Thomas King wins Canadian nonfiction award
In Canada, Thomas King has won the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Nonfiction, worth C$40,000 (A$40,076), for The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (University of Minnesota...
Sayer, Nowra appointed 2014 CAL Nonfiction Writers-in-Residence at UTS
Mandy Sayer and Louis Nowra have been appointed as the 2014 Copyright Agency Nonfiction Writers-in Residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). As part of the joint residency, which...
Bonnier launches adult nonfiction imprint for digitally enhanced titles
In the UK, Bonnier has launched an adult nonfiction imprint for official or endorsed titles with digital enhancements, reports the Bookseller. Blink Publishing, which plans to release 10 books this...
Penguin UK to relaunch Pelican imprint
In the UK, Penguin is set to relaunch its nonfiction imprint Pelican, reports the Bookseller. Pelican will return in May 2014 with the publication of five ‘concise introductory books’ aimed...
‘Killing Fairfax’ wins 2013 Walkley Book Award
Pamela Williams has won this year’s Walkley Book Award for Killing Fairfax (HarperCollins). Williams received the award during the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism at Parliament House in Brisbane...
Walkley Book Award 2013 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2013 Walkley Book Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Speechless: A Year in My Father’s Business (James Button, MUP) Night Games (Anna Krien, Black...
Hughes-Hallet wins Samuel Johnson Prize
In the UK, author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the £20,000 (A$33,802) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction for The Pike (Fourth Estate), her biography of the controversial Italian artist and nationalist...
Walkley Book Award 2013 longlist announced
The longlist for the 2013 Walkley Book Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Killing Fairfax (Pamela Williams, HarperCollins) The Rise and Fall of the House of Bo (John Garnaut,...
Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 shortlist announced
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: Empires of the Dead (David Crane, William Collins), The Return...
Hardie Grant launches free newspaper
Hardie Grant Books has launched a free newspaper-style publication that features book extracts and author interviews, called First Pages. The first edition of First Pages was distributed to cafes in Melbourne...
Scribe to launch new media series
Melbourne-based publisher Scribe will launch a new series of nonfiction books about contemporary media trends later this year. The ‘Media Chronicles’ series will launch with The New Front Page: New...
Faber teams up with the ‘Guardian’ to launch nonfiction imprint
In the UK, Faber & Faber has launched a new nonfiction imprint with the Guardian newspaper, reports the Bookseller. Guardian Faber will commission up to 20 nonfiction works each year...
Black Inc. relaunches Nero imprint for commercial titles
Melbourne-based publisher Black Inc. has relaunched its Nero imprint for commercial titles, expanding the list to include Australian-originated nonfiction titles. The publisher has also announced that Jeanne Ryckmans has joined the...
The pursuit of wholeness: Hugh Mackay on ‘The Good Life’
In The Good Life, social researcher and novelist Hugh Mackay asks the big question: what makes life worth living? Paula Grunseit spoke to the author. You can read her review...
Life, continued: Anna Goldsworthy on ‘Welcome to Your New Life’
In her second memoir, Anna Goldsworthy explores her experience of motherhood, including an irrational fear of losing her newborn down a composting toilet. Joanne Shiells spoke to the author. What...
Christmas cracker: Robert Gott on ‘The Holiday Murders’
Described as a compelling page-turner that is also ‘a little grisly’, Robert Gott’s novel The Holiday Murders (Scribe) follows a 1943 homicide investigation through the streets of Melbourne. The author...
Purcell named 2013 CAL Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at UTS
Writer, director and actor Leah Purcell has been appointed as the 2013 Copyright Agency Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). As part of her residency, which begins in...
Sober thoughts: Jill Stark on ‘High Sobriety’
In 2011 ‘binge-drinking health reporter’ Jill Stark decided to take a break from alcohol, and write a book about it. She spoke to Paula Grunseit. What place has alcohol had...
First NonfictioNow conference held in Melbourne; ‘Reality Hunger’ tops bestseller list
NonfictioNow, a new conference on nonfiction writing, was held at RMIT University in Melbourne between 21-24 November. Alison Barker, project manager for NonfictioNow, told Bookseller+Publisher that about 400 people attended the conference,...
Platt wins US$75,000 Cundill Prize in History
US author Stephen Platt has won the 2012 Cundill Prize in History at McGill University in Canada for his book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the...