‘The Amber Amulet’ wins Crystal Bear award at Berlin film festival
A film adaptation of Craig Silvey’s novella The Amber Amulet (A&U) has won the Crystal Bear award for the Best Short Film in the Generation Kplus section, for films aimed...
Eight Alex Miller novels to be released in the UK in 2013
Allen & Unwin has announced that it will publish eight novels by Alex Miller in the UK in 2013 ahead of the author’s new novel, which is due to be...
Telling Tales: Julie Hunt on ‘Song for a Scarlet Runner’
Julie Hunt has created a thrilling tale of life on the run in Song for a Scarlet Runner (A&U, April). The author spoke to Jarrah Moore. You can read Moore’s review...
‘The Amber Amulet’ film to premiere in Berlin
Screen Australia has announced that a film adaptation of Craig Silvey’s novella The Amber Amulet (A&U) will premiere at Berlinale, the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, which runs from 7-17 February 2013. The...
Gammage wins 2012 ACT Book of the Year Award
Bill Gammage has won the 2012 Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award for The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia (A&U). Gammage’s book was selected from...
‘King Brown Country’ wins George Munster Award
King Brown Country by Russell Skelton (A&U) has won the 2011 George Munster Award for Independent Journalism, presented by the University of Technology Sydney’s Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. The award...
Murdoch Books distribution to move to UBD
Murdoch Books has announced that distribution of its titles will move from Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) to United Book Distributors (UBD) in January. The move follows the acquisition of...
Bolinda to distribute Pan Macmillan and A&U ebooks into libraries
Bolinda has announced a partnership with Pan Macmillan and Allen & Unwin to supply ebooks via its BorrowBox digital download platform into libraries and schools. The BorrowBox ebook platform will be rolled...
Gleeson-White wins 2012 Waverley Library Award for Literature
Jane Gleeson-White has won this year’s Waverley Library Award for Literature for her book Double Entry (A&U). Gleeson-White was presented with the $20,000 award, known as ‘the Nib’, at an...
Lanagan chosen for PW ‘best books of 2012’
Australian author Margo Lanagan is among the authors whose books have been selected by Publishers Weekly for its annual ‘best books’ of the year. Lanagan’s Sea Hearts (A&U), published as...
‘Foal’s Bread’ wins Colin Roderick Award
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears (A&U) has won this year’s Colin Roderick Award. Deputy executive director of the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University Don Gallagher told...
Miller wins $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature; Sherborne takes out Best Writing Prize
Alex Miller has won the 2012 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented every three years to a Victorian author ‘whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding contribution...
2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced; ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth’ wins Victorian Prize for Literature
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage (A&U) has won the 2012 Victorian Prize for Literature, worth $100,000. Gammage, who has spent the past...
Interview with Catherine Jinks on ‘A Very Unusual Pursuit’
Catherine Jinx found that upper English accents came very easily after a lifetime of reading. She spoke to Hannah Francis about her new series and how to scare readers. You’ve...
A Very Unusual Pursuit: City of Orphans book one (Catherine Jinks, A&U)
Prolific author Catherine Jinks is back with a brand new series, ‘City of Orphans’. The first book, A Very Unusual Pursuit, is set in Victorian London and stars 10-year-old Birdie,...
Catch the Zolt: The Debt Instalment One (Phillip Gwynne, A&U)
It’s a warm, cloudless day on the Gold Coast when elite runner Dom Silvagni turns 15. On his routine morning run, an altercation with a white van changes things forever....
A&U advertises for new Murdoch Books staff
Allen & Unwin is advertising for four new staff members, including two publishers, to work within the Murdoch Books business, which it acquired this month. A&U is advertising for a...
‘The Slap’ series up for Emmy
The Australian television series The Slap, based on the novel of the same name by Christos Tsiolkas (A&U), has been nominated for an award in the drama category of the...
A&U acquires Murdoch Books
Allen & Unwin has acquired Murdoch Books. A&U and Murdoch Books announced the finalisation of the sale in a joint statement on 3 October. As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher, the...
McDonald, Ahmad receive OzCo community arts awards
Writers Meme McDonald and Mohammed Ahmad have received awards from the Australia Council for the Arts for their contributions to community arts and cultural development. McDonald was presented with the...