Lennon wins 2024 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
Monday, 29 July 2024
In the UK, Ferdia Lennon has won the £5000 (A$9816) Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for Glorious Exploits (Fig Tree), reports the Bookseller. Chosen from a shortlist of six, the winning...
Affirm acquires three Brentos illustrated books
Monday, 29 July 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to three books by author-illustrator Brentos. Brentos' first children’s book, Australia: From dawn to dusk (Affirm), was shortlisted for the CBCA award for a...
Davitt Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Thursday, 25 July 2024
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels The...
UK report: Half of adults not reading regularly
Thursday, 25 July 2024
In the UK, new research suggests that half of UK adults are not reading regularly and almost a quarter of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) have never been...
Bowie, Burland and Byfield appointed to ILF board
Thursday, 25 July 2024
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced the appointment of Jillian Bowie, Julie Burland and Helene Byfield to the ILF board. Bowie is a Samsep and Zagareb woman from the...
‘Jakarda Wuka’ wins 2024 Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award
Thursday, 25 July 2024
The winner of the 2024 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory (NT) History Book Award has been announced. The winner, highly commended titles and finalists are: Winner Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories):...
Taylor & Francis AI deals to earn ‘additional royalties for authors’, ASA ‘deeply concerned’
Thursday, 25 July 2024
In announcing its 2024 half-year results, Taylor & Francis parent company Informa has confirmed it is ‘partnering with two leading AI technology companies’ in agreements that allow ‘non-exclusive access to...
Paul appointed A&U head of operations
Thursday, 25 July 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced the appointment of Jessica Paul in the newly established role of head of operations. ‘For the past three years, Jessica has been head of...
Forster to leave Curtis Brown
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Curtis Brown has announced that senior agent Clare Forster will be leaving the company in late August ‘to pursue other interests’. Forster joined the literary agency in 2007, having previously...
Tinsel time: Christmas 2024 children’s books
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Books+Publishing asked publishers to highlight their key local children’s and young adult titles releasing in time for Christmas 2024. From heartfelt picture books on social issues to everything a child...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2024 finalists announced
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
The finalists in the 2024 New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu Publishers Association (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Best illustrated book The...
Vivendi updates plans to list Hachette on stock market
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
In France, Hachette Livre parent company Vivendi has updated its plans to list parts of its business on the stock market, reports the Bookseller. Vivendi said it would create three...
HarperCollins acquires Price’s memoir
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s memoir Matters of the Heart, written with Sue Smethurst. Price was elected a Country Liberal Party (CLP) senator for the Northern...
Arnold opens Ladyhawke bookshop in Ivanhoe
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
After a ‘three-year sunny accident’ in Queensland, editor and bookseller Alison Arnold sold The Junction Bookstore in Noosa Junction and returned to Melbourne. Arnold spoke to Books+Publishing about the new...
Meet the Rising Stars: Rebecca Allen
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement...
Tigest Girma recommends
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni is a YA fantasy book about a girl who fights to survive in a death prison. It was my first time reading a fantasy...
Tigest Girma on ‘Immortal Dark’
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Tigest Girma, an Ethiopian writer and teacher based in Melbourne, draws richly from East African history and cultures and blends Black stories with dark and fantastical elements. Books+Publishing reviewer Stefen...
Griffith Review 2024 Emerging Voices winners announced
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Griffith Review has announced the five winners of its 2024 Emerging Voices competition: Lily Holloway, Sarah Kanake, Myles McGuire, Kobi Simpson and Emily Tsokos Purtill. Holloway is a powerlifting enthusiast...
Academic authors ‘shocked’ at Microsoft AI agreement
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
In the UK, the Bookseller reports that academic publisher Taylor & Francis has sold access to its authors’ research as part of an artificial intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft worth...
Scholastic reports 7% drop in revenue
Monday, 22 July 2024
Scholastic has reported a 7% decrease in revenue for the year ending 31 May 2024, reports Publishers Weekly. For the full year, revenue dropped to US$1.6 billion (A$2.4b), from $US...
Mayne, Mansour receive $50k Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships
Monday, 22 July 2024
Poets Chloe Mayne and Sara Mansour are among the seven recipients of the 2024 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000. Mayne is a poet and a current creative doctoral...
‘Untapped’ titles move to Ligature
Thursday, 18 July 2024
As the book industry awaits the outcome of the Booktopia administration process, some of the titles previously published under the online bookseller’s publishing operation have moved to the digital publishing...
SLV staff, board reportedly discussed cancelled Bootcamp writers’ political views
Thursday, 18 July 2024
State Library Victoria board members and senior staff discussed the political views of writers who were to host the library’s Teen Writing Bootcamp workshop series before the events were cancelled,...
Tinsel time: Christmas 2024 nonfiction
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Following on from last week's life writing highlights, publishers are looking forward to a colourful range of new nonfiction books that will enliven kitchens, inform conversations, inspire reflections, and maybe...
Booktopia administrators identify $60 million in debt
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Keith Crawford, of Booktopia administrators McGrathNicol, has told the ABC the company had identified debts of $60 million held by the online bookseller, following the first meeting of creditors on 15 July. Crawford...
‘Big Time’ sells to UK, Italy and Russia
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Jordan Prosser’s debut novel, Big Time, to publishing director Harriet Hirshman at Dead Ink, in a deal brokered...
Thames & Hudson to move distribution to UBD
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Thames & Hudson (T&H) ANZ has announced it will move its Australia and New Zealand distribution from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) to United Book Distributors (UBD) in February 2025. T&H...
Red Paper Kite for sale
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Perth-based independent press Red Paper Kite is up for sale. Founder and publisher Sandra van Doorn told Books+Publishing the press is ‘on the cusp of a greater success’ but ‘demands a...
Meet the Rising Stars: Katherine Rajwar
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement...
Christopher Cheng recommends
Tuesday, 16 July 2024
I adored Emma Quay’s Happy All Over. It’s full of joy and light and happiness. The text consists of short, simple statements. These expressions of joy for a child arise from...
