Wednesday, 20 August 2014
‘This is an outcome where we would provide a library free of charge to the citizens of Brisbane by placing a retailer at ground level’—Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk announces...

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
The Australia Council has announced a new arts grants model.As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the new model is the result of a review of the program, including consultation with the...

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Scribe has acquired world rights to The Ice Age: A Journey into Crystal Meth Addiction by freelance journalist Luke Williams, an expanded version of an article by Williams published in...

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of this year’s Glenfern Fellowships. The fellowships for mid-career and established writers were awarded to Jennifer Down, Lee Kofman and Christian Ryan, and the...

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
The campus bookselling chain the Co-op has announced it will open a new ‘general retail outlet’ at the University of Queensland. The new store will be located at the university’s...

Monday, 18 August 2014
Daniel Morcombe was last seen waiting for a bus on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland in 2003. The boy’s remains were found in 2011 and Brett Cowan was charged with the murder...

Monday, 18 August 2014
Arts Victoria has announced the appointment of David Ryding as the inaugural director of the Melbourne City of Literature office based at the Wheeler Centre. Ryding is a former executive...

Monday, 18 August 2014
The Great Bible Swindle by Bible Society CEO Greg Clarke has won this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year Award.Judges described the winning book as a ‘concise, persuasive and...

Friday, 15 August 2014
The winners of the 2014 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced in Canberra on 15 August, marking the official launch of Children’s Book...

Wednesday, 13 August 2014
The 2014 Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship has been awarded to Canberra-based writer Lucy Nelson. The one-month fellowship, which is offered by Writers Victoria and Templeberg Villa, will send Nelson to...

Wednesday, 13 August 2014
A new website and readers choice awards have been launched to promote Australian romance writing.The AusRomToday website, formerly called Creative Conversations, was launched in June by romance author J’aimee Brooker....

Wednesday, 13 August 2014
‘I ask Wang to recall the first time growing up she read a book with an Asian protagonist. “There weren’t any.”’—Danielle Binks speaks to children’s and YA author Gabrielle Wang...

Tuesday, 12 August 2014
UQP has acquired a novel-in-progress by Josephine Rowe, a short story collection by Paddy O’Reilly and a biography of Thea Astley by Karen Lamb. Rowe, who is currently a Stegner...

Tuesday, 12 August 2014
A new publisher specialising in locally created comics and graphic novels has launched in New Zealand. Adrian Kinnaird, editorial director and co-publisher of Earth’s End Publishing, told Books+Publishing that the business was ‘the...

Monday, 11 August 2014
The winners of the 2014 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Awards, known as the ‘Rubys’, were announced on 9 August at the RWA conference in Sydney.The winners of the awards in each category were:...

Monday, 11 August 2014
The top three spots in this week’s bestsellers chart are all occupied by new entries. Richelle Mead’s Silver Shadows (Razorbill) is in first place, followed by Private India (James Patterson, Century) and...

Monday, 11 August 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Australian History Prize ($15,000) Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War...

Monday, 11 August 2014
Australian author Fiona McFarlane has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award for her novel The Night Guest (Hamish Hamilton).McFarlane’s book is one of 11 titles longlisted for the...

Monday, 11 August 2014
The titles shortlisted for the 2014 Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing were announced by the Australian Crime Writers Association at the Bendigo Writers Festival in regional Victoria, which ran from 8 to...

Monday, 11 August 2014
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman’s production companies have optioned the film rights to Big Little Lies by Australian author Liane Moriarty (Pan Macmillan).Deadline Hollywood reports that Kidman and Witherspoon ‘will...