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The winners of the Australian Business Book Awards 2023 have been announced. The winners are: Book of the year Time Magic (Melissa Ambrosini & Nick... Read more |
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In the UK, Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted in the fiction category of the inaugural Nero Book Awards for her novel Birnam Wood (Granta). The... Read more |
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Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Tina Makereti’s novel The Mires, in a deal brokered by Charlotte Seymour at Johnson & Alcock in London.... Read more |
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Hachette Australia has acquired the memoir of Australian Olympic swimming champion Michael Klim. Klim, to be published by Hachette senior nonfiction publisher Scott Henderson, charts... Read more |
The 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners were announced this week. Meanwhile, the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) presented the ASA Medal and the O’Donnell Essay Prize during the Colin Simpson Memorial Keynote event; and a new Australia-based international writing prize, The Hope Prize, opened for submissions of short fiction and nonfiction.
In other local awards news, the winners of the Newcastle Poetry Prize were announced, and the ASA revealed the shortlist for this year’s Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the 2023 Storylines Notable Book Award winners were also announced.
In the UK, John Vaillant has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Fire Weather (Sceptre), while in the US, the winners of the 2023 National Book Awards have been announced. Meanwhile, the Bookseller reported that French media company Vivendi has closed the sale of publishing house Editis to International Media Invest.
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Editors Rose Michael, Sharon Mullins, Renée Otmar and Katherine Day ask how AI tools might work, or be made to work, for editorial. Back when... Read more |
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How do the publishing industry’s rising stars feel about AI? Editors Rose Michael, Sharon Mullins, Renée Otmar and Katherine Day are interested in how AI tools... Read more |
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David Taylor is senior vice president at Ingram Content Group and has responsibility for Ingram’s print-on-demand (POD) activities outside Ingram’s US base. These include the... Read more |
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Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold Dutch rights to Body of Lies (Sarah Bailey) to Uitgeverij Marmer, via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management.... Read more |
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Top 10 bestsellers Iron Flame (Rebecca Yarros, Hachette) The Secret (Lee & Andrew Child, Bantam) The Woman in Me (Britney Spears, S&S) No Brainer (Diary... Read more |
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Gerandaroo, 1993: population 723, winner of 24 football premierships since 1899. A place where AFL is a non-negotiable part of life and where everyone is... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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There are books about health and books about habits, but rarely are the two combined as they are in The Health Habit: Shape up, sleep... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Following a panic attack while reporting on live TV, Josie is eager to prove that she can still make it as a full-time Sydney newsreader.... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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In an author’s note, Bonny Cassidy explains that Monument, her genre-bending literary memoir, structured around the branches of her White Australian family, began as a private... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Trish Bolton’s debut is a reckoning with grief. An exploration of ‘those feelings [that are] impossible to separate, a great tidal wave of loss and... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Emer Byrne, Zara Jones and Jude Wolf are young women who have led completely different lives until one thread of commonality brings them together—magic. Zara... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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Your Brain Is a Lump of Goo is a colourful and lively exploration of the brain from Idan Ben-Barak, the bestselling and award-winning author of... Read moreBooks+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. |
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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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Australian Society of Authors CEO Olivia Lanchester has been appointed chair of the federal government’s Public Lending Right Committee.
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Some stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia,... Read more |
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