Monday, 20 April 2015
True stories are in demand this week, as two memoirs top the highest new entries and fastest movers charts. Somebody That I Used to Know (The Five Mile Press), Bunkie...

Friday, 17 April 2015
The inaugural History Writers’ Festival will be held at Readers’ Feast Bookstore in Melbourne this weekend, the 18-19 April.Interviews with authors and panel discussions will be held every two hours on...

Thursday, 16 April 2015
The program for this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), to be held in Melbourne from 26 May to 5 June, has been launched.The festival begins with an ‘opening night extravaganza’...

Thursday, 16 April 2015
Penguin has announced that the final book in Isobelle Carmody’s long-running ‘Obernewtyn’ series will be published later this year. The seventh and final book in the series, The Red Queen,...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $25,000 for an inaugural Scholarships and Access Fund for writers from diverse backgrounds, to coincide with the centre’s 25th...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlists for the 2015 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best Designed Literary Fiction Book A Fairy...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Thames & Hudson Australia has appointed Daniel Watts as its new managing director, succeeding Jodie Spiteri-James, who announced her resignation in October last year. Watts was previously regional director for...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
‘To discover a book on display in a well-staffed, lovingly maintained shop, to hold it in your hand then to sneak off and buy the same book online, is really...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
The shortlists 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, 15 April 2015
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) and Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (Picador) have been shortlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Ten books in total...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Readings’ books division manager Martin Shaw is leaving the Melbourne bookseller in early July.Shaw, who has worked at Readings for 21 years, told Books+Publishing he was moving to Germany for...

Tuesday, 14 April 2015
A campaign calling for the New Zealand government to lower the GST-free threshold on online purchases from NZ$400 (A$393) to NZ$25 (A$24.52) has been launched by Retail NZ and Booksellers NZ.Under the...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has launched a crowdfunding project to help send young Melbourne writers to international and domestic literary festivals.The ‘30 Under 30’ project, which coincides with the 30th year of MWF, is aiming...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The bestsellers chart has a new number one this week, with Paula Hawkins’ debut thriller The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) claiming the top spot for the first time after nine consecutive...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The 2014 Aurealis Award winners were announced at a ceremony in Canberra on Saturday 11 April. The winning titles were:Fantasy novel Dreamer’s Pool (Juliet Marillier, Pan Macmillan)  Science-fiction novel Peacemaker...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The Byron Bay Writers Festival has announced that Julia Gillard, Joan London, Helen Garner, Kate Grenville and Jackie French will be the headline writers at this year’s festival, which runs...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced.The shortlisted titles are: General fiction book of the year  Laurinda (Alice Pung, Black Inc.) Lost & Found (Brooke Davis,...

Monday, 13 April 2015
Te Papa Press, run out of the Te Papa museum in Wellington, New Zealand, is under review by management and could be shut for up to five years, reports Stuff.co.nz.Te...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The program for the 2015 Clunes Booktown Festival has been released.Among the authors at this year’s festival, which will be held from 2-3 May in Clunes, Victoria, are Michael Mori,...

Friday, 10 April 2015
Federal treasurer Joe Hockey has flagged that the GST could be applied to intangible downloads such as ebooks as part of ‘tax integrity’ measures to be introduced in the May...

Thursday, 9 April 2015
The longlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced.The longlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female...

Thursday, 9 April 2015
New members have been elected to the Australian Publishers Association’s (APA) sectional committees at the APA’s AGM on 1 April.Publisher Jane Curry has joined the Independent Publishers Committee (IPC) as convenor,...

Thursday, 9 April 2015
Two former Labor MPs are urging the government to remove parallel importation restrictions on books following the recommendations in the Competition Policy Review’s final report, reports the Australian. Former trade minister...