A number of Australian authors and industry figures were recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Author Kate Grenville was made Officer in the General... Read more
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The University of Queensland Press (UQP) is celebrating its 70th birthday this year. Established in 1948, UQP was originally founded as a traditional university press,... Read more
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The full program for the 2018 Byron Writers Festival, which runs from 3-5 August, has been announced, featuring 140 writers, thinkers and commentators. International guests... Read more
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A new business development program, Foundry658, has been launched in Victoria to help creative entrepreneurs and organisations develop start-ups. Ten Victorian individuals or teams will... Read more
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Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Chrissy Sharp as its new CEO. Sharp, who was previously the inaugural director of the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne... Read more
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University of Queensland Press (UQP) nonfiction publisher Alexandra Payne has resigned from the position after 11 years with the company. In a statement, UQP announced... Read more
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Bloomsbury Australia sales director Lucy Barrett will join Pantera Press in the newly created role of chief operating officer. ‘Lucy has a proven track record... Read more
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The 2017 Stella Count has found that four out of 12 publications surveyed reviewed more books by women than men—the same ratio as 2016’s count—but... Read more
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Text Publishing and Writing NSW have launched a new nationwide mentoring program for an unpublished Indigenous writer. The Boundless Indigenous Mentorship Program will pair an... Read more
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The British Council and Diversity Arts Australia have launched a new exchange program, Intersect, for British and Australian arts professionals from culturally diverse and Aboriginal... Read more
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Berbay Publishing has sold rights to Melbourne author and illustrator John Canty’s Heads and Tails: Insects in three territories, including North America. Rights to the... Read more
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DreamWorks Animation has begun development on a feature animated film based on Aaron Blabey’s illustrated chapter book series The Bad Guys (Scholastic). Foundation Media Partners... Read more
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Children’s picture book The Scared Book (Debra Tidball, illus by Kim Siew, Lothian) has won in the Australian and New Zealand division of this year’s... Read more
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The Mudgee Readers’ Festival has released its 2018 program. The annual event will run from 10-12 August in regional NSW and, for the first time,... Read more
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The program for the 2018 Booksellers NZ Conference, which runs from 25-26 August, has been announced. Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould says this year’s conference... Read more
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The winners of the 2018 Norma K Hemming Awards were announced on Friday, 8 June. Western Australian writer Claire G Coleman won in the long... Read more
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The shortlists for the 2018 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best... Read more
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The shortlist for Lip magazine’s annual Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘A Landing’ (Phoebe Chen) ‘Fishing for... Read more
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The longlist for the 2018 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted works, and their authors, are: ‘Blindside’ (Beth Amos) ‘The... Read more
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The Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) has announced two poets in residence for the 2018 festival: African-American poet Yona Harvey and Gomeroi poet Alison Whittaker. Harvey... Read more
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Brio Books has launched the Fantastica Prize, an unpublished manuscript prize for local science-fiction. Open to Australian and New Zealand writers, the prize is seeking... Read more
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New England Writers’ Centre (NEWC) has launched a new pitch program, Pitch Independent, to connect regional writers and illustrators with small and independent presses and... Read more
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Online bookseller Booktopia has been shortlisted in several categories in the 2018 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAs). Booktopia is a finalist for Best Mobile Commerce... Read more
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Irish writer Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (Canongate) has won the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. McCormack’s novel, which consists of a single novel-length sentence about... Read more
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In the UK, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been awarded the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize, reports the Bookseller. Founded in 2009 in honour of the playwright... Read more
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British-Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Home Fire (Bloomsbury). Home Fire, which reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone... Read more
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In Germany, book trade association Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels has released data showing value sales of books and journals in Germany dropped marginally by 1.6%... Read more
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In the UK, Public Lending Rights (PLR) will be extended to include ebooks and audiobooks borrowed from libraries, reports the Bookseller. Effective from 1 July,... Read more
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A new part-thriller, part-romance novel from Nora Roberts (Shelter in Place, Hachette) has climbed into second spot in this week’s top 10, while another romance... Read more
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‘I Am Out with Lanterns is nuanced, complex and thoroughly readable. Told from multiple perspectives, it follows a kaleidoscope of characters as it explores community,... Read more
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‘While the crime writing community is diverse in many ways, it lacks authors from BAME backgrounds. With crime fiction’s increasing popularity, it seems more important than ever that its creators should be more representative of those who may enjoy reading within the genre.’—Harvill Secker editorial director Jade Chandler speaks about initiating a new crime writing prize for BAME authors in the UK.
