Leaf Letters (Lorena Carrington, Christmas Press)
Date: 7 May 2024Category: Reviews
Nine-year-old Hazel Bird loves to explore her local area and collect little treasures. When her baby sister is born, she can no longer bring home ‘choke-ables’ and is gifted an... Read more
Wright wins 2024 Stella Prize for ‘Praiseworthy’
Date: 2 May 2024Category: Awards Local news
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Stella Prize for her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright becomes the first author to win the Stella Prize twice, having previously won the 2018... Read more
Pan Macmillan acquires two fantasy YA titles by Melbourne author in pre-empt
Date: 30 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Pan Macmillan Australia (PMA) has acquired rights to two fantasy YA titles by debut Melbourne author Mikayla Bridge in a six-figure pre-empt, alongside Macmillan Children's Books UK imprint First Ink... Read more
Blossom: Practical and creative ways to find wonder in the floral world (Adriana Picker, Hardie Grant Books)
Date: 23 April 2024Category: Reviews
Blossom goes beyond merely showcasing the beauty of flowers, offering wonderful and practical ideas for using flowers through the seasons. In her latest book, botanical illustrator Adriana Picker shares her... Read more
Windham-Campbell Prizes 2024 recipients announced
Date: 3 April 2024Category: International news
In the US, the recipients of the 2024 Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth US$175,000 (A$268,500) each, have been announced. For fiction, the prize recognised Irish author Deirdre Madden, whose work—including Molly Fox’s Birthday... Read more
Sort Of Books acquires UK rights to De Kretser novel
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
UK independent publisher Sort Of Books has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Michelle de Kretser’s forthcoming novel Theory & Practice, via Sarah Lutyens at Lutyens & Rubenstein.... Read more
What influences book sales? ‘It’s still maddeningly difficult to tell,’ says Richard Charkin
Date: 6 March 2024Category:
Richard Charkin has held executive positions at Oxford University Press and Reed Elsevier, among others, and is former chief executive of Macmillan Publishers Limited and former executive director of Bloomsbury,... Read more
Vale Marion Halligan
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Obituaries
The award-winning novelist, essayist, and short story writer Marion Halligan died in Canberra on 19 February, aged 83. Halligan was the author of 11 novels, five short story collections, and... Read more
Work Backwards (Tim Duggan, Pantera)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
If you’ve ever felt disenchanted by the daily grind or pondered the pointlessness of the eternal wheel of capitalism, then Work Backwards: How to design the life you want will... Read more
Conversation launches books and ideas newsletter
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Local news
Research-based news and analysis website the Conversation has launched a new books and ideas newsletter. ‘With shrinking space in many newspapers for serious discussion of books and ideas, we think... Read more
Advertise new titles to the book industry with a Title Showcase
Date: 14 February 2024Category: Classifieds
Title Showcase: $275 (cover image included), along with publication to Books+Publishing’s website, Weekly Book Newsletter, and a subsequent Daily newsletter, as well as promotion on our Instagram and Facebook. Submit... Read more
Vale John Pilger
Date: 10 January 2024Category: Obituaries
Journalist, author and filmmaker John Pilger has died, aged 84. An Australian based in the UK, Pilger was a critic of Australian, US and UK foreign policy. As a journalist, he... Read more
Trade Christmas closing dates 2023
Date: 13 December 2023Category: B+P announcements
Books+Publishing has collated company closing dates for the Christmas and New Year holiday period. (See table below.) The Books+Publishing office will close on Friday, 15 December and reopen Monday, 8... Read more
New year, new books: Children’s and young adult stories from local publishers
Date: 13 December 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
