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Australian publisher Berbay Publishing has won the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. Berbay was chosen from a... Read more
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Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced that its UBD Dalmore Drive distribution centre in Scoresby, Victoria, will close in the first half of 2018, with the... Read more
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The Australian government will provide funding of ‘more than $160,000 over four years’ to ‘promote Australian authors and illustrators through a strong Australian presence at... Read more
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The shortlist for the 2017 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette)... Read more
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Macmillan managing director Greg Browne has said the idea that introducing a ‘fair use’ exception into the Copyright Act is a terminal threat to Australian... Read more
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Catherine Bishop has won the 2016 Ashurst Business Literature Prize for her book Minding Her Own Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney (NewSouth). Bishop was presented... Read more
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Allen & Unwin will publish 26 titles from international bestselling author Morris West’s backlist in September. Allen & Unwin will sell Shoes of the Fisherman,... Read more
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Four Australians are among the 21 writers shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017. The shortlisted Australian writers and their works are: Ruth Lacey,... Read more
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A number of Australians are finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards for science-fiction. UK-based Australian writer Foz Meadows is a finalist in the category of... Read more
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Overland journal has announced the shortlist for the fourth Nakata Brophy Prize for the best short story by a young Indigenous writer. The shortlisted writers... Read more
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The Australian Embassy in Beijing has announced the authors participating in the tenth Australian Writers Week in China, which runs from 10-18 May. Authors Tom... Read more
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The ABC has announced ‘The Book Club’ will return for a new season, running from 18 April to 6 June. The premiere episode features crime writer... Read more
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Bruce Beresford will direct a film adaptation of Madeleine St John’s 1993 novel The Women in Black (Text), which has received funding from Screen Australia... Read more
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The State Library of NSW will host a symposium examining the legacy of the publisher Angus & Robertson (A&R) on 10 April. Speakers at the... Read more
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The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced the five writers appointed ambassadors for EWF’s National Writers’ Conference, which runs from 17-18 June. The ambassadors are... Read more
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The Stella Prize has announced the line-ups for its one-day ‘Girls Write Up’ festivals for students. Events will be held in Canberra on 6 May,... Read more
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Hardie Grant managing director Julie Pinkham and Culture is Life CEO Belinda Duarte were appointed to the Wheeler Centre board as directors on 20 March.... Read more
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The shortlist for the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Stay with Me (Ayobami Adebayo, Canongate) The... Read more
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In the UK, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s debut novel The Girl of Ink and Stars (Chicken House) has won the £5000 (A$8160) Waterstones Children’s Book Prize,... Read more
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In Sweden, German illustrator and author Wolf Erlbruch has been announced as the winner of the five million krona (A$590,000) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, reports... Read more
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In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) imprint Century has partnered with the Daily Mail newspaper to run a £20,000 (A$32,870) debut crime writing competition, reports... Read more
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Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold Spanish and Catalan world rights to Getting Warmer and Bad Seed (Alan Carter) to Editorial Yulca, Barcelona. Nonfiction—Exisle has sold... Read more
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This week’s bestsellers chart remains largely unchanged, with The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) remaining in the top spot, ahead of 16th Seduction: A Women’s Murder... Read more
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‘The Hot Guy navigates the tricky combination of chick lit and romance with exuberance. The plot is wacky, the jokes dirty, and the friendships and... Read more
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The State Library of Victoria has revealed the architectural designs for its $88.1m ‘Vision 2020’ redevelopment. The new designs will increase public space by 40%,... Read more
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About 250 campaigners attended an April Fool’s Day rally to ‘ridicule’ Lambeth Council’s decision to turn Carnegie Library, London, into ‘a healthy living centre with... Read more
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Danielle Binks explores the state of genre publishing in Australia and what the industry is doing to foster the country’s growing genre talent, in Books+Publishing’s first... Read more
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Sam Still Reading is a blog run by Jeanie Misko, who since 2010 has written about ‘a diverse range of books from literary fiction to category... Read more
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Spellbound: Making Pictures with the A-B-C has been shortlisted for the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books in the 2017 CBCA Awards.
Order now from Dennis Jones & Associates (orders@dennisjones.com.au).
ISBN 9780992491727, $39.99 FIRM SALE. Limited stock—reprint due in 6-8 weeks.
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Allen & Unwin congratulates our CBCA and Crichton shortlisted authors and illustrators.
Book of the Year: Younger Readers
- Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers Third Grade by Kate Temple and Jol Temple, illustrated by Jon Foye (9781760291938, $12.99). Reprinting, orders to be supplied from 7 April.
- Dragonfly Song by Wendy Orr (9781760290023, $16.99). Reprinting, orders to be supplied from 10 April.
- Rockhopping by Trace Balla (9781760112349, $24.99). Reprinting, orders to be supplied from 19 May.
- A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee (9781848125742, $19.99). Reprinting, orders to be supplied from 14 April.
Book of the Year: Early Childhood
- Go Home, Cheeky Animals! by Johanna Bell, illustrated by Dion Beasley (9781760291655, $24.99). Reprinting, orders to be supplied from 19 May.
- The Snow Wombat by Susannah Chambers, illustrated by Mark Jackson (9781760113810, $24.99). Reprinting, orders to be supplied from 19 May.
The Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
- Fabish: The Horse that Braved a Bushfire by Neridah McMullin, illustrated by Andrew McLean (9781925266863, $24.99). Reprinting, orders to be supplied from 19 May.
The Crichton Award for New Illustrators
- Small Things by Mel Tregonning (9781742379791, $29.99). Reprinting, orders to be supplied from 26 May.
Orders and enquiries to UBD: tel 1800 33 88 36, fax 03 9811 2403.
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It is with great sadness and gratitude that Simon & Schuster Australia bids farewell to Publishing Services Manager, Ed Petrie this week.
Ed has been a vital part of the Simon & Schuster team since 2009 and has a wealth of experience that can be matched by very few in the industry. Over the last 35 years he has witnessed incredible change and has never faltered, always ready for the next challenge and looking for new ways to make things better. Ed’s professionalism, can-do attitude, attention to detail, knowledge, passion for achieving the very best results, creativity and great sense of humour have made a large and invaluable contribution to the growth and achievements of Simon & Schuster.
Ed will be leaving Simon & Schuster to enjoy a new life in Far North Queensland with his partner Sandra and, while we are very sad to see him go, we wish him the very best of luck with his new adventure.
Please keep in touch or share your thanks with Ed at edp347@bigpond.com.
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Submissions for the Best Australian Writing 2017 anthologies are now open! Black Inc. is thrilled to announce that we have Maxine Beneba Clarke (Stories), Anna Goldsworthy (Essays) and Sarah Holland-Batt (Poems) on board as editors. Visit bestaustralianwriting.com.au for submission guidelines.
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NewSouth would like to congratulate Catherine Bishop on winning the 2016 Ashurst Business Literature Prize for her book Minding Her Business: Colonial Businesswomen in Australia. Bishop was presented with the $30,000 prize at an event last week.
To order please contact TL Distribution (P: +61(2) 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au).
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