Monday, 23 June 2014
Penelope Hetherington has won the 2014 Margaret Medcalf Award for her nonfiction title The Marriage Knot: Marriage and Divorce in Colonial Western Australia 1829-1900 (UWA Publishing). The annual Margaret Medcalf...

Monday, 23 June 2014
Exisle Publishing has announced it has acquired I Don’t Like Cheese by 12-year-old Hannah Chandler.Chandler’s book about a mouse that doesn’t like cheese was written in response to a challenge...

Monday, 23 June 2014
The standard edition of The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) is on top of the bestsellers chart for the second week in a row, ahead of the film tie-in...

Monday, 23 June 2014
The winners of the Nielsen New Zealand Book Industry Awards were announced in Auckland on Sunday 22 June. The winners are:Promotional and Sales SupportRandom House NZNew Zealand PublishingCraig Potton PublishingSales...

Monday, 23 June 2014
The ABC has opened its flagship store at the new Emporium shopping centre in Melbourne’s CBD. The store is located on the centre’s third level and features ‘two reading areas,...

Friday, 20 June 2014
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for ‘Best in the World’ have been announced.Three Australian titles won first place in their respective categories:Charity and fundraising category Pacific: Limestone: Keith Hospital Cookbook (Robyn...

Friday, 20 June 2014
Australian-born, UK-based author Evie Wyld is among eight writers to be awarded the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, Wyld was awarded the prize, which is open to British writers of fiction of...

Friday, 20 June 2014
The winners of the 2013 Australian Shadows Awards have been announced.The winners in each category are: Novel: 809 Jacob Street (Marty Young, Black Beacon Books)  Long Fiction: ‘The Unwanted Women of...

Wednesday, 18 June 2014
‘Today’s exchange rate, plus 10%, plus GST, then round up or down to the nearest 95 or 99 cents’—Peter Donoughue’s ‘golden rule in import pricing’. You can see how Donoughue’s...

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Lonely Planet will relaunch its children’s list, Not for Parents, as Lonely Planet Kids, reports the Bookseller. ‘We now feel the time is right to establish Lonely Planet Kids as...

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
The Australian Public Library Alliance (APLA) has released a report on ebook lending in Australian libraries that finds 97% of all Australian public libraries can now lend ebooks. This is...

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold world English-language audio rights to Cleanskin Cowgirls (Rachael Treasure). Nonfiction—HarperCollins has sold Polish rights to Fast, Fresh, Simple (Donna Hay); and Dutch rights to The New Classics...

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
New Zealand author Pat Rosier has died, aged 72.Spinifex Press publishers Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne write:‘New Zealand author Pat Rosier died on Friday. A well known figure in New...

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Australian publisher David Ell has died, aged 74. Bridging the Gap publisher Kathryn Lamberton writes: ‘David founded David Ell Press in the late 1970s and was an influential small publisher...

Monday, 16 June 2014
John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin) is on top of this week’s bestsellers chart, up from second spot last week. The film tie-in edition of the same title is...