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The longlists for the 2016 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the program for this year’s conference, to be held at the QT hotel in Canberra from 29-30 May.... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has welcomed the government’s decision to introduce legislation to protect small businesses against the misuse of market power by larger... Read more |
Booker Prize-winning Jamaican-US novelist Marlon James, US novelist Hanya Yanagihara and US writer and activist Gloria Steinem are among the international authors appearing the 2016... Read more |
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The shortlist for the 2016 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Six Bedrooms (Tegan Bennett Daylight, Vintage) Hope Farm (Peggy Frew, Scribe)... Read more |
The shortlist for the Readings Children’s Book Prize for 2016 has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: 88 Lime Street (Denise Kirby, Omnibus) The Bad... Read more |
Attendance and book sales were up again at this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week (27 February to 3 March), with international authors dominating book sales at... Read more |
Matthew Lamb has won the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for his proposed cultural biography of the Australian writer Frank Moorhouse. Lamb, the founder and... Read more |
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Melbourne-based independent feminist publisher Spinifex Press is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Founded by Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein in 1991, Spinifex has published... Read more |
The Storylines Children’s Literature Trust of New Zealand has announced the shortlists for its three national writers’ awards. The shortlists are: Joy Cowley Award for... Read more |
The Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand has awarded Barbara Else the 2016 Margaret Mahy Medal, presented annually for ‘lifetime achievement and an... Read more |
Melbourne-based author Jay Kristoff has sold North American rights to his YA novel LIFEL1K3 to Knopf in a three-book deal. The first book in a... Read more |
Melbourne publishing company Michelle Anderson Publishing is up for sale. Publisher Michelle Anderson said she has decided to retire and is looking to sell the... Read more |
The grassroots Australian youth literature advocacy movement LoveOzYA has launched its official website. The new site features news about Australian YA authors, book deals, awards,... Read more |
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Undergraduate students from the University of Sydney will be challenged to create a ‘future concept’ for the Dymocks business as part of the university’s student... Read more |
The shortlist for Overland’s inaugural Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for travel-themed short fiction has been announced. The eight shortlisted entries are: ‘Budapest’ (Kieran Cash)... Read more |
New Zealand writers Diana Wichtel and Breton Dukes are the recipients of the 2016 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. Wichtel and Dukes will each receive NZ$20,000 (A$17,711)... Read more |
Sales for children’s books rose 16% in Ireland in 2015 on the back of strong local publishing as well as releases from bestselling authors David... Read more |
In the UK, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the shortlists for the 2016 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. The... Read more |
In the US, Hachette has told booksellers that Harper Lee’s estate will no longer allow publication of the mass-market paperback of To Kill a Mockingbird,... Read more |
In the UK, the shortlist for the Bookseller’s second annual YA Book Prize has been announced. The 10 books on the shortlist are: Concentr8 (William... Read more |
The longlist for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: A General Theory of Oblivion (José Eduardo Agualusa, trans... Read more |
In the UK, the BBC has announced it will screen adaptations of Zadie Smith’s NW (Penguin) and Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall (various imprints) later... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold UK rights to Skylarking (Kate Mildenhall) to Legend Press; and Polish rights to Rose’s Vintage (Kayte Nunn) to Burda Publishing.... Read more |
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British broadcaster Michael Mosley’s latest book The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet (S&S) has topped this week’s top 10 and fastest movers charts. The Australian and... Read more |
‘It will appeal to a wide range of readers, accessible yet complex in the manner of Geraldine Brooks or Anthony Doerr. I predict it will... Read more |
British author and art historian Anita Brookner has died, aged 87. Brookner was the author of 24 novels, including the 1984 Booker Prize-winning Hotel du... Read more |
The City of Sydney will open a new two-storey, 2225sqm library as part of the $3.4bn redevelopment of Darling Harbour, reports Business Insider. The library... Read more |
Brisbane City Council libraries are inviting suppliers of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to fit out their libraries to track books, magazines and electronic media,... Read more |
Councillors for the Clarence Valley in regional NSW have argued that the council’s $148,000 mobile library service is not providing value for money, reports the... Read more |
The only surviving play script handwritten by William Shakespeare has been digitised by the British Library ahead of an exhibition, reports the Guardian. While Shakespeare... Read more |
‘Digital Book World organiser and The Idea Logical Company CEO Mike Shatzkin set the tone for the conference in an opening speech. Shatzkin said: “As... Read more |
The 2016 ABIA Innovation Award recognises achievement in business innovation in the Australian publishing and bookselling industry. Rewarding originality and progressive thinking, the Innovation Award... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) is calling for nominations for Bookseller of the Year, Young Bookseller of the Year, and the Elizabeth Riley Children’s Bookseller... Read more |
Giramondo congratulates Fiona Wright on being shortlisted for The Stella Prize for her outstanding collection, Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger (ISBN: 978-1-922146-93-9; RRP: $24.95). Due to demand, the title is now being reprinted, and will be available by 28 March from NewSouth Books via TL Distribution: orders@tldistribution.com.au; 02 8778 9999.
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