The Australia Council has announced the recipients of its March grants round, including funding for 38 literature projects, worth a total of $1,350,991. The funding... Read more |
Rivertime by Trace Balla (A&U) has won the 2015 Readings Children’s Book Prize. The book was chosen from a shortlist of six. Also on the... Read more |
The Byron Bay Writers’ Festival has launched its 2015 program. International guests include English Pakistaki author Tariq Ali, US author David Vann and debut Nigerian... Read more |
The winners of the 2015 Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Russell Clark Illustration... Read more |
A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) predicts the consumer and educational books market in Australia will grow from $1.95bn in 2014 to $2.16bn in 2019,... Read more |
A new organisation to support women working in the literary industry has been launched. Women in Literary Arts Australia (WILAA) was founded by writer and... Read more |
Broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Green has been appointed editor of the literary journal Meanjin from 1 July. In February former Monthly editor John van Tiggelen was appointed... Read more |
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A new bookstore, café and wine bar will open in Canberra in August. Muse, which is co-owned by Daniel Sanderson and his husband Paul Eldon, will... Read more |
Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand, has announced Te Papa Press will continue publishing books during the museum’s redevelopment. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,... Read more |
The shortlists for the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the PANZ Young Designer of the Year Award, have been announced.... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced some of the speakers for its National Writers’ Congress, to be held on 11-12 September at Luna... Read more |
Life or Death by Australian author Michael Robotham (Sphere) has been longlisted for the 2015 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger award for best crime... Read more |
‘It is vital to have a seat at the big table—grass roots organic growth is not possible in a world driven by head office accounts’—publisher... Read more |
Sales Children’s—Scholastic has sold Canadian English- and French-language rights to Our Love Grows (Anna Pignataro) and Thelma the Unicorn (Aaron Blabey); and Australian English-language audio... Read more |
This week’s bestsellers charts sees The Mindfulness Colouring Book (Emma Farrarons, Boxtree) climb to number one in the top 10, followed by The Girl on the Train... Read more |
Amazon will pay self-published authors in its Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners Lending Library on a new pay-per-page-read model from 1 July, reports Publishers Weekly.... Read more |
British poet James Fenton has won the 2015 PEN/Pinter Prize, reports the Bookseller. The award, established by English PEN in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold... Read more |
British author John Spurling has won the £25,000 (A$50,217) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for The Ten Thousand Things (Duckworth), reports the Bookseller. The... Read more |
UK independent publisher And Other Stories will only publish books by women writers in 2018 following author Kamila Shamsie’s call for publishers to help redress the gender... Read more |
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has reported that US book sales increased by 4.6% in 2014 compared to the previous year, reports Publishers Weekly. The... Read more |
The European Commission (EC) has opened a formal investigation into Amazon’s ebook practices, reports the Bookseller. The EC said it will focus on clauses ‘which... Read more |
Set in the 1960s, The Other Side of the World centres on couple Charlotte and Henry as they struggle with their new identities as a... Read more |
The Mildura Writers Festival and PEN Melbourne have launched the inaugural Mildura Indigenous Writers Award, with support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. The Mildura Indigenous... Read more |
NSW public library usage is at an all-time high thanks to free WiFi and ‘non-traditional library services’, according to statistics provided by local councils for... Read more |
The recipients of the Honours of the Library Council of NSW have been announced at an awards ceremony at the State Library of NSW. Established... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has taken out the award for ‘overall service design in public sector services’ in the international Good Design Awards,... Read more |
Security is being upgraded at the State Library of South Australia after the disappearance of more than 150 Boer War papers, diaries and artefacts, reports... Read more |
Ferguson wins US ‘Library of the Year’ In the US, the Ferguson Municipal Public Library (FMPL) in Missouri has been voted the Gale/Library Journal ‘Library of... Read more |
Jane Curry Publishing recently rebranded as Ventura Press and partnered with Simon & Schuster Australia for sales and distribution. Managing director Jane Curry explains how small... Read more |
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UQP marketing coordinator Jessica Dean is relocating back to the UK at the start of August for family reasons.
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Broadcaster and journalist Jonathan Green has been appointed editor of literary journal Meanjin, from 1 July. (See news.)
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Publishers are advised that entries are open for the 2016 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. Publishers are urged to send their new children’s books... Read more |
Entries are open for the 2015 Walkley Book Award, which acknowledges the work produced by an Australian journalist or writer, published from 1 September 2014 to 31... Read more |
Beginning Wednesday 1 July 2015, Pascal Press will enact a price increase across a selection of titles.
Accordingly, orders received after 1st July will be invoiced at the new price.
Should you have any questions or require an updated price list, please do not hesitate to contact your Trade Representative or email contact@pascalpress.com.au
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HarperCollins Publishers is proud to congratulate Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis on Secret City, a new six-part mini-series produced by Matchbox Pictures. Secret City is inspired by and adapted from their best-selling novels The Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code. Anna Torv has been cast as Harriet, a political journalist who uncovers a conspiracy amidst rising tension between China and America. Damon Herriman and Dan Wyllie have also been cast in this high-stakes political thriller.
Secret City will begin shooting in Canberra in August to be aired in March 2016 on showcase. The final novel in Steve and Chris’s trilogy will be published in July 2016.
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