The longlists for the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year... Read more |
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The program has been announced for the 2017 Auckland Writers Festival, which runs from 16-21 May. The line-up of 42 international writers includes Man Booker Prize-winning... Read more |
Affirm Press publisher Fiona Henderson has been appointed publishing director of Simon & Schuster, effective from 3 April. Henderson has worked in publishing for more... Read more |
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Pan Macmillan’s Picador imprint has acquired ANZ rights to Hannah Kent’s next two novels. Picador publisher Geordie Williamson told Books+Publishing the deal ‘gives Hannah time... Read more |
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Black Inc. has commissioned a series of six short books featuring Australian writers reflecting on other Australian writers who have inspired and influenced them. The first two... Read more |
A number of writers have been awarded international residencies for 2017-18 as part of the Australia Council’s program. The writers are: Josephine Rowe, to build... Read more |
US-based ebook analysts Author Earnings has included Australian data in its reporting for the first time, with its quarterly report expanded to cover the top... Read more |
The Copyright Agency has appointed Nicola Evans as the head of its Cultural Fund and Reading Australia programs. Evans’ previous roles include program manager for... Read more |
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Granta has acquired Australian and UK rights to Booker Prize-winning New Zealand author Eleanor Catton’s third novel Birnam Wood. Victoria University Press (VUP) will publish the... Read more |
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Penguin Australia will publish a new novel from Peter Carey, A Long Way from Home, in November. The book will also be published by Faber... Read more |
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Black Inc. has acquired the rights to Josephine Rowe’s short story collection Horse Latitudes, to be published in mid-2018. Publisher Aviva Tuffield told Books+Publishing she has... Read more |
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Scribe UK publicity and operations manager Sarah Braybrooke has been promoted to managing director of Scribe UK. Braybrooke’s promotion is one of four at Scribe’s... Read more |
The Queensland Literary Awards is introducing a new digital literature award in 2017. The $10,000 prize, sponsored by the Queensland University of Technology, is open... Read more |
Australian authors Charlotte Wood and Foz Meadows have been commended in the US-based Tiptree Award, which is presented for science-fiction and fantasy that expands or explores the... Read more |
The Storylines Children’s Trust has announced its 2017 Notable Books list for children’s and young adult books published in 2016. The 33 notable books on... Read more |
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has reopened its $7500 gender fellowship with broader criteria, following its decision not to award the inaugural fellowship. The revised fellowship calls... Read more |
Tasmanian publisher Transportation Press has launched an international microfiction competition, with a collection of winning and highly commended stories to be published later in the... Read more |
The longlist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Compass (Mathias Enard, trans by Charlotte Mandell, Fitzcarraldo Editions)... Read more |
France’s Shakespeare and Company has been named Bookstore of the Year at the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Shakespeare and Company is the... Read more |
UK bricks-and-mortar booksellers saw a 4% increase in book sales volume in 2016 while online sales held steady, according to Nielsen’s Books and Consumer survey... Read more |
Hachette UK revenue was up 11% in 2016, with the growth credited with driving parent company Lagardère’s publishing division revenue up 2.5% on the previous... Read more |
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In the UK, John Keene’s Counternarratives (Fitzcarraldo Editions) has won the inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses, reports the Bookseller. The £3000 ($4860)... Read more |
Swedish-owned Bonnier Books is launching a new print and digital self-publishing platform in the UK, reports the Bookseller. Type & Tell, which launches at the... Read more |
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. imprint Nero has sold Czech rights to Destination Simple (Brooke McAlary) to Grada. Bonnier Publishing Australia has sold UK rights to The... Read more |
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There’s a new title at the top of the bestsellers chart this week, with The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet (Grant Brinkworth & Pennie Taylor, Macmillan) leading... Read more |
‘It’s refreshing to see how books generally, and print books in particular, are still appealing to younger consumers, both male and female, despite so many other forms of entertainment and information competing for their attention’—Nielsen Book’s UK research director Steve Bohme presents the latest statistics on book sales and consumer behaviour at the London Book Fair
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Books+Publishing magazine’s first issue for 2017 is out now! Reviews: It’s a strong start to the year for reviews, with four adult books scoring 4.5... Read more |
New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball has died, aged 78. Ball was best known for creating the ‘Footrot Flats’ comic series, and was made an Officer of... Read more |
Former Australia Library and Information Association (ALIA) president Christine Mackenzie has been elected president-elect of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) from... Read more |
The Supreme Court will hear a case brought by the City of Sydney against two companies over the construction of the glass facade at the... Read more |
With the tally of Australian literary festivals reaching more than 90 in 2017, Jo Case takes a look at the role festivals play in an... Read more |
‘Brennan’s depiction of Garner’s fearless approach to the very difficult subjects of The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation and This House of Grief is beautifully... Read more |
Emily Banyard has joined the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) as marketing and communications manager following the departure of communications manager Jacqui Dent. Banyard has... Read more |
 Our congratulations to Maxine Beneba Clarke for her shortlisting in the 2017 Stella Prize for The Hate Race (9780733632280, $32.99).
To order copies please contact Alliance Distribution Services by calling (02) 4390 1300 or emailing adscs@alliancedist.com.au.
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Dennis Jones will be distributing Smudge Publishing books from 1 April 2017.
Smudge Publishing thanks Woodslane for all their hard work over the last 3 years.
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Catherine de Saint Phalle’s Poum and Alexandre: A Paris memoir (Transit Lounge) has been shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize, along with five other writers.
Poum and Alexandre tells the story of de Saint Phalle’s parents, two flawed eccentrics living in post-war Paris, and according to the Stella Prize judges, ‘deserves to be an instant classic of the biography genre’.
The Stella Prize is presented for the best work of fiction or nonfiction by an Australian woman. All shortlisted writers receive a writing retreat and $3000.
To order please contact TL Distribution (P: +61 (2) 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au).
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NewSouth Books would like to congratulate Ali Cobby Eckermann for winning the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for poetry.
Eckermann is an Indigenous poet and artist from South Australia whose work deals with family, connection to country and the trauma of the Stolen Generations.
To order Inside My Mother 9781922146885, Love, Dreaming and Other Poems 9781922181725, or Ruby Moonlight 9781921248511 please contact TL Distribution (P: +61 (2) 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au).
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Footrot Flats author and cartoonist Murray Ball has passed away in New Zealand, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.
Hachette Australia Publishing Director Fiona Hazard said, ‘We were very saddened to hear of Murray Ball’s passing. His legendary Footrot Flats characters Wal and Dog have delighted Australian readers over the years and will continue to do so well into the future. Our thoughts are with Murray’s wife Pam and their family.’
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