Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Lesley McKay’s Bookshop has moved to a new location in Woollahra, Sydney, after initially announcing plans to close.Owner Lesley McKay told Books+Publishing she was on the verge of selling her...

Monday, 26 May 2014
The winners of this year’s Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) Best Young Australian Novelists Awards were announced at the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) on 23 May.The winners are: Hannah Kent (Burial Rites,...

Monday, 26 May 2014
Affirm Press has acquired the rights to publish former Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist’s illustrated autobiography.The self-titled book, which follows Gilchrist’s 2008 autobiography True Colours (Pan Macmillan), will feature ‘hundreds of...

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
The shortlist for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson) Our Magic Hour (Jennifer Down) Good...

Monday, 19 May 2014
Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (A&U) has been named Book of the Year at the 2014 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, presented in Sydney on 19 May.De Kretser...

Thursday, 15 May 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan, Vintage) The Night Guest (Fiona McFarlane,...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Scribe Publications has appointed a new editor and publicist to its team.Lesley Halm has been appointed editor, replacing Ian See, who has taken up a position as editor at the...

Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Hachette is sponsoring this year’s John Marsden prize, which is now known as the John Marsden/Hachette Australia Prize for Young Australian Writers. The prize, which aims to encourage young people...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Murdoch Books has announced the appointment of Matt Hoy to the newly created role of sales and marketing director. Hoy joins the company from Hachette Australia, where he was sales...

Monday, 5 May 2014
Mark Dapin has been shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for his novel Spirit House (Macmillan).The £10,000 (A$18,190) prize for ‘a distinguished work of fiction, nonfiction...

Monday, 5 May 2014
Awareness of the Wheeler Centre and Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) is ‘relatively low’, according to a new audience survey by Arts Victoria.The report, Audience Atlas Victoria, surveyed 3841 adult respondents and...

Monday, 5 May 2014
Casey Stoner: Pushing the Limits (Casey Stoner & Matthew Roberts, Hachette Australia) has been shortlisted for the British Sports Book Awards. The title has been shortlisted in the ‘outstanding general...

Monday, 5 May 2014
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the successful applicants for its Children’s Picture Book Illustrators’ Initiative. Funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, the grants support ‘the...

Thursday, 1 May 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, which acts as a shortlist for children’s choice book awards in the Australian Capital Territory (COOL Awards), New...

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
The finalists in the Australian Writers’ Centre Best Australian Blogs Competition have been announced. The finalists in the ‘words and writing’ category are: Fictioner’s Net (Nick Hudson, www.fictioners.net) Denise Mooney...

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Hachette Australia has acquired the rights for Taking You Home: Simple Greek Food by My Kitchen Rules contestants Helena and Vikki Moursellas.The Moursellas participated in the latest season of the popular television series before...

Tuesday, 29 April 2014
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the book award categories in this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards. The shortlisted titles are: International book of the year...

Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Australian author Hannah Kent and New Zealand author Paul Cleave are among the writers nominated for this year’s Barry Awards for crime writing.Awarded annually by the editors of US crime...