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
Imperial Harvest is a timely book that speaks to the universal lessons of war. This fiction by bestselling Australian author Bruce Pascoe is set in 13th century Mongolia and addresses... Read more
Lights Out, Little Dragon (Debra Tidball, illus Rae Tan, HarperCollins)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
Lights Out, Little Dragon is an interactive bedtime book for toddlers aged 3+ and their caregivers, with a cute and relatable character that is just too busy to go to... Read more
What’s Murder Between Friends (Meg Gatland-Veness, Pantera)
Date: 9 April 2024Category: Reviews
Hallie has always dreamed of being an actor. Thanks to her drama teacher, Ms Lovelace, the school is finally putting on its first show. When Hallie’s class stumbles upon Ms... Read more
Puffin UK to launch graphic novel imprint
Date: 9 April 2024Category: International news
In the UK, Penguin Random House has revealed the logo and publishing program of its new graphic novel imprint, Puffin Graphics, reports the Bookseller. The new imprint is aimed at... Read more
Keeperton to acquire print rights to works by ‘established digital-first authors’
Date: 8 April 2024Category: Local news
Australian author T L Swan has announced the launch of new publishing venture Keeperton, to be distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. With staff based in the US, Australia and... Read more
Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
Date: 4 April 2024Category: Local news
Bookseller Fiona Stager and children’s author and publisher Jane Godwin will be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Hall of Fame at the 2024 ABIAs ceremony on 9... 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
Spineless Wonders, AAWP announce new novella prize
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Awards Local news
Spineless Wonders has announced the inaugural Novella Prize, in partnership with the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP). Spineless Wonders publisher Bronwyn Mehan said the collaboration with the AAWP on... Read more
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: 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
Education resource consultant, NSW
Date: 24 January 2024Category: Jobs
Beatrix Bakes: Another Slice (Natalie Paull, Hardie Grant)
Date: 23 January 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
S&S acquires Aston’s ‘The Chairman’s Lounge’
Date: 23 January 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Audible to cut staff
Date: 17 January 2024Category: International news
Explainer: Why did the costs of printing a book go up?
Date: 17 January 2024Category: Features
Government releases interim report on Safe and Responsible AI
Date: 17 January 2024Category: Local news
POD and the pandemic: How are publishers using print on demand now?
Date: 17 January 2024Category: Features