Rosalie Ham’s The Dressmaker (Duffy & Snellgrove) and Sarah Wilson’s I Quit Sugar: Simplicious (Macmillan) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts... Read more |
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 65-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has topped the Australian children’s bestsellers chart for July 2015-June 2016, selling an astounding 347,000 titles... Read more |
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McPherson’s Printing Group, a division of parent company Opus Group, has declined the job of printing an anti same-sex marriage book from niche publisher Connor... Read more |
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Wiley’s ‘For Dummies’ series will officially relaunch in October with new book covers, interiors and mascot, as well as an expanded online presence. Every new... Read more |
Wildlife photographer and author Neville Peat has won the inaugural NZ$25,000 (A$24,195) Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers Award for nonfiction, to help support his... Read more |
Bookseller Paul MacDonald has won this year’s Lady Cutler Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA)... Read more |
The shortlist for the inaugural Medal for Excellence in Translation, administered by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, has been announced. The shortlisted translators and... Read more |
New Zealand rugby player Dan Carter will receive the best autobiography prize at the 2016 Sportel Awards, to be held in Monaco on 25 October,... Read more |
A documentary web-series looking back on the life of Indigenous author and activist Boori Monty Pryor, to be screened on the ABC’s iview portal, is... Read more |
Affirm Press has announced the winners of its second Affirm Mentorship Award, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers’ House. The writers and their projects... Read more |
The Poet’s Voice has launched a new podcast series, called ‘The necessary poet’, which presents Australian writers, thinkers and poets discussing the work of a... Read more |
In Canada, the shortlist for the C$100,000 (A$98,820) Scotiabank Giller Prize 2016 for the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English has... Read more |
In the US, the banning of Dan Carter’s Wolf Boys (A&U) in Texas prisons has highlighted the state’s aggressive stance on banning books, reports the... Read more |
Video game developer Ubisoft is launching an in-house publishing initiative that will release two books in November in the US based on its Assassin’s Creed... Read more |
In the UK, a new study into the media consumption of pre-schoolers has found parents spend on average £6 (A$10.20) per month on books for... Read more |
In the UK, the 2016 longlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, has been announced. The 10 longlisted titles... Read more |
The finalists have been announced for the 2016 Kirkus Prize, sponsored by the US publication Kirkus Reviews. The awards are presented in three categories—fiction, nonfiction... Read more |
Sales Nonfiction—ABC Books has sold the TV and film option to The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made (Fiona Katauskas) to CJZ via... Read more |
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Children’s books make up four of the top five bestsellers in this week’s charts, with the top three spots taken by The 78-Storey Treehouse (Andy... Read more |
‘This deceptively simple story by author Maxine Beneba Clarke is beautifully written and incredibly powerful. It uses evocative language and onomatopoeia to flesh out a... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria’s (SLV) Google Expedition, which uses virtual reality to create the experience of an immersive field trip, was launched in Mildura... Read more |
Tullamore Library in Central NSW has claimed to be the first Australian library to be open to the community 24 hours a day, seven days... Read more |
Danish publishers have withdrawn their ebooks from libraries in opposition to to the lack of restrictions around digital lending in the country, reports Digital Book... Read more |
A grassroots campaign to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles has been gathering momentum, writes Sophie Teague. To read this... Read more |
UWA Publishing was launched in 1935 at the University of Western Australia in Perth to produce textbooks for its students, and has since expanded into... Read more |
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Wavesound has appointed Julie Buckroyd to the position of customer support and product specialist, commencing on 20 September.
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Editors NSW will host a talk, ‘Viva Novella—judge and editor’, on Tuesday, 4 October from 6.30pm. The talk will be presented by Alice Grundy, associate... Read more |
Applications are open for Varuna’s Publisher Introduction Program, which offers up to 12 writers the opportunity to develop their manuscripts for publication. Awardees of the... Read more |
 Congratulations to Dr Michael Mosley. Over 100,000 copies of his book, The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, have now been sold across ANZ.
The new companion cookbook, The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Recipe Book, is available now.
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Congratulations to Dr Michael Mosley. Over 100,000 copies of his book, The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, have now been sold across ANZ.
