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From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, comes a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your... Read more |
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the recipients of the most recent round of the Literature Structural Investment fund which includes the three... Read more |
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Angela O’Keeffe has been named the winner of the 2023 University of Queensland Press (UQP) Quentin Bryce Award for her novel The Sitter. In the... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced, Ultimo Press managing director James Kellow will step down from the position at the end of June, and the winners of the 2023 BookPeople Book of the Year Awards and Bookseller of the Year awards were announced at the BookPeople Conference in Adelaide.
In other awards news, Immaculate by Anna McGahan has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award; Jade and Emerald by Michelle See-Tho is the winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize; Kirsty Iltners has won the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her entry Depth of Field; Lauren Crozier has won the $10,000 Text Prize for her debut middle-grade novel The Best Witch in Paris, with shortlisted author Ella Pilson selected as the recipient of the 2023 Steph Bowe Mentorship for Young Writers; the shortlist for the ACT Notable Book Awards has been announced; and, as part of the mid-year Walkley Awards, editor Catriona Menzies-Pike has won the 2023 Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism and journalists Anna Verney and Richard Cooke have won the 2023 June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism.
In other news, a new fellowship offers First Nations writers the opportunity become a writer-in-residence at the University of Cambridge, and Affirm Press will sell and distribute titles by Little Book Press (LBP), the publishing arm of Raising Literacy Australia.
In the US, HarperCollins and private equity firm KKR are among bidders for Simon & Schuster, which owner Paramount Global is putting up for sale after the US government blocked Penguin Random House’s acquisition last year; and 40% of 2022 children’s books released had a Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) author, illustrator or compiler, a new report has found. In the UK, Lucy Caldwell has won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for her novel These Days (Faber); and US author Barbara Kingsolver has won the 2023 Women’s Prize for fiction, for her novel Demon Copperhead (Faber).
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Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local children’s and young adult titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Tis the season Among the children’s and YA... Read more |
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Maree Coote is a celebrated Melbourne-based publisher, author and illustrator known for her captivating and intricately detailed illustrations. She won the coveted Bologna Ragnazzi 2017... Read more |
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Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Japanese rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams to Shogakukan Inc. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Portuguese translation rights to... Read more |
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Top 10 Bestsellers RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) The Voice to Parliament Handbook (Thomas Mayo & Kerry O’Brien, HG Explore) The Bad Guys #17:... Read more |
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The title of Craig Semple’s memoir, The Cop Who Fell to Earth, suggests flight and ambition, but it could also be reframed as an earthbound... Read more |
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God Forgets About the Poor is an endearing chronicle of a migrant mother’s life from 1945 to the present. Vivid descriptions bring the locations to... Read more |
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In Love, Dad, Laurie Steed reflects on family, mental health, the arts, careers, relationships and, most of all, being a father. It’s an honest and... Read more |
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Mole Creek is James Dunbar’s first foray into writing a serious crime and espionage novel. In it, he delivers intriguing dual storylines set 50 years... Read more |
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Catherine Norton’s first book, Crossing, was awarded the 2015 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for children’s literature and was a CBCA Notable book in the same... Read more |
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The best graphic novels need to be action-packed with an engaging interplay of text and illustrations. Ideally, they should also be funny. Rebecca Timmis’s Jawsome... Read more |
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Last-Place Lin is Wai Chim’s first picture book. Known for her young adult novels (The Surprising Power of a Good Dumping, Freedom Swimmer), Chim was... Read more |
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File this one under ‘typography/lunchbox inspo/poetry/humour/veggies’—oh, sorry, you don’t have that section on your bookshelves? Well, make one, so you can put Maree Coote’s Letters... 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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