The shortlists for the biennial WA Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson,... Read more |
Sydney independent bookstore chain Your Bookshop will close at the end of the year. Owners Bonnie and Mark Serov closed their Bankstown store last week... Read more |
The 2016 New Zealand Book Trade Industry Awards were announced at the Booksellers NZ Conference in Auckland on 2 July. Time Out Bookstore in Mt... Read more |
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the 2016 National Biography Award for biographical writing and memoir. The shortlisted titles are: Battarbee and... Read more |
The program for the 2016 WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival, which runs from 24-28 August, has been announced. Among the international guests attending this... Read more |
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced the first of its international authors who will appear at the 2016 festival, which runs from 26 August... Read more |
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Lonely Planet’s new headquarters in the inner-city suburb of Carlton, Melbourne opened this week. The offices are across levels two and three of The Malt... Read more |
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US film production company Awesomeness Films has acquired film rights to Townsville author Krystal Sutherland’s forthcoming debut YA novel Our Chemical Hearts (Penguin). The book,... Read more |
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Film producers Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg have optioned the film rights to Australian writer Nathan Besser’s debut novel Man in the Corner (Vintage), ahead... Read more |
The 2016 Australian Christian Book of the Year shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Post-God Nation: How Religion Fell Off the Radar in... Read more |
Writer and critic Jane Howard has been appointed as Digital Writers’ Festival director. Howard has worked with numerous Adelaide-based arts organisations, been commissioned for work... Read more |
Booktopia CEO Tony Nash has been named at number nine on a list of Australia’s top 30 influencers on the retail ecommerce sector in Australia... Read more |
South African writer Lidudumalingani has won the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story ‘Memories We Lost’. Chosen from a shortlist of... Read more |
In the US, Harlequin has announced a new literary fiction imprint called Park Row Books, reports Publishers Weekly. Park Row Books will release its first... Read more |
French publishers have reported an increase in book sales in 2015—up 0.6% in value to €2.267bn (A$3.353bn) and 3.5% in volume to 436.7m—after five consecutive... Read more |
The Frankfurt Book Fair Business Club’s ‘Business of Books 2016’ report, which examines publishing trends in the US, UK, Europe and developing nations, has found... Read more |
In the US, Amazon has been forced to remove material from its new educational resources platform Amazon Inspire over copyright issues, reports the New York... Read more |
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) is launching a series of lifestyle events under the brand Penguin Living, reports the Bookseller. The events will... Read more |
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has expanded its self-publishing platform Nook Press to incorporate print publishing and distribution, as well as in-store events, reports... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Text has sold French rights to The Best of Adam Sharp (Graeme Simsion) to Laffont; Turkish rights to The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion) to... Read more |
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This week’s bestsellers includes a number of film tie-ins and film-related titles moving up the charts. Top of the overall bestsellers for the fourth straight... Read more |
‘Dan Disney and Kit Kelen suggest poetry can “offer us new ways to understand mundane injustices [and] new ways to speak out”. Grand claims, perhaps,... Read more |
‘The richness of human possibility that is Ozlit’s stock in trade is an affront to the barren and denuded vocabulary both sides of politics employ’—incoming Picador publisher Geordie Williamson reflects on the state of Ozlit in his final column as chief literary critic for the Australian
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Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 19 reviews of books publishing in July to September 2016. Two books scored the maximum five stars from reviewers: Melina... Read more |
Author Cory Taylor has died, aged 61. Taylor’s 2011 debut novel Me and Mr Booker won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Pacific region, and... Read more |
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the memoir Night (Penguin), has died, aged 87. Wiesel was the author of over... Read more |
Terry Kitson, former CEO of HarperCollins UK and Australia, has died following a short illness. The Bookseller writes: ‘Kitson started out as a sales rep... Read more |
The Geelong Library and Heritage Centre in Victoria and Success Public Library in Western Australia have been nominated for the Danish Agency for Culture’s 2016... Read more |
The City of Perth library, which opened in March this year, has shared the top prize at the 2016 WA Architecture Awards, reports WAToday. The... Read more |
Western Australia’s inter-library loan program has been restored to a twice-a-week service following the program’s suspension last week, reports the Australian. As previously reported by... Read more |
In the UK, Leicestershire county council is transferring 26 libraries to community groups to save £800,000 (A$1.41m), reports the Bookseller. So far, 23 libraries are... Read more |
‘Part of the Unity survival kit—it’ll be 49 Unity-years in September—is our determination that Unity continues as a viable forum for books, people and ideas.... Read more |
Launched in 2012, Sydney-based Lacuna Publishing publishes fiction, poetry and nonfiction that ‘challenges the status quo, introduces new ideas, shares untold stories, or presents a... Read more |
The family of Terry Kitson, former CEO of HarperCollins Australia, regret to announce his passing on Sunday 3 July after a short illness. His funeral... Read more |
NewSouth Books congratulates its publishers shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year. Numerical Street (NewSouth) is up for the Five to Eight Years category, and an impressive five titles from Magabala, including ABC Dreaming, Deadly D and Justice Jones, Kookoo Kookaburra, My Lost Mob and The Toast Tree, are shortlisted in the Indigenous Children’s category.
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