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The Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not be published tomorrow, 3 November, due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday in Victoria. The next Daily will be published Wednesday 4 November.
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The Perth Writers Festival has announced a number of authors on its 2016 line-up. International guests appearing at the festival, which runs from 18-21 February,... Read more |
Books+Publishing’s Andrew Wrathall reports from Ubud: The 12th Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, which ran from 28 October to 1 November in Bali, Indonesia, was... Read more |
Almost 200 writers, editors, agents and publishers attended the fourth annual GenreCon, which ran from 30 October to 1 November. The conference for Australian genre... Read more |
The Australian Book Design Association (ABDA) has launched its new website, which includes a work-in-progress archive of Australian Book Design Award-winning covers going back to the... Read more |
Emily Bitto’s Stella Prize-winning novel The Strays (Affirm Press) has been chosen for the 2016 University of Canberra (UC) Books Project. As part of the... Read more |
New legislation requiring publishers to deposit certain online publications with the National Library of Australia (NLA) will come into effect from February 2016. Earlier this year,... Read more |
Joan London has won the 2015 Patrick White Literary Award. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of his 1973 Nobel... Read more |
Children’s book author Andy Griffiths was awarded the 2015 Dromkeen Medal at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 29 October. Acting CEO and state librarian... Read more |
Sally Abbott has won the inaugural Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her entry ‘Closing Down’, which imagines a future Australia ‘negotiating a tidal wave of... Read more |
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) NSW branch has awarded its 2015 Aspiring Writers’ Mentorship Program Charlotte Waring Barton Award to Derina McLaughlin for her story... Read more |
Publisher Aviva Tuffield has acquired her first nonfiction title for Black Inc., an ‘addiction memoir’ from journalist and Cherry Bomb author Jenny Valentish. A Girl’s... Read more |
Allen & Unwin will distribute a number of UK-based Bonnier Publishing Fiction imprints in Australia and New Zealand from 1 January 2016. The imprints include... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2015 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘The Conservation... Read more |
Scribe has announced the shortlist for its third annual nonfiction prize for young writers. The shortlisted entries are: ‘A Liberal View’ by Patrick Mullins ‘Eating... Read more |
Dunedin academic Trish Brooking has won the 2015 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award in New Zealand. Brooking has worked at the University of Otago for more... Read more |
A number of book adaptations are among the nominees for this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards. The film The Dressmaker,... Read more |
‘Andy [Griffiths] is truly a titan of Australian children’s literature. He has devoted his career to making kids laugh and encouraging even reluctant readers to... Read more |
UK independent bookselling chain Foyles has launched a same-day delivery service to all addresses in central London, reports the Bookseller. The service is priced at... Read more |
In Canada, Guy Vanderhaeghe has won his third Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction for his book Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (McClelland &... Read more |
In the US, Apple has submitted a 35-page petition to the Supreme Court seeking to overturn a July decision to uphold Judge Denise Cote’s 2013... Read more |
Amazon has opened its first bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle, reports Publishers Weekly. Amazon Books, which opened with 15 employees, will stock a selection of titles chosen... Read more |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (Fourth Estate) has been named the ‘best of the best’ of the second decade of winners of... Read more |
Steve Silberman has won the £20,000 ($42,906) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction for Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter about People Who... Read more |
The BBC has commissioned a TV adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy trilogy ‘His Dark Materials’, reports the Bookseller. The series will be made in Wales... Read more |
The film tie-in edition of The Dressmaker (Rosalie Ham, Duffy & Snellgrove) has climbed to 10th spot in this week’s bestseller charts after the adaptation... Read more |
‘Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club is an elegant novel that blends well-researched historical elements with engaging prose. While readers familiar with gas-lamp fantasy... Read more |
The Lu Rees Archives, housed at the University of Canberra, has been renamed the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature. The centre said in a statement that... Read more |
The National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) has published a discussion paper warning that thousands of hours of historical material on magnetic tape could be... Read more |
Scottish Poetry Library reopens after £500,000 revamp The Scottish Poetry Library, which holds the largest open-access collection of Scottish poetry in the world, has re-opened... Read more |
‘Apart from selling rights, Frankfurt is also the place to make new contacts, raise your company’s profile, increase your product awareness and observe macro trends... Read more |
Scribe marketing manager and publicist Kate Blackwood has been appointed publicist at the Wheeler Centre. Blackwood, who begins in the role on 10 November, replaces Tamara... Read more |
 Affirm Press’ golden run in Australian fiction publishing continues as The Last Will and Testament of Henry Hoffman goes into reprint. This follows on from the success of Stella Award-winning The Strays, which has now been reprinted four times. Affirm has two brilliant new Australian debuts to look out for in early 2016, Sing Fox to Me by Sarah Kanake (March 2016) and Treading Air by Ariella van Luyn (May 2016).
To re-order The Last Will and Testament of Henry Hoffman (ISBN 9781922213884 RRP: $24.99) contact United Book Distributors at: orders@unitedbookdistributors.com.au or 1800 338 836
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Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) is pleased to advise the following changes to help our customers maximise their sales in the weeks leading up to Christmas 2015.
1. The minimum order value will be reduced to $100.00 from Tuesday, 1 December to Wednesday, 23 December inclusive.
2. Orders received by HEDS prior to 3:00pm (AEDT) Monday to Friday will be despatched the next business day.
3. Our Customer Service department will be open from 6:30am (AEDT) to 5:30pm (AEDT) from Tuesday, 1 December to Wednesday 23, December inclusive.
4. Our Customer Service, Credit and Warehouse Operations will be open Monday to Friday throughout the Christmas and New Year period except for Friday, 25 December, Monday, 28 December and Friday, 1 January 2016.
HEDS would also like to advise this year’s cut-off dates for delivery by December 24.
| Cut-off dates for delivery by 24 December 2015 |
| Destination |
Last orders in by 2pm (AEDT) for NZ and 4pm (AEDT) Australia |
| NZ Auckland |
Friday, 18 December 2015 |
| NZ North Outer |
Wednesday, 16 December 2015 |
| NZ Christchurch |
Friday, 18 December 2015 |
| NZ South Outer |
Wednesday, 16 December 2015 |
| Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane |
Tuesday, 22 December 2015 |
| NSW Outer |
Friday, 18 December 2015 |
| Vic Outer |
Friday, 18 December 2015 |
| QLD outer |
Thursday, 17 December 2015 |
| Adelaide |
Friday, 18 December 2015 |
| Perth |
Wednesday, 16 December 2015 |
| SA outer |
Wednesday, 16 December 2015 |
| WA outer |
Monday, 14 December 2015 |
| NT |
Monday, 14 December 2015 |
| TAS |
Thursday, 17 December 2015 |
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This extraordinary and moving history of autism has won the most prestigious non-fiction award in the UK, the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Oliver Sacks writes in the foreword, ‘NeuroTribes is a sweeping and penetrating history, presented with a rare sympathy and sensitivity. It will change how you think of autism.’
NeuroTribes is also a New York Times bestseller.
NeuroTribes is in stock. Orders to UBD Customer Service ph 1800 338 836
orders@unitedbookdistributors.com.au
ISBN 9781760113629 $35.00 rrp
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