Best of the best books of 2024
Friday, 13 December 2024
Across five major ‘best books of 2024’ articles published this December, we counted the most-mentioned Australian books. From end-of-year lists published by the Age/Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Book Review, Guardian...
Indie Book Awards 2025 longlists announced
Friday, 13 December 2024
The longlist for the 2025 Indie Book Awards has been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) Safe Haven (Shankari Chandran, Ultimo) The Valley...
Wright, Tiffany 2024 Melbourne Prize winners
Thursday, 14 November 2024
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, and Carrie Tiffany has won the $10,000 Writers Prize. A member of the Waanyi Nation of the Southern Highlands of...
Pi-O wins 2024 Patrick White Literary Award
Friday, 25 October 2024
Victorian-based poet, publisher and editor π.ο. (Pi-O) has won the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award. Born in Greece in 1951, π.ο. immigrated with his family in 1954 to Australia, where they...
Bookshops to celebrate LYBD with discounts, events and giveaways
Friday, 11 October 2024
Bookshops across the country are preparing to celebrate Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) on 12 October with a range of special events, discounts, and activities designed under this year’s theme...
PRH acquires Chidgey dystopian fiction ‘The Book of Guilt’
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired Australian rights to dystopian novel The Book of Guilt by Aotearoa New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey. The novel will be published in New...
Magabala to move sales and distribution to Hachette and ADS
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Magabala Books has announced a partnership with Hachette Australia for sales representation, and Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) for distribution services, beginning February 2025. Said Magabala CEO Lilly Brown: ‘Hachette’s commitment...
Ned Kelly Awards 2024 winners announced
Thursday, 26 September 2024
The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards winners. The winning works in each category, chosen from shortlists announced in August, are: Best crime fiction Darling...
Hage Award for First Nations Writers 2024 winners announced
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Sweatshop Literacy Movement has announced the winners of the inaugural Hage Award for First Nations Writers. The winners of the award are Murrawarri hip hop artist DOBBY and Wiradjuri writer...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Creative Australia has announced the winners of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The winners in each category, chosen by an expert independent panel of judges from shortlists announced in...
Queensland Literary Awards 2024 winners announced
Friday, 6 September 2024
The winners of the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards have been announced, with the total value of the awards now standing at $276,000, up from $238,500 in 2023. Melissa Lucashenko has won...
Wright awarded 2024 Miles Franklin for ‘Praiseworthy’, becomes two-time winner
Thursday, 1 August 2024
Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her novel Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright previously won the award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria (Giramondo), and now...
Booktopia requests further extension to voluntary trading suspension, previously announced funding terminated
Friday, 28 June 2024
In requesting another extension to the voluntary suspension placed on its securities, until it is capable of making an announcement in relation to the additional funding it is seeking from...
Booktopia requests extension to voluntary trading suspension as it seeks funding
Friday, 21 June 2024
Online bookseller Booktopia has requested that the voluntary suspension placed on its securities be extended, as it continues to seek funding to meet its redundancy costs and provide working capital....
Miles Franklin 2024 longlist announced
Thursday, 16 May 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles, selected from 104 books, are: Only Sound Remains (Hossein Asgari, Puncher & Wattmann) Wall (Jen...
The Voice to Parliament Handbook wins ABIA book of the year
Thursday, 9 May 2024
The winners of the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced, with The Voice to Parliament Handbook (Thomas Mayo & Kerry O’Brien, HG Explore) taking out the overall book...
Wright wins 2024 Stella Prize for ‘Praiseworthy’
Thursday, 2 May 2024
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Stella Prize for her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright becomes the first author to win the Stella Prize twice, having previously won the 2018...
Australian Book Design Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Thursday, 28 March 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The shortlisted titles in selected categories are: Best designed commercial...
George Robertson Award 2024 winners announced, changes to APA board
Thursday, 28 March 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2024 George Robertson Awards, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry. Annette Barlow (publisher, Allen &...
Yee wins 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature at VPLAs
Friday, 2 February 2024
Grace Yee has won Australia’s single richest literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, for her poetry collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo) at this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs)....
Murphy awarded 2024 Peter Blazey Fellowship
Friday, 15 December 2023
Author, editor and accessibility consultant Fiona Murphy has won the 2024 Peter Blazey Fellowship. Murphy will use the fellowship to work on her second book, 'Livelihood', a narrative nonfiction essay...
Eli Nacson to become COO at Hay House Australia following acquisition
Friday, 15 December 2023
Hay House Australia's operations will continue as normal following the acquisition of the publisher by Penguin Random House (PRH), according to managing director Leon Nacson. Nacson told Books+Publishing that the...
Australian market down 3% in value YTD, adult fiction strong
Friday, 15 December 2023
Nielsen BookScan reports that this year to date (YTD), to the week ending 9 December, the Australian Book Market overall declined (-3%) in value on the same time as a...
UQP becomes ‘carbon positive’ through reduction and offsets
Thursday, 14 December 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced it has become 'carbon positive' this year, through making operational changes to reduce carbon emissions and offsetting the carbon it produces directly. 'We...
ASA 2023 survey results: Earnings ‘perilously low’, rising royalty agreements increase
Thursday, 14 December 2023
The 2023 Australian Society of Authors (ASA) survey of members has found 'a trend towards authors being paid a rising royalty in their publishing agreements', with 40% of respondents indicating...
Creative Australia funds literature organisations and individuals
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Creative Australia has announced the Four Year Investment for Organisations program for 2025–2028. Among the 159 organisations in Creative Australia’s multi-year investment, 14 literature organisations are listed. Creative Australia also...
UQP acquires McSkimming memoir
Friday, 8 December 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to Memory is a Nesting Magpie by Josie McSkimming, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary. Written...
Birch named Royal Society of Literature international fellow, signs with UQP for two new books
Friday, 1 December 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to two new books by Tony Birch, a novel and a short story collection. The acquisitions follow Birch's most recent book...
Fourth Wing wins 2023 Dymocks Book of the Year
Friday, 24 November 2023
Fourth Wing (Rebecca Yarros, Hachette Australia) has been named Dymocks 2023 Book of the Year, and Come Together: Things every Aussie kid should know about the First Peoples (Isaiah Firebrace,...
The Palestine Laboratory wins 2023 Walkley Book Award
Friday, 24 November 2023
Antony Loewenstein has won the 2023 Walkley Book Award for The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world (Antony Loewenstein, Scribe). Loewenstein's book beat shortlisted works Ghosts of...
