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The Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not be published on Monday, 25 April, due to the Anzac Day public holiday. The next Daily will be published Tuesday, 26 April.
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Due to the Anzac Day public holiday on Monday, 25 April the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 28 April next week. The... Read more |
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Sydney-based Aotearoa New Zealand writer Meg Mason has been shortlisted for the £30,000 (A$52,800) Women’s Prize for Fiction for her second novel Sorrow and Bliss... Read more |
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Chren Byng has been appointed publisher at Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP). Currently head of head of Australian children’s publishing at HarperCollins, Byng will work... Read more |
Macquarie University has launched a national survey investigating the practices of Australian authors in the contemporary national and international book industry. The survey, which follows... Read more |
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UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well... Read more |
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UQP has acquired world rights to Personal Score, the first work of nonfiction by writer and poet Ellen van Neerven. Described by the publisher as... Read more |
The shortlist for this year’s £10,000 (A$17,500) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced. The annual award recognises the book ‘of highest literary... Read more |
In awards news, the Australian Booksellers Association announced the shortlists for the 2022 Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards; local writers Sarah Walker, Eleanor Kirk and Shelley Burne-Field are among the finalists for the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in the Pacific category; and Australian authors Jacqueline Bublitz and Peter Papathanasiou have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association 2022 Dagger Awards.
The Wheeler Centre announced the 21 recipients of the 2022 Hot Desk fellowships, returning after a ‘Covid-induced hiatus’ in 2021. Meanwhile, Australian Poetry named Audrey Molloy’s The Important Things (Gallery Press) as the winner of the 2021 Anne Elder Award.
In the UK, the shortlist for the Wolfson History Prize was announced, as well as the shortlist for the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.
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Erica Wagner has worked in publishing for over 30 years, starting out as a trainee children’s editor at Penguin Australia and going on to spend... Read more |
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Located at Western Australia’s southern tip, Paperbark Merchants in Albany is WA’s largest independent regional bookstore. A runner-up in the regional bookstore category at the... Read more |
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Bumper book consumption was a silver lining of Covid. But could it also be part of a perfect storm that will drive up the price... Read more |
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Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian translation rights to The Last Man in Europe (Dennis Glover) and Rose’s Vintage (Kayte Nunn) to MTS Library.... Read more |
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Top 10 bestsellers Bluey: More Easter fun! (Puffin) Bluey: Easter (Puffin) Cat Kid Comic Club #3: On Purpose (Dav Pilkey, Scholastic) It Ends With... Read more |
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Old Fellow, written by Christopher Cheng and illustrated by Liz Anelli, is a warm, simple and engaging story of an old man and his old... Read more |
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There’s a lot to unpack in this YA novel, which covers issues including alcoholism, climate change, divorce and racism. At the centre of it all... Read more |
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Forty Nights is the literary debut of photographer turned lawyer and writer Pirooz Jafari. The novel weaves together three separate timelines, moving between 1360s Sweden,... Read more |
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Judy Cotton is an internationally celebrated visual artist who has work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of... Read more |
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The question of what really happened to Evie McCreery has occupied amateur sleuths in online chat forums for years. But for Mina McCreery, ever since... 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 |
Olivia Johansson has joined Nielsen BookScan in the role of senior account executive, publishers, replacing Soren Huet, who has moved to the role of senior... Read more |
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Award-winning author Elizabeth Tynan reveals the cataclysmic history of Emu Field—an atomic test site where a terrifying black mist brought death and sickness to Aboriginal... Read more |
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