Penguin Random House (PRH) Asia Pacific CEO Gabrielle Coyne has left the company, with Random House Australia (RHA) children’s division director Julie Burland appointed CEO of... Read more

Natasha Besliev has been appointed to the newly created role of CEO of Bonnier Australia, a ‘consolidation’ of the company’s Australian businesses, which includes The... Read more

More than 180 bookstores have taken part in the inaugural New Zealand Bookshop Day on 31 October, an initiative launched by Booksellers NZ to ‘celebrate... Read more

Books+Publishing’s Andrew Wrathall reports from Kampot: The inaugural Kampot Writers and Readers Festival (KWRF), featuring Cambodian, Australian and other international writers, artists and musicians, was... Read more

Ten books by Australian and three by New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2016 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Books by Australian authors... Read more

The shortlist for the 2015 Walkley Book Award, which ‘celebrates the value and importance of long form journalism’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:... Read more

The winners of the 2015 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), New South Wales’ annual children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles and... Read more

Australian fantasy and horror author Angela Slatter has won a World Fantasy Award for best collection for The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (Tartarus Press).... Read more

Suzanne Houghton has won the second annual Five Mile Press Illustrator Prize and a $4000 contract with the publisher. Acting managing director Kay Scarlett said in... Read more

The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards will merge from... Read more

A new writers’ festival specialising in sports writing will hold a ‘mini-fest’ on 21 November in Melbourne ahead of its first full program in 2016. The Sports... Read more

Creative Victoria, formerly known as Arts Victoria, has announced the latest round of VicArts Grants recipients. The program will provide $1.3 million in funding for... Read more

‘The arts scene can sometimes operate like a member’s only club where you need a blazer with a crest and a special key to get... Read more

Sales Fiction—A&U has sold the following rights to The Lovers’ Guide to Rome (Mark Lamprell): US and Canadian rights to Flatiron; German rights to Blanvalet;... Read more

US author Roxane Gay has won the PEN Center USA’s 2015 Freedom to Write Award, reports the Guardian. The annual award is presented to individuals... Read more

Six editors and all 31 board members of Elsevier’s linguistics journal Lingua have resigned in protest of the company’s high pricing and refusal to offer... Read more

In the US, Scholastic and youth literature advocacy organisation We Need Diverse Books have released a special edition Scholastic Reading Club flyer for grades four-to-eight,... Read more

In the US, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) will introduce a dedicated science-fiction and fantasy line from February 2016, reports Publishers Weekly. John Joseph Adams, who... Read more

Kate Morton’s new novel The Lake House (A&U) has unseated two adult colouring books by Millie Marotta (Tropical Wonderland and Animal Kingdom, both Batsford) at... Read more

‘Summer Skin is YA at its most grown up. It is brutally honest and … doesn’t shy away from the messy bits of romance and... Read more

The winners of the 2015 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers have been announced. Barry Lee Thompson won the $6000 first prize... Read more

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has partnered with the International Librarians Network (ILN) to offer ‘international peer mentoring’ for ALIA members. The ILN... Read more

The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced the recipients of the 2015 Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program, including a number of libraries. In NSW,... Read more

Report confirms importance of school libraries and librarians In the US, Scholastic has released a research report at the American Association of School Librarians’ National... Read more

Caitlin Neville recently launched her freelance publicity business Tiny Fox Communications after working as a publicist for Hardie Grant Books, Pan Macmillan and HarperCollins. Read... Read more

Penguin Random House (PRH) Asia Pacific CEO Gabrielle Coyne has left the company, with Random House Australia (RHA) children’s division director Julie Burland appointed CEO of... Read more

Natasha Besliev has been appointed to the newly created role of CEO of Bonnier Australia. (See news.)

Parragon Books Asia Pacific regional sales manager Amanda Rice has been appointed group sales director at The Five Mile Press. (See classified.)

Lisa Wallace has been appointed events and communications coordinator at Fremantle Press.

The Five Mile Press is very pleased to announce the appointment of new Group Sales Director Amanda Rice. Previously Asia Pacific Regional Sales Manager at Parragon Books, Amanda is now overseeing both local and international sales for The Five Mile Press, Echo Publishing and agencies.

‘Amanda brings a wealth of experience in licensing, local sales and marketing, and export and co-edition sales to an expanded role at The Five Mile Press,’ says Acting Managing Director Kay Scarlett. ‘As part of the rapidly expanding UK-based Bonnier Publishing group, The Five Mile Press is well-placed to seize new opportunities and Amanda will be pivotal in ensuring that we have the right foundations in place to do so.’

Bonnier Publishing is the fastest growing major publisher in the UK, with group sales of £100m. It also has offices in France (Piccolia and Elcy) and the USA (little bee books), with 460 employees worldwide.  In the UK it owns publishers Hot Key Books, Zaffre, Twenty7, Totally Bound Publishing, Pride Publishing, IglooBooks, Templar Publishing, Blink Publishing, Autumn Publishing, Piccadilly Press, Weldon Owen Publishing and Studio. It is ultimately owned by Bonnier Books, a top 15 world publisher with revenue of £550m.