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Auckland-based writer Ruby Porter has won the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel for her novel Attraction.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 |
‘The way we are all publishing more to shore up our revenue [is an issue] … it is making it harder to realise good sales... 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 |
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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Publisher: F A Davis ISBN prefix: 978-0-8036 Old distributor: Elsevier New distributor: The Eurospan Group Changeover date: 21 May 2018 Contact URL: emma.white@eurospangroup.com
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Publisher: Rockpool Publishing ISBN prefix: 978-1-921295; 978-1-921878; 978-1-925017; 978-0-9923070; 978-1-925429; 978-1-925564; 978-1-925682 Old distributor: Herron Books New distributor: Simon & Schuster Changeover date: 1 September 2018... Read more |
To receive the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 & Awards Entry Guidelines direct to your inbox, register your interest now at www.melbourneprize.org. $100,000 plus prize pool... Read more |
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... Read more |
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... Read more |
Simon & Schuster Australia is pleased to announce a new sales and distribution partnership with Australian independent publisher, Rockpool Publishing in Australia and New Zealand... Read more |
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... Read more |
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