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The longlist for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette) An Isolated... Read more |
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Melbourne-based Irish author Adrian McKinty has won the 2017 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best paperback original for his novel Rain Dogs (Serpent’s Tail). Rain... Read more |
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Karen Foxlee has won the 2017 Readings Children’s Book Prize for her middle-grade novel A Most Magical Girl (Piccadilly). Foxlee’s title was chosen from a shortlist... Read more |
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The shortlists for the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year... Read more |
Five industry bodies are backing the Australian Reading Hour campaign, which will promote the idea of ‘picking up a book and reading for an hour’... Read more |
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Allen & Unwin has sold North American rights to Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost’s picture book about microbes, Do Not Lick This Book, in a... Read more |
The Australian writers podcast ‘The Garret’ has announced a series of special episodes with publishers, editors, booksellers and critics, beginning with Text publisher Michael Heyward... Read more |
The Byron Writers Festival has launched its StoryBoard Bus, a travelling creative writing program that will take authors and illustrators into schools across NSW’s Northern... Read more |
The Melbourne Prize Trust and the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office have announced a new award to acknowledge Melbourne’s City of Literature status. The... Read more |
Fifteen writers have been shortlisted for the 2017 Emerging Writers’ Festival’s (EWF) Monash Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing. The shortlisted stories and their authors are:... Read more |
Writers Dee Ayer and Jessie Byrne have been named as the winners of the second South Australian Hachette Mentoring Program. Ayer and Byrne will work... Read more |
In the UK, J K Rowling has once again topped the Sunday Times author rich list, with the author’s personal wealth rising to £650m (A$1.12b)... Read more |
In the US, bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has appointed Demos Parneros as its CEO, replacing interim chief Len Riggio, reports Publishers Weekly. Riggio has... Read more |
UK publishers’ book sales were up 7% to £4.8bn (A$8.3bn) in 2016, according to the Publishers Association’s annual yearbook, reports Publishers Weekly. The growth was... Read more |
In the UK, US writer Bret Anthony Johnston has won the £30,000 (A$51,850) Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for ‘Half of What Atlee Rouse... Read more |
HarperCollins US has launched #WhyIRead, a social media campaign to highlight literacy, which is timed to coincide with the publisher’s 200th anniversary, reports Publishers Weekly. The... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Text has sold Catalan and Lithuanian rights to Fear (Dirk Kurbjuweit) to Ara Llibres and Baltos Lankos, respectively; Dutch rights to The Spare Room... Read more |
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Swedish writer Jo Nesbo’s latest Harry Hole mystery, The Thirst (Harvill Secker), has climbed into second spot in the top 10 bestsellers this week. Its rapid... Read more |
‘Just a year after her debut novel The Paper House was released to enthusiastic reviews, Anna Spargo-Ryan returns with another impressive novel that will have... Read more |
Tea Tree Gully library in South Australia has launched a soft toy echidna into space to encourage local children’s interest in the history of space... Read more |
Researchers at the State Library of NSW have debuted a new webpage that shows what items people are accessing from the collection at any given... Read more |
In the UK, library advocates have called for a Carnegie Trust report on the future of libraries to be withdrawn for ‘seriously avoid[ing] the truth’... Read more |
In the UK, Parliament has passed legislation to make it the first country in the world to extend Public Lending Right (PLR) payments to remote... Read more |
Nine titles are vying for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award, including four from multinational publishers and five from small, independent publishers. Read Books+Publishing’s reviews... Read more |
The Epic Good Foundation will host a special fundraising event for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation called Kick on for Literacy at the Sydney Writers’ Festival... Read more |
Hachette Australia is delighted to congratulate Steven Amsterdam and Inga Simpson on being longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2017 for their novels, The Easy Way Out (ISBN 9780733636271, RRP $29.99) and Where the Trees Were (ISBN 9780733637858, RRP $19.99), respectively. Both books can be ordered from Alliance Distribution Services by calling (02) 4390 1300 or emailing adscs@alliancedist.com.au
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