The winners of the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on 25 May. We are very proud to have been named Publisher of the Year.
Congratulations to Jane Harper who won the overall Book of the Year for her stunning debut novel The Dry. The 78-Storey Treehouse also won the Book of the Year for Younger Children. Congratulations to author Andy Griffiths and illustrator Terry Denton.
Read the full list of awards here.
IN OTHER NEWS...
Jane Harper’s The Dry has been named Book of the Year and the Debut Fiction of the Year at the 2017 Indie Book Awards, presented at the Leading Edge Books Conference in Surfers Paradise on 20 March. Cath Crowley’s novel Words in Deep Blue also won the Young Adult Book of the Year. Wonderful news for two amazing authors and their superb books.
The Indie Book Awards are chosen by independent booksellers to reward and promote excellence in Australian writing. The overall winner receives $1000 and the category winners each receive $1000. The winners were chosen from a shortlist announced in December. For more information about the awards, visit the website here.
UPCOMING EVENTS
27 JULY 2017
Join Kim Scott for a discussion on his new novel, Taboo, with William Yeoman at Aquinas College
EVENT TIME: 6:30 PM
VENUE: Aquinas College
Aquinas College Redmond Library Mt Henry Rd Salter Point WA 6152
2 AUGUST 2017
Join Tex Perkins at The Giant Dwarf to hear him discuss his memoir, TEX.
EVENT TIME: 6:00 PM
VENUE: Giant Dwarf Theatre
199 Cleveland Street Redfern Sydney 2016
4 AUGUST 2017
Join Kim Scott in conversation with Steven Lang at Byron Bay Writers Festival
EVENT TIME: 10:00 AM
VENUE: Byron Bay Writers Festival
Bayshore Drive Byron Bay
5 AUGUST 2017
Panel: Indigenous Storytelling: 60,000 Years and Counting with Kim Scott, Delta Kay, Bruce Pascoe and Adam Shoemaker
EVENT TIME: 4:00 PM
VENUE: Byron Bay Writers Festival
Bayshore Drive Byron Bay
6 AUGUST 2017
Panel: Men of Fiction with Kim Scott, Steven Lang, A.S. Patric and Jill Eddington
EVENT TIME: 2:15 PM
VENUE: Byron Bay Writers Festival
Bayshore Drive Byron Bay