Australian children's and young adult publishers are excited to welcome 2024—and with it, a bright array of forthcoming books. Here are the titles publishers are highlighting for younger readers in... Read more
Submit your Christmas closing dates
Date: 6 December 2023Category: B+P announcements
To be included in Books+Publishing’s annual list of publishers’ and distributors’ trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon, Tuesday, 12 December.... Read more
Reading into the year ahead: 2024 fiction and poetry preview
Date: 29 November 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
We All Lived in Bondi Then (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
Date: 28 November 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Roger the Wrasse and the Itchy Fishes (Sue Pillans, Little Pink Dog)
Date: 7 November 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Yumna Kassab on ‘Politica’
Date: 31 October 2023Category: Features Interview
Politica (Yumna Kassab, Ultimo)
Date: 31 October 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
BookHub and Your Bookstore: New connections between ANZ booksellers and readers
Date: 25 October 2023Category: Features
ADS adds Border Express
Date: 25 October 2023Category: Local news
Michelle Upton on ‘Emergency Exit Only’
Date: 17 October 2023Category: Features Interview
Hachette acquires Blakiston and Hawkins nonfiction debut
Date: 10 October 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
From literary memoir to survival in a broken world: Australian nonfiction at Frankfurt
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Think Australian feature
Local titles selling overseas
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Think Australian rights
Volume symposium: Australia Reads on building a reading nation
Date: 27 September 2023Category: Features
Advertise new titles to the book industry with a Title Showcase
Date: 27 September 2023Category: Classifieds
Arts participation survey: engagement with reading slightly down
Date: 26 September 2023Category: Local news
We Come With This Place sold to UK
Date: 1 September 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Allan among redundancies at PRHNZ
Date: 22 August 2023Category: Local news
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Eloise Plant
Date: 20 July 2023Category: Features
The Disorganisation of Celia Stone (Emma Young, Fremantle)
Date: 18 July 2023Category: Reviews
Something Bad is Going to Happen (Jessie Stephens, Macmillan)
Date: 11 July 2023Category: Reviews
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local nonfiction
Date: 28 June 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
Booksellers, publishers, authors recognised in King’s Birthday Honours
Date: 13 June 2023Category: Local news
Two Sides to Every Story (Beck & Robin Feiner, ABC Books)
Date: 6 June 2023Category: Reviews
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, part two
Date: 17 May 2023Category: Features
Editor, Melbourne or Sydney
Date: 12 April 2023Category: Jobs
Editor, Melbourne or Sydney
Date: 5 April 2023Category: Jobs
APS 4 senior library officer and senior administrative officer, Canberra
Date: 22 February 2023Category: Jobs
APS3 – administration officer bookshop, Canberra
Date: 15 February 2023Category: Jobs
No Daily tomorrow
Date: 25 January 2023Category: B+P announcements
BWF announces 2023 curators, Country of Focus
Date: 18 January 2023Category: Local news
Final ‘Books+Publishing’ newsletter for 2022
Date: 9 December 2022Category: B+P announcements
Shirley (Ronnie Scott, Hamish Hamilton)
Date: 6 December 2022Category: Reviews
Trade Christmas closing dates 2022
Date: 30 November 2022Category: B+P announcements
Affirm acquires Daley anthology about teachers
Date: 25 November 2022Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Send us your Christmas closing dates
Date: 23 November 2022Category: B+P announcements
True story: 2023 nonfiction preview
Date: 16 November 2022Category: Features Title preview feature
Hedgehog the Wonder Dog (Dannika Patterson, illus by Ross Morgan, Ford Street)
Date: 15 November 2022Category: Junior Reviews Think Australian top reviews
No Daily tomorrow
