Please note that, due to the public holiday on Monday 14 March (in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, ACT), the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published... Read more |
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Scribe has announced two reprints of Niki Savva’s The Road to Ruin after heavy demand for the title led to stock running out on the... Read more |
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Australian authors Geraldine Brooks and Shirley Barrett have been longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Brooks is longlisted for her novel The... Read more |
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Writer, activist and feminist Gloria Steinem will be one of the headline guests at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF). Appearing at an event at... Read more |
ABC TV’s The Book Club will return in May as a weekly show screening over 13 weeks at 10pm on Tuesday evenings. The show, now... Read more |
The Stella Prize has announced two partnerships, one with the Victorian government to run literature workshops for secondary schools and the other with the Australian... Read more |
A number of Australian and New Zealand businesses have been shortlisted for the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards. Independent Melbourne bookseller Readings is in... Read more |
Australia’s oldest bookshop Birchalls in Launceston is up for sale. Managing director Graeme Tilley said in a statement that the Tilley family has decided to... Read more |
The winners in the 2016 Seizure Viva La Novella competition have been announced. The Bonobo’s Dream by Rose Mulready and Populate and Perish by George Haddad were... Read more |
Moreno Giovannoni has won Writers Victoria’s inaugural Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds for his manuscript extract ‘Tales from San Ginese’. Giovannoni’s... Read more |
The shortlists for the New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The shortlists in each category are: Fiction The Back of His Head (Patrick Evans,... Read more |
Allen & Unwin is running a competition to the design the cover of feminist writer Clementine Ford’s forthcoming book Fight Like a Girl. The publisher... Read more |
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A Sydney Catholic school has told YA author Will Kostakis ‘it might not be appropriate’ for him to promote his new book The Sidekicks (Penguin)... Read more |
Sydney independent bookseller Pages & Pages has announced a number of staff changes. Co-owner Kate Page has returned to the business as co-general manager and... Read more |
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Cold Chisel frontman Jimmy Barnes’ autobiography in a two-book deal. The two volumes of Barnes’ autobiography will span the... Read more |
The Sydney Review of Books (SRB) is offering three fellowships to emerging Australian critics. The inaugural CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships, which are supported by the... Read more |
Ella O’Keefe has won the 2015 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets, worth $6000, for her poem ‘alkaway’. The first runner-up was... Read more |
Black Inc. has announced the editors for this year’s ‘Best Australian’ anthologies. Geordie Williamson will return as editor of The Best Australian Essays 2016. He... Read more |
In the US, Amazon will open its second bricks-and-mortar bookstore in San Diego, California in mid-2016, reports Publisher’s Weekly. The San Diego store will be... Read more |
The US Supreme Court has rejected Apple’s appeal in its ebook price-fixing case, reports Publisher’s Weekly. The denial effectively ends the case and upholds Judge... Read more |
In the US, Ingram has acquired the distribution arm of Perseus Book Group for an undisclosed sum, reports Publishers Weekly. The deal, which is expected... Read more |
From 15 March, Barnes & Noble’s (B&N) Nook ereading platform will no longer sell ebooks in the UK. In a notice to readers, Nook said... Read more |
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Guinness World Records is launching a new pop-culture annual in March. Blockbusters!, aimed at children aged eight to 12, will focus on ‘the year’s biggest... Read more |
In the UK, WH Smith is launching an ‘exclusive book club’ with YouTube star and Girl Online author Zoella, reports the Bookseller. The club, which... Read more |
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Greek rights to White Gardenia (Belinda Alexandra) to Dioptra Publishing S A; and world Polish rights to The Innocent Mage and... Read more |
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There is a large overlap between the highest new entries and top 10 bestsellers chart this week, with Cometh the Hour (Jeffrey Archer, Macmillan) and... Read more |
‘There has been a proliferation of pretty-dead-girl thrillers in the past few years and it shows no sign of letting up. But don’t let the... Read more |
‘This hasn’t happened by accident—this is a very special book, of extraordinary power, skill, and frankness, published to the accompaniment of an immaculate and highly disciplined release strategy and publicity campaign’—Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom on Niki Savva’s The Road to Ruin, which sold out of its first print run on publication day
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Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 13 reviews of children’s and YA books publishing in April and May 2016. David Metzenthen’s YA novel Dreaming the Enemy... Read more |
Western Australia’s 232 public libraries will receive 62,000 fewer books over the next two years due to state government funding cuts, reports Perth’s Community News.... Read more |
The Clarence Valley Council in regional NSW has prepared a report recommending its mobile library service be downsized and eventually transformed into a digital-only service,... Read more |
‘The Taiwanese publishing market continues to face a downturn with noted declines in book sales over the past few years, particularly in fiction. Book space... Read more |
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Express Media has announced the appointment of Lucy Adams as editor of its Voiceworks journal. Adams begins in mid-March and replaces previous editor Elizabeth Flux.
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Entries are open for the 2016 Barbara Jefferis Award, which is awarded to ‘the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and... Read more |
The APA will run a webinar on working with Indigenous authors, to be held on Thursday, 10 March. Aboriginal Studies Press acting director of publishing... Read more |
Applications have opened for the State Library of Victoria’s (SLV) Creative Fellowships for 2016-17. Recipients are invited ‘to be inspired by, repurpose, transform or imaginatively... Read more |
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