Monday, 21 July 2014
The Marco Polo Festival of Digital Literature, an inaugural bilingual literary festival that brings together readers, writers and translators from China and Australia, began on 27 May and will run to 31...

Friday, 18 July 2014
Helen Garner will deliver the opening night address at the 2014 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which launched its full program on 18 July. The closing address will be given by...

Friday, 18 July 2014
Lonely Planet has launched a company-branded flights-comparison tool on its website.The publisher said in a statement that this is the first time it has hosted an ‘own-branded flight search engine’,...

Friday, 18 July 2014
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced.Modern: New Zealand Homes from 1938 to 1977, designed by Arch MacDonnell of InHouse Design, was...

Friday, 18 July 2014
The Byron Bay Writers’ Festival will run a regional roadshow in the lead-up to this year’s festival to ‘promote lesser known writers’.The roadshow, which has received one-off funding from the...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlist for the 2014 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Best Designed Literary Fiction Book: A Girl is...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced.The longlisted titles are: The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Granta) Joe Victim (Paul Cleave, Atria) The...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards have been announced.The winning titles in each category are: Best First Book—Fiction Tough (Amy Head,...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Oxford University Press (OUP) has recorded ‘impressive overall turnover growth’ in Australia and New Zealand, says OUP Australia MD Peter Van Noorden. Van Noorden told Books+Publishing the Australian and New...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The ABC Shop and the Co-op were among the retailers recognised in the Australian Retailers Association’s (ARA) 2014 Australian Retailer of the Year Awards.The ABC Shop won the Australian Customer Satisfaction...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Walker Books has promoted Angela Van Den Belt to the position of president, general manager and commercial director of Walker Books Australia and New Zealand. Van Den Belt was previously deputy...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
A new literary festival billed as Australia’s ‘largest festival to showcase only nonfiction literature, writing and ideas’ will be held in Geelong, Victoria, in August.The Word for Word: National Non-fiction...

Tuesday, 15 July 2014
South African writer Nadine Gordimer has died, aged 90. Gordimer’s literary agency, United Agents, writes: ‘Nadine Gordimer, who in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died peacefully...

Tuesday, 15 July 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold UK English-language rights to Sapphire Skies, White Gardenia, Wild Lavender and Silver Wattle (Belinda Alexandra). Nonfiction—HarperCollins has sold Canadian rights to The New Classics (Donna Hay); and...

Monday, 14 July 2014
The 2014 Australian Christian Book of the Year shortlist has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: C S Lewis and the Body in the Basement (Kel Richards, Strand) Eating Heaven (Simon...

Monday, 14 July 2014
Lost & Found by Perth author and bookseller Brooke Davis (Hachette) has entered the bestsellers chart this week in 10th place after being last week’s highest new entry in 17th place....

Monday, 14 July 2014
A new PwC report, Economic contribution of the New Zealand publishing industry, has found the industry ‘generated or supported a total of [NZ]$382 million [A$358 million] in GDP’.The report analysed...

Friday, 11 July 2014
New Zealand independent bookstore Page & Blackmore’s in Nelson has been withdrawn from the market, reports Booksellers NZ.Booksellers Peter and Ann Rigg, who own half of the bookstore, have decided...

Friday, 11 July 2014
The Christchurch Writers’ Festival has rebranded as the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival and released its 2014 program.Among the international guests at this year’s festival, which runs from 27...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the National Biography Award, which recognises ‘the continuing importance and value of life writing’.The shortlisted titles are: A Spy in the...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
The Magarey Medal for Biography has been awarded to The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and Europe by Fiona Paisley (Aboriginal Studies Press). The biennial prize, worth $10,000, is presented to the best biographical...