Please note that, due to the Easter holidays, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 31 March. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements is... Read more |
The longlists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. They are: General fiction book of the year The Lake House (Kate... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Flesh Wounds (Richard Glover,... Read more |
Thames & Hudson Australia has announced plans to expand its local publishing and has appointed Kirsten Abbott as associate publisher, among other staff changes. Abbott... Read more |
The Co-op has appointed COO Thorsten Wichtendahl as its new CEO, replacing Peter Knock, who has stepped down for family reasons. Wichtendahl joined the Co-op... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2016 Ernest Scott Prize for history, presented by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts, has been announced. The shortlisted titles... Read more |
The program for the 2016 Clunes Booktown Festival, to be held from 30 April to 1 May in Clunes, Victoria, has been announced. This year... Read more |
The National Gallery of Victoria will host the second annual Melbourne Art Book Fair from 29 April to 1 May. The program has expanded to... Read more |
The Publishers’ Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has written to the NZ government claiming it has vastly overestimated the projected increase to royalties under the... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) will publish Rachael Treasure’s first nonfiction book Down the Dirt Roads in November. The publisher described Down the Dirt Roads as... Read more |
Actor Rachel Griffiths has acquired the film rights for Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne’s forthcoming autobiography. Griffiths will produce and direct the film, which will... Read more |
Harlequin will host a Rural Fiction Festival at Sydney’s Royal Easter Show from 25-26 March. Two of Harlequin’s bestselling rural fiction authors, Rachael Johns and... Read more |
The winner and runners-up for Overland’s inaugural Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for travel-themed short fiction have been announced. Lauren Foley’s ‘K-K-K’, a ‘story about... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) has recorded an 11.8% rise in global revenue in 2015, up from €3.3bn (A$4.86bn) in 2014 to €3.7bn (A$5.5bn) in 2015, with... Read more |
James Patterson is working with his US publisher Little, Brown to release a new line of short novels aimed at non-readers and readers who don’t... Read more |
Too Naked for the Nazis (Alan Stafford, Fantom Films) has won the Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year, presented by the... Read more |
In the UK, David Solomons’ My Brother is a Superhero (Nosy Crow) has won the 2016 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones children’s... Read more |
Sales Nonfiction—UQP has sold North American rights to The Hard Light of Day (Rod Moss) to Skyhorse Publishing. Children’s—Walker Books has sold Turkish rights to... Read more |
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Two new releases have topped the charts this week, with YA title Lady Midnight (S&S), the first book in Cassandra Clare’s new ‘Dark Artifices’ series,... Read more |
‘Following the romantic capering of Fall Girl and the historically set Nine Days, Toni Jordan’s Our Tiny, Useless Hearts is a highly entertaining romp through... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) advocacy arm Freedom of Access to Information and Resources (FAIR) has released the honours list from its ‘Great... Read more |
The State Library of NSW will commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death on 23 April with a celebration to be headlined by singer-songwriter... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has renamed the Australian Library Journal as the Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association (JALIA), and... Read more |
In the US, Library Journal has released this year’s ‘Movers and Shakers’ list of influential library professionals. The 2016 list, which is available online here, recognises individuals who... Read more |
Professional development opportunities are a ‘mixed bag’ in the publishing industry, but there are opportunities if you know where to look, writes Portia Lindsay. Read... Read more |
Books+Publishing is launching a new series of small publisher profiles. Each week we will interview the publisher of a small press to find out what... Read more |
Thames & Hudson has appointed former Penguin Random House associate publisher Kirsten Abbott as associate publisher. Publishing manager Paulina de Laveaux has been promoted to associate... Read more |
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The Co-op has appointed COO Thorsten Wichtendahl as its new CEO, replacing Peter Knock, who has stepped down for family reasons. (See news.)
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We’re excited to announce that Stuart Macintyre’s ‘Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s’ has been shortlisted for this year’s Ernest Scott Prize. ‘Australia’s Boldest Experiment’ investigates the 1940s as a pivotal decade in Australia, and the judges have described it as “masterful in coverage and narrative”. The Ernest Scott Prize is awarded annually for a book that is judged the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand. Our congratulations to Stuart and all the shortlisted authors.
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Nero Books is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of MOODS: The Peter Moody Story. The book will be released in November 2016, with the manuscript under strict embargo until this time. If you have any enquires please contact: kelly@blackincbooks.com or phone 0488 684 392.
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