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Sam Carmody’s The Windy Season (A&U) has won the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Carmody’s novel, which follows 20-year-old Paul as he travels to a fictional West Australian... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2017 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Dodge Rose (Jack Cox, Text) Our Magic Hour (Jennifer Down, Text) Our Tiny, Useless Hearts... Read more |
Monash University legal academic Rebecca Giblin and a team of researchers have received Australian Research Council funding for the project ‘Reclaiming copyright’s lost value for authors and the public’. The... Read more |
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Australian comedian and broadcaster Nelly Thomas has successfully raised $20,925 for her self-published picture book Some Girls in a crowdfunding campaign on the website Pozible. Written by Thomas and illustrated... Read more |
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Walker Books has acquired world rights to debut author Sarah Epstein’s YA psychological thriller Small Spaces. Due for release in April 2018, Small Spaces is the story of 17-year-old Tash,... Read more |
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Issue 4 of Books+Publishing magazine is out now! Reviews: Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue, the two most highly rated are forthcoming novels: Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s The... Read more |
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In the US, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, has announced the 2017 Teens’ Top 10 list of books nominated and voted... Read more |
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