Moreno Giovannoni has won Writers Victoria’s inaugural Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for his manuscript extract ‘Tales from San Ginese’. Giovannoni’s work was chosen from a... Read more
Sydney independent bookseller Pages & Pages has announced a number of staff changes. Co-owner Kate Page has returned to the business as co-general manager and co-buyer, focussing on children’s books.... Read more
Ella O’Keefe has won the 2015 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets, worth $6000, for her poem ‘alkaway’. The first runner-up was Omar Sakr’s ‘Not so wild’... Read more
There is a large overlap between the highest new entries and top 10 bestsellers chart this week, with Cometh the Hour (Jeffrey Archer, Macmillan) and 15th Affair (James Patterson, Century)... Read more
In the US, Ingram has acquired the distribution arm of Perseus Book Group for an undisclosed sum, reports Publishers Weekly. The deal, which is expected to close at the end... Read more