Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami will headline the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival, featuring in just one session on 16 May at the Aotea Centre.Joining Murakami will be more than 150 authors in...

Wednesday, 18 March 2015
‘With interest rates low, a weak Australian dollar and a waning interest in e-reading, conditions are perfect for bookstores to reclaim the ground lost since the GFC’—Robinson Bookshop chain co-owner...

Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Pan Macmillan has announced it will not publish a Paleo diet baby cookbook co-written by Pete Evans, with the authors to self-publish a digital version in coming weeks.Pan Macmillan said in a...

Tuesday, 17 March 2015
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2015 Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May.The visiting international...

Monday, 16 March 2015
James Patterson’s 14th Deadly Sin (Century) has climbed to the number one spot in the top 10 bestsellers chart this week, with American Sniper (film tie-in) (Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen...

Monday, 16 March 2015
Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing and Wilkins Farago have been nominated in the Oceania region for the third annual Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publishers of the Year.Presented by the...

Monday, 16 March 2015
The full line-up and program for the 2015 Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London has been announced.As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Kate Grenville, Steve Toltz,...

Monday, 16 March 2015
Melbourne writer Oscar Schwartz has won the inaugural The Lifted Brow (TLB) Prize for Experimental Nonfiction for his piece ‘Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to be Human’.Schwartz was selected from a...

Monday, 16 March 2015
TLC Books in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Manly is up for sale. Bookstore owner Tanya Caunce has listed the store for sale on Gumtree with a negotiable price of $30,000,...

Monday, 16 March 2015
Australian author Ian Bedford has died, aged 76.Bedford had a long career as an anthropologist and writer. His works include the novels The Shell of the Old (Rigby), A View...

Friday, 13 March 2015
Broome resident Madelaine Dickie has won the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award for her unpublished manuscript Troppo.Dickie received a $12,000 cash prize and a publishing contract with Fremantle...

Friday, 13 March 2015
British fantasy fiction author Sir Terry Pratchett has died, aged 66. Pratchett was the author of over 70 books, with total sales of 75 million internationally, including YA novel Nation and...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
The inaugural Queenscliffe Literary Festival will be held across five weekends in May in the Victorian beachside towns of Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale.The not-for-profit festival is being organised by Bookshop at Queenscliff...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
Pan Macmillan Australia will publish a sequel to Gregory David Roberts’ novel Shantaram in October under its Picador imprint.The Mountain Shadow is set two years after the events in Shantaram...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
New Zealand arts development agency Creative New Zealand (CNZ) has released its final ‘Review of Literature’ report into support for New Zealand literature, reports Booksellers NZ.In the report’s key findings, CNZ has...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
Pan Macmillan has delayed publication of a Paleo diet baby cookbook co-written by Pete Evans amid concerns that some of the recipes pose health risks for babies.Bubba Yum Yum: The...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
Penguin Australia is considering its options regarding its commercial relationship with cookbook author Belle Gibson following questions raised in the media about the veracity of her medical history.Earlier this week...

Thursday, 12 March 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette) The Strays (Emily Bitto, Affirm Press) The Invisible History of...

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Gordon Peake’s Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles and Secrets from Timor-Leste (Scribe) has won the 2014 ACT Book of the Year Award.Peake’s book, which explores nation-building in Timor-Leste following its independence...

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Big international fiction releases are dominating the bestsellers chart, with three new titles making it into the top 10 in their first week. While American Sniper (film tie-in) (Chris Kyle,...