‘The Australian Moment’ wins 2012 Walkley Book Award
George Megalogenis has won this year’s Walkley Book Award for The Australian Moment: How We Were Made for These Times (Viking). Megalogenis received the award during the Walkley Awards for...
‘The Opium War’ first nonfiction title to win Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell (Picador) has won the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, which ‘recognises work which contributes to political and cultural...
Savage wins Canada’s richest nonfiction prize
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape (Candace Savage, Greystone Books) has won the C$60,000 (A$57,400) Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Canada’s richest award for...
Davis wins Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis (Bodley Head) has won the £20,000 (A$30,400) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction. Judges said the...
2012 Human Rights Literature Award shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Literature Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Am I Black Enough For You? (Anita Heiss, Bantam) The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die...
Walkley Book Award 2012 longlist announced
The longlist for the 2012 Walkley Book Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Broadcast Wars: The Money, the Ego, the Power Behind Your Remote Control (Michael Bodey, Hachette) Mine-Field: The...
Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction longlist announced
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. To view the longlisted titles, see the Bookseller+Publisher website here. The winner of this...
Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 longlist announced
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. The longlisted titles are: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo, Scribe) One on One...
‘Man-Made World’ wins 2012 John Button Prize
Andrew Charlton’s Quarterly Essay 44, Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet (Black Inc.), has won this year’s John Button Prize for writing on policy and politics. Charlton, who receives...
Harper launches digital publishing business
Journalist and editor Charlotte Harper has launched a new digital-first publishing business called Editia. Editia (pronounced ‘edeesha’) will focus on works of long-form journalism and short nonfiction between 10,000 and...
Interview with Kristy Chambers on ‘Get Well Soon!’ (UQP)
Kristy Chambers’ stories about nursing used to make her friends ‘laugh, cry or throw up over coffee’—so she turned them into a book, Get Well Soon! (UQP, September). Chambers spoke...
RMIT to host 2012 NonfictionNow conference
Melbourne’s RMIT University will host this year’s NonfictionNow conference in November as a result of a partnership between the university’s school of media and communications and the nonfiction writing program...
The Rise of the Fifth Estate: Social Media and Blogging in Australian Politics Greg Jericho (Scribe, September)
The Rise of the Fifth Estate is a well-researched and engaging look at the world of social media and blogging in the context of the Australian political system, and author...
Interview with Benjamin Law on ‘Gaysia’
Benjamin Law tells Andrew Wrathall about his new book of adventure gonzo-ish journalism, which explores queer culture in Asia. (See our review here.) While some dry academic books have been...
Shelf talk: Memorable memoirs
High Court Justice Michael Kirby is no stranger to the public spotlight. Although he’s only recently published his own story, he’s also the subject of a new biography, Michael Kirby:...
Shelf talk: Talking points
Piracy is a hot topic in the publishing industry, especially when it comes to ebooks. US writer Chris Ruen looks at the history, meaning and implications of downloading unlicensed digital...
Alice Springs (Eleanor Hogan, NewSouth)
This is no grey nomad’s guide to the red centre. In NewSouth’s latest city book, author Eleanor Hogan writes about her experiences living and working in the Aboriginal health services...
Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (Benjamin Law, Black Inc.)
Benjamin Law embarks on a wild ride through Asia to investigate queer culture in Gaysia. In Indonesia he meets the moneyboys who prostitute themselves to Western men, usually preferring the...
Interview with Melanie Barton on Molly Ringwald
In August, Simon & Schuster Australia will publish actress Molly Ringwald’s book When It Happens to You—a collection of interlinked stories that explores the effects of betrayal on a family....
American Stories: Tales of Hope and Anger (Michael Brissenden, UQP)
ABC TV’s Michael Brissenden has written a sharply observed and hugely entertaining collection of essays on contemporary American life. He covers the expected turf—healthcare, the war on drugs, asylum seekers,...