Company Last day of business in 2018 First day of business in 2019 Alliance Distribution Services Closed public holidays Allen & Unwin Friday, 21 December Wednesday, 2 January Australian Booksellers... Read more
The winners of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo) Australian history John Curtin’s War:... Read more
The Readings Foundation has chosen nine Victorian organisations to share in $146,700 worth of grants in 2019. The grant recipients are: Aboriginal Literacy Foundation: $20,000 to start an after-school program... Read more
NewSouth has sold North American rights to Australian academic Eleanor Gordon-Smith’s forthcoming debut Stop Being Reasonable to PublicAffairs. The nonfiction book (previously titled What Makes You So Sure You’re Not... Read more
The UK’s Society of Authors (SoA) has issued a report outlining the vulnerabilities faced by the UK’s creative industries during the government’s Brexit negotiations, reports Publishers Weekly. Representing 10,500 members,... Read more