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Australian publishers who attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (11-15 October) reported interest across a broad range of titles, from literary debuts to ‘women’s commercial... Read more |
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Sam Carmody’s The Windy Season (A&U) has won the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Carmody’s novel, which follows 20-year-old Paul as he travels... Read more |
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ABC TV’s The Book Club will host a year-end special episode on 19 December when it will announce the results of its ‘five of the... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2017 Voss Literary Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Dodge Rose (Jack Cox, Text) Our Magic Hour (Jennifer Down,... Read more |
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Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has announced the shortlist for its 2017 Ampersand Prize for unpublished YA and middle-grade authors. The six shortlisted authors and their... Read more |
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The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Most Underrated Book Award. The shortlisted titles are: The Island Will Sink (Briohny... Read more |
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be coming to Melbourne’s Princess Theatre in early 2019. The play, based on an original new story by... Read more |
Oxford University Press (OUP) Australia and New Zealand has appointed Arthur Baker as its new MD, covering Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Baker... Read more |
Pan Macmillan commissioning editor Mathilda Imlah has been promoted to publisher of the company’s Picador imprint. Publishing director Cate Paterson told Books+Publishing that former publisher... Read more |
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UK author Salman Rushdie will headline the 2018 Global Atheist Convention, which runs from 9-11 February at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. International guests... Read more |
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Walker Books has acquired world rights to debut author Sarah Epstein’s YA psychological thriller Small Spaces. Due for release in April 2018, Small Spaces is... Read more |
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Australian comedian and broadcaster Nelly Thomas has successfully raised $20,925 for her self-published picture book Some Girls in a crowdfunding campaign on the website Pozible.... Read more |
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Asher Literary Award. The shortlisted titles are: Our Lady of the Fence... Read more |
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The Walkley Book Award longlist for 2017 has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney (Graham Archer,... Read more |
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Children’s publisher New Frontier will launch a new baby, pre-school and early years imprint called Bright Star in July 2018. Publisher Sophia Whitfield told Books+Publishing... Read more |
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Bonnier Publishing’s Echo imprint has acquired world rights to Kerri Sackville’s Out There: A Survival for Guide for Dating in Midlife via Pippa Masson at... Read more |
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The New Zealand Festival in Wellington has announced the authors appearing at its Writers and Readers stream, which runs from 8-11 March 2018. Among the... Read more |
Monash University legal academic Rebecca Giblin and a team of researchers have received Australian Research Council funding for the project ‘Reclaiming copyright’s lost value for... Read more |
A number of writers and literary organisations are among the recipients of the 2018 ACT Arts Project Fund, delivered by artsACT. Writers to receive funding... Read more |
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Canberra’s experimental writers’ festival Noted will not be held in 2018. The festival announced on its website in September that it will spend the next... Read more |
A number of writers and illustrators are among the 11 recipients of the 2017 New Zealand Arts Awards, presented by the New Zealand Arts Foundation.... Read more |
In the UK, Pearson has apologised for publishing ‘inappropriate content’ in its textbook Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning after being criticised on social media,... Read more |
Early results from the Bookseller’s annual digital census of UK publishers has found that print and ebook sales are on the rise, with audiobook sales... Read more |
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In the US, Vida, the organisation for Women in Literary Arts, found that about two thirds of the authors featured in literary journals and periodicals... Read more |
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In the US, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, has announced the 2017 Teens’ Top 10 list... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Penguin Random House has sold Lithuanian-language rights to The Tea Gardens and The Lavender Keeper (both Fiona McIntosh). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Portuguese rights... Read more |
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Three new releases have shot into the top 10 chart this week, led by John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down (Penguin), which debuted in... Read more |
‘These essays, which sit under 100 pages, combine literary criticism, biography and interview. They’re so well crafted that you don’t need to be a fan... Read more |
‘All our meetings were quite upbeat with most markets steady or slightly up and all publishers had some slots for new voices’—Allen & Unwin’s Emma Dorph and Maggie Thompson on this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Issue 4 of Books+Publishing magazine is out now! Reviews: Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue, the two most highly rated are forthcoming... Read more |
The recipients of the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) 2018 fellowships have been announced. Author and historian Grace Karskens is the recipient of the... Read more |
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Tony Wilson and Laura Wood’s new picture book Hickory Dickory Dash (Scholastic)—released in February 2018—has been chosen for the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA)... Read more |
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has won the Australian Institute of Project Management’s (AIPM) National Project of the Year for its Digital Library Infrastructure... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has presented its 2017 Research Grant Award to Linh Nguyen for her project ‘An investigation of humanoid robots... Read more |
The US Library of Congress is launching a ‘Librarians-in-Residence pilot program’ for early career librarians completing their master’s degree in an American Library Association-accredited program.... Read more |
The UK campaign group Voices for the Library has announced that it will disband because its volunteers ‘can no longer undertake the work required to... Read more |
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When Jessica Townsend’s debut children’s novel Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) was published on 10 October, the buzz around the novel was considerable.... Read more |
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) invites you to attend its major annual Victorian fundraising event, hosted by RocKwiz’s Brian Nankervis. Wine, beer and food trucks will be... Read more |
Maggie’s Recipe for Life, the brand new book by Maggie Beer and Professor Ralph Martins, was the fastest moving title on Bookscan last week, selling 7070 units and taking the top 3 spot overall. This is Maggie’s second highest-selling week ever, after Maggie’s Harvest, which sold 8202 copies the week before Christmas in 2007. Maggie and Ralph are on week 3 of their massive 7-week publicity tour that will continue into the weeks leading up to Christmas. To capitalise on all the activity, order your stock from Harper Entertainment Distribution Services at orders@harpercollins.com.au. Maggie’s Recipe for Life ISBN 9781925596953 RRP $39.99.
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