Friday, 22 November 2013
Several Australian and New Zealand titles have made it to the final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2013. Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (Granta) and Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (Picador) are...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Gideon Haigh has won the 2013 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for his book On Warne (Hamish Hamilton). Haigh was presented with the award, worth $20,000,...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced new grants for Australian editors and for Australian publishers of mid-list authors. The editorial professional development and cultural leadership grants will assist editors...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Australian public policy think tank Grattan Institute has released its annual summer reading list for the Prime Minister. The list features ‘books and articles that the Prime Minister, or any...

Monday, 18 November 2013
Australian author Hannah Kent has been shortlisted for this year’s Guardian First Book Award in the UK for her novel Burial Rites (Picador). Kent’s novel is one of five titles...

Friday, 15 November 2013
Affirm Press publisher Aviva Tuffield and a number of Australian authors have been nominated for this year’s Women of the Year list on news website Daily Life. Tuffield, who joined...

Thursday, 14 November 2013
Australian telecommunications company Optus is now selling ebooks. The Optus ebookstore, which also sells audiobooks, was launched on 11 November. The store is powered by OverDrive, with ebooks available in EPUB...

Thursday, 14 November 2013
Suzy Wilson, owner of Riverbend Books and founder of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, has been named Queensland Local Hero of the Year in the 2014 Australian of the Year Awards....

Tuesday, 12 November 2013
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Books by Australian authors on the longlist are: The...

Monday, 11 November 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Literature Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights (Jane Lydon, NewSouth)...

Thursday, 7 November 2013
The winners of the 2013 Young Australian’s Best Book Awards (YABBAs) have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture Storybooks Pooka (Carol Chataway & Nina Rycroft, Working Title Press)  ...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Daniel Jordon has resigned as CEO of Collins Booksellers. Collins Booksellers said in a statement this week that Jordon has left the company to take up a position with the...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Allen & Unwin has announced two senior appointments to the business.  Tom Gilliatt, Pan Macmillan’s director of nonfiction publishing and digital-only imprint Momentum, has been appointed publishing director of Allen & Unwin,...

Friday, 1 November 2013
A national month-long campaign to encourage Australians to support small businesses has been launched. Shop Small has previously been run in the US, UK and Canada. While the US event...

Friday, 1 November 2013
Novelist Frank Moorhouse is the recipient of the 2013 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The $50,000 award is presented annually by the Australia Council for the Arts...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Kate Blackwood has been promoted to editor of Books+Publishing’s Junior magazine and newsletter. Blackwood, who joined Books+Publishing as an editorial assistant at the start of 2013, will be responsible for...

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Three Australian bookshops will participate in an inaugural international event run by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCWBI). Inside Story will launch at independent bookstores in cities across...

Friday, 25 October 2013
The first book in John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ series, The Ruins of Gorlan (Random House, published in the US by Puffin), has been chosen for next year’s World Book Night...

Thursday, 24 October 2013
Ten titles have been shortlisted titles for the 2013 Children’s Peace Literature Award, a biennial award presented by the Australian Psychological Society’s interest group Psychologists for Peace to books that...

Thursday, 24 October 2013
Susan Swingler, step-daughter of Australian author Elizabeth Jolley and author of the memoir The House of Fiction (Fremantle Press), will feature on next week’s episode of ABC TV’s Australian Story...