Monday, 26 November 2012
The Small Press Network (SPN) plans to launch a year-long roadshow in 2013 that will involve events in each state. SPN general manager Zoe Dattner told Bookseller+Publisher that the network...

Monday, 26 November 2012
Australian author Margo Lanagan is among the authors whose books have been selected by Publishers Weekly for its annual ‘best books’ of the year. Lanagan’s Sea Hearts (A&U), published as...

Monday, 26 November 2012
Tony Birch has won this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature Civic Choice Award for his novel Blood (UQP). Birch was named as the recipient of the $5000 award on 23...

Monday, 26 November 2012
Text has acquired ANZ rights in Janet Frame’s previously unpublished novel In the Memorial Room. The novel by the late author ‘draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as...

Friday, 23 November 2012
Jo Chandler has won the inaugural Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘Storm front’, published in her book Feeling the Heat (MUP). Chandler has won a...

Friday, 23 November 2012
Much-loved Australian author Bryce Courtenay has died aged 79. Courtenay died at his home in Canberra on Thursday 22 November. The bestselling author had been suffering from terminal gastric cancer. Courtenay’s publisher...

Thursday, 22 November 2012
The Leading Edge Group has told Bookseller+Publisher that it is ‘business as usual’ for the group following the announcement that it is in ‘preliminary merger discussions’ with Armidale Investment Corporation...

Thursday, 22 November 2012
The Australia Council for the Arts has awarded Indigenous writer and poet Herb Wharton the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The $50,000 award is presented annually to...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Several weeks after Collins Booksellers’ flagship store, Hill of Content Bookshop in Melbourne, celebrated its 90th birthday, the Collins family and friends gathered at Melbourne’s Abbottsford convent this month to celebrate...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The winners of the 2012 Canberra’s Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture Storybooks: The Terrible Plop (Ursula Dubosarsky & Andrew Joyner, Viking) Fiction...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Independent Melbourne-based publisher Scribe Publications has announced that it will expand to the UK next year. Scribe said in a statement that it will establish an office in the UK...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The winners of the 2012 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture Storybooks: Fearless in Love (Colin Thompson, illus by Sarah Davis, ABC Books) Fiction...

Friday, 16 November 2012
Amanda Lohrey is the winner of the 2012 Patrick White Literary Award. Lohrey was presented with the award in Sydney on 16 November. This year’s award is worth $23,000, up from...

Friday, 16 November 2012
Reader’s Feast Bookstore, antiquarian bookseller Kay Craddock and the Melbourne Athenaeum Library have joined forces to launch a new initiative in Collins Street, Melbourne, called the Readers’ Walk. Described as ‘an...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Books by Australian authors on the longlist are: What the...

Monday, 12 November 2012
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears (A&U) has won this year’s Colin Roderick Award. Deputy executive director of the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University Don Gallagher told...

Monday, 12 November 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Literature Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Am I Black Enough For You? (Anita Heiss, Bantam) The Boy Who Wouldn’t Die...

Friday, 9 November 2012
Wayne Macauley has won the inaugural Most Underrated Book Award for his novel The Cook (Text). The award, sponsored by Kobo, was announced at the Wheeler Centre on 8 November as part...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Alex Miller has won the 2012 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented every three years to a Victorian author ‘whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding contribution...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
The nominations for the 2013 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the 2013 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal have been announced. Australian authors Morris Gleitzman and Margo Lanagan have been longlisted for the...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
The winners of the 2012 Young Australian’s Best Book Awards (YABBAs) have been announced. The winning titles are: Fiction Years 7-9: Phoenix Files: Arrival (Chris Morphew, HGE) Fiction Older Readers:...

Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Varuna, the Writers’ House, has announced that Jansis O’Hanlon will join the writers’ centre in the role of chief executive officer. O’Hanlon, who will begin in the role at the...

Monday, 5 November 2012
The shortlists for this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary and History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles for book-related categories of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are: Christina...

Monday, 5 November 2012
The Stella Prize has announced that Megan Quinlan has been appointed to the role of prize manager. The Stella Prize team said in a statement that Quinlan has ‘many years of...