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Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains 16 reviews of books publishing in July and August. Chris Hammer’s novel, Scrublands (A&U, August) received five stars from reviewer Scott Whitmont.... Read more
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US chef, writer and publisher Anthony Bourdain has died, aged 61. Bourdain was the author of several books, including his influential memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the... Read more
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Several library professionals were recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Alex Byrne was made a Member in the General Division of the Order of... Read more
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The Queensland state government has announced it will continue its annual commitment of $5 million to continue the First 5 Forever early literacy program delivered... Read more
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The UK’s Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) has agreed to partner with the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) to develop an ethical... Read more
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Paul Currie, CEO of Foyles Bookshop in the UK, will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association conference. He spoke to Jackie... Read more
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ABC Radio National’s (RN) The Hub on Books is a weekly radio program and podcast featuring author interviews as well as news and analysis about... Read more
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Varuna, the writers house, has opened applications for various Residential Masterclasses. Each week is limited to only five participants and includes a creative and stimulating... Read more
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The Australian Society of Authors is offering a development course on creative writing. Using practical exercises, participants will write scenes, imagery, and characters. With humour,... Read more
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The Australian Society of Authors is offering an introductory workshop on writing crime fiction, presented by Garry Disher. This one-day workshop will examine crime fiction’s... Read more
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In line with increased production costs and complete implementation of FSC compliancy across all our ranges, Pascal Press will be increasing the RRP on some of our ranges. Price changes will be effective from July 1st 2018.
Should you have any questions or require an updated price list, please do not hesitate to contact your Trade Representative, email contact@pascalpress.com.au or visit www.pascalpress.com.au/price-list
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As from 1st July 2018, distribution of Hardie Grant titles in Australia and New Zealand will move to Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS), a division of HarperCollins.
As from 1st July, 2018, all orders for Hardie Grant and their clients’ titles will be supplied by HEDS.
Returns
HEDS will accept requests for Returns Authorisations (RA’s) for Hardie Grant titles from Monday 2nd July as long as they were invoiced by UBD or HEDS less than 12 months from the date when the customer requests the RA.
UBD will cease to issue RA’s on Friday 29th June. Returns noted on RA’s issued by UBD up until this date will continue to be processed by UBD and credit notes issued to customers through to Thursday 27th September providing returns are received by UBD no later than Friday 31st August. Books received by UBD after Friday 31st August and/or sent to UBD without a RA will be returned to the customer at the customer’s expense.
Accounts Payable
Customers are to pay UBD based on invoices up to and including Friday 29th June 2018 less any returns credited by UBD up to 27th September 2018.
All invoices dated 1st July 2018 and beyond are to be paid to HEDS, less any credits issued by HEDS for returns.
Contact details for Australian customers
HEDS – email your orders to orders@harpercollins.com.au or call 1300-551-721.
UBD – email your orders to orders@unitedbookdistributors.com.au or call 1800-338-836.
Hardie Grant – email sales@hardiegrant.com.
New Zealand customers have been notified of the changes separately.
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Museums Victoria Publishing are delighted that Where’s Dot? cloth book and soft toy was Highly Commended in the 2018 MAPDA Design Awards.
Where’s Dot? was published to tie-in with the MAPDA award winning exhibition Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together at Scienceworks Museum, Melbourne.
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