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My name is Alice. I’m a police officer. I’m trying to solve a murder on a psychiatric ward. But I’m also a patient… They were... Read more
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The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced it will hold its forthcoming 2021 conference online only, due to the uncertainty caused by Melbourne’s ongoing Covid-19... Read more
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PEN Sydney has established a writer’s refuge for writers living with disadvantage and/or discrimination that restricts their work. Supported by the Faculty of Arts and... Read more
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In the UK, publishing industry organisations have launched a campaign against mooted changes to copyright laws they claim would lead to a flood of cheap... Read more
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Following its move to increase its focus on scholarly publishing, MUP has reported an operating profit increase of 19%.
In other news, Spineless Wonders has launched a new imprint that expands its remit outside short fiction, and digital library service hoopla has expanded to Australia.
The winner of the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award was announced, as was the inaugural Kuracca longlist and Writing NSW’s Emerging Writers mentees. French author David Diop took out the International Booker Prize, while, also overseas, US audiobook sales grew 12% last year and sales of backlist titles were up during the UK’s 2020 lockdowns. Meanwhile, Bloomsbury recorded ‘outstanding’ results in 2020, with revenue and profit both up.
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Andrew Robertson, who began his career at one of Melbourne’s most well-loved bookshops, joined NewSouth Books as the account manager for Victoria and Tasmania in... Read more
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Malla Nunn’s Sugar Town Queens (A&U, August) is a young adult novel set in Sugar Town, South Africa. This coming-of-age story follows 15-year-old Amandla as she... Read more
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Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Hungarian translation rights to Southern Ruby (Belina Alexandra) to IPC Könyvek. Nonfiction HarperCollins has sold German translation rights to 30... Read more
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Irish author Lucinda Riley’s latest novel The Missing Sister—the seventh instalment in her ‘Seven Sisters’ series—has debuted at number one the Australian bestsellers chart, becoming... Read more
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This is an essay collection in which the most difficult and abject parts of being a human in a body are examined with full and... Read more
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Small Joys of Real Life begins at a house party in Northcote, Melbourne, where the narrator, actress Eva McMillan, meets a cute guy, Pat. Two... Read more
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Parties can be extremely important for children. Especially for Frankie, the protagonist of The Spectacular Suit, who has never asked for a party before. With... Read more
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Sugar Town Queens is a young adult coming-of-age novel by Malla Nunn, author of When the Ground is Hard. Her latest book follows 15-year-old Amandla,... Read more
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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
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