Nielsen Book associate director Julie Winters presented an overview of the Australian book market at the 2019 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference. Winters reported a... Read more

HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Melbourne author and playwright Gabriel Bergmoser’s ‘electrifying’ debut adult novel, The Hunted, in a two-book deal via Tara Wynne... Read more

Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to a ‘creative biography’ of climate change activist Greta Thunberg to Simon & Schuster Children’s UK.... Read more

Jane Palfreyman at Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to literary fiction debut A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu, via... Read more

Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a middle-grade novel, The Year the Maps Changed, and a yet to be titled YA novel by literary... Read more

Ovato Book Printing, formerly Griffin Press, will invest $1 million in new technology as part of a new print-on-demand (POD) strategy. In June, Ovato relocated... Read more

The University of Queensland’s (UQ) student-led Corella Press will launch its first two books at an event at Avid Reader in Brisbane on 30 August.... Read more

Hachette Australia and UK publisher Tinder Press (part of the Hachette Livre UK Group) have jointly acquired rights to Ruth McIver’s debut novel I Shot... Read more

Krystal Sutherland’s YA novel Our Chemical Hearts (Penguin) is being adapted for film by Amazon Studios for the Amazon Prime streaming service. The film, titled Chemical... Read more

Brio has acquired ANZ rights to a new nonfiction book by Robert Dessaix, The Time of Our Lives: Growing old well, via Lyn Tranter at... Read more

Aaron Blabey’s ‘The Bad Guys’ (Scholastic) has topped the New York Times weekly chart for bestselling children’s series. ‘The Bad Guys’, which has spent 37... Read more

The shortlist for the 2019 Australian Christian Book of the Year been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Apostles’ Creed: A Guide to the Ancient... Read more

Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) has been longlisted for the UK’s Glass Bell Award. Presented by London bookstore Goldsboro Books, the prize celebrates... Read more

Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced a new publishing program for regional Victorian writers. From August 2019 to June 2020, KYD will publish the work... Read more

The Australian Book Design Association (ABDA) has announced it will award student prizes at the 2020 ABDA Awards. The inaugural student prizes will be judged... Read more

Cypriot writer Constantia Soteriou has been named the overall winner of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘Death Customs’. It is the... Read more

In the US, around 150 independent bookshops, small presses and other literary organisations have raised more than US$48,000 (A$68,860) for the #BookstoresAgainstBorders fundraising campaign, reports... Read more

For the first time, exhibitors will be allowed to sell books during the closing weekend of the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair, reports Book Brunch. The... Read more

In the UK, the Society of Authors (SoA) has launched the Queen’s Knickers Award, a new £5000 (A$8950) prize for children’s illustrated books aimed at... Read more

Sales Fiction Transit Lounge has sold the film option for Soon (Lois Murphy) to Cenozoic Pictures. Children’s Mary Hare at ALC Agency has licensed What’s in... Read more

Books+Publishing’s weekly publicity round-up covers forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Fiction &... Read more

This week on the bestsellers chart, Boy Swallows Universe‘s (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) four-week run at number one has come to end, with The Fast 800... Read more

Storytime is a delightful collection of essays by literary journalist Jane Sullivan on her favourite childhood books, revisited as an adult. Best known as the... Read more

‘There is something of a crisis of criticism in Australia and it’s connected to broader declines in media. You only have to look at the book pages that used to be in the Saturday papers compared to the book pages there are today to see how much less space there is for literary criticism.’—Jeff Sparrow, winner of the 2019 Walkley-Pascall Prize for arts criticism, on literary criticism in Australia.

Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This... Read more

Lucinda Gifford’s forthcoming picture book Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas (Scholastic, October) has been chosen for the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) National Simultaneous... Read more

The federal government has announced that more than 16,300 authors, publishers and illustrators will receive $21.8 million through its Lending Rights schemes in 2018–19. The... Read more

In the UK, library loans are lagging behind other countries, reports the Bookseller. According to new analysis by ex-Waterstones CEO Tim Coates, UK book loans... Read more

In the UK, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library scheme has been cut by Doncaster Council after three years of funding came to end, reports the Bookseller.... Read more

Sarah Farquharson speaks to two independent bookshops about how they make connections with customers and their communities through events. The owners of BooksPlus, in the... Read more

Susannah Bowen is the head of marketing (higher education) for Cengage Australia and, with Alison Baverstock, the author of How to Market Books (Routledge). Here,... Read more

Rockpool Publishing will launch a new imprint in August 2019, called Gelding Street Press.

Gelding Street Press will focus on true stories and sport and recreation. The first Gelding Street Press title releasing in August will be The Immortals of Australian Rugby League (9781925946031, Hauser, 2019).

This will be the second title in the ‘Immortals’ series, following on from the bestselling The Immortals of Australian Cricket (9781925682786, Hauser, 2018). Rockpool’s backlist of titles in these genres will also slowly be brought across under the new imprint.

Rockpool Publishing and Gelding Street Press titles are distributed by Simon & Schuster in Australia and New Zealand. Orders: orders@harpercollins.com.au or 1300 551 721

NewSouth Books is delighted to announce that from the 1 September 2019, distribution of titles from Gibbs Smith will move to NewSouth Books from Peribo.

Orders from the 1st September onwards should be placed with Alliance Distribution Services.

ADS, 9 Pioneer Avenue, Tuggerah NSW 2259
Telephone: (02) 4390 1300
Fax: (02) 4390 1333
Email: adscs@alliancedist.com.au

NewSouth Books cannot accept returns for any books invoiced by Peribo.

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BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival has announced that nominations are open for the Danger Prize, awarded for the best book, TV series, podcast or film about Sydney crime released in the past financial year.

Last year well-known Sydney identity John Ibrahim won the inaugural Danger Prize for his memoir Last King of the Cross. Entries are now open for the 2019 prize. The 2018/2019 prize will be announced on 6 September, alongside the Danger Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to a crime writer who has explored Sydney’s dark side in fiction or in factual form. The lifetime achievement award was won last year by the late great Peter Corris.

This year’s awards will be presented by Ibrahim and British crime superstar Val McDermid, at an event which will see the Ned Kelly Awards presented in Sydney for the first time, as part of the BAD19 Crime Writers Festival at the State Library from 6–8 September.

Submissions for the Danger Prize should be made by 13 July 2018. For more information see BadSydney.com, or email badsydney19@gmail.com.