Saving Thanehaven has possibly the strangest premise of any recent teen book: the protagonists are characters in computer games. The antagonist is a virus named... Read more |
What begins as a story about Denton, an utterly unremarkable and unsuccessful young man, and his encounter with a bizarre new age cult, turns into... Read more |
Random House Australia has announced a romance fiction competition, with the winner to be published in an ebook collection by the company. Random House is... Read more |
Literary journal Overland has launched a new short story prize. The Overland Story Wine Prize is for original short fiction of up to 1000 words in length. The... Read more |
Writer, actor and comedian Shaun Micallef will replace Richard Flanagan as the closing keynote speaker at this year’s Australian Booksellers Associated (ABA) conference. The ABA... Read more |
Lonely Planet has developed a range of travel accessories that are now available for sale in bookstores. Branded with the Lonely Planet logo, the items include neck pillows,... Read more |
Reader’s Digest has pulled LA Larkin’s Thirst (Pier 9) from an anthology of condensed novels after a Chinese printing company refused to print the book... Read more |
Australian author Luke Preston has been shortlisted for a 2014 International Thriller Writers (ITW) award for Out of Exile (Momentum). Preston’s novel has been nominated... Read more |
Brisbane City Council Libraries releases annual book club list Brisbane City Council Libraries has released its annual Top 40 Book Club Reads to help book clubs... Read more |
In response to community feedback, the State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced a revised plan for its forthcoming changes to the Mitchell Library. According... Read more |
ALA names top 10 most ‘challenged’ books in US libraries for 2013 The American Library Association (ALA) has released its list of the top 10 most ‘challenged’ books... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released a report on public library elending initiatives around the word. The Elending Landscape Report 2014, which... Read more |
Four libraries to reopen in Newcastle In the UK, four libraries in Newcastle, England, are set to reopen, reports the Bookseller. In early March, Newcastle... Read more |
Five staff at the Bendigo TAFE library in regional Victoria were made redundant in November, including a staffer who was named Victorian Librarian of the... Read more |
Mitchell Library petition attracts over 9000 signatures An online petition protesting changes to the Mitchell Library at the State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has attracted... Read more |
‘Extracts can be both a blessing and a curse. They only really work for nonfiction and then they mustn’t take the heart of the story... Read more |
Books on offer this Mother’s Day include inspirational memoirs, colourful picture books, dramatic debut novels, stylish coffee-table books and rural romances. As Brad Jefferies reports, booksellers... Read more |
Susan Hornbeck has replaced Erica Sontheimer as associate publisher at the Griffith REVIEW. Hornbeck was previously a publicist for UQP and was formerly publicity manager... Read more |
Writer, editor and arts worker Chad Parkhill has joined the Emerging Writers’ Festival as programming coordinator for the 2014 festival. Parkhill was festival manager for... Read more |
Author, critic and lecturer Patrick Allington has been appointed book reviews editor at Transnational Literature, a digital journal published by the Flinders Institute for Research in... Read more |
Rex Finch will talk about the 20-year history of Finch Publishing at a Society of Editors presentation in May. Topics include how to find your... Read more |
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 Hachette Australia is thrilled to congratulate Max Barry on Lexicon winning best Science-fiction novel in the 2013 Aurealis Awards.
We also congratulate our shortlisted authors in the 2014 CBCA Awards. Shaun Tan for Rules of Summer in the Best Picture Book of the Year category and Peter Gouldthorpe for Ice, Wind, Rock in the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books category.
To order copies of Lexicon (ISBN: 9781444764666, TPB edition; ISBN: 9781444764680, B format edition publishing 13 May), Rules of Summer (ISBN: 9780734410672) and Ice, Wind, Rock (ISBN: 9780734411556) please contact Alliance Distribution Services customer service on toll-free fax 1800-664-477 or tel (02) 4390 1300.
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Congratulations to the Allen & Unwin authors and illustrators whose books have been shortlisted in the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.
Our shortlisted titles are currently closed for invoicing while we ensure that we have adequate stock levels to supply ALL customers. All of our shortlisted titles are being reprinted. We expect to begin supplying stock as follows.
Julie Hunt, Song for a Scarlet Runner (9781743313589 $15.99 pb) – reprint due and all orders to be supplied from 17th April
Catherine Jinks, A Very Unusual Pursuit (9781743313060 $14.99 pb) – reprint due and all orders to be supplied from 17th April
Barry Jonsberg, My Life as an Alphabet (9781743310977 $14.99 pb) – reprint due and all orders to be supplied from 17th April
Mark Greenwood and Terry Denton, Jandamarra (9781742375700 $29.99 hc) – reprint due and all orders to be supplied from mid June
Laklak Burarrwanga and Family, Welcome to My Country (9781743313961 $18.99 pb) – reprint due and all orders to be supplied from mid June
Orders and enquiries to UBD: tel 1800 33 88 36, fax 03 9811 2403
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Fourth Estate Australia has been successful in its bid to publish The Anchoress by an exciting new Australian – and soon to be international – literary star in the making, Robyn Cadwallader.
It all started early last year with a tweet by literary agent Gaby Naher: ‘Desperately seeking a great Australian novel – broad canvas, intelligent and ambitious.’ Some six months later, Gaby was presiding over a heated auction for The Anchoress, an extraordinary story set in thirteenth-century England within the confines of a stone cell measuring seven paces by nine. Tiny in setting, but universal in themes, it is a wonderful, wholly compelling fictional achievement.
With Australian rights acquired by HarperCollins, alongside international partners Faber in the UK, Farrar Straus & Giroux in the US, with French rights sold to Denoel/Gallimard, The Anchoress will be published worldwide in early 2015.
Robyn Cadwallader is a Canberra-based writer and scholar who has published numerous, prize-winning short stories and reviews, as well as a book of poetry and a non-fiction book concerning attitudes to virginity and women in the Middle Ages.
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Working Title Press congratulates the following authors and illustrators on being short-listed for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2014:
Picture Books Category
- The Windy Farm by Doug MacLeod and Craig Smith (illus) by Doug MacLeod and Craig Smith (illus)
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books Category
- Jeremy by Chris Faille and Danny Snell by Chris Faille and Danny Snell
Congratulations, too, to Ruth Starke and Greg Holfeld for having their graphic novel An Anzac Tale, nominated as a 2014 CBCA Notable Book in three categories: Younger Fiction, Picture Book and Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, and for winning the2014 Bronze Ledger Award for Excellence in Australian Comics.
To order copies of any of these titles, please contact the Penguin Group (Australia):
1800 338 836 or orders@pearson.com.au.
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The team at Hardie Grant Egmont is leaping for joy and bursting with pride as we congratulate our authors and illustrators shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2014.
Picture Book of the Year
- Parachute by Danny Parker and Matt Ottley (illus)
Early Childhood
- The Swap by Jan Ormerod and Andrew Joyner (illus)
- Banjo and Ruby Red by Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood (illus)
Older Readers
- Life in Outer Space by Melissa Keil
Reprints of all four titles will be available 20th June.
To order copies of any of these lovely titles, please contact Random House.
For all media enquiries, please contact Kate Brown katebrown@hardiegrant.com.au
www.hardiegrant.com.au/egmont/
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