 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Blue Hunger (Viola di Grando, Scribe) Hard To Bear (Isabelle Oderberg,...
How international book markets performed in 2022
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Through the PubMagNet initiative, a collaboration between book industry trade magazines from around the world, representatives from publications in Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the US have shared insights...
Jess Racklyeft on Bologna
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft was the winner of one of two Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarships to attend this year’s Bologna Book Fair....
Holland-Batt longlisted for 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Sarah Holland-Batt’s poetry collection The Jaguar (UQP) has been longlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize, worth C$130,000 (A$142,700). The Griffin Poetry Prize is awarded annually for the best collection of poetry...
Australian Reading Hour digital event attracts 17,000
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The 2023 Australian Reading Hour on Thursday 9 March involved more than 250 events across the country. Over 17,000 students watched the The Magic of Storytelling live digital event, held...
Megan Rogers on ‘The Heart is a Star’
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Megan Rogers' debut novel, The Heart is a Star (HarperCollins, May), centres on a middle-aged anaesthetist, Layla, who is juggling her career, family and love life when she must travel to Tasmania...
Books in the media this weekend 11–12 March
Friday, 10 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Barron Field in New South Wales: The poetics of terra nullius...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Hungarian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Alexandra Kiadócsoport, and German rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams) to...
Christmas 2022: sales up, supply problems ease
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Books+Publishing received feedback from representatives of 53 bookshops around Australia for its annual Christmas survey. According to booksellers, there was a bump in book sales in the lead-up to Christmas...
The Rush (Michelle Prak, S&S)
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
The Rush by Michelle Prak gives new meaning to the words gripping and horrifying. Take Jane Harper’s The Lost Man, add some sinister Wolf Creek, and you’re on the right...
S&S acquires Reid debut novel
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired world rights to a debut novel by Teela Reid, a Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman and co-founder of Instagram account @Blackfulla_Bookclub, via Jane Novak. Legally...
Books in the media this weekend 4–5 March
Friday, 3 March 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers (Chris Wallace, NewSouth)...
