# friday news (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover friday news. Page: Feed: --- ## [What should we take away from the ADS crisis?](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/26/338878/what-should-we-take-away-from-the-ads-crisis/) _2026-08-26 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ As September releases begin to reach booksellers, what have we learned from the distribution crisis at ADS? Booksellers have begun to receive stock from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS), after the distributor announced on Monday that back orders of some titles would be reaching retailers this week following a month of delays stemming from unauthorised activity \[…\] ## [Ruby Award 2026 winners announced](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/26/338877/ruby-award-2026-winners-announced/) _2026-08-26 · Andrew Wrathall · Books+Publishing_ Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the winners of the 2026 Romantic Book of the Year Awards, known as the Ruby Awards. The winners in each category are: Historical Marie’s Merry Gentleman (Catherine Bilson & Ebony Oaten, Shenanigans Press) Long contemporary A Passionate Transaction (Amanda Kaicin, self-published) The Bad Bridesmaid (Rachael Johns, Penguin) Romantic \[…\] ## [Update on ADS distribution; SWF’s new artistic director; CBCA winners](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/26/338756/update-on-ads-distribution-swfs-new-artistic-director-cbca-winners/) _2026-08-26 · Kate Manton · Books+Publishing_ Booksellers are expected to begin receiving backordered stock from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) “over the coming week” after significant delays; Sydney Writers’ Festival has appointed Tamara Zimet as the new artistic director; Allen & Unwin has confirmed it has paused promotion of a children’s book series by Isaac Heeney; MARION has said that “literature funding \[…\] ## [Amplify Christmas picks](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/26/338761/amplify-christmas-picks/) _2026-08-25 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ Books+Publishing recently shared publishers’ top picks for Christmas in genres from children’s picture books to illustrated nonfiction in our Christmas Preview. Here, Amplify Bookstore co-founders Jing Xuan Teo and Marina Sano share the titles they have their eyes on for the Christmas selling season. Heavensent & Hellbent Sara Jafari Atom (9780349126319) — One of Marina’s \[…\] ## [Rights round-up](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/26/338753/rights-round-up-700/) _2026-08-25 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ Sales Fiction Arndell, an imprint of Keeperton, has sold Bulgarian rights to The Casanova (TL Swan) to Softpress. The Pilkington Agency has sold German rights to Pillar of Ink (Claire Benson, Allen & Unwin) to Lago, an imprint of Münchner Verlagsgesellschaft. Children’s University of Queensland Press has acquired world rights to Searching for Starwings, the second \[…\] ## [Territory awards](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/26/338812/territory-awards/) _2026-08-25 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ The Ned Kelly Awards shortlists have been announced, as have the winners of the 2026 Ruby Awards and the finalists for the NT History Book Award, the NT Literary Awards and the NT Book Awards. The countdown is on to Indigenous Literacy Day next Wednesday; in the US, HarperCollins is launching a new manga imprint; \[…\] ## [HarperCollins US to launch new manga imprint](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/26/338808/harpercollins-us-to-launch-new-manga-imprint/) _2026-08-25 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ In the US, HarperCollins has announced the launch of a new manga imprint, Kazé, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). The imprint will officially launch in US autumn 2027. It is being rolled out in partnership with the existing Kazé publishers in France and Germany, which distribute manga for the European market and were acquired by HarperCollins \[…\] ## [Penguin Random House acquires two YA horror novels by Margot McGovern](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/26/338732/penguin-random-house-acquires-two-ya-horror-novels-by-margot-mcgovern/) _2026-08-25 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to two YA horror novels by Margot McGovern, in a deal brokered by Danielle Binks at Jacinta Dimase Management. PRH publisher Rebecca McRitchie, who acquired the novels, said: “Horror is a growing market and we’re very happy to continue publishing our award-winning local talent in this \[…\] ## [NT Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/26/338777/nt-literary-awards-2026-shortlists-announced/) _2026-08-25 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ The shortlists for the 2026 NT Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category, chosen from 265 entries, are: Brown’s Mart Theatre Award “Lure” (Ryanna Clayton) “Finding Magnus” (William Pyke). CDU Creative Nonfiction Award “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Park” (Roland Bull) “Looking Back on Sumner Locke Elliott’s Rusty Bugles” (Kathie Rea) \[…\] ## [Ned Kelly Awards 2026 shortlists announced](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/26/338702/ned-kelly-awards-2026-shortlists-announced/) _2026-08-25 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2026 Ned Kelly Awards shortlists. