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Escape on a European adventure with this hilarious and feisty feel-good debut. A missing rockstar, a suspected murderer on the run, and a chase through... Read more |
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you... Read more |
Company Last day of business in 2017 First day of business in 2018 Allen & Unwin Friday, 22 December (closing 1pm) Tuesday, 2 January Alliance... Read more |
Publishers and distributors have one more chance to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Friday 1 December. If your business doesn’t... Read more |
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The winners of the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Tasmania Book Prize for best book... Read more |
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The Australia Council will select a delegation of up to six Australian rights sellers, literary agents and publishers to visit the US in 2018. The... Read more |
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) sixth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 16-18 November. With attendance up on last... Read more |
The Readings Foundation has chosen 15 Victorian organisations to share in $184,692 worth of grants in 2018. The grant recipients are: Ardoch Youth Foundation: $10,000... Read more |
Tasmania’s midwinter festival Dark Mofo will incorporate a new ‘literature, film and ideas’ program into its June 2018 festival. The Dark and Dangerous Thoughts (DDT)... Read more |
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Author Alexis Wright has been appointed as the second Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne, following Richard Flanagan’s inaugural appointment in... Read more |
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Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness by Melbourne journalist Kate Cole-Adams (Text) has won the Waverley Council’s Mark and Evette Moran... Read more |
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Lur Alghurabi has won the 2017 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers for her entry ‘Letters from the Grave’ . Alghurabi was selected from a shortlist... Read more |
Hachette Australia has promoted several of its publishers to newly created roles within the publishing division. Vanessa Radnidge has been promoted to head of nonfiction,... Read more |
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The Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) has appointed Kate Fielding as program director of its $1.65m arts advocacy initiative ‘A New Approach’, which aims... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) New Zealand sales director Carrie Welch has been promoted to the newly created role of group head of PRH New Zealand.... Read more |
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The Queensland Writers Centre’s (QWC) #8WordStory campaign has ‘surpassed all expectations with over 10,000 entries submitted’, the organisation has announced. QWC invited members of the... Read more |
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Hachette Australia has sold US and Canadian rights to Claire G Coleman’s debut speculative-fiction novel Terra Nullius to US independent publisher Small Beer Press. Small... Read more |
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UK independent publisher Eye Books will publish Ryan O’Neill’s novel Their Brilliant Careers (Black Inc.) in the UK in April 2018. Editor-at-large Scott Pack said... Read more |
HarperCollins Australia imprint HQ will publish US actress Rose McGowan’s memoir Brave in Australia and New Zealand in January 2018. McGowan’s ‘memoir/manifesto’ will be a ‘pull-no-punches’ account... Read more |
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The winners for this year’s Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for Queensland, have been announced. The winning titles... Read more |
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Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2017 Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds. The shortlisted writers and their works are:... Read more |
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A radio adaptation of Australian author Alan Carter’s Prime Cut (Fremantle Press) has been shortlisted for a BBC Audio Drama Award. The adaptation was announced... Read more |
The longlists for the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles are: Fiction The New Animals (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press)... Read more |
Melbourne-based author and editor Sophie Splatt has been selected for the Australia Council’s inaugural Seagull School of Publishing residency in Kolkata, India. Splatt will travel... Read more |
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Melbourne-based writer Laniyuk Garcon-Mills has been selected for the 2017 Overland Writers Residency, which was open to Indigenous writers this year. As part of the three-month... Read more |
The New Zealand Book Council has selected nine New Zealand celebrities to participate in its new reading campaign. The #ReadToSucceed campaign will run in the... Read more |
UK bookselling chain Waterstones will open five new bookstores before Christmas, including three that are named after their local area in the style of an... Read more |
In the UK, the Literary Review has announced the Bad S-x in Fiction Award shortlist for 2017. The seven shortlisted books are: The Seventh Function... Read more |
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Junior-doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s memoir This is Going to Hurt (Picador) has won the Books are My Bag (BAMB) Readers’ Choice Award in the UK. Kay’s... Read more |
UK publisher Atlantic’s revenue has dropped in 2016 with ebook sales down 20%, reports the Bookseller. Atlantic’s revenue in 2016 was £5.5m (A$9.7m), down £0.5m... Read more |
UK indie book distributor Inpress has reported a 79% increase in sales across 60 of its smallest publishing clients in the past year, reports the... Read more |
Sales: Fiction—Black Inc. has sold UK rights to Their Brilliant Careers (Ryan O’Neill) to Eye Books. (See news.) Hachette has sold US and Canadian rights to Terra Nullius... Read more |
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Jeff Kinney’s latest ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ title, The Getaway (Puffin), is at number one in the top 10 chart for a second consecutive... Read more |
‘A Timeline of Australian Food expertly fills a gap in our understanding of Australian food history. If there is a quibble, it is only that the... Read more |
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Walker Books’ founding art director Amelia Edwards has died, aged 77. Sebastian Walker employed Edwards to establish the Walker Books London office in 1978. She... Read more |
Children’s author and illustrator Jill Barklem has died, aged 66. Barklem’s ‘Brambly Hedge’ stories sold more than seven million copies, and were adapted for television in... Read more |
The City of Sydney will supply more than 180 new robotic and electronic kits to its libraries’ ‘makerspaces’, giving students and library patrons the opportunity... Read more |
A group of Middle Park residents are opposing the City of Port Phillip’s plan to remove hundreds of books from their local library, reports the... Read more |
In the UK, authors Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman and Malorie Blackman are among more than 150 book industry figures who are supporting a campaign to... Read more |
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In a new series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’.... Read more |
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GenreCon 2017 was the conference’s biggest yet. The biennially-staged writers conference aimed at genre writers sold out its registrations with 240 attendees, up from 190... Read more |
 This holiday season, spare a thought for children living in remote Australia who do not have the choices and opportunities you may have. Reading opens doors to better jobs, health and general wellbeing. Donate to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation this holiday season and you will help:
- Buy new, culturally relevant books for children who have none
- Grow the ILF early literacy program Book Buzz, so children can start school feeling confident
- Undertake writing workshops and publish stories written by community, many in first languages.
Donate at www.ilf.org.au.
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