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The shortlist for the 2018 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Shokoofeh Azar, Wild Dingo Press)... Read more |
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The longlists for the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year... Read more |
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Leading Edge Books has released the program for its 2018 conference, to be held from 25-27 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart, Tasmania.... Read more |
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Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Penguin) is to be adapted for television. TV rights to Flanagan’s 2013... Read more |
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Pan Macmillan Australia has announced it will publish a new novel by Australian author Markus Zusak in October—his first in 13 years. The new book,... Read more |
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Australian author Sarah Schmidt has been longlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, See What I Have Done (Hachette). Schmidt’s... Read more |
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Text Publishing has sold North American and UK English-language rights to forthcoming Korean thriller The Plotters by Un-su Kim. Text acquired world English rights to... Read more |
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced that CEO Jo Dyer will step down from the role in June 2018, following the upcoming festival which... Read more |
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Pantera Press has acquired boutique publishing company the Author People from co-founder Lou Johnson. The purchase will see Pantera take on US rights to A... Read more |
Australian publishers Quirky Kid and Typefi have been shortlisted for the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Quirky Kid is nominated for both the... Read more |
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The program for the 2018 Auckland Writers Festival has been announced. This year’s festival, which runs from 15 to 20 May, will be headlined by... Read more |
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Writers Victoria has announced that author Jacqueline Kent has been awarded the $15,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of political campaigner and... Read more |
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Penguin Random House has acquired ANZ rights to a nonfiction title by journalist Stephanie Convery that investigates the 2015 death of boxer Davey Browne. Browne... Read more |
Queensland independent bookshop Written Dimension has closed, after 30 years of trading. The Noosa bookstore closed its doors on 21 February, with owner Keith Moore... Read more |
The ACT Writers Centre’s professional development program Hardcopy has announced two new access opportunities for this year’s event. A new sub-program called HC Digital will... Read more |
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Eight authors from around the world have received 2018 Windham-Campbell prizes. The recipients in each category are: Fiction Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda/UK) John Keene (US)... Read more |
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The longlist for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The 7th Function of Language (Laurent Binet, trans by... Read more |
In the UK, supply chain organisation Book Industry Communication (BIC) has urged publishers to stop using ‘hugely confusing’ blurb material in title and subtitle metadata... Read more |
Hachette Book Group parent company Lagardère Publishing has released its full-year financial report, with the publisher’s earnings before interest and taxes rising one percent to... Read more |
Manhattan-based independent bookstore Shakespeare & Co. will be opening three new stores in the United States this year, reports Publishers Weekly. The first store will... Read more |
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In the UK, children’s reading charity BookTrust has released the shortlist for its children’s books in translation project, In Other Words. The promotion, which was... Read more |
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In the UK, the Hay Festival has announced a campaign to select 100 books by women from the last 100 years to be celebrated at... Read more |
Sales Fiction Text has sold North American and US rights to The Plotters (Un-su Kim, see news). Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold world audio rights... Read more |
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A new 64-page ‘Treehouse’ book published to raise funds for children’s literacy charities has debuted in the top 10 chart this week. Retailing for two... Read more |
‘The Death of Noah Glass combines an enjoyable escapade involving art theft, mafia conspiracy, romance and a suspicious death with a literary exploration of grief,... Read more |
‘He brought an outsider’s view to Australia, while at the same time capturing the larrikin spirit and often destructive masculinity of Australian men.’ —Crime writer Michael Robotham remembers award-winning author Peter Temple, who has died, aged 71.
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Acclaimed crime author Peter Temple has died, aged 71. Temple was the first Australian writer to win the Gold Dagger, a major award from the... Read more |
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English author, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has died, aged 76. Hawking was the author of more than 15 books, including the bestselling A... Read more |
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Australian National University (ANU) librarian Roxanne Missingham has led a team of library staff to save books damaged by a flash flood at the university’s... Read more |
An Australian Capital Territory school has seen a significant improvement in the reading levels of its students according to the latest NAPLAN results, thanks to... Read more |
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The British Library has revealed that women earn 6.2% less than men per hour at the organisation, reports the Bookseller. In January, the British Library... Read more |
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On 27 February, a group of publishers, booksellers and other children’s literature enthusiasts gathered in Fremantle at children’s bookstore Paper Bird Books & Arts for... Read more |
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has opened applications for a two-week residency for writers living in regional New South Wales and the greater Sydney area.... Read more |
The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s (CBCA) 13th National Conference will be held in Canberra from 31 May to 2 June 2019. The theme ‘And... Read more |
I have a full shop fit for sale. Can have for $1000, just needs to be removed at your expense. We need it to be removed by the 15th April at the latest. Our business is Collins Booksellers, Fountain Gate. Please call if you have any further enquiries. Annie on 04 020 878 46.
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Text Publishing is delighted to have two novels among the twelve books longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize: Taiwanese writer Wu Ming-Yi’s majestic historical novel The Stolen Bicycle (9781925498554) and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk’s imaginative meditations on travel, Flights (9781925603149).
Reading copies are available to booksellers: sales@textpublishing.com.au.
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NewSouth would like to congratulate Jacqueline Kent for winning the 2018 Hazel Rowley Fellowship Award for her proposed biography of Vida Goldstein. In late 2018 we are excited to be publishing a new edition of Jacqui’s previous, prize-winning biography of editor Beatrice Davis, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life.
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Congratulations from NewSouth Books to the following publishers on their inclusion in the 2018 Stella Prize Longlist. For The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree (Wild Dingo Press), Tracker (Giramondo) and The Fish Girl (Seizure). To order please contact TL Distribution (P: +61(2) 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au).
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