Bologna: Local publishers report demand for ‘fun’ amid move away from ‘issues’
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Local news
Bologna Children’s Book Fair, held 8–11 April, was ‘the most upbeat fair for some time’, reported Scholastic senior rights manager Claire Pretyman. 'The mood was enthusiastic and joyful,' agreed Allen... Read more
Vale June Factor
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Obituaries
Folklorist, social historian and author June Factor has died, aged 87. Factor was the compiler of a list of 1980s children’s schoolyard rhyming books published by Brolly Books, including Far... Read more
Upswell acquires Spirovski debut, ‘White Hibiscus’
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights for White Hibiscus: A portrait in words, the debut work of visual artist Loribelle Spirovski. Publisher Terri-ann White described the book as ‘a poetic... Read more
Transit Lounge acquires Dombroski debut novel ‘Xenograft’
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Xenograft, a debut novel by Western Sydney author Ann Dombroski. In the novel, 40-year-old Alice Kaczmarek wants a baby, but her husband, Daniel, is... Read more
PEN America cancels 2024 Literary Awards ceremony
Date: 24 April 2024Category: International news
In the US, PEN America has cancelled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, which was to be held on 29 April, reports Publishers Weekly. It comes after 28 authors withdrew books... Read more
Brock the Croc (Adrian Beck, illus Dean Rankine, Larrikin House)
Date: 23 April 2024Category: Reviews
Brock the Croc is a humorous early chapter book for kids aged 7+ who have recently become comfortable with independent reading. Brock is the only crocodile in the swamp, and... Read more
New publisher Vitagraph launches literary journal
Date: 22 April 2024Category: Local news
New independent publishing house Vitagraph Publishing has launched Written Off, a new literary journal dedicated to Australian literature. Vitagraph said Written Off will highlight the work of writers with broad... Read more
Ferris receives inaugural Meanjin InPlace residency
Date: 22 April 2024Category: Awards Local news
Literary journal Meanjin has announced Ella Ferris as the inaugural recipient of the Meanjin InPlace residency. Ferris is a Taribelang writer, actor, theatre maker and poet, who now lives on... Read more
Fragile Creatures (Khin Myint, Black Inc.)
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Reviews
Debut author Khin Myin’s Fragile Creatures is a remarkable memoir in many ways. Myin’s writing is gracious and honest; at its core, his life story is devastatingly sad. The opening chapter reveals... Read more
Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat (Li Chen, Penguin)
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Reviews
From the creator of the beloved ExtraOrdinary Comics, Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat is the debut graphic novel from Aotearoa New Zealand comic artist Li Chen. For... Read more
Queen of Dogs (Joe Weatherstone, Walker)
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Reviews
Eleven-year-old Maddy feels like she doesn’t fit in at school or at home with her sporty family. She’d rather be hanging out with her dog, Gusto. When Gusto disappears, Maddy... Read more
ISBN data: Pandemic slow-down in number of new publishers, number of new titles stable
Date: 15 April 2024Category: Local news
ISBN data shows there has been a deceleration in the number of new publishing entities entering the Australian market since the start of the pandemic, but the number of new... Read more
BookPeople 2024 conference program announced
Date: 11 April 2024Category: Local news
BookPeople has announced the program for its 100th anniversary conference and trade exhibition, to be held at Pullman Melbourne on the Park on 14 to 17 June. Yuwaalaraay storyteller and... Read more
Hazard to leave Hachette
Date: 11 April 2024Category: Local news
Hachette Australia and New Zealand has announced group publishing director Fiona Hazard is leaving the role ‘to pursue other opportunities’. Hazard joined Hodder Headline in 1999 as publishing manager before... Read more
AI and publishing: Concerns beyond copyright
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Features
The publishing sector’s response to last year’s revelations about the materials used to train generative AI has been characterised by concern over the unauthorised use of pirated books in these... Read more
Imperial Harvest
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Title showcase
Lights Out, Little Dragon (Debra Tidball, illus Rae Tan, HarperCollins)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
What’s Murder Between Friends (Meg Gatland-Veness, Pantera)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
Puffin UK to launch graphic novel imprint
Date: 9 April 2024Category: International news
Keeperton to acquire print rights to works by ‘established digital-first authors’
Date: 8 April 2024Category: Local news
Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
Date: 4 April 2024Category: Local news
Windham-Campbell Prizes 2024 recipients announced
Date: 3 April 2024Category: International news
Spineless Wonders, AAWP announce new novella prize
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Awards Local news
Small Press Distribution closes in the US
Date: 2 April 2024Category: International news
Gleebooks completes renovation
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Local news
Australian publishers headed to Bologna
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Australians in London: ‘Plenty of deals’ at ‘electric’ LBF
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news
Walker acquires Zaslavsky nonfiction ‘Splodge!’
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
Under the Stars Camping Australia & New Zealand
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway
A Small Collection of Happinesses (Zana Fraillon, illus Stephen Michael King, Lothian)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
Book of Hours (Clare McFadden, Walker)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
Author events: Report highlights relationships as key, problematic
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Local news
Blake Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
QBD named in Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies program
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
Pham named UTS writer in residence
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
‘The Gut Repair Plan’ enters top 10
Date: 22 March 2024Category: Bestsellers
ABIAs 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Who from Australia is at Bologna? Come and say hello at the Australian Stand party
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian editorial
Asian-Australian booksellers championing diversity
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Features
The Bookshop Bowral and Kiama to change hands
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Local news News
Making Shadows
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Title showcase
Psykhe (Kate Forsyth, Vintage)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
Cheer Up, Blobfish! (Julie Murphy, illus Rachel Tribout, Affirm)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
Love Across Class (Rose Butler & Eve Vincent, MUP)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
All the Beautiful Things You Love (Jonathan Seidler, Macmillan)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
Berry wins overall Writers’ Prize for ‘The Home Child’
Date: 14 March 2024Category: International news
S&S acquires three titles by Heiss
Date: 14 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Features
Larrikin House acquires ‘I Can’t Believe…’ nonfiction series
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
New York, New York: Insights from the 2024 Australian publishing delegation
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Features
Hachette acquires Paris debut ‘The Unravelling’ in two-book deal
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
The Changing Room
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway
Circadia (Judith Bishop, UQP)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
The Land Recalls You (Kirli Saunders, illus David Cragg & Noni Cragg, Scholastic)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
Garmus, Patchett, Connelly, Ng to headline SWF
Date: 8 March 2024Category: Local news
Aotearoa publishers receive audiobook funding
Date: 7 March 2024Category: Local news
Book publicity in the TikTok age: What moves the needle now?
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Features
What influences book sales? ‘It’s still maddeningly difficult to tell,’ says Richard Charkin
Date: 6 March 2024Category:
Stella longlist, gender pay gaps in publishing and bookselling, Booktopia revenue and profit down
Date: 6 March 2024Category: This week’s news
How to Measure the Ocean (Inda Ahmad Zahri, A&U Children’s)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
The Deed (Susannah Begbie, Hachette)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
Spotify adds audiobook-only subscription offer
Date: 4 March 2024Category: International news
Booktopia half-year revenue down 21%; profit down 34%
Date: 4 March 2024Category: Local news
Lagardère global publishing revenue up 2.2%
Date: 29 February 2024Category: International news
Work Backwards (Tim Duggan, Pantera)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
HG Explore acquires Mayo’s Always Was, Always Will Be
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Smith wins 2024 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
Date: 22 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
UK indies struggling to find distribution post-Grantham
Date: 21 February 2024Category: International news
Can ChatGPT edit fiction? Four editors put it to the test
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Features
Perth Writers Weekend programming remains unchanged, despite open letter
Date: 21 February 2024Category:
The Love Interest
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway
Thames & Hudson Australia relocates head office
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Classifieds
Maas holds onto top spot
Date: 16 February 2024Category: Bestsellers
B&N plans to open five stores in Chicago angers Volumes
Date: 15 February 2024Category: International news
Graham longlisted for Carnegie Medal for Illustration
Date: 14 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
The Ministry of Time
Date: 14 February 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway
Pidge’s Poppies (Jan Andrews, illus Timothy Ide, Ford St)
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, MUP)
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Robinson receives Scotland fellowship
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Local news
Booktopia reports first-half results down, revises forecast
Date: 12 February 2024Category: Local news
Affirm acquires Micallef anthology
Date: 12 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Bookseller, authors argue for fixed price law
Date: 12 February 2024Category: Local news
Rural and regional writers’ festival programs announced
Date: 8 February 2024Category: Local news
How international markets performed in 2023
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Features
Yee wins at VPLAs, Vivendi plans to put Hachette on stock market, moves at Scribe and Ultimo
Date: 7 February 2024Category: This week’s news
Not Like Other Girls
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway
Excitable Boy: Essays on risk (Dominic Gordon, Upswell)
Date: 6 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Writers SA to launch national literary journal
Date: 6 February 2024Category: Local news
Fellowship prize added to City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
Date: 6 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Romantasy, audio and b-format: Bookseller and publisher predictions for 2024
Date: 31 January 2024Category: Features
Inaugural Nero Book Award category winners announced
Date: 31 January 2024Category: International news
Gus and the Missing Boy (Troy Hunter, Wakefield)
Date: 30 January 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Horman, Robinsons Books apologise for X comments
Date: 30 January 2024Category: Local news
Hardie Grant to move distribution to TDLC
Date: 30 January 2024Category: Local news
A&U acquires Scolyer memoir
Date: 29 January 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Best Beaches: 100 of the World’s Most Incredible Beaches
Date: 24 January 2024Category: Advance copy giveaway