Publishers and distributors are asked to submit their Christmas closing dates by 5pm Friday, 20 November. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book Newsletter on Wednesday, 25 November.... Read more |
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Rebecca Giggs’ Fathoms (Scribe) has won the Waverley Council’s $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for 2020. Giggs’s work of narrative nonfiction blends natural history, science and philosophy... Read more |
Book industry researcher David Throsby, the Sydney Review of Books and authors Helen Garner, Charlotte Wood and Christos Tsiolkas are among those who will appear at the first virtual public... Read more |
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A new online publication that aims to ‘demystify, equitise and diversify’ publishing, bookselling, libraries and other book-related work in Australia has been launched by two university students and a recent... Read more |
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Adaptations of Peter Papathanasiou’s memoir Little One (A&U) and Kaaron Warren’s fantasy novel The Grief Hole (IFWG Publishing Australia) are among several projects to receive investment from Screen Canberra. Papathanasiou’s... Read more |
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In the UK, M John Harrison has won the £10,000 (A$18,165) Goldsmiths Prize for The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (Gollancz), reports the Bookseller. Harrison’s novel is described as ‘a genre-blurring... Read more |
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