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Get ready for the biggest thriller of 2018 … What did she see? It’s been ten long months since Anna Fox last left her home.... Read more |
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Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has acquired world rights to four books in a new adventure series by Sydney bookseller and debut author Jeremy Lachlan, in... Read more |
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Scholastic has acquired world rights to ‘The Fire Watcher Chronicles’, a new middle-grade fantasy trilogy by historical fiction and YA author Kelly Gardiner. ‘The Fire... Read more |
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The shortlists for the 2017 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, and the Military History Prize, have been announced. The shortlisted titles... Read more |
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Scribe has acquired world rights at auction to ABC journalist Rachael Brown’s true-crime book Trace, based on the podcast of the same name. The Trace... Read more |
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Melbourne-based British author Cordelia Fine has won the £25,000 (A$42,185) Royal Society Prize for Science Book of the Year for her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking... Read more |
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The shortlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The shortlisted works and their authors are: Tasmania Book Prize for the best book... Read more |
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The Parliamentary Friends of Australian Books and Writers (PFABW) was launched at Parliament House in Canberra on 12 September. The group is co-chaired by Liberal... Read more |
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The longlist for the 2017 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: All These Perfect Strangers (Aoife Clifford, S&S) Dodge Rose (Jack... Read more |
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The Brotherhood of St Laurence will award two Women’s Writing Career Development Scholarships, worth $5,000 each, as part of its second Hope Prize short story... Read more |
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Western Sydney youth literature centre WestWords has announced the recipients of the 2017 Western Sydney Residential Program, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers House... Read more |
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Eight Australian and two New Zealand poets have been shortlisted for the C$20,000 (A$20,440) Montreal International Poetry Award 2017. Australians shortlisted for the award are... Read more |
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The Australian Publishers Association is running a Christmas tipping competition Each week, participants will be asked to choose which one of two titles will sell... Read more |
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Colombiano, the debut novel by Rusty Young, author of the bestselling nonfiction book Marching Powder, has debuted in the monthly Australian fiction bestsellers chart in first... Read more |
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The shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: 4 3 2 1 (Paul Auster, Faber) History of... Read more |
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In the US, the longlists for the 2017 National Book Awards have been announced, reports Publishers Weekly. The three longlists for the adult awards are:... Read more |
In the UK, the shortlist for the £30,000 (A$50,655) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. This year’s six... Read more |
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) has announced a 10-point inclusivity plan, with the aim of increasing the percentage of black, Asian and minority... Read more |
In the UK, Italian artist Francesca Sanna has won the 2017 Klaus Flugge Prize the most exciting newcomer to children’s picture-book illustration, reports the Guardian.... Read more |
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In the US, advocacy group Bookselling Without Borders has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a scholarship fund to send independent booksellers to international book fairs,... Read more |
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In the US, Amazon has deleted hundreds of one-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new memoir, What Happened (S&S), reports Quartz. The book, in which Clinton... Read more |
Audible has announced it will open a Canadian store and spend C$12 million (A$12.4m) recording Canadian stories, reports Maclean’s. Audible CEO Don Katz launched the... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold simplified Chinese character rights to The Ancestor Game (Alex Miller) to QingDao. Penguin Random House Australia has sold North... Read more |
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New books by Sarah J Maas, David Lagercrantz and J D Robb have all entered the top 10 bestsellers this week. Maas’ latest instalment in... Read more |
‘Written in sparse, immediate language from multiple perspectives, it is the result of 20 years of research and writing by Alizadeh. His intense admiration of... Read more |
Youth literature advocate and author Agnes Nieuwenhuizen has died, aged 79. Nieuwenhuizen established the first Schools Days at the Melbourne Writers Festival in 1994, leading... Read more |
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has partnered with Melbourne-based online creative marketplace Redbubble on a competition for new artwork inspired by the library’s collection.... Read more |
The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) and the National Library of Greece (NGL) have signed an agreement to create a Global Greek Diaspora Library to... Read more |
In the US, a $1.2 trillion budget bill, including funding for a number of library programs, has passed the House of Representatives, despite an earlier... Read more |
In the US, Google has added local library ebook catalogues to its search results, reports the Verge. Previously, users needed to log on to a... Read more |
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Londoner-turned-Sydneysider Lucy Pearson blogs about books and travel at The Unlikely Bookworm. Pearson reviews and recommends a range of fiction and nonfiction, and will soon... Read more |
Writers working on a new work of fiction, narrative nonfiction or writing for young adults are encouraged to apply for Varuna’s Publisher Introduction Program (PIP).... Read more |
Tulis 2018 is a writing exchange between Indonesia and Australia that has received grant funding from the Australia-Indonesia Institute of the Department of Foreign Affairs... Read more |
This award recognises and encourages new talent in the field of Australian children’s book illustration. This national award is administered by the Victorian Branch of the CBCA.
Entries are now open for The Children’s Book Council of Australia 2018 Crichton Award, closing date 30 November 2017.
For guidelines and entry forms visit the Awards page on the CBCA Vic website: vic.cbca.org.au
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UniLink will facilitate a free webinar on Thursday 21 September about the state of the Australian economy, delivered by Dave de Garis, Director and Economist with the National Australia Bank.
De Garis will make practical sense of how the economy is travelling, how it is likely to perform and how factors such as geopolitics, consumer confidence, growth rates, income, housing prices, domestic politics and China will affect the Australian economy.
For more information, and to register for the webinar, click here.
Event details
Date: Thursday 21 September
Time: 1pm-2pm (AEST)
Cost: Free
Bookings: https://register.gotowebinar.com …
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Hearty congratulations to our authors who have each received the Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize ($1000) and are now in contention to win the People’s Choice Prize of $1000, as well as the $20,000 major award.
Kate Cole-Adams for Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness (ISBN 9781925498202); Sebastian Smee for The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art (ISBN:9781925240351); and Ashleigh Wilson for Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing (ISBN 781925355239).
To order copies, please contact United Book Distributors on 1800 33 88 36 or orders@unitedbookdistributors.com.au.
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