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29 April 2020

‘The Yield’ sweeps NSW Prem’s Awards, publishers postpone pub dates and more

Over the weekend, Tara June Winch’s The Yield took out a hat-trick at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, scooping Book of the Year, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the People’s Choice Award. The Yield is also up for the literary fiction book of the year at this year’s ABIAs—the shortlists for which were announced on Tuesday.

Amid the disruption caused by Covid-19, Australian publishers are weighing up which titles should be postponed and which are to go ahead as planned, booksellers are continuing to innovate online, and the Copyright Agency has awarded emergency funding to online initiatives by Nicole Abadee, Caro Llewellyn and Tracey Spicer. Also in response to the crisis, WA and other states announced new arts funding, while Nielsen will offer one-off sales reports to ASA members seeking to apply for the government’s JobKeeper scheme.

In non-Covid news, Dymocks has a new managing director, while Hardie Grant reached a settlement with the adviser who allegedly distributed leaked copies of Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir, which the publisher says has ‘almost exhausted’ its initial 45,000 print run.

Across the ditch, New Zealand booksellers were to begin trading again as restrictions eased on Monday. In the UK, Amazon was revealed as the mystery £250k donor to the booksellers hardship fund, while organisers of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair have released the schedule for their virtual book fair, which will take place from 4–7 May.

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Will Covid-19 permanently change the book industry? x

As booksellers and publishers innovate their businesses in response to the Covid-19 lockdown, Books+Publishing‘s columnist Veronica Sullivan looks at which of their measures are only... Read more
 

 

The elephant in the room: Chris Flynn on ‘Mammoth’

Chris Flynn’s third novel Mammoth (UQP, May) handles an ambitious conceit and makes it work, according to reviewer Brad Jefferies. Narrated by the fossil of... Read more
 
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Rights round-up x

Sales Fiction Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Doom Creek (Alan Carter, forthcoming) to Suhrkamp Verlag. HarperCollins has sold a renewal of Polish translation... Read more
 

 

Bestsellers: Novels dominate lockdown reading x

Children are keeping busy in lockdown with the Bluey colouring book Big Backyard, which is spending its third consecutive week in the top spot on... Read more
 
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I Shot The Devil (Ruth McIver, Hachette)

Richell Prize-winner Ruth McIver’s debut crime thriller is a powder-keg with a slow burning fuse that has you racing to figure out which of the... Read more
 

 

Mammoth (Chris Flynn, UQP)

Chris Flynn’s third novel is an ambitious adventure back in time that recounts the folly of humanity—as told by the fossil of a 13,000-year-old mammoth.... Read more
 

 

The End of the World is Bigger Than Love (Davina Bell, Text) x

Davina Bell’s first young adult novel is unlike anything else written for the target audience. This becomes clear almost immediately upon beginning the book, when... Read more
 

 

The Year the Maps Changed (Danielle Binks, Lothian)

The Year the Maps Changed is Melbourne-based writer Danielle Binks’ debut novel. The year is 1999 and in small-town Sorrento, Victoria, 11-year-old Fred is lost... Read more
 

Garner on being inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame

‘When I was first starting out there were still people here who would think it was almost not worth publishing a book if it was not first published in London. I used to think that was awful: “I’m never going to cut it out here.”’Helen Garner reflects on her career following the news that she will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame as the recipient of the Lloyd O’Neil Award for outstanding contribution to the industry.

 

 

RiP Julian Leatherdale

Novelist Julian Leatherdale has died, after an illness of less than 12 months. Leatherdale was the author of three historical novels for adults, all published... Read more
 

 

Read the latest Publishers Weekly x

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