Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they’re needed, they turn up—although not always in the form that we expect… Awkward, hapless Marick is... Read more

Affirm Press has appointed former Simon & Schuster national field sales manager Kay Drury as the first member of its new sales team. The new... Read more

Becca Wang has won the 2022 Spark Prize, presented by Hardie Grant Books and RMIT Writing and Publishing, for her nonfiction book proposal ‘Birth Right’.... Read more

The Big Issue has announced the authors chosen for its annual fiction edition. The 2022 edition includes works from 12 writers selected from 905 submissions.... Read more

Scribe Publications has acquired world rights to Gunflower, a new collection of short fiction by Laura Jean McKay. According to the publisher, Gunflower ‘charts the... Read more

The shortlist for the 2022 Booker Prize has been announced. The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$85,510) prize are: Glory (NoViolet Bulawayo, Viking) The... Read more

Alex Allan has been appointed the new CEO of Fremantle Press; the program for the inaugural Berry Writers Festival held in October in Shoalhaven, NSW, has been announced; and Meredith Wattison has won the Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry, worth $10,000.

In other awards news, Zeynab Gamieldien is the winner of the inaugural WestWords/Ultimo Prize, and the winners of the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards have been announced, as have the six recipients of the Writing NSW diverse mentorship program. The shortlist for the Banjo Prize, and the longlist for the Richell Prize, were also both announced.

Meanwhile, in light of evidence presented during the US Department of Justice case to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster, a recent article in the Conversation canvasses local opinion on predicting bestsellers, with Scribe publisher-in-chief Henry Rosenbloom commenting, ‘More than half the books you publish either lose money or don’t make money.’

Overseas, Penguin Random House has reported its earnings were down 21% in the first half of 2022, while global revenue increased 1%.

Stacey Moore, owner and founder of independent bookshop Bookgrove in Ocean Grove, Victoria, has started another business, BreakAway Books locum booksellers. As part of the... Read more

Amplify Bookstore, an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, shares the shop’s top picks for spring.... Read more

Sales  Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian rights to Factory 19 (Dennis Glover) to MTS Library. Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold French world rights to... Read more

Top 10 bestsellers                              Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens, Corsair)* Love on the Brain (Ali Hazelwood, Sphere) It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S)... Read more

Amy Thunig is an academic and social commentator on shows such as ABC’s The Drum. She also grew up in poverty, the child of parents... Read more

Marick is unsure of his place in the world; he knew he wasn’t quite suited to the church, but he’s apprehensive that a new part-time... Read more

Waiting for the Storks is the latest historical fiction title from Katrina Nannestad, transporting the reader to the Second World War and the time of... Read more

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

Simon & Schuster Australia is thrilled to announce that It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover has sold more than 300,000 copies across all formats in ANZ.

First published in 2016, It Ends With Us has since become a global phenomenon and is the #1 bestselling book in Australia this year!

Its highly-anticipated sequel, It Starts With Us, will be published on October 18.

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