The shortlist for the 2023 Readings Children’s Book Prize has been announced. This year’s six shortlisted books are: The Bookseller’s Apprentice (Amelia Mellor, Affirm) The... Read more |
A new free trade agreement (FTA) between the government of Aotearoa New Zealand and the European Union (EU), expected to come into force in 2024,... Read more |
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Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to a debut short story collection from Australian actor Zoe Terakes, to be titled Eros: Queer myths for lovers.... Read more |
According to the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) latest StatShot report, the US publishing industry’s revenues were up 1.2% in the first half of 2023,... Read more |
Fiction publisher Harriet Allan is among three redundancies of senior staff announced at Penguin Random House New Zealand, according to Newsroom.co.nz; Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has announced its full 2023 line-up, featuring more than 10 Australian and New Zealand speakers; and the Big Issue fiction edition has returned, featuring 12 stories, including eight from emerging writers. Meanwhile, at the APA’s BookUp conference last Wednesday, Pantera commissioning editor Tom Langshaw was named the 2023 Rising Star, and the 2023 shortlist for the Educational Publishing Awards was revealed.
In other awards news, the CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners were announced, and Jenny Stubbs has received the 2023 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award. Victorian writer Rowan Heath won the 2023 Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and shortlists were announced for the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award and the Kill Your Darlings Creative Nonfiction Essay Prize.
In the UK, Ned Beauman has won the 2023 Arthur C Clarke award for Venomous Lumpsucker (Sceptre); while recipients of the inaugural TikTok Book Awards have also been revealed, with Bolu Babalola’s Honey & Spice (Headline Review) winning the Book of the Year prize. Meanwhile, in Germany, books are the most popular product for new cultural voucher program KulturPass.
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The annual BookUp conference for 2023, presented by the Australian Publishers Association (APA), was held at the State Library Victoria, Melbourne, on Wednesday 16 August, with... Read more |
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Giselle Clarkson is an illustrator and comic artist based in Greytown, Aotearoa New Zealand, and is best known for her nonfiction comics on conservation and... Read more |
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Sales Fiction/poetry Giramondo has sold Spanish language rights to Last Letter to a Reader (Gerald Murnane) to Gris Tormenta for publication in Latin America, and... Read more |
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Top 10 bestsellers Fourth Wing (Rebecca Yarros, Hachette) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) All In (Joel Selwood, Hardie Grant) Yellowface (Rebecca F Kuang, The... Read more |
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Laura Jean McKay’s Gunflower is a vivid and tantalising short story collection where animals are as seamlessly anthropomorphised as humans are animalised. McKay asks readers to suspend... Read more |
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Raw and poignant, Priya Nadesalingam’s Home to Biloela is a personal account of what became a national campaign to bring one family home. It provides an intimate... Read more |
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Set in country New South Wales beginning in 1890, The Rust Red Land follows Matilda as she comes of age through to the 1930s. She does all that... Read more |
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Robyn Davidson is perhaps best known for her novel Tracks and has a writing career spanning over 40 years. Her latest, Unfinished Woman, is a nomadic memoir that... Read more |
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With Giinagay Gaagal, Hello Ocean, Gumbaynggirr artist Melissa Greenwood, from the NSW region known as Coffs Harbour, once again gifts us with a beautiful ode... Read more |
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An observologist is someone who makes scientific expeditions every day and notices interesting details in the world around them. This is the first thing we learn... Read more |
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‘Some things need careful hands … It’s always good to ask first … Remember to look up! And look down.’ These are some of the little... 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 |
Entries for the 2023 Australian Business Book Awards close this Friday 25th August.
The awards recognise entrepreneurs, businesspeople and business owners who have written and published a book demonstrating their skill, knowledge and experience in their industry or area of expertise. The awards also support the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
For more information or to enter visit www.businessbookawards.com.au
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A get-together for those who worked at William Collins in the 1980s at the Pyrmont, Birkenhead Point and Clarence Street offices is planned.
Venue is The Strawberry Hills Hotel in Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills on Saturday 11th November 2023.
For details, please email either:
Denise Maddox: madoaks@icloud.com
Ron Serdiuk: pulpfictionbooks@bigpond.com
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 Bookings are open for Think Australian‘s Frankfurt issue out 5 October.
The Frankfurt issue includes a limited number of banner ads and prominently placed title preview ads.
See our media kit for more details or email to book your spot.
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