Shortlist announced for inaugural Danger Prize
The shortlist has been announced for the inaugural Danger Prize, awarded for the best book, film or TV drama about Sydney and crime. Three true crime books were shortlisted, alongside...
New storytelling festival to launch at multilingual kids’ bookshop in Sydney
Lost in Books, a specialist multilingual children’s bookshop in Sydney’s western suburbs, is launching a new annual festival to highlight music, storytelling and ideas in multilingual communities. The inaugural In...
New owners for Sydney’s Lane Cove Books
Lane Cove Books, formerly Moirs Bookshop, in Sydney will be rebranded as The Burns Bay Bookery in September after being purchased by new owners.The new store will be run by...
New owner, name for Moirs Bookshop
Moirs Bookshop in Lane Cove in Sydney will be renamed Lane Cove Books this month following the sale of the store to Gary Buttsworth, owner of Cherrybooks in Cherrybrook, also...
Winning design for Green Square Library and Plaza announced
Sydney City Council has announced the winner of the international architectural competition for the new Green Square Library and Plaza. Felicity Stewart and Matthias Hollenstein of Sydney firm Stewart Hollenstein...
Your Bookshop to open fifth store in Sydney
Your Bookshop, a chain of independent bookshops in Sydney, will open its fifth store in April. Your Bookshop co-owner Bonnie Serov told Books+Publishing that the new store will be located in the...
Moirs Bookshop for sale
Independent Sydney bookstore Moirs Bookshop is for sale. Rosemary Moir, who owns the independent bookstore with her husband Ian, told Books+Publishing that the couple has decided to ‘move on from...
Sunset Books to close by February
Independent Sydney bookstore Sunset Books and ABC Centre will close by the end of February. Owner Greg Field told Bookseller+Publisher that, with the ‘retail model under pressure’, he has made the...
Collins opens company-owned store at Sydney hospital; further hospital stores planned
Collins Booksellers has opened a new company-owned bookstore at the Royal North Shore Hospital in St Leonards, Sydney. The store officially opened on 12 December to coincide with the official...
Authors and publishers make ‘Top 100’ people lists in Melbourne, Sydney magazines
Fairfax newspapers featured a number of publishing industry professionals in its ‘Top 100’ influential and inspirational people lists in its Sydney and Melbourne magazines published in December. In the Age...
In brief
Lu Rees Archives on display in Canberra libraries As part of the 2012 Boundless Festival of Australian Children’s Literature, 88 items from the Lu Rees Archives at the University of...
In brief
Sydney library design project attracts entries from 30 countries A competition to design the new Green Square Library and Plaza in Sydney has attracted 168 entries from architects in 30 countries....
Burwood Book Exchange to close in September
Sydney’s Burwood Book Exchange, which first opened in 1986, will close on 8 September. The bookstore, which specialises in secondhand romance titles as well as special orders for new titles,...
Mosman library receives funding for WWI online resource
Sydney’s Mosman library has been granted $30,000 from the NSW state government to create an online resource for collecting and displaying information about the wartime experiences of local service people...
City of Sydney announces new library, design competition
The City of Sydney is investing $25 million in a new library for the Green Square Town Centre development in southern Sydney. The 3000 sq metre library, to be located...
Sydney council proposes 24-hour library
Australia’s first 24-hour library is one of the City of Sydney’s ‘priority projects’ as part of its efforts to boost the city’s night-time economy. The council has proposed investigating Circular...
Lonely Planet to open concept stores in UK, Malaysia
Travel publisher Lonely Planet will open a branded retail store at Manchester Airport in the UK this month, which will be modelled on the publisher’s original concept store at Sydney...
New owner for Better Read Than Dead
Independent Sydney bookstore Better Read Than Dead has been sold to Parkstone Investments, a private company led by businessman and arts patron Pat Corrigan. Derek Dryden, who opened Better Read...
‘Cash mob’ visits Sydney’s Ariel Books
A group of approximately 30 people visited Ariel Books in Paddington, Sydney, on Saturday 25 March as part of a new initiative designed to support local businesses. The event at Ariel Books was...
Independent Sydney bookstore to close
Independent Sydney bookstore Zabriskie Booksellers has announced that it will close down next week. The bookstore, which is located in the former Martin Smith's bookstore building on Hall Street in...