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best Crime Fiction Liar’s Game (Jack Beaumont, Allen & Unwin) Lyrebird (Jane Caro, Allen & Unwin) The Other Child (Susi Fox, Penguin) Mad Mabel (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan) The Ghost Walk (Karen Herbert, Fremantle Press) Fire \[…\] ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Ki1paoHkKWFh) _2026-08-25 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [The European Mind (Bruce Pascoe, Magabala)](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/21/338503/the-european-mind-bruce-pascoe-magabala-2/) _2026-08-21 · Vanessa Pengelly · Books+Publishing_ The European Mind builds on the conversation begun in Dark Emu, offering a First Nations perspective on Western power. ## [CBCA 2026 Book of the Year Award winners](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/21/338552/cbca-2026-book-of-the-year-award-winners/) _2026-08-21 · Andrew Wrathall · Books+Publishing_ The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the winners for the 2026 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. The CBCA shadow judging winners – titles chosen by 332 groups of children voting on their top choices from the shortlists announced in March – were also announced simultaneously. The winners, honour books and shadow judging winners in each \[…\] ## [CBCA winners announced today](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/21/338529/cbca-winners-announced-today-2/) _2026-08-21 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ At noon today we’ll publish the winners of the 2026 CBCA Book of the Year awards on the Books+Publishing website. In the meantime, we bring you today’s bestseller charts; the week’s media mentions, the latest unlocked YA and middle grade reviews, and the final instalment in our Christmas Preview categories – biography and memoir. Also \[…\] ## [“Warriors” debuts at number one](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/21/338527/the-new-prophecy-debuts-at-number-one/) _2026-08-21 · Automatic Submission · Books+Publishing_ Top 10 bestsellers Warriors (The New Prophecy book 1) (Erin Hunter & Gibson Twist, HarperCollins) Yesteryear (Caro Claire Burke, HarperCollins) Ransom (Daniel Silva, HarperCollins) Spooky Cutie (Coco Wyo, Penguin) The Correspondent (Virginia Evans, Michael Joseph) The Things We Never Say (Elizabeth Strout, Viking) You & Me and the Gigantic Knucklehead (Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Bill \[…\] ## [Bookshop manager/bookseller, Sydney](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/21/338285/bookshop-manager-bookseller-select/) _2026-08-21 · Automatic Submission · Books+Publishing_ Lost In Books The LOST IN BOOKS Bookshop Manager is responsible for collection development, and sales of our multilingual collection. You will: operate a successful online retail operation with regular pop-ups, growing revenues and expanding revenue channels manage our warehouse operations source and bring to market the best multilingual literature from around the world to \[…\] ## [Books in the media this week](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/21/338481/books-in-the-media-this-week-29/) _2026-08-20 · Kate Manton · Books+Publishing_ A round-up of books being reviewed and discussed in key media this week, updated as information becomes available. National The Bookshelf, ABC Radio National Big Little Truths (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) The Eye of the Crocodile (Val Plumwood, ANU Press) Mine (Adam Ousten, Transit Lounge) The Song of Stork and Dromedary (Anjet Daanje, Scribe) Such Is \[…\] ## [Christmas 2026 preview: Biography and memoir](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/21/338521/christmas-2026-preview-biography-and-memoir/) _2026-08-20 · Andrew Wrathall · Books+Publishing_ With the festive season approaching, Australian publishers have highlighted their top titles for the Christmas selling period for the Books+Publishing Christmas Preview. To view their top picks in the biography and memoir category, visit our preview page. We will be adding a new category to the Christmas Preview each day. Among the titles in today’s \[…\] ## [Isaac Heeney promotional posts