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A rare, original and stunning coming-of-age story resonating with echoes of Jasper Jones, Cloudstreet and Seven Little Australians. The setting is the Mallee, wide flat... Read more |
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Melbourne-based writer Sarah Krasnostein has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her first book, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death,... Read more |
The full program for Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 3-8 March, has been announced. This year’s festival is dedicated to children’s author Mem Fox,... Read more |
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The Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) has announced it will expand to two festivals in 2018, with the theme ‘rewriting the story’. FWF will run its... Read more |
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The shortlists for the 2018 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Picture books Torty... Read more |
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The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2018 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program, to be held alongside the Sydney Writers’... Read more |
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Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to Clive Hamilton’s book on Chinese influence in Australia, Silent Invasion, with plans to publish the title in... Read more |
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Xoum Publishing has announced Penelope Janu as the winner of the 2017 XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her novel ‘On the Same... Read more |
Author Maxine Beneba Clarke will present a fortnightly books segment on a new ABC program hosted by journalist and commentator Stan Grant. The 45-minute program,... Read more |
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The Copyright Agency has published a report by Allen & Unwin head of publicity Louise Cornegé that examines how the digital revolution has changed the... Read more |
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Melbourne independent bookshop Readings has announced several staff changes across its seven stores. Joe Rubbo will move from his current role managing Readings Doncaster to... Read more |
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A new bookstore, Daisy Boots Book Shop, has opened in the Dandenong Ranges in regional Victoria. Located in Sassafras, the shop opened for business on... Read more |
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Titles from New York-based publisher Europa Editions will be distributed in Australia by NewSouth Books from March 2018. The new sales and distribution relationship constitutes,... Read more |
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Several Australian authors and illustrators have been named on the 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List, which serves as the voting ballot for the annual Locus... Read more |
Mysteries and thrillers dominated Kobo’s 2017 top 10 ebook bestsellers and most read ebook titles in Australia, according to Kobo’s 2017 Book Report. The Missing... Read more |
The Garret podcast has announced plans to expand in 2018, which includes a move away from a season-based release schedule and new episodes dedicated to... Read more |
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New Zealand writer Ashleigh Young has been made an honorary literary fellow as part of the New Zealand Society of Authors’ (NZSA) annual Waitangi Day... Read more |
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The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has launched a new survey to measure the health of the local book-design industry and generate data around the... Read more |
‘These are exciting times and I don’t need to remind readers that in the year of #MeToo, gender politics are more firmly on the table... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold German rights to four titles in the ‘Phryne Fisher Murder Mysteries series’, Murder in Montparnasse, Queen of the Flowers,... Read more |
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Jojo Moyes’ Still Me (Michael Joseph), the third ‘Lou Clarke’ novel following Me Before You and After You, is the highest new entry in this... Read more |
Books+Publishing’s first Junior newsletter contains 12 reviews of books publishing in February and March 2018. Two books scored the maximum five-star rating: a new picture-book... Read more |
Second-hand bookseller and academic David Christophel has died, aged 70, reports the ABC. Christophel was the owner of Blackwood Books in Adelaide, which he opened in... Read more |
In the US, the National Book Foundation announced that it will present a new award for translated literature as part of this year’s National Book... Read more |
Several UK publishers have signed a letter urging organisers of the Man Booker Prize to reconsider the rule change in 2013 that made US-authored titles... Read more |
China’s retail book market expanded in 2017 at a rate of 14.55%, year on year, according to data from Chinese industry-data research firm OpenBook, reports... Read more |
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Italy has been announced as the guest of honour at the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF), which will be held from 18-22 October 2023. FBF... Read more |
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has awarded the 2018 Prix Voltaire award, which supports defenders of the freedom to publish, to missing Chinese-born Swedish publisher Gui... Read more |
The ABC will dismantle its sound and reference libraries throughout the country, and make 10 librarians redundant in order to free up floor space and... Read more |
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The State Library Victoria (SLV) will offer a new $15,000 specialist fellowship for Victorian Aboriginal researchers in 2018. The Indigenous Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Research Fellowship is... Read more |
In Wales, a librarian has been jailed for stealing books from the workplace and attempting to sell them online, reports the BBC. Elizabeth Macregor, from... Read more |
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Allen & Unwin’s head of publicity Louise Cornegé travelled to New York in April 2017 to ‘review the latest global trends, strategies and technologies in... Read more |
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In January, Australian publishers Robert Watkins (Hachette Australia), Margrete Lamond (Dirt Lane Press), Anna Moulton (Magabala Books), Sam Cooney (Brow Books) and Terri-ann White (UWA... Read more |
‘Tim Winton is a modern-day master; he seems to be able to produce gem after gem that remain in the reader’s consciousness long after the... Read more |
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Publisher: TASCHEN Old distributor: New Holland New distributor: Books at Manic and New Holland (non-exclusive arrangement) Contact URL: www.taschen.com
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Publisher: Child’s Play International ISBN prefix: A: 978085953 B: 9781904550 C: 978184643 Old distributor: INT Books New distributor: Woodslane Pty Ltd Changeover date: 1 February... Read more |
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Publisher: Edward Everett Root ISBN prefix: 9781912224 9780954207 9781911454 New distributor: Woodslane Pty Ltd Changeover date: 1 February 2018 Contact URL: www.woodslane.com.au
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Elizabeth Flux will conclude her role as as editor-in-chief of Writers Bloc this week, with the position no longer being continued under a new company... Read more |
Mike Shuttleworth has joined Berbay Publishing in the role of marketing and communications manager. Shuttleworth was previously the program manager and schools program director for the Melbourne... Read more |
Applications for the VicArts Grants program are now open to individuals and organisations. The grants provide one-off support for discrete projects and programs that will... Read more |
Nominations for the 2018 Pixie O’Harris Award are closing soon. The award recognises publishers, editors, creators, booksellers, publicists and other industry representatives who have worked... Read more |
Nominations for the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards are currently open and will be closing at 5pm AEDT Monday, 12 February. Don’t miss the opportunity to... Read more |
A number of corrections have been made to the print edition of Griffith Review 59: Commonwealth Now. p.7: the reference to ‘King Edward’ should read... Read more |
Nominations are now open for the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards for 2018. The Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year awards... Read more |
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