The Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria has announced the shortlists for the 2017 Inky Awards for young adult literature. The... Read more
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The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The shortlisted works in each... Read more
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The latest instalment in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ series, The 91-Storey Treehouse (Pan), was launched by Readings at a sold-out event at the Melbourne... Read more
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The Wilderness Society has announced the winners for the 2017 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The winners are: Picture fiction Chooks in Dinner Suits (Diane... Read more
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While Liane Moriarty continues to dominate the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in July, with five titles in the top 10, Monica McInerney’s The Trip of... Read more
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David Elliot’s illustrated book for ‘grown-up children of all ages’, Snark: Being a True History of the Expedition that Discovered the Snark and the Jabberwock... Read more
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Fox Searchlight has optioned the film rights to Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist’s novel Two Steps Forward (Text). Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman will produce... Read more
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The winners of the 2017 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, were announced on 12 August... Read more
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The longlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The longlisted works and their authors are: Tasmania Book Prize for the best book... Read more
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US publisher Capstone’s teen imprint Switch Press has picked up North American rights to The Boundless Sublime (A&U), Lili Wilkinson’s 2016 YA novel about a... Read more
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UK publisher Transworld has acquired Commonwealth rights (ex-ANZ) to Sarah Wilson’s First, We Make the Beast Beautiful (Macmillan) via Peggy Boulos Smith at Writers House,... Read more
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The shortlists for the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Nonfiction Double-Edged... Read more
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UK author Eliza Robertson has won the Australian Book Review’s (ABR) 2017 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Pheidippides’. Dominic Amerena placed second for his... Read more
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Kill Your Darlings and the Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) have announced the shortlist for this year’s S D Harvey Short Story Competition. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Rules... Read more
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Dymocks bookstores are running a two-week Books for Kids charity campaign, with 50 cents from every children’s book sold to be donated to literacy support... Read more
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The Copyright Agency has signed three new publishers—National Educational Advancement Programs, Edrolo and Titan Education—to its etextbook subscription service LearningField for a further three years.... Read more
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The winners of the James Tait Black Prizes for fiction and biography—the UK’s oldest literary awards—have been announced. Eimear McBride’s second novel The Lesser Bohemians... Read more
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For the second year running, N K Jemisin has won the Best Novel category at the Hugo Awards for science-fiction and fantasy titles. Jemisin picked... Read more
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In the US, HarperCollins has reported a decline in revenue of US$10m ($A12.7m) in the fiscal year ending 30 June, a drop of 0.6% compared... Read more
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Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold German-language rights to Girl in Between (Anna Daniels) to Heyne Verlag. Hachette has sold UK & Commonwealth rights (ex... Read more
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While this week’s overall bestsellers chart remains largely similar to last week’s, with The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, John Wiley) in top spot, three new... Read more
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‘Three books in one, The Book of Dirt is a remarkable tale of Holocaust survival, love and genealogical sleuthing by a grandson intent on finding... Read more
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The Gold Coast Council has changed privacy rules to gain greater access to library users’ personal information, reports the Gold Coast Bulletin. Councillors, council officers... Read more
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The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has announced the winners of the 2017 ALIA Excellence Award, which honours contributions to the library and information... Read more
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‘Most producers are after stories with great characters and plot lines but also low-budget settings … Crime is always of interest, but not as much... Read more
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BookTuber Chami Rupasinghe experimented with different platforms before settling on YouTube. ‘Although YouTube does take quite a bit more effort to produce content for compared... Read more
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Research on editing in South Africa: where we are and where we are headed Our speaker for the evening will be Melanie Law, a South... Read more
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