Books+Publishing has collated company closing dates for the Christmas and New Year holiday period (see table below). The Books+Publishing office will close on Wednesday, 14... Read more |
The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards has added a new category for the 2023 awards. The Premier’s Prize for Book of the Year Award, worth... Read more |
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Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Strange Little Girl by Melbourne-based writer, performer and zine maker Jess Knight. Described by the publisher... Read more |
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Allen & Unwin (A&U) and Voices from the Intersection have announced the recipients of their partnership mentorship program for emerging children’s and YA own voices... Read more |
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In the UK, Chip War: The Fight for the world’s most critical technology (Chris Miller, S&S) has won the 2022 Financial Times (FT) Book of the Year Award.... Read more |
In moves, former Allen & Unwin publishing director Tom Gilliatt has joined Left Bank Literary as an agent and Booktopia has appointed Retail Food Group executive chairmen Peter George as chair, replacing Chris Beare. The online bookseller has also recently sold its stake in Welbeck ANZ for $1.5 million.
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of its latest round of Cultural Fund funding, including awarding Jessica Au and Tiffany Tsao with Create Grants, worth $25,000, and the creation of a new writing fellowship for young writers. Sorrento Writers Festival has established a new writing prize worth $5000; UQP has announced the launch of a First Nations Classic series, with the first instalment featuring eight titles to be published in June 2023; while, Fin J Ross has won first prize in the 2022 Scarlet Stiletto Awards.
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Hachette has launched Moa Press, and the winners of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for Literary Achievement have been revealed.
In the UK, Hachette has acquired independent Welbeck Publishing Group, and Waterstones has named The Story of Art Without Men (Katy Hessel, Hutchinson Heinemann) its Book of the Year. In the US, more than 150 literary agents have pledged not to submit new work to HarperCollins US in support of striking workers, and Tiya Miles’s All That She Carried (Random House) has won the 2022 Cundill History Prize.
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Each year the Sharjah International Book Fair brings publishing professionals to the United Arab Emirates through its fellowship program. Terri-ann White of Upswell Publishing, who... Read more |
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Should editors come out from behind the curtain? Alice Grundy ponders the benefits of a more visible role for publishing’s ‘invisible menders’. Having worked in... Read more |
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Sales Children’s/YA Scholastic Australia has licensed Slovenian and Arabic rights to The Bad Guys Episode 1, Episode 2: Mission unpluckable and Episode 3: The furball... Read more |
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Top 10 bestsellers RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Guinness World Records 2023 (Guinness World Records) Barefoot Kids (Scott Pape, HarperCollins) It Starts with Us (Colleen Hoover, S&S)... Read more |
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Resistance is the fourth novel by the award-winning author of Dissection and Pilgrimage, Jacinta Halloran. Narrated by family therapist Nina, it follows the Agostino family,... Read more |
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Small-time private investigator Edwina ‘Ted’ Bristol spends her days serving court documents and exposing cheating spouses, but she longs for the dangerous and exciting kind... Read more |
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Ronnie Scott’s second novel marks the beginning of a great remembering—in which artists reflect on the summer of 2019-20, a summer that we previously thought... Read more |
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Swept unexpectedly at only 28 into the safe seat of Sydney, Tanya Plibersek was the golden girl at the heart of Labor politics when the... Read more |
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Literature academic and speculative fiction author Lisa Hannett has written an evocative account of the varied lives of women during the Viking era. Hannett uses... Read more |
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With a cast of larger-than-life characters that almost pop off the page, The Hotel Witch is the wonderfully imaginative new adventure from Jessica Miller, who... Read more |
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Tami Sussman and evergreen illustrator Tom Jellett perfectly execute their ingenious idea of comparing toddlers and tradespeople in Tiny Tradies. The picture book begins at... Read more |
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Rebecca Fraser is a vibrant voice in Australian junior fiction. Her novel Sea Glass is the beautifully executed story of 11-year-old Cailin, a pre-teen who... Read more |
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Sydney writer Antigone Kefala has died, aged 92. According to Neos Kosmos, Kefala was born in the Greek diaspora settlement Brăila, Romania in 1935, and... 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 |
Paul Petrulis will retire from Cengage ANZ and his role as vice president of higher education at the end of December 2022. Marius du Plessis... Read more |
Are you having trouble finding enough staff to keep your project workflows operating smoothly? Amanda Greenslade is available to typeset and proofread your books.
A graphic designer since 2004 and a professional editor since 2008, Amanda has helped writers and publishers to launch over 600 titles.
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From Madagascar to the Congo through Comoros and Botswana. African Graffiti tells a story of self-discovery as well as finding a home in the unknown.... Read more |
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Miss Unity loves to go on adventures, so she wakes Sparkly Dragon. Today, Miss Unity wants to learn more about angel signs and numbers. Sparkly... Read more |
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