Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Publisher Kevin Chapman and Man Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton are among the recipients of the 2014 New Zealand New Year Honours. Chapman, founder of Upstart Press and the former...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Georgina Russell has been appointed as the new marketing and development manager for the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF). Russell began in the role in December 2013, replacing Collette Stewart. She...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. BooksellersIf you are a bookseller, please complete the...

Monday, 6 January 2014
Familiar names fill this week’s bestsellers chart, including Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) and Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) at number one and...

Monday, 6 January 2014
British author Paul Torday died in late December, aged 67. Torday is best known for his debut novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Hachette), which was released when he was 61....

Monday, 6 January 2014
UK author Elizabeth Jane Howard has died, aged 90. Howard wrote 15 novels in a career that spanned seven decades, including ‘The Cazalet Chronicles’, a series of five novels, beginning...

Friday, 13 December 2013
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Emile Sherman and Kathy Shand to the festival’s board of directors. Sherman is an award-winning producer and owner of the production company See-Saw...

Thursday, 12 December 2013
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the establishment of an Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), which will take over responsibility for the annual APA Book Design Awards. The ABDA committee...

Thursday, 12 December 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Sleepers Publishing has announced a new partnership with Duffy & Snellgrove that will involve Sleepers distributing Duffy & Snellgrove titles globally as ebooks. Under the arrangement, Sleepers will distribute...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Haylee Nash has been appointed to the newly created role of commissioning editor of fiction at Pan Macmillan. Nash, who begins in the role on 16 December, was publishing manager...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Allen & Unwin has announced that it will publish a ‘small number’ of its children’s books directly into the UK from 2014. A&U children’s publicist Lara Wallace told Books+Publishing that...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Dying for a Chat: The Communication Breakdown between Doctors and Patients by Ranjana Srivastava (Penguin) has won this year’s Human Rights Literature Award. Dying for a Chat was selected from...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers.  This is your last chance to complete the survey online.  Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
B2Be, owner of ecommerce service PacStream, has announced that it will manage the service from January 2014. Pacstream is currently managed by Thorpe-Bowker, owner of Books+Publishing. B2Be said in a...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
‘Books pages are full of authors reviewing authors, almost always in the uncomfortable position of writing about someone they know and in many cases someone they like’—the Saturday Paper editor...