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20 January 2023

Last chance to complete our Christmas survey

Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. We are accepting submissions until Friday, 20 January. Booksellers... Read more
 
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Perth Festival 2023 Literature & Ideas program announced

Perth Festival has announced the full line-up for its 2023 Literature & Ideas program, comprising A Day of Ideas on Saturday, 18 February and the Writers Weekend, to be held... Read more
 
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Disney wins 2023 Porter Prize

Seoul-based Australian poet Dan Disney has won the Australian Book Review‘s (ABR) 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘periferal, fantasmal’. Judges Sarah Holland-Batt, Des Cowley and James Jiang described Disney’s... Read more
 
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‘Abomination’ wins Jewish Book Award

In the US, Abomination by Melbourne-based author Ashley Goldberg (Vintage) has won the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. Published in May last year, Goldberg’s debut novel follows... Read more
 

Nichol joins A&U NZ as publisher x

Allen & Unwin (A&U) New Zealand has announced the appointment of Tess Nichol as publisher. Nichol, who will be publishing local titles, was most recently deputy editor of North &... Read more
 

 

Ultimo acquires Smith debut novel in two-book deal x

Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Twelve Steps to a Long and Fulfilling Death, a ‘whip-smart comedy’ debut by television drama writer Sarah Smith, in a two-book deal brokered... Read more
 

 

Books in the media this weekend, 21–22 January x

A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper  Abandon Every Hope (Hayley Singer, Upswell)  All the Rage (Paulie Stewart,... Read more
 

Waterstones sales, profit up in year to April 2022

In the UK, bookselling chain Waterstones posted an increased profit and revenue in the year ending April 2022, a recovery to the company’s finances following a plunge during multiple lockdowns... Read more
 

 

Dark Mode (Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Ultimo) x

Dark Mode opens with the graphic discovery of a woman disturbingly murdered in the same way as the infamous, unsolved case of the Black Dahlia. Also disturbing for Reagan Carsen,... Read more

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