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The winners of the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on 25 May. Pan Macmillan won Publisher of the Year and... Read more |
The annual Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program was held during the 2017 Sydney Writers’ Festival. As part of the program, Australian publishers are given the... Read more |
Macquarie University has published a report examining Australian book readers, the third and final stage of its three-year research project on Australia’s changing book industry. The... Read more |
Author Melissa Lucashenko, Penguin Random House publisher Meredith Curnow and Avid Reader owner Fiona Stager participated in a panel on the Macquarie University survey of... Read more |
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The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners of the 2017 Australian Book Design Awards at an event in Sydney on 26 May. The... Read more |
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The shortlist for the inaugural Readings Young Adult Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Boone Shepard (Gabriel Bergmoser, Bell Frog Books) Freedom Swimmer... Read more |
Sisters in Crime has announced the longlists for the 2017 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. A total of 99 titles... Read more |
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New small publisher Grattan Street Press launched its first book, John Lang’s colonial novel The Forger’s Wife, at an event at the University of Melbourne... Read more |
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Jennifer Down, Rajith Savanadasa, Julie Koh and Josephine Rowe have been named Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists for 2017. The awards, which recognise... Read more |
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Melbourne University Press (MUP) has ordered a reprint of journalist Louise Milligan’s Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell following extensive media coverage and ‘through... Read more |
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Bloomsbury has donated $10,000 to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) to honour Readings and Potts Point Bookshop’s Independent Book Retailer of the Year win at... Read more |
Retailer David Jones has launched a fundraising campaign with former AFL footballer Adam Goodes to increase awareness of the Indigenous literacy gap and raise money... Read more |
A number of literary projects have received funding in Creative Victoria’s latest arts grant round. Literary projects to receive funding are: Carly Godden ($19,022) for ‘development... Read more |
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has released its 2017 Word Play program, designed for students from prep to year 12. The Word Play program, which... Read more |
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Independent children’s publisher Ford Street Publishing will celebrate its 10th birthday on 1 June. Publisher Paul Collins said Ford Street’s highlights include receiving shortlistings in... Read more |
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Australian journalist and author Robert Wainwright has won the Biography of the Year at the 2017 British Sports Book Awards for his book Maverick Mountaineer... Read more |
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Actor Toni Collette’s new production company Vocab Films has optioned the novel and screenplay to Graeme Simsion’s The Best of Adam Sharp (Text). Simsion’s novel... Read more |
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced the winners for the 2016 Nebula Awards, which are presented in 2017. All the Birds in... Read more |
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In the UK, Hisham Matar has won the relaunched £20,000 (A$34,610) Rathbones Folio Prize for his memoir The Return (Viking), reports the Bookseller. Matar’s memoir... Read more |
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Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale (Vintage) has topped the Amazon bestsellers chart within hours of the TV adaptation debuting on UK television, reports the... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Giramondo has sold US rights to Border Districts and Stream System (Gerald Murnane) to Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Text has sold Turkish rights to... Read more |
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Last week’s highest new entry, Lee Child’s No Middle Name (Bantam), has bumped Paula Hawkins’ Into the Water (Doubleday) from top spot in this week’s... Read more |
‘Thirty years ago, American astronomer Carl Sagan described a photo of our planet as a blue dot: “That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you... Read more |
Books+Publishing’s latest reviews newsletter contains 20 reviews of books publishing in June to August. The highest-scoring books were Brigid Delaney’s nonfiction title Wellmania: Misadventures in... Read more |
Advocate for child sexual abuse victims Anthony Foster has died, aged 64. Penguin Random House Australia writes: ‘Penguin Random House Australia is deeply saddened by... Read more |
A new study has found that the federal government’s ‘wilful neglect’ of Australia’s national libraries, galleries and museums is putting the nation’s shared history and... Read more |
The State Library of NSW will cease its on-demand lending collection service, which circulates 80,000 items include LOTE and alternative format titles to NSW public... Read more |
In the UK, writers Irenosen Okojie, Courttia Newland, Bidisha and Alex Wheatle will take up residencies in London libraries as part of a two-year project... Read more |
Harlequin executive senior editor Annabel Blay spent 10 weeks in New York researching fiction editing in the US as part of her Beatrice Davis Editorial... Read more |
YA and middle-grade book blogger Kelly from Diva Booknerd says she reviews books ‘purely on emotion and entertainment’, and enjoys the sense of community that... Read more |
Editors NSW will host a workshop for editors thinking about starting their own business and freelance editors in the early stages of being in business.... Read more |
 Hachette Australia is delighted to congratulate Zana Fraillon on her ABIA win for The Bone Sparrow (ISBN 9780734417138, RRP $19.99), Book of the Year for Older Children. Copies can be ordered from Alliance Distribution Services by calling (02) 4390 1300 or emailing adscs@alliancedist.com.au
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Wild Dog Books once again congratulates Lorna Hendry for making the shortlist of the CBCA 2017 Eve Pownall award with her wonderful non-fiction title The Gigantic Book of Genes. A limited amount of stock is now available to order; please contact INT Books (sales@intbooks.com.au) or ABG/Woodslane (info@woodslane.com.au) for more information.
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