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The program for the 2018 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which runs from 24 August to 2 September, has been announced. This year’s festival will open... Read more |
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Canberra Writers Festival has announced the full line-up of guest speakers for its festival program, running from 23-26 August. International guests appearing at the festival... Read more |
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The program for the 2018 WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival, which runs from 29 August to 2 September, has been announced. Among the international... Read more |
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The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has made its first announcement of guests joining the 2018 festival, which will run from 24-28 October in... Read more |
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The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has announced 16 recipients of its 2018 Ignite grants. The $50,000 pool of funding is aimed at supporting training and... Read more |
Angela Namoi will retire from her position as rights and international sales director (children’s) at Allen & Unwin (A&U) on 3 August. During her career,... Read more |
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Lex Hirst has joined Pantera Press in the newly created role of publisher. Hirst, who was most recently commissioning editor at Penguin Random House Australia,... Read more |
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Audible Australia has appointed Ben Naparstek as director of original content. In the new role, Naparstek will oversee the development of original audio shows, series... Read more |
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Giramondo has sold North American rights to Felicity Castagna’s No More Boats to Europa Editions editor-in-chief Michael Reynolds in a pre-empt, via Rach Crawford at literary... Read more |
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Melbourne-based art-science collaborative and micro-publisher Scale Free Network (SFN) has sold North American rights to the graphic novel The Invisible War (Ailsa Wild, Briony Barr,... Read more |
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Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to 1997 novel Lambs of God (Marele Day), ahead of the release of a four-part TV miniseries adaptation of... Read more |
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to White Horses by commercial fiction author Rachael Treasure in a two-book deal, via Margaret Connolly at Margaret Connolly and... Read more |
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The Australian War Memorial (AWM) has awarded a tender to NewSouth Publishing to publish The Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq & Afghanistan and... Read more |
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired Oceania rights to a sequel to Joy Rhoades’ The Woolgrower’s Companion (Bantam), in a deal brokered by Stephanie Koven... Read more |
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The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2018 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The shortlists in each category are: Primary Student Resource:... Read more |
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The shortlists for the 2018 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Birth to... Read more |
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Scribe’s children’s imprint, Scribble, has sold North American rights to Under the Love Umbrella (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys) to Simply Read Books. Rights... Read more |
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Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut middle-grade novel Rosebud by Readings bookseller Fiona Hardy. Rights were negotiated by agent Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase... Read more |
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The owners of Gisborne-based independent bookshop Book Bonding have put the shop up for sale amid plans to return to Melbourne next year. Husband-and-wife duo... Read more |
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The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) and Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program has broadened its submissions criteria this year, and will for the first time accept... Read more |
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The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) is hosting a one-day booksellers’ training session in Brisbane on 21 August. The all-day program, which runs from 9am to... Read more |
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Penguin Random House is seeking submissions from young writers for a new humorous short story collection, Total Quack Up! (October 2018), edited by children’s authors Sally... Read more |
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The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the appointment of Tim Coronel as general manager. Coronel, who was previously communications manager for SPN, takes over... Read more |
In the UK, Mark Smith is stepping down from the position of CEO of Bonnier Zaffre after selling his equity stake in the firm, reports... Read more |
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In the UK, a new report has found that only 4% of children’s books published in the UK in 2017 featured black, Asian and minority... Read more |
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Richard Beard’s family memoir The Day That Went Missing (Vintage) has been awarded the 2018 PEN/Ackerley Prize for a work of memoir or autobiography. Beard received... Read more |
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In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced a two-year partnership with the National Literacy Trust (NLT), an independent charity that works with disadvantaged children to develop... Read more |
In Spain, unions have asked 1000 Amazon workers to go on strike during Amazon Prime Day, reports the Independent. Amazon Prime Day, which begins at noon... Read more |
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin has sold Thai rights to The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose). Giramondo has sold North American rights to No... Read more |
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Last week’s highest new entry, Michael Robotham’s thriller The Other Wife (Hachette), climbs to the second spot in this week’s overall top 10 bestsellers, knocking The... Read more |
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Heather Morris’ debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, returns to the top spot for overall fiction bestsellers in June, ending the reign of Tim Winton’s The... Read more |
‘The suspense builds as readers are taken on a journey around the beachside town, with the narrator remembering his previous summer holiday adventures with his... Read more |
‘Traditional literary gatekeepers now live a kind of half-life; representatives of a zombie culture: the walking dead. The power to consecrate cultural texts, now, rests in the hands of readers, algorithms and big data’—Mark Davis reflects on Australian literary culture’s ‘post-digital anxieties’ in the Sydney Review of Books.
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State Library Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its 2018 fellowships, including the inaugural Indigenous Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Research Fellowship. The recipients of the... Read more |
Victorian conservators are working to save around 400 rare books through freeze-drying treatments, after thousands were destroyed during floods affecting the University of Tasmania’s law... Read more |
In the UK, Liverpool Central Library has won the Library of the Year award, reports the Bookseller. The Liverpool library was chosen from a shortlist... Read more |
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Angela Elizabeth finds out how local publishers are committing to poetry beyond the ‘Instapoetry’ trend. ‘Poetry is the medium of the moment,’ proclaimed UK National... Read more |
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With its first episode debuting in 2017, Quickie has been described by founder and host Nevena Spirovska as a ‘feminist podcast that shoots straight from the... Read more |
Entries for the second Australian Library Design Awards (ALDAs) are now open. There are four categories: public libraries, academic libraries, school libraries and special libraries. There will... Read more |
Busy, independent city based bookshop is for sale in sunny Townsville. Has solid trading figures, an established reputation and a loyal customer base. There is a long lease and lots of room for expansion and new ideas.
For inquiries please contact Sue or Kerry at Mary Who? Bookshop 07 4771 3824 or email marywhobooks@iinet.net.au
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Allen & Unwin bids a very fond farewell to Angela Namoi who is retiring from the company on Friday 3 August. Angela has been with Allen & Unwin for 33 years, and has been Rights & International Sales Director from 1999 to 2008, from which time she has exclusively looked after our Children’s list as Rights & International Sales Director – Children’s. Her first book fair was in Singapore in 1994. Many followed including her first Frankfurt Book Fair, which she has now attended 21 times, while she has represented Allen & Unwin’s children’s list at the Bologna Book Fair 20 times. In 2014 she was awarded the Australian children’s publishing industry’s major award, the Pixie O’Harris Award, for her services to Australian children’s literature. Allen & Unwin thanks Angela for her wonderful service and her untiring championing of Australian books and authors around the world.
Allen & Unwin is delighted that Carey Schroeter, having spent 5 years working alongside Angela, will move up to the role of Rights and International Sales Manager – Children’s. Congratulations Carey!
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Big congratulations from NewSouth Books to the following publishers and authors on their inclusion in the 2018 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Shortlist.
To Magabala for At The Zoo I See, At the Beach I See, In the City I See, Molly the Pirate, Alfred’s War, Benny Bungarra’s Big Bush Clean-Up and Mrs White and the Red Desert, Berbay Publishing for Heads and Tails, Ford Street Publishing for My Dog Socks, Empowering Resources for Where’s Bear and My Super Special Granny, NLA Publishing for The Flying Optometrist and Sorry Day.
To order please contact TL Distribution (P: +61(2) 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au).
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