The 2016 Stella Count has found that four out of 12 publications surveyed reviewed more books by women than men—up from one publication in 2015’s... Read more |
A report prepared for the Department of Communications and the Arts has found that Australian federal, state and territory, and local governments contributed $5.8b to... Read more |
The WA Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA) has published its final report from a review of the state’s writing sector, as well as... Read more |
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The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced Tom D C Roberts’ Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty (UQP)... Read more |
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Comedian Andrew Hansen, best known for his work on ‘The Chaser’, and his wife, designer Jessica Roberts, have signed a two-book deal with Walker Books.... Read more |
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Australian production company Aquarius Films has optioned the film and TV rights to Hannah Kent’s The Good People (Picador) via Curtis Brown Australia. Aquarius producers Angie... Read more |
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Allen & Unwin will publish AFL player Nick Riewoldt’s autobiography in November, following the St Kilda captain’s announcement that he will retire at the end of... Read more |
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Affirm Press will publish a children’s fiction series by Bondi Rescue lifeguard Trent ‘Maxi’ Maxwell in 2018. The series will be co-written by David Lawrence,... Read more |
Perth Writers Festival (PWF) program manager Katherine Dorrington has left the organisation after 12 years in the role. Perth International Arts Festival artistic director Wendy... Read more |
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The Lifted Brow (TLB) has announced its new books imprint, Brow Books. In a statement on its website, the imprint said it will publish ‘across... Read more |
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The NSW Writers’ Centre and Bankstown Arts Centre have announced a new writers’ festival that focuses on Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian writers and writing.... Read more |
Dymocks Waurn Ponds in Geelong has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2017 Dymocks national conference, which was held on the Gold... Read more |
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Jane Harper has been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2017 Gold Dagger award for best crime novel of the year. Harper’s novel... Read more |
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A new ABC TV series called Story Time will screen during Children’s Book Week in August. The Play School spin-off series will feature Australian celebrities—including... Read more |
The program has been announced for the second annual Canberra Writers Festival, which will run from 25-27 August. International guests appearing at the festival include... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Short Story Award ‘This is where you... Read more |
Catherine Fox has won the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award for her nonfiction book Stop Fixing Women (NewSouth), as well as articles for... Read more |
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The longlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$81,973) prize are: 4 3 2 1... Read more |
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Colson Whitehead has won the 2017 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction for his novel The Underground Railroad (Orbit), reports the Guardian. The Underground Railroad—a... Read more |
In the UK, author and Society of Authors president Philip Pullman has called for the reintroduction of a minimum price for books, drawing support for... Read more |
A US judge has ruled that Moppet Books’ series of classics-inspired children’s picture books have infringed the copyright of the originals, reports the Bookseller. As... Read more |
In Canada, the government-sponsored organisation BookNet has published the results from a survey of Canadian book buyers’ reading habits, reports Publishers Weekly. The survey found... Read more |
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The Commuter Pig Keeper: A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Pigs when Time is your Most Precious Commodity (Michaela Giles, Old Pond Publishing) has won the... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Text has sold German rights to Two Steps Forward (Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist) to Fischer, Dutch rights to Luitingh-Sijthoff, Canadian rights to HarperCollins... Read more |
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The top 10 bestsellers chart has a new number one, with Michael Connelly’s The Late Show (A&U) taking out the top spot in its second... Read more |
‘Sofie Laguna is a writer who can wrench beauty even from the horror of a child caught up in the toxic world of bastardised masculinity.... Read more |
‘While we saw real improvement in the reviewing of women’s books in the 2016 Stella Count, there remains a significant disparity when it comes to the size of reviews’—academics Melinda Harvey and Julieanne Lamond reflect on the findings of the 2016 Stella Count.
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Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 14 reviews of books publishing in August, September and October. Four books received 4.5 stars, including Jeremy Chambers’ ‘nostalgic 1980s coming-of-age story’ Suburbia... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its 2017 Creative and Specialist Fellowships, including several writers working on book projects. The... Read more |
Residents of Guildford in Perth are protesting a report to be presented to the City of Swan councilors on 2 August that details plans to... Read more |
Melbourne’s City of Casey will open the new Narre Warren Library at the $125m Bunjil Place development on 28 October. The two-level library will feature... Read more |
‘Helping to start and run Momentum was one of the most gruelling, exhausting and exhilarating experiences of my life. We set up a separate office... Read more |
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For blogger Danielle Carey, Instagram ‘feels like the most enthusiastic and inviting place to flail about books online’. Her Instagram-based microblog, Half Deserted Streets, reaches... Read more |
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) invites representatives from publishers and suppliers to attend a presentation about its Book Supply Program. Attendees will learn more about the... Read more |
Editors NSW is facilitating a workshop on ‘Writing and editing life writing (memoir)’ on Wednesday 16 August, and bookings are now open. The workshop covers... Read more |
Professor Jane McAdam has been awarded the prestigious Calouse Gulbenkian Prize for Human Rights for her outstanding work in international refugee law. Currently the Director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW, her book with Fiona Chong, Refugees: Why seeking asylum is legal and Australia’s policies are not, is published by NewSouth. To order please contact TL Distribution on (02) 8778 9999 or orders@tldistribution.com.au.
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We’re thrilled to congratulate Catherine Fox who received the Walkley Award for Women’s Leadership in Media. The award is given for a body of work, which sited her book Stop Fixing Women (2017) and articles for ABC Online and The Australian. To order Stop Fixing Women, please contact TL Distribution on (02) 8778 9999 or orders@tldistribution.com.au.
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