Please note that, due to the Anzac Day holiday on Tuesday 25 April, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 27 April. The... Read more |
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Heather Rose has won the 2017 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her novel The Museum of Modern Love (A&U). Judging panel chair Brenda Walker said the... Read more |
The shortlists for the 2017 Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, which act as shortlists for children’s choice book awards in New South Wales... Read more |
Amazon is among a number of international retailers opposing the federal government’s proposed model for collecting GST on low-value overseas purchases, arguing that Australia Post... Read more |
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlists for the 2017 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best Designed... Read more |
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The shortlist has been announced for the 10th annual Text Prize for Young Adult & Children’s Writing. For the first time, all four authors shortlisted... Read more |
The winners of the 2016 Aurealis Awards for the best science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia have been announced. The winning titles were: Best... Read more |
United Book Distributors (UBD) has announced it will change its freight service partner from Toll Group to TNT Australia from 17 May. The distributor said... Read more |
Evelyn Araluen has won this year’s Overland Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for her short story ‘Muyum: a transgression’. Judges Tara June Winch, Jennifer Mills... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s Mary Gilmore Award, presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) for best first book of poetry... Read more |
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Affirm Press has sold out of its initial 6000-copy print run of Letters of Love, one of the publisher’s ‘profit-for-purpose’ titles, raising $20,000 for the... Read more |
The Wheeler Centre has announced the successful applicants for its 2017 Hot Desk Fellowships. The recipients are: Ingrid Baring, Mandy Beaumont, Christopher Bryant, Alexandra Collier,... Read more |
Puffin is releasing a picture book by Pakistani activist and the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai, reports the Bookseller. Malala’s... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) UK will pay work experience participants the national living wage of £262.50 (A$446) per week in an effort to boost accessibility... Read more |
Children’s publisher Cottage Door Press has topped Publisher’s Weekly’s annual list of fastest growing US independent publishers, posting a 558% increase in revenue from 2015-2016.... Read more |
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This week’s bestsellers charts features a largely unchanged top 10, with the top four overall bestsellers echoing the top four from last week. The eighth book in Anh... Read more |
‘Five years of strategic advocacy for women’s writing, five years of necessary adjustments to the unequal focus of our literary culture, and, most importantly, five years of celebration in the form of an internationally visible prize’—chair of judges Brenda Walker on the fifth anniversary of the Stella Prize
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City of Greater Geelong council staff have recommended closing the Chilwell, Highton and Barwon Heads libraries by the end of June, reports the Geelong Advertiser.... Read more |
The UK government is considering holding a public inquiry into Lancashire Council’s plan to shut 28 of its libraries, reports the Bookseller. The government is... Read more |
‘To innovate and plan for the future, we need to truly understand what it is that we do, what services we offer—to authors, readers, booksellers... Read more |
Eugenia Alabasinis’ blog Genie in a Book began in 2014 with a sole focus on YA novels, but has since expanded to include a range... Read more |
‘Set in a world that’s not quite past, yet not quite future, The Last Garden is vivid, visceral and disconcerting’ … read Hilary Simmons’ full... Read more |
Australian and NZ publishers and literary agents who hold film rights to local books with cinematic potential to be the next big book-to-screen adaptation are... Read more |
Applications for the Affirm Press Mentorship Award are now open. The award offers up to three writers developing exceptional new work the opportunity to work... Read more |
NewSouth Books would like to congratulate Berbay Publishing on winning the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year (Oceania) at the Bologna Book Fair.
Berbay were described as a publisher of ‘illustrated books of high graphic quality that are genuine works of art’. Recent titles include Heads and Tails (9780994289575) and the CBCA Shortlisted William Bligh: A Stormy Story of Tempestuous Times (9780994289568).
To order these and other wonderful Berbay Publishing titles please contact TL Distribution on (02) 8778 9999 or orders@tldistribution.com.au.
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