The longlist for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The 11 longlisted titles are: A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish... Read more

A new ebook and audiobook membership service has launched in Australia, after launching in the UK last November. Using a membership-based model, Bookchoice allows users... Read more

The finalists for the 2018 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) booksellers of the year awards have been announced. The finalists for Bookseller of the Year are:... Read more

Penguin Random House senior literary editor Meredith Rose has resigned from the company, following the departure of PRH Literary publishing director Ben Ball earlier this... Read more

Emma Viskic has been longlisted in two categories in the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2018 Dagger awards for her novel Resurrection Bay (Echo). Viskic’s... Read more

Book designer Alison Forbes has been announced as the 2018 inductee into the Australian Book Design Hall of Fame. Forbes was the first full-time independent... Read more

Melbourne-based independent publisher Transit Lounge has sold world English-language rights (ex-ANZ) to Jane Rawson’s 2017 novel From the Wreck. Picador UK associate publisher Ravi Mirchandani acquired... Read more

Melbourne-based writer Les Zig’s literary novel Just Another Week in Suburbia (Pantera) has been optioned for film by Australian production company Truce Films. Zig signed... Read more

The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has released its 2018 schools’ program, which will run from 27-30 August. Held at Melbourne’s Federation Square, the 2018 MWF... Read more

Children’s author Joy Cowley has been awarded the Order of New Zealand, which recognises outstanding service to the state and people of the country. Described... Read more

Auckland-based writer Ruby Porter has won the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel for her novel Attraction. Chosen from a shortlist of three,... Read more

The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Australian Historical Association (AHA) have announced the shortlist for the 2018 Magarey Medal for... Read more

The finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year Award, known as ‘the Ruby’, have been announced. The finalists in... Read more

Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced that investigative journalist Ronan Farrow—whose reporting on allegations against Harvey Weinstein was central to the momentum of the #MeToo... Read more

A number of self-published Australian authors, including Dionne Lister, A B Patterson and Lisa Fleetwood have pledged their support for a campaign to have self-publishing... Read more

The ACT Writers Centre has announced the inaugural participants of the new digital stream of its professional development program, Hardcopy, which will focus on fiction... Read more

Affirm Press has announced changes to its mentorship program with Varuna the National Writers House, in order to make the award more accessible for low-income... Read more

Sales Fiction Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Marlborough Man (Alan Carter) to Suhrkamp via Natasha Solomun at the Rights Hive, Clive Newman at... Read more

This week’s overall bestsellers chart is dominated by a mix of Australian and international adult fiction. Debuting in the number 10 spot is James Patterson’s Private... Read more

‘The way we are all publishing more to shore up our revenue [is an issue] … it is making it harder to realise good sales results for each book and it means we have to stretch our other resources to take each book out to readers’—In ArtsHub‘s article about the state of literary fiction, UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White argues that an increasing number of new releases is partly causing a drop in the sales of literary titles.

American author Tom Wolfe has died, aged 88. Wolfe was the author of 17 works of fiction and nonfiction, including his bestselling debut The Bonfire... Read more

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Flights (trans by Jennifer Croft, Text). Tokarczuk and Croft will each receive £25,000 (A$44,330),... Read more

In Canada, representatives of the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP) and the Writers’ Union of Canada have urged the Canadian government to ‘fix [the] marketplace’... Read more

In the US, two authors have filed a federal lawsuit against educational publisher Cengage, alleging that the company’s new subscription service will improperly cost them sales and... Read more

British bookshop chain Waterstones has backtracked on plans to open one of its unbranded stores in a district of Edinburgh that is already home to an... Read more

In the US, the winners of the 2017 Nebula Awards, presented in 2018, have been announced. The Stone Sky (N K Jemisin, Orbit) was awarded... Read more

The City of Yarra’s Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub has won a gold prize at the 2018 Melbourne Design Awards. Announced on... Read more

Victorian councils have rejected media reports that libraries will remove children’s books from their collections based on research into the development of gender roles in... Read more

Swedish universities have decided not to renew a contract with Dutch journal publisher Elsevier, reports Times Higher Education. The Bibsam Consortium, which represents 85 higher... Read more

Danielle Binks explores youth literature’s reanimated interest in the horror genre. Stephen King once said, ‘We make up horrors to help us cope with the... Read more

First established in 2015, Audacious is the audio-journal of arts organisation Melbourne Spoken Word (MSW). Each ‘issue’ of the paid-for audio-journal is produced as a quarterly... Read more

‘Like many comedian-turned-writers before him, Hansen has a good understanding of pacing that will draw in middle-primary readers, especially with the aid of Roberts’ amusing... Read more

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Eurospan has been appointed the exclusive distributor of F.A. Davis print books throughout Australasia and titles are now available to order. Any current returns requests should be made to the invoicing supplier. Please contact Emma White emma.white@eurospangroup.com for more information.

Laura Boon is now accepting publicity projects for the second half of 2018. Recent campaigns include Raising Boys in the 21st Century by Steve Biddulph (Finch). She works across all genres. Contact her on 0431 205 177 / laura@itsallwrite.com.au.

Simon & Schuster Australia is pleased to announce a new sales and distribution partnership with Australian independent publisher, Rockpool Publishing in Australia and New Zealand from 1 September 2018.

Simon & Schuster will start full distribution for Rockpool Publishing frontlist and backlist from 1 September 2018.

Rockpool Publishing titles previously distributed by Herron will not be accepted by HarperCollins for return. Authorised returns relating to orders placed with Herron should be sent to Herron by 30 November 2018. All future orders to Harper Entertainment Distribution Services at orders@harpercollins.com.au

Big congratulations from NewSouth Books to the following publishers and authors on their inclusion in the 2018 Miles Franklin longlist, to Gerald Murnane for Border Districts (Giramondo), Felicity Castagna for No More Boats (Giramondo) and Jane Rawson for From the Wreck (Transit Lounge). To order please contact TL Distribution (P: 02 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au).