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From the bestselling Australian author of The Last of the Bonegilla Girls comes a moving story of love, loss and survival against the odds. It... Read more |
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The longlist for the 2019 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Little Gods (Jenny Ackland, A&U) Man Out of Time... Read more |
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) and Walker Books Australia have both announced redundancies in their publishing divisions. At PRH, three roles in the Young Readers... Read more |
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A new three-day festival focusing on military writing has been announced as part of the inaugural Territory Tribute series of events in Darwin. Running from... Read more |
The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund and the Australia Council for the Arts will contribute $30,000 each to a new Macquarie University study examining the international... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Penguin Literary Prize, worth $20,000. The prize, now in its second year, aims to... Read more |
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Seizure has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Viva la Novella competition. This year’s shortlisted authors and their works are: Carly Cappielli for ‘Listurbia’ Grace... Read more |
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Samoan/Maori writer Lani Wendt Young and Dunedin-based crime author Liam McIlvanney have been awarded in the New Zealand Society of Authors’ (NZSA) annual Waitangi Day... Read more |
The full program has been announced for the Institute of Professional Editors’ (IPEd) National Editors Conference, which runs from 8-10 May in Melbourne. Running under... Read more |
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Scribe has acquired world rights to Laura Jean McKay’s debut novel, The Animals in That Country, a literary spec-fic novel that imagines a world in which... Read more |
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Brian Cook at the Authors’ Agent has sold world rights to crime novel Trust Me, I’m Dead and a second novel by Sherryl Clark to UK... Read more |
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UK and US rights to Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s YA novel Catching Teller Crow (A&U) have been sold to Penguin Children’s Books UK and Knopf respectively. The... Read more |
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Fremantle Press has acquired ANZ rights to two debut books from authors who were shortlisted for last year’s T A G Hungerford Award. Books by... Read more |
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Brio Books has sold the film option to Elizabeth Tan’s debut novel Rubik to Australian production company Photoplay. Photoplay develops projects in film, television, web and virtual reality,... Read more |
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Literary journal Overland has announced a number of changes to its editorial team. Author Claire Corbett has been announced as Overland’s new fiction editor, taking... Read more |
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Books of Buderim, in the Sunshine Coast town of Buderim, has closed down after doing business for more than 50 years. Owner Fiona Blond said:... Read more |
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For the second year running, Matthew Reilly has been voted ‘Australia’s Favourite Author’ in Booktopia’s annual poll. Booktopia announced the top 10 finalists on its... Read more |
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Lonely Planet has appointed Luis Cabrera as president and CEO. New partnerships and acquisitions, as well as diversification, will be top priorities for Cabrera, according... Read more |
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Independent, radical publisher Verso will launch a fiction imprint later this year, reports Publishers Weekly. Verso Fiction will release its first two titles in late 2019:... Read more |
French media company Vivendi has bought French-language publisher Editis from Spanish owner Planeta in a deal that values the business at €900 million ($A1.4bn), reports... Read more |
Nielsen figures for 2018 show that sales of YA titles in the UK dropped by 21.5% last year, reports the Bookseller. The YA fiction sector... Read more |
Hachette Book Group (HBG) parent company Lagardère Publishing’s total consolidated sales for its publishing group fell by 1.6% in 2018 compared to the previous year,... Read more |
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Penguin Random House Australia imprint Allen Lane will publish Malcolm Gladwell’s first book in six years, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People... Read more |
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Sales Fiction Brio Books has sold the film option to Rubik (Elizabeth Tan) to Photoplay (see news). Brian Cook at the Authors’ Agent has sold world... Read more |
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This year, Books+Publishing will publish a weekly publicity round-up, covering forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over... Read more |
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Nonfiction continues to dominate the bestsellers chart, with The Fast 800 (Michael Mosley, S&S) at number one for the second week in a row, followed by The... Read more |
‘At its heart, this is a noble debut with a likeable protagonist who exudes the kind of confidence that young girls need in literary role... Read more |
‘There is a lack of basic data on the export sector of the book industry that could assist publishers, agents and authors in planning international rights sales, leading to a stronger presence of Australian titles in the international marketplace.’—Macquarie University academic David Throsby explains the scope of a new study examining the international rights sales and export of Australian books over the last 10 years.
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Oral histories from five Australian libraries’ collections will be added to UNESCO’s Australian Memory of the World (AMW) national register. Drawn from the oral history... Read more |
Nine libraries have been shortlisted for the 2019 Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) Library Design Awards for new and refurbished libraries. In the running... Read more |
The US has become the 50th member to join the Marrakesh Treaty in a move that will see an estimated 550,000 additional books available to... Read more |
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Jay Lansdown, owner of Sydney bookshop The Constant Reader and vice-president of the Australian Booksellers Association, attended this year’s Winter Institute, an annual conference held by... Read more |
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Trade publishing consultant Julie Gibbs shares her career journey. I was lucky enough to grow up in a bookish household in Adelaide, buying Enid Blyton books... Read more |
Sharyn Villaverde, currently merchandise manager, will be acting general manager at Dymocks while Sophie Higgins is on maternity leave from February 22. Imogen Neely, currently... Read more |
Applications for the 2019 Hardcopy program are now open. Hardcopy is a professional development program for emerging Australian writers, and the focus for the 2019... Read more |
Editors NSW is running a workshop on intermediate to advanced Word, presented by Denise Tsagaris. This Microsoft Word workshop will provide experienced users with the... Read more |
Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) announces that the CBCA Awards will be hosted by the Victorian Branch. The event schedule is as follows: Notable Books... Read more |
Michelle Evans, wife of the late Garry Evans, of Harbour Bookshop Ulladulla and Harbour Publishing, would like to thank the book industry for their condolences, cards, flowers and messages of support. Michelle writes: ‘It has been overwhelming and very much appreciated by the whole family. He will be dearly missed by many.’
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