Affirm Press has appointed Tace Kelly to the role of publicity manager. Kelly was most recently a senior publicist at Scribe, and formerly worked in bookselling, with roles at The... Read more
Author Yumna Kassab has been selected as the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature by the Sydney Review of Books (SRB) in partnership with the City of Parramatta and the Writing... Read more
Frank Bongiorno has been awarded the 2023 ACT Book of the Year for Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia (La Trobe University Press). Bongiorno’s book, which covers social... Read more
In the UK, volume sales of ‘big brands’ including Jamie Oliver, David Walliams and Richard Osman ‘have been suffering a contraction in their Christmas run-in hardback releases’, reports the Bookseller.... Read more
In Birdy, a compelling YA verse novel by CBCA award-winning author Sharon Kernot (The Art of Taxidermy), we meet Maddy, who began experiencing selective mutism and anxiety after an unnamed... Read more
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