Wednesday, 15 October 2014
The New Zealand Books Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults will be governed by a new charitable trust, with ‘major changes’ planned for the...

Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Books by Morris Gleitzman and Shaun Tan have been included in a list of ‘50 of the best children’s books celebrating cultural diversity in the UK’.The inaugural ‘Diverse Voices’ list...

Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Children’s publisher Helen Chamberlin was awarded the 2014 Dromkeen Medal at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 12 October.Chamberlin began her career as a secondary English and languages teacher...

Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Speech Pathology Australia has announced the winners of its 2014 Book of the Year Awards.The winners in the five categories are:Birth to three years I’m a Dirty Dinosaur (Janeen Brian,...

Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Australian author Morris Lurie has died, aged 75.Penguin Australia writes:‘Penguin Australia is saddened by the passing of acclaimed Melbourne writer Morris Lurie. During a career which spanned almost 50 years,...

Monday, 13 October 2014
Not That Kind of Girl (HarperCollins)—a collection of personal essays by Lena Dunham, writer and creator of hit US TV show ‘Girls’, is the highest new entry in this week’s bestsellers...

Friday, 10 October 2014
Four Australians and two New Zealanders have been nominated for the 2015 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Australian authors Ursula Dubosarsky, Libby Gleeson, Morris Gleitzman and Mem Fox are among the...

Friday, 10 October 2014
Text Publishing and Hardie Grant Publishing have been shortlisted for the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards for 2014.Text’s website is in the running for best publisher website and Hardie Grant Publishing’s...

Friday, 10 October 2014
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 has been awarded to French author Patrick Modiano—the 15th French writer to win the prize.The Swedish Academy awarded the 8m kronor (A$1.2m) prize to...

Friday, 10 October 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Barbara Jefferis Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Sufficient Grace (Amy Espeseth, Scribe) The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Tracy Farr, Fremantle Press)...

Thursday, 9 October 2014
Australian born, UK-based author Evie Wyld has won the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature, along with 12 other authors from European countries.Established in 2009 by the European Commission in...

Thursday, 9 October 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Let the Land Speak: A History of Australia—How the Land...

Thursday, 9 October 2014
Iain McCalman’s The Reef: A Passionate History (Penguin) has won the 2014 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Book Prize.The winner was announced at the CHASS...

Wednesday, 8 October 2014
‘The general mood was extremely positive with everyone excited about the past year’s results and the upcoming Christmas trading period’—Collins Booksellers financial controller Will Smith reports on the bookseller’s national...

Monday, 6 October 2014
Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s memoir My Story (Knopf) is this week’s highest new entry, debuting in second place on the bestsellers chart. It’s behind The 52-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths &...

Friday, 3 October 2014
A forthcoming memoir from the former executive producer of TV breakfast show ‘Sunrise’ is the subject of legal action.Publisher MUP said in a statement that the Seven Network has issued...

Friday, 3 October 2014
Irish-Australian author Thomas Keneally has been presented with one of Ireland’s 2014 Presidential Distinguished Service Awards. The awards, which span numerous categories, including the arts, recognise the contribution of the Irish...

Friday, 3 October 2014
Six graphic novelists and comic artists will participate in a residential exchange between Taiwan and New Zealand as part of a program developed between the Publishers Association of New Zealand...

Friday, 3 October 2014
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 11 reviews of children’s and YA books publishing in January to March. Included is a five-star review of A Small Madness by Dianne Touchell (A&U,...