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Introducing 50 of the world’s most magnificent trees for travellers and nature lovers to enjoy from the comfort of an armchair or to seek and... Read more |
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Hardie Grant is launching Figment—a new, dedicated graphic novel imprint, which will begin publishing in 2025. One of the first graphic novel imprints in Australian... Read more |
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The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Shortlisted titles, selected from longlists announced last month,... Read more |
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Kiama-based poet and author Christine Paice has won the $10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU) Prize for Poetry for a poem about the death of her... Read more |
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Booktopia is building a podcast studio to create ‘exclusive audio content’ for its customers, alongside a loyalty program, reports the Australian. New owner Shant Kradjian... Read more |
In the UK, the shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Financial Times (FT) Business Book of the Year. The shortlisted titles are: The Corporation in... Read more |
After the news last week that Hardie Grant would acquire Pantera Press, the former has confirmed the Pantera staff that will be remaining with Pantera following its move to Hardie Grant’s Ultimo offices. Hardie Grant has also announced the creation of a new dedicated graphic novel imprint, Figment.
In other news this week, Magabala has announced it will move its sales and distribution to Hachette and ADS, beginning in February next year; this year’s Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow Sophie Splatt has produced a guide to graphic novel publishing; Booktopia is building a podcast studio and loyalty program; and the programs for the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival and the Headland Writers Festival have been announced.
In awards news, the winners of the Ned Kelly Awards have been announced, as have the inaugural winners of the Hage Award for First Nations Writers, presented by Sweatshop Literacy Movement, and the winner of the Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry; while in Aotearoa New Zealand, the inaugural winner of the Shaw Writer’s Award has also been announced. The shortlists for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize have also been announced.
In acquisitions news this week, Penguin Random House Australia has acquired Australian rights to dystopian novel The Book of Guilt by Aotearoa New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey.
In the UK, Costanza Casati has won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award for Clytemnestra (Michael Joseph); and the shortlist for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize has been announced, as have the shortlists for the 2024 Polari Prizes for LGBTQ+ literature and the shortlist for the 2024 Business Book of the Year Award.
In publishing commentary, Crikey contributor Catriona Menzies-Pike and Ventura publisher Jane Curry consider the acquisitions of Affirm and Pantera, by S&S and Hardie Grant respectively.
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Prolific illustrator Sophie Beer’s debut middle-grade novel, Thunderhead (November, A&U Children’s), was inspired by her own experience with a brain tumour that resulted in hearing... Read more |
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Oh, this is too difficult! Can I break it down into different genres? Adult: Because I’m Not Myself, You See by Ariane Beeston is a... Read more |
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Sales Children’s/YA Scholastic has sold French rights to Spy Academy books 1 and 2 (Jack Heath); English language rights within Korea to Zoo School (Heath McKenzie);... Read more |
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Top 10 bestsellers We Solve Murders (Richard Osman, Viking) Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) Daydream (Hannah Grace, S&S) Tigga Mac’s Cake Hacks (Tegan MacCormack... Read more |
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In recent years, historians have increasingly shown that the past, especially in the West, was more multicultural than the monoculture so often portrayed. In Australia,... Read more |
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Noble Fragments examines the nature of value and the role of perspective in shaping it, as journalist and author Michael Visontay weaves together two interrelated... Read more |
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Thunderhead is the debut middle-grade novel by award-winning author and illustrator Sophie Beer. Thunderhead (the titular character’s online username—their name isn’t revealed until the end... Read more |
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Tilly in a Tangle, written by Margrete Lamond (The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear) and illustrated by Monty Lee (Grumpy Bear, Grouchy Bear), is... Read more |
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Publisher Stephen Matthews has died, aged 78. Matthews founded the independent publisher Ginninderra Press in 1996 in Canberra, later moving to Adelaide. He received an... 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 |
Nukunu author Jared Thomas has been appointed to Creative Australia’s inaugural First Nations Board for the Arts. Thomas is the author of Calypso Summer, Songs... Read more |
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