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Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 65-Storey Treehouse (Pan) was the highest selling title in Australia in 2015 with 312,000 copies sold, reports the Age. The sales topped those of... Read more |
The shortlists for the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Anchoress (Robyn Cadwallader, Fourth Estate) A Million Windows... Read more |
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Mark Henshaw’s The Snow Kimono (Text) was announced as the winner of the $10,000 ACT Book of the Year Award for 2015 at a ceremony in Canberra on 17 December.... Read more |
The shortlist for UWA Publishing’s inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript was announced in December. The shortlisted works, chosen from 136 entries, are: ‘Extinctions’ by Josephine Wilson ‘Dark... Read more |
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Old School: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) has extended its run as Australia’s number one bestseller for a seventh consecutive week, taking out the top spot overall... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) has sold its self-publishing division Author Solutions to an affiliate of Najafi Companies, an US-based private investment firm, for an undisclosed sum, reports Publishers Weekly. Author... Read more |
E L James’ Grey (Arrow) and Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (HarperCollins) were the bestselling books in the UK and US respectively in 2015. In the UK, the Bookseller... Read more |
In the UK, the Costa Book Award 2015 category winners have been announced. The winners are: A God in Ruins (Kate Atkinson, Doubleday) in the novel category; The Loney (Andrew... Read more |
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