Over 100 booksellers, close to 100 publishers and suppliers, and 29 authors attended this year’s Leading Edge Books (LEB) conference, which was held in Surfers... Read more |
The federal government will return the majority of funds from its Catalyst Australian Arts and Culture Fund to the Australia Council, totalling $61m over the... Read more |
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Jane Harper’s The Dry has been named Book of the Year at the 2017 Indie Book Awards, presented at the Leading Edge Books Conference in... Read more |
A number of industry awards were presented at this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference in Surfers Paradise on 20 March. HarperCollins was named Publisher of... Read more |
Former HarperCollins publishing director Shona Martyn has joined production company Lingo Pictures as a book scout. Martyn said she is ‘delighted’ to be joining the... Read more |
Manuscript magazine will expand into book publishing with a series of high-end, hardcover art, fashion and design books. The first book in the series will... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced it will publish a new novel by Richard Flanagan in Australia in October. First Person, Flanagan’s first novel since... Read more |
Simon & Schuster will publish a new cookbook by Maggie Beer in October, aimed at enhancing food experiences for older Australians. Maggie’s Recipe for Life... Read more |
Mills & Boon has announced a new imprint to launch at the beginning of 2018. The publisher said Mills & Boon DARE will deliver ‘riveting,... Read more |
Melbourne author Madeline Ash has been nominated for the Romance Writers of America (RWA) 2017 RITA Awards for excellence in published romance novels and novellas.... Read more |
The Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria has announced the full program for its Reading Matters conference, which will run from... Read more |
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Paris-based artist, architect and filmmaker Marc Johnson has won the inaugural Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing for his book fecund lacuna /... Read more |
Australian authors Zana Fraillon and Glenda Millard have been shortlisted for the 2017 Carnegie Medal. Fraillon is shortlisted for The Bone Sparrow (Hachette) and Millard... Read more |
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced the line-up for this year’s Primary and Secondary School Days programs, to be held from 22 to 26... Read more |
The Australian writers podcast ‘The Garret’ has been shortlisted in the inaugural Cast Away Australian Podcast Awards. ‘The Garret’ is the only literary podcast in... Read more |
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Puffin will publish a new ‘Wimpy Kid’ book from Jeff Kinney that goes behind-the-scenes of the forthcoming film, reports the Bookseller. The Wimpy Kid Movie... Read more |
In the UK, Jacob Ross has won the inaugural £1000 (A$1610) Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour for his... Read more |
In the UK, the University of Warwick has announced the launch of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation to ‘address the gender imbalance in... Read more |
In the US, online writing and reading platform Wattpad will partner with Hachette to produce 50 audiobooks based on Wattpad stories, reports Publishers Weekly. The... Read more |
The top 10 bestsellers chart remains largely unchanged this week, with The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet (Grant Brinkworth & Pennie Taylor, Macmillan) holding on to the... Read more |
‘Recalling the wit and social commentary of Julie Koh’s Portable Curiosities alongside the surreal connected-universe storytelling of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad,... Read more |
Research from library provider Civica has found Chinese language resources were Australia’s most borrowed community library resource in languages other than English in 2016, according... Read more |
A book club for people with intellectual and development disabilities has launched at a local library in Echuca in northern Victoria, reports the ABC. A... Read more |
In Books+Publishing’s new ‘Behind the Bestsellers’ series, Australian booksellers share their insights on the bigger picture behind what’s popular. In this first instalment, Stefen Brazulaitis... Read more |
Editors NSW will host a presentation, ‘How booksellers survived the death sentence’, on Tuesday, 4 April 2017 from 6.30pm. The talk will be presented by... Read more |
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