Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world English language (ex ANZ) rights to The Death of Napoleon (Simon Leys) to New York Review of Books Classics.... Read more |
‘The book industry can only hope that the incoming government, with a number of published writers now in its ranks, will understand our travails, endorse... Read more |
Three New Zealand books will be included in the 2014 International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Book List, reports Booksellers New Zealand.... Read more |
The winners of this year’s BNZ Literary Awards were announced in Wellington on 17 September. Catherine Chidgey won the Katherine Mansfield Award, worth $10,000, for... Read more |
Moirs Bookshop in Lane Cove in Sydney will be renamed Lane Cove Books this month following the sale of the store to Gary Buttsworth, owner... Read more |
Families in Ballarat in regional Victoria are being encouraged to sign up their children to a local version of the Imagination Library, which will launch in... Read more |
The recently elected Federal Coalition Government has unveiled its first ministry, including new ministers for the Arts, Industry and Small Business portfolios. George Brandis has been... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced by Minister for the Arts John Day on 16 September. Michelle de Kretser was presented... Read more |
The program for this year’s National Young Writers’ Festival in Newcastle, New South Wales, has been announced. The festival, which runs from 3 to 6 October,... Read more |
Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) is Jamie Oliver’s latest cookbook, in which he explains how to make smarter shopping choices and get the most out of... Read more |
Brisbane author Robert Hoge will feature on tonight’s episode of ABC TV’s Australian Story. Hoge, who was born with deformed legs and a large tumour... Read more |
Island magazine has received $60,000 in funding from Arts Tasmania for 2014, matching the $60,000 in funding it received for 2013. The Tasmanian Arts Advisory board... Read more |
The winners of this year’s New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The winners in the book-related categories are: Australian History Prize ($15,000)... Read more |
New Zealand novelist Rachael King has been appointed as the new literary director for the Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival. King is the author of two... Read more |
A number of Australian authors have signed up to an interactive storytelling project that uses maps and QR codes to allow readers to follow a... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Toyo: A Memoir (Lily Chan, Black Inc.) The Two Frank... Read more |
Boomerang Books owner Clayton Wehner has resigned from his position as a member of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Management Committee. ABA CEO Joel Beceker... Read more |
‘It could well be the first major report into the Australian book industry that effectively grapples with most of the deep-rooted structural issues besetting it... Read more |
Tim Cope’s On the Trail of Genghis Khan (Bloomsbury) has topped the bestsellers list at this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), with nonfiction and children’s... Read more |
The Luminaries by New Zealand author Eleanor Catton (Granta) is one of six books shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. The full shortlist is:... Read more |
A new Australian children’s book publisher called Christmas Press will specialise in publishing traditional folktales from around the world. Christmas Press has been founded by... Read more |
Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation (Magabala) has won the Deadly Award for Published Book of... Read more |
In New Zealand, the University of Otago has announced the recipients of its 2014 fellowships for literature and children’s writing. The Robert Burns Fellowship has... Read more |
Brisbane author Robert Hoge was featured in this week’s episode of ABC TV’s Australian Story. Hoge, who was born with deformed legs and a large... Read more |
Discount book retailer the Book Grocer has opened a new store at Kangaroo Flat, just outside of Bendigo in regional Victoria. The store is located at... Read more |
In the US, the National Book Foundation has announced the longlists for the Young People’s Literature and Poetry categories of this year’s National Book Awards.... Read more |
Bestselling author James Patterson has increased his ongoing support of the book industry by pledging US$1 million (A$1.07 million) to US independent bookstores, reports the LA Times.... Read more |
Orion has acquired the rights to publish A Suitable Girl, the sequel to Vikram Seth’s bestselling A Suitable Boy, after it was originally signed to Penguin,... Read more |
Books by US writers will be eligible for the Man Booker Prize for the first time in 2014, reports the Sunday Times. The prize, established in... Read more |
Warner Bros has announced that it will produce a series of films based on J K Rowling’s 2001 book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Bloomsbury),... Read more |
In the US, the National Book Foundation has announced the writers selected for this year’s ‘5 Under 35’ program, and for the first time in... Read more |
A federal judge in California has sided with cyclist Lance Armstrong and publishers Random House US and Penguin Group US in a lawsuit that alleged that Armstrong’s... Read more |
In France and Germany, publishers and booksellers associations are calling for their national governments to implement a policy to protect the ebook trade from big... Read more |
Kobo will enter the Philippines ereading market this month, with a number of its ereading devices to be available from bookselling chain National Book Store from 20... Read more |
The category winners of this year’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards have been announced. Ewan Morrison won the Fiction Award for Close Your Eyes (Jonathan Cape)... Read more |
OverDrive to distribute digital content in China OverDrive has signed an agreement to make its catalogue of digital content available to libraries and retailers in China,... Read more |
In the US, The Rosie Project by Australian author Graeme Simsion (Text) has topped the October list for LibraryReads—a monthly ‘top 10’ of forthcoming adult books compiled... Read more |
Further IFLA committee appointments announced Two Australian library professionals have been elected to new positions on the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)’s Copyright and... Read more |
Shanghai subway library opens Chinese commuters now have access to a subway library on Shanghai’s Metro Line 2 where they can borrow a book from... Read more |
Heather Gordon has been elected as president of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) for 2014 and 2015. Gordon is director of library and... Read more |
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of a number of its 2014 National Library Fellowships. The recipient of the 2014 Japan... Read more |
In January, Robert Watkins was appointed commissioning editor of adult books at Hachette Australia, and has since signed authors as varied as spoken-word performer and... Read more |
David Musgrave, poet, novelist and founder of independent press Puncher & Wattman, is often told that ‘nobody reads’ the poetry that his press publishes. ‘This... Read more |
Picking up on the current Sherlock Holmes zeitgeist, Every Breath is the story of two teenagers playing at detective, trying to solve the death of their friend... Read more |
Penny Hutchinson has stepped down as director of Arts Victoria after 13 years in the role. Hutchinson, who is leaving Arts Victoria to lead a... Read more |
New Zealand novelist Rachael King has been appointed as the new literary director for the Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival. King takes over the role of... Read more |
Boomerang Books owner Clayton Wehner has resigned from his position as a member of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Management Committee. Peter Strong, former owner... Read more |
Heather Gordon has been elected as president of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) for 2014 and 2015. Gordon, who is director of library... Read more |
David Bratchford has been appointed as the new librarian at the Supreme Court of Queensland Library. Bratchford was previously library manager at Legal Aid Queensland,... Read more |
Society of Editors (NSW) Inc. presents a one-day workshop on Grammar Essentials with Pam Peters, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Macquarie University. Date: Friday, 18 October 2013,... Read more |
Books+Publishing editor-in-chief Andrea Hanke will be attending this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair as part of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) contingent, and will be reporting... Read more |
Congratulations from all at Transit Lounge (www.transitlounge.com.au) to Roger Averill on winning the WA Premier’s Literary Awards Non-fiction Prize for Exile: The Lives and Hopes... Read more |
Allen & Unwin is thrilled that Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland have been shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The... Read more |
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