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26 April 2023

 

The Terrible Event

From the winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. David Cohen’s most wryly humorous and disturbing work of fiction yet. A public memorial’s name... Read more
 
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Nenke appointed Booktopia CEO x

Booktopia has announced the appointment of former Barnes & Noble and Amazon executive David Nenke as CEO.   Nenke, who was born in Australia and... Read more
 

Black Inc. to reduce output x

Black Inc. has made several redundancies and will reduce the number of books it publishes. The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reported it had been told... Read more
 
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UK survey of debut authors finds lack of support from publishers

In the UK, a survey by the Bookseller has found more than half of debut authors (54%) report that publishing their book had a negative... Read more
 

BookPeople shortlists, Writing NSW departures, record year for UK publishing x

Shortlists have been announced for BookPeople’s Book of the Year Awards, ABDA’s Australian Book Design Awards and the Institute of Professional Editors’ Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award.

At Writing NSW, CEO Jane McCredie and program director Julia Tsalis will both leave the organisation. At Hardie Grant, employees have been offered a set of new paid benefits.

The UK publishing industry had a ‘record breaking’ year in 2022, according to a new report by the Publishers Association. The shortlists for the UK’s Jhalak Prize and the Jhalak Children’s and Young Adult Prize for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers have been announced. Also overseas, Éditions La Fabrique foreign rights manager Ernest Moret, who was arrested on his way to London Book Fair, was interrogated about ‘anti-government’ authors in the catalogue of the French publishing house for which he works.

 
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Amplify Bookstore's winter picks x

Amplify Bookstore is an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, founded by Jing Xuan Teo and Marina... Read more
 

 

Rights round-up x

Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Albanian translation rights to The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Sheila Fitzpatrick) to the Albanian Institute for International... Read more
 

 

The Bookbinder of Jericho maintains top spot x

Top 10 Bestsellers The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams, Affirm) Homecoming (Kate Morton, A&U) Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea (Dog Man #11) (Dav Pilkey,... Read more
 

 

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (Alison Goodman, HarperCollins) x

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman is a joyous romp through Regency England that is equally entertaining, revealing, feminist, heartbreaking and humorous.... Read more

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Chinese Fish (Grace Yee, Giramondo) x

Chinese Fish is a brilliant work of genre-bending prose poetry by award-winning poet Grace Yee. Full of subtle poetic turns, Yee’s narrative is an intimate... Read more

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Endo Days: Life, love and laughs with endometriosis (Libby Trainor Parker, Wakefield) x

Libby Trainor Parker has written the perfect book adaptation of the cabaret show she performed in her PJs about endometriosis. The vibe? Women have been... Read more

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The Terrible Event (David Cohen, Transit Lounge) x

The Terrible Event comprises eight accessible, absurdist stories by David Cohen, past winner of the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. Each instalment is a tightly... Read more

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Ella and Star (Michelle Wanasundera, illus by Nichole Wade, Little Pink Dog Books) x

The word ‘heartfelt’ is what comes to mind upon closing the pages of Ella and Star. The winning team of Michelle Wanasundera and Nichole Wade,... Read more

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Gurril: Storm Bird (Trevor Fourmile, illus by Jingalu, Magabala) x

Gurril: Storm Bird tells the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji (First Nations people from the Cairns area) traditional creation story of the origins of the black cockatoo... Read more

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Read the latest Publishers Weekly x

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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