Please note that due to the Melbourne Cup holiday in Victoria on Tuesday, 5 November, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday,... Read more |
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The first writers have been announced for next year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 29 February to 5 March. International guests include Nigerian novelist... Read more |
According to the Australia Council’s latest annual report, published last week, literature projects accounted for 2.7% of its arts funding in 2018–19, or $5.1 million... Read more |
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The Fair Work Commission has approved Penguin Random House Australia’s enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA), the first union-negotiated EBA in Australian publishing history. In September, PRH... Read more |
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The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has begun a campaign to signify books created in Australia with a new logo. Based on the logo for joint-industry... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced Penguin Random House audio producer Radhiah Chowdhury as the recipient of the 2019–2020 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. The... Read more |
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Wild Dingo Press has launched a new imprint to publish work by First Nations writers and poets. The imprint, called Deadly Dingo Books, will publish... Read more |
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Hardie Grant has acquired the publishing and content activities of Slattery Media Group (SMG) with immediate effect. Hardie Grant Books (HGB) will take on all... Read more |
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The winners of the 2019 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Seriously... Read more |
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Australian writer Chris Hammer has won the John Creasey Award for the best crime novel by a first-time author at the UK Crime Writers’ Association... Read more |
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Angela Meyer’s novel A Superior Spectre (Peter Bishop) has been shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award, as part of Scotland’s Saltire... Read more |
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A film based on YA adventure series ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ by Australian author John Flanagan (Random House Children’s) has received funding and is expected to begin... Read more |
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Gabrielle Reid’s YA novel The Things We Can’t Undo (Ford Street) has won the 2019 Australian Association of Family Therapists’ (AAFT) Award for Children’s Literature. The... Read more |
The NSW state government has announced changes to its multi-year arts funding for small to medium independent arts organisations. Applicants for multi-year funding will no... Read more |
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Journalist Rebecca Macfie has won the Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ)/New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Writers’ Award, worth NZ$25,000 (A$23,360), to help support her... Read more |
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In the UK, joint Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) more than doubled its lifetime sales in the week following its win... Read more |
In the US, a new website designed to help independent bookstores compete with Amazon will launch in January, reports Publishers Weekly. Backed by the American... Read more |
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In the UK, the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Disoriental (Négar Djavadi, trans Tina... Read more |
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Judy Nunn’s Townsville-set historical novel Khaki Town (William Heinemann) is spending its second consecutive week at the top of the bestseller chart as Nunn continues... Read more |
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Maurice Blackburn (1880–1944) was an influential member of the Australian Labor Party and a barrister, specialising in cases defending socialist causes. He held seats at... Read more |
‘It’s a bit of a kick in the guts to win a major prize only to learn you’re going to lose a third of it or maybe more for the government to waste on submarines … It’s this narrative of fighting for scraps. I know an award-winning Aboriginal writer literally living on mouldy damper. Every extra few dollars goes a very long way when you’re living in the bush.’—Melissa Lucashenko, who won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, argues that literary prizes should be tax-free.
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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... Read more |
Kirsten Thorpe from the University of Technology Sydney’s Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research has received the $5000 ALIA Research Grant Award 2019 for... Read more |
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has delivered a report on ‘unfair behaviour by digital market actors’ to the House Judiciary Committee, reports... Read more |
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Nonfiction titles dominated this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (16–20 October), with books on climate change and Mind Body Spirit (MBS) in demand, according to a... Read more |
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Penguin Random House ANZ publishing director Justin Ractliffe travelled to the United States earlier in 2019 to study consumer insights and data as part of... Read more |
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New books by Evie Wyld, Kate Mildenhall, Alice Pung and Jamie Marina Lau are among next year’s most anticipated releases. Sarah Farquharson rounds up the... Read more |
HarperCollins Children’s Books Australia is delighted to congratulate Emily Rodda on her win at the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards last week. Emily’s book His Name Was Walter won the children’s literature category of the awards to great acclaim from the judges.
His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda (9781460756188) is in stock and available to order now from HEDS: orders@harpercollins.com.au or 1300 551 721
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With this year’s busiest trading period fast approaching, and to ensure our normal fast delivery continues to get to you prior to Christmas Day, United Book Distributors (UBD) has prepared an order cut-off schedule below. We are optimistic this schedule will help to get our books delivered to you and your last minute shoppers in time for Christmas.
Below are the cut off dates for each state for orders to be delivered by 23 December 2019.
Orders must be received by 2.00pm AEST on cut off date.
| ACT |
Canberra |
19/12/2019 |
| NSW |
Albury |
19/12/2019 |
| Central NSW |
19/12/2019 |
| Hunter Region NSW |
19/12/2019 |
| Newcastle |
19/12/2019 |
| North Coast NSW |
19/12/2019 |
| Riverina NSW |
19/12/2019 |
| South Coast NSW |
19/12/2019 |
| Sydney |
19/12/2019 |
| Western NSW |
19/12/2019 |
| Wollongong |
19/12/2019 |
| NT |
Alice Springs |
19/12/2019 |
| Darwin |
16/12/2019 |
| Northern Territory |
16/12/2019 |
| QLD |
Brisbane |
19/12/2019 |
| Cairns |
18/12/2019 |
| Cape York |
13/12/2019 |
| Central Coast QLD |
18/12/2019 |
| Mackay |
19/12/2019 |
| North Coast QLD |
17/12/2019 |
| Outer South East QLD |
19/12/2019 |
| Rockhampton |
19/12/2019 |
| South East QLD |
19/12/2019 |
| Townsville |
18/12/2019 |
| Western QLD |
16/12/2019 |
| SA |
Adelaide |
19/12/2019 |
| Mining SA |
19/12/2019 |
| Mt Gambier |
19/12/2019 |
| North West SA |
18/12/2019 |
| South East SA |
19/12/2019 |
| TAS |
Hobart |
18/12/2019 |
| Launceston |
18/12/2019 |
| Tasmania |
16/12/2019 |
| VIC |
Melbourne |
19/12/2019 |
| Wodonga |
19/12/2019 |
| WA |
Broome |
18/12/2019 |
| Central WA |
18/12/2019 |
| Northern WA |
16/12/2019 |
| Perth |
19/12/2019 |
| Southern WA |
18/12/2019 |
| NZ |
South Island |
17/12/2019 |
| North Island |
18/12/2019 |
From all of us at UBD, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a successful New Year.
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Simon & Schuster Australia is pleased to announce a new sales and distribution partnership with independent publisher Waterhouse Press in Australia and New Zealand from 1 November 2019.
Waterhouse Press titles previously distributed by NewSouth Books will not be accepted by Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) for return. Authorised returns relating to orders placed with NewSouth should be sent back to Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) by 31 January 2020. Backorders for November 2019 new releases onwards already placed with NewSouth will not be supplied, please re-order from HEDS by emailing orders@harpercollins.com.au. Backlist titles will be available to order from November 1 onwards.
Waterhouse Press is distributed by Simon & Schuster globally.
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NewSouth Books is thrilled to congratulate authors and publishers on the PM’s Literary Awards. Meredith Lake’s The Bible in Australia (NewSouth Publishing) won the Australian history category, Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell’s Half the Perfect World (Monash University Publishing) won the nonfiction category, and Judith Beveridge’s Sun Music (Giramondo) won the poetry category.
For orders please contact ADS (02 4390 1300 or adscs@alliancedist.com.au).
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