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Curtis Brown has announced that senior agent Clare Forster will be leaving the company in late August ‘to pursue other interests’. Forster joined the literary... Read more |
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The finalists in the 2024 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category... Read more |
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HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s memoir Matters of the Heart, written with Sue Smethurst. Price was elected a Country Liberal Party... Read more |
In France, Hachette Livre parent company Vivendi has updated its plans to list parts of its business on the stock market, reports the Bookseller. Vivendi... Read more |
This week, the Age and the Guardian reported that State Library Victoria board members and senior staff discussed the political views of writers who were to host the library’s Teen Writing Bootcamp workshop series before the events were cancelled. Sarah Polkinghorne and Lisa M Given wrote for The Conversation that ‘the State Library Victoria controversy shows what can happen when institutions cling to “neutrality”.’
In other news, some titles previously published under Booktopia’s publishing operation have moved to the digital publishing platform Ligature; senior agent Clare Forster will leave Curtis Brown in August; and HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s memoir Matters of the Heart.
In awards news, poets Chloe Mayne and Sara Mansour are among the seven recipients of the 2024 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000; Griffith Review has announced the five winners of its 2024 Emerging Voices competition; and the PANZ Book Design Award finalists have been revealed.
Meanwhile, in the UK, the Bookseller reported that Taylor & Francis has sold access to its authors’ research as part of an AI partnership with Microsoft worth almost £8 million (A$15.6m) in its first year, with authors reporting they had not been informed of the deal; in France, Hachette Livre parent company Vivendi has updated its plans to list parts of its business on the stock market; and, in the US, Scholastic has reported a 7% decrease in revenue for the year ending 31 May.
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Books+Publishing asked publishers to highlight their key local children’s and young adult titles releasing in time for Christmas 2024. From heartfelt picture books on social... Read more |
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After a ‘three-year sunny accident’ in Queensland, editor and bookseller Alison Arnold sold The Junction Bookstore in Noosa Junction and returned to Melbourne. Arnold spoke... Read more |
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The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the... Read more |
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Tigest Girma, an Ethiopian writer and teacher based in Melbourne, draws richly from East African history and cultures and blends Black stories with dark and... Read more |
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The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni is a YA fantasy book about a girl who fights to survive in a death prison. It was my... Read more |
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Sales Children’s/YA Berbay has sold simplified Chinese rights to All About the Heart (Remi Kowalski, illus by Tonia Composto), All About the Brain (Gabriel Dabscheck,... Read more |
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Top 10 bestsellers Reckless (Lauren Roberts, S&S) Storm Child (Michael Robotham, Hachette) Hide and Seek (Wolf Girl #11) (Anh Do, A&U Children’s) This Is Why... Read more |
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Jock Serong’s Cherrywood obscures time and place, braiding together the fates of his characters through extraordinary ventures and chance meetings. In his latest novel, Serong... Read more |
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When a novel begins with historical maps of the Soviet Union, a timeline of events, and character lists, there can be some trepidation about whether... Read more |
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Inheritance is the latest novel by Genevieve Gannon, bestselling author of The Mothers. In the not-too-distant future, scientists use eugenics to protect the next generation against viruses... Read more |
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Why do we cook, and where do we learn to appreciate food? In her new memoir, Kitchen Sentimental, chef and author Annie Smithers (Recipe for... Read more |
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Cockatoo is the new Australian wildlife picture book from Kaye Baillie and Max Hamilton, the team behind the CBCA-shortlisted title When the Waterhole Dries Up. In this... Read more |
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Whimsical and creative, Dragon Guest Handbook takes a different approach than most picture books in its presentation as a guide for the reader on how to... Read more |
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Tigest Girma’s debut novel, Immortal Dark, is the book YA readers of dark academia and romantasy have been waiting for—something with the violence and passion... 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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