removed](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/20/338463/isaac-heeney-promotional-posts-removed/) _2026-08-20 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ Publishers have nominated their top Christmas picks in general nonfiction; in Aotearoa New Zealand the winners of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced; the NSW History Awards shortlists have been announced; the Ned Kelly shortlist for best debut crime fiction is out; a local author has won two \[…\] ## [Ned Kelly Awards 2026 best debut crime fiction shortlist announced](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/20/338441/ned-kelly-awards-2026-best-debut-crime-fiction-shortlist-announced/) _2026-08-20 · Andrew Wrathall · Books+Publishing_ The Australian Crime Writers Association has announced the 2026 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist for best debut crime fiction. The shortlisted titles, selected from 160 entries, are: The Butterfly Women (Madeleine Cleary, Affirm Press) In Bloom (Liz Allan, Sceptre) Melaleuca (Angie Faye Martin, HQ Fiction) The Peak (Sam Guthrie, HarperCollins) The Wolf Tree (Laura McCluskey, HarperCollins) \[…\] ## [OzLit releases inaugural festival line-up](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/20/338445/ozlit-releases-inaugural-festival-line-up/) _2026-08-20 · Kate Manton · Books+Publishing_ OzLit, the new London festival of Australian writing and ideas, has unveiled its inaugural line-up for the event on 18 October, reports the Bookseller. Authors due to appear include Tim Winton, Alexis Wright, Santilla Chingaipe, Heather Morris, Evie Wyld, Kathy Lette, Intan Paramaditha, Lucia Osborne-Crowley and Laura Elizabeth Woollett. Winton will appear live from Western Australia \[…\] ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ayYNHEaoNmGb) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Local author Eva Frances wins two Romance Writers of America awards](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/20/338305/local-author-eva-frances-wins-two-romance-writers-of-america-awards/) _2026-08-20 · Kate Manton · Books+Publishing_ Australian author Eva Frances has won two Diamond Heart Awards, presented by the Romance Writers of America for her debut novel, The Next Round (self-published). The Next Round won both the Contemporary Romance and Best First Book awards for 2025/2026, announced on 18 July at the Romance Writers of America annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. \[…\] ## [NSW History Awards 2026 shortlists announced](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/20/338418/nsw-history-awards-2026-shortlists-announced/) _2026-08-20 · Matthia Dempsey · Books+Publishing_ The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2026 NSW History Awards. The shortlisted works across 6 categories, selected from 208 overall entries, are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800–1835: When the Strangers Came to Stay (Annemarie McLaren, Oxford University Press) Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea (Natalie Harkin,… ## [Christmas 2026 preview: General nonfiction](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/20/338371/christmas-2026-preview-general-nonfiction/) _2026-08-20 · Andrew Wrathall · Books+Publishing_ With the festive season approaching, Australian publishers have highlighted their top titles for the Christmas selling period for the Books+Publishing Christmas Preview. To view their top picks in the general nonfiction category, visit our preview page. We will be adding a new category to the Christmas Preview each day. Among the titles in today’s general \[…\] ## [Text acquires Melanie Skyers debut novel](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/20/338288/text-acquires-melanie-skyers-debut-novel/) _2026-08-20 · Andrew Wrathall · Books+Publishing_ Text Publishing has acquired world rights to Belly-Heart, a debut novel by Melanie Skyers, via Jane Novak at Jane Novak Literary Agency. The publisher said that Belly-Heart is “the story of a young woman raised in an isolated commune forced to reevaluate her reality when strangers from the mainland arrive”. Melanie is a writer based \[…\] ## [“A Guide to Rocks” named Book of the Year at 2026 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults](https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2026/08/20/338316/a-guide-to-rocks-named-book-of-the-year-at-2026-nz-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults/) _2026-08-19 · Andrew Wrathall · Books+Publishing_ The winners of the 2026 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced, with author Sacha Cotter and illustrator Josh Morgan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata) winning the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award for A Guide to Rocks. A Guide to Rocks, which judges described as “storytelling at its finest”, also \[…\]