Tuesday, 26 November 2013
US children’s book author and editor Charlotte Zolotow has died, aged 98. Zolotow was the author of more than 70 illustrated children’s books, beginning with The Park Book (HarperCollins) in 1944....

Monday, 25 November 2013
Literary journal Overland has announced that Jennifer Down’s short story ‘Turncoat’ has won the 2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers, with a prize of $6000. The two runners-up,...

Monday, 25 November 2013
The Scarlett Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime to recognise short crime stories written by Australian women, were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 22 November. Candice Graham won the...

Monday, 25 November 2013
Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) is number one on the bestsellers chart for the second week in a row. Matthew Reilly’s latest novel, The Tournament (Pan),...

Friday, 22 November 2013
The Trust Company, trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has launched a free teaching resource to encourage the study of Australian literature in high schools. The resource, created in partnership...

Friday, 22 November 2013
Cengage Australia has announced that it has acquired the rights to future editions of all vocational education titles published by Pearson Australia. Paul Petrulis, vice president of higher education and Gale...

Friday, 22 November 2013
Eleanor Catton has been named Woman of the Year in the Lexus M2 Awards in New Zealand. Catton was named as the Woman of the Year at a ceremony in...

Thursday, 21 November 2013
WritingWA will receive $150,000 in funding from the Federal Government’s Regional Arts Fund Community Grants program to appoint a regional engagement officer to coordinate the writing centre’s programs throughout regional...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Books by Kerry Greenwood and Garry Disher were the bestselling titles at this year’s Crime and Justice Festival, held at Reader’s Feast Bookstore in Melbourne on 15-17 November. Festival organiser...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
John Ogden has won this year’s Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History book prize for his history books Saltwater People of the Broken Bay and Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) second Independent Publishing Conference has recorded an increase in attendance of around 50% at its industry day. SPN general manager Mary Masters told Books+Publishing that...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Sydney independent bookseller Pages & Pages Booksellers has relaunched its ‘Kindle amnesty’ with Kobo devices, expanding the offer from monthly to daily and offering $50 Kobo gift vouchers to customers who take...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced plans to open a local Books division in Australia and New Zealand next year. The division will be based in Melbourne and managed...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
‘It’s not wonderful but it’s certainly not dead’—RMIT University’s Michael Webster reports on the state of the Australian book trade at the Small Press Network’s Independent Publishing Conference.

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Sales Fiction—Random House has sold German rights to Losing Kate (Kylie Kaden). Nonfiction—Exisle has sold North American rights to Younger Skin in 28 Days (Karen Fischer); Latvian rights to The Healthy...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in this year’s National Book Awards in the UK. Catton, whose second novel The...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
The winners of this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced.  The winning titles in each of the categories are: Best Book or Series in...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
American children’s book author Barbara Park has died, aged 66. Park, who had a long battle with ovarian cancer, was the author of more than 50 books for young readers, and...

Monday, 18 November 2013
Merlinda Bobis has won the 2013 Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA) for her novel Fish-Hair Woman (Spinifex Press). Bobis was announced as the winner at a public event in Melbourne on 15...

Monday, 18 November 2013
British author and Nobel prize winner Doris Lessing has died, aged 94. Lessing was the author of more than 50 novels, including The Grass is Singing (1950), The Golden Notebook...

Monday, 18 November 2013
Jeff Kinney’s latest book, Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin), has debuted at number one on this week’s bestsellers chart. After a week at number one, Ricky Ponting’s...