Date: 31 October 2022Category: B+P announcements
Prize-winners, familiar names, debuts: Australian fiction at Frankfurt
Date: 13 October 2022Category: Think Australian feature Think Australian newsletter
Books in the media this weekend, 24–25 September
Date: 21 September 2022Category: Features
ADS adds Toll, resources; outlines improvements at XL
Date: 15 September 2022Category: Local news
A Brief Affair (Alex Miller, A&U)
Date: 30 August 2022Category: Reviews
PRH acquires Bhasin debut
Date: 23 August 2022Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Sales assistant, Sydney
Date: 3 August 2022Category: Jobs
Ultimo launches UK fiction list
Date: 22 July 2022Category: Local news
Bon and Lesley (Shaun Prescott, Giramondo)
Date: 28 June 2022Category: Reviews Think Australian top reviews
Scribble, Think+DO Tank Foundation announce inaugural Mirror Mentorship Program winners
Date: 16 June 2022Category: Awards Local news
No Daily on Monday
Date: 10 June 2022Category: B+P announcements
Her Fidelity (Katharine Pollock, Vintage)
Date: 7 June 2022Category: Reviews
A Recipe for Family (Tori Haschka, S&S)
Date: 7 June 2022Category: Reviews
Books in the media this weekend, 4–5 June
Date: 3 June 2022Category: Daily Newsletter Feature Features
Miles Franklin 2022 longlist, Commonwealth Short Story Prize Pacific winner, ABIA 2022 shortlists
Date: 25 May 2022Category: This week’s news
Publishing manager, Sydney
Date: 25 May 2022Category: Jobs
Ockham NZ Book Awards, NSW Premier’s winners, new Wollongong writers festival, Australian Reading Hour moves to March
Date: 18 May 2022Category: This week’s news
New PRH longform mentoring program
Date: 11 May 2022Category: Local news
Nash to step down as Booktopia CEO, WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlist, Otmar wins 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal
Date: 11 May 2022Category: This week’s news
Jack’s Jumper (Sara Acton, Walker)
Date: 10 May 2022Category: Junior Reviews
Ultimate Australia Travel List
Date: 4 May 2022Category: Advance copy giveaway
Araluen wins Stella Prize; Parker-Chan finalist for Hugo Award; UK paper crisis to worsen
Date: 4 May 2022Category: This week’s news
Booksellers’ Choice shortlists, Wheeler Centre 2022 Hot Desk fellows
Date: 28 April 2022Category: This week’s news
No ‘Daily’ on Monday
Date: 22 April 2022Category: B+P announcements
Paying the price for print
Date: 21 April 2022Category: Features
ABDA shortlists, FALS inaugural residency recipients, Waterstones profits down
Date: 21 April 2022Category: This week’s news
B+P Easter publishing schedule
Date: 14 April 2022Category: B+P announcements
Publishers report ‘phenomenal’ Bologna fair; ‘Crawdads’ tops Dymocks list; Petraitis wins A&U Crime Fiction Prize
Date: 13 April 2022Category: This week’s news
Our Members Be Unlimited (Sam Wallman, Scribe)
Date: 12 April 2022Category: Reviews
Dymocks Adelaide relocates to Regent Theatre
Date: 11 April 2022Category: Local news
Stella Prize, CBCA, NSW Prem’s shortlists
Date: 6 April 2022Category: This week’s news
ABIA 2022 longlist, Puncher & Wattmann acquires ‘Grimmish’, SWF 2022 program
Date: 30 March 2022Category: This week’s news
SWF 2022 program announced
Date: 25 March 2022Category: Local news
Williams to leave SWF, Perth Writers Weekend 2022 wrap, Manga and adult fiction drive 2021 sales
Date: 23 March 2022Category: This week’s news
Penguin Literary Prize shortlist, floods devastate Lismore Library and Book Warehouse, ABDA longlists
Date: 17 March 2022Category: This week’s news
Stella Count results, ILF moves to Hachette offices, Varuna First Nations Fellowship recipients
Date: 9 March 2022Category: This week’s news
Stella Prize longlist, Booktopia profits drop, appointments at Welbeck and Byron Writer’s Festival
Date: 2 March 2022Category: Awards This week’s news
Cassim joins ILF, ANZ publishers shortlisted for Bologna Prize, S&S reports growth in revenue
Date: 23 February 2022Category: This week’s news
Booksellers’ high hopes for Christmas 2021 tempered by supply chain reality
Date: 16 February 2022Category: Features
ABA commissions report on sustainability, Hachette partners with Law, Liminal & SA and Sydney Opera House mentorship recipients
Date: 16 February 2022Category: This week’s news