The winners of this year’s Territory Read Awards have been announced. The winners in the Territory Read Awards are: Chief Minister’s Book of the Year ($5000) Broken (Mary Anne Butler,... Read more
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime fiction... Read more
Sydney-based production company Aquarius Films has begun casting for the film adaptation of Tim Winton’s 2001 novel Dirt Music (Penguin), reports ABC News. Winton’s story of ‘fragile characters, secrets, strangers and revenge... Read more
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to a Thai cave rescue book by ABC Southeast Asia correspondent Liam Cochrane. Cochrane, who is based in Bangkok, reported on the rescue effort... Read more
In the UK, a new study has shown that 8% of YA books published in the UK between 2006 and 2016 were by authors of colour. In the study, titled ‘The... Read more