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A S Patrić has won the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Black Rock White City (Transit Lounge). Patrić was announced as the... Read more |
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Sisters in Crime announced the winners of the 2016 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women at an event in Melbourne on... Read more |
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The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) announced the winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 28... Read more |
Xoum Publishing has announced a $5000 romance prize for an unpublished manuscript to mark its new imprint, XO Romance. Xoum publisher director Rod Morrison told... Read more |
Independent bookselling chain Harry Hartog will open a new store at Narellan Town Centre in southwest Sydney on 15 September. The store will become the... Read more |
The Co-op has bought the Australian Geographic retail chain from its owner, Myer Family Investments. The Co-op will take over the chain’s 66 stores and its... Read more |
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) publishing director Hilary Rogers is leaving the company to start her own ‘series creation business’. HGE said in a statement that... Read more |
Bonnier Publishing Australia has appointed Melissa Keil and Samone Bos as commissioning editors at Five Mile Press. Keil has been promoted from senior children’s editor... Read more |
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Paul Cleave’s Trust No One (Upstart Press) has won the 2016 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. This is the third time Cleave has won... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2016 ACT Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Locust Girl (Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex) The Eighties... Read more |
The winners of the 2016 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced. Risk by Fleur Ferries (Random House) has won the $1500 Older Readers... Read more |
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the 2016 Australia Book Prize longlist. The prize, worth $3500, is part of... Read more |
The finalists for the Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University,... Read more |
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The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has released the full program for its 2016 festival, which will run from 26-30 October in Ubud, Indonesia.... Read more |
Melbourne’s sexuality and gender diverse bookshop Hares & Hyenas will run a season of events from November to December to mark its 25th anniversary. The store... Read more |
The winners of the 2016 ‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The first prize, worth $8000, was... Read more |
Writer W J P Newnham has won The Lifted Brow’s (TLB) Prize for Experimental Nonfiction for his piece ‘Trashman Loves Maree’. Newnham was selected from a... Read more |
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Child, Arise! The Courage to Stand by Jane N Dowling (David Lovell Publishing) has won the 2016 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award. Chosen from... Read more |
Pearson has been ranked as the world’s largest book publisher in 2015, despite revenue falling from over US$7bn (A$9.31bn) in 2014 to US$6.6bn (A$8.8bn) last... Read more |
In the US, Hachette Book Group is suing Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame-Smith for breach of contract, reports Locus Magazine. The publisher... Read more |
US author Marilynne Robinson has been named the winner of the Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award as part of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace... Read more |
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In Canada, Penguin Random House (PRH) has opened a ‘Penguin Shop’ on the ground floor of the tower housing its Toronto officers, reports Publishers Weekly.... Read more |
UK author Adrian Tchaikovsky has won the 2016 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction writing for his novel Children of Time (Pan). Tchaikovsky’s book was... Read more |
Italian citizens will receive a €500 (A$740) ‘culture bonus’ on their 18th birthday as part of a new government initiative designed to promote the importance... Read more |
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. (Nero) has sold Vietnamese rights to Employee Enragement: Why People Hate Working for You (James Adonis) to Zenbooks. Rockpool has sold Japanese... Read more |
The 78-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) has maintained its position at the top of the overall bestsellers chart this week, edging out... Read more |
‘Told with haunting simplicity, the eminently readable Black Rock White City joins Nam Le’s The Boat and Maxine Beneba Clarke’s Foreign Soil as a welcome... Read more |
‘Independent publishers now publish a large percentage of Australia’s literary fiction and are supporting new Australian writers telling Australian stories. It is affirming to see this reality being reflected in awards’—Transit Lounge publisher Barry Scott on winning the Miles Franklin Literary Award
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Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 14 reviews of books publishing in October and November 2016. Julia Baird’s ‘thoroughly contemporary biography’ Victoria the Queen (HarperCollins, November)... Read more |
A new initiative by digital proofs provider NetGalley will give Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) members faster access to new titles by validating members... Read more |
Melbourne City Council will relocate the City Library on Flinders Lane in the CBD by 2020, reports the Age. Melbourne Library Service manager Anne-Maree Pfabe... Read more |
Centre of Youth Literature program manager Adele Walsh was one of five hundred literature and literary experts from over 60 countries who descended on Auckland’s... Read more |
Harbour Publishing House, based on the South Coast of NSW, began publishing in 2014 and specialises in children’s literature. ‘What initially started as a project... Read more |
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) publishing director Hilary Rogers is leaving the company, with HGE publisher Marisa Pintado ‘[stepping] up to run the children’s and YA... Read more |
Bonnier Publishing Australia has appointed Melissa Keil and Samone Bos as commissioning editors at Five Mile Press. Keil was promoted from senior children’s editor at... Read more |
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Khadija Caffoor has been appointed rights and export coordinator at Text Publishing. Caffoor replaces Alice Cottrell, who has left the company.
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Black Inc. marketing and publicity coordinator Jessica Pearce is leaving the publisher. Her last day will be 2 September.
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The Children’s Book Council of Australia would like to remind publishers to send their entries for the 2017 CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Awards. Entries... Read more |
 Please be aware that from the end of August any returns that are mailed to our old Footscray Distribution Centre will be returned to sender.
All returns must be sent to our new DC for prompt processing.
Please ensure your records are updated to avoid delays.
Lonely Planet Distribution Centre
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Shine: The Making of the Australian Netball Diamonds (1 October ISBN 9781925048742) will be promoted to a national television audience during the Aust v NZ major netball match on Sunday 4 September. Fans will be encouraged to pre-order. Stock will be shipped into stores by 19 September.
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A huge congratulations to A S Patrić, whose book Black Rock White City, published by Transit Lounge, won the 2016 Miles Franklin Literary Award!
Stock is available to order with reprints underway. Please contact TL Distribution (P: +61(2) 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au).
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We’re delighted to announce Stuart Macintyre’s Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s has been longlisted for the CHASS Australia Book Prize, which is awarded to the author whose book, in the opinion of the judges, contributes most to cultural and intellectual life in Australia. Our congratulations to all the longlisted authors.
For orders please contact TL Distribution (P: +61(2) 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au).
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Please be aware that from the end of August any returns that are mailed to our old Footscray Distribution Centre will be returned to sender.
