Monday, 29 April 2013
Margo Lanagan’s Sea Hearts was named best novel at this year’s Ditmar Awards for Australian science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing. Lanagan also received the Norma K Hemming Award for race,...

Monday, 29 April 2013
Nora Roberts’ Whiskey Beach (Hachette) is at the top of the bestsellers and highest new entries charts this week. The novel tells the story of Eli Landon, whose perfect world is shattered...

Monday, 29 April 2013
TitlePage has moved a number of changes ‘into production’ ahead of the pending relaunch of the platform. TitlePage said in a statement that it has ‘moved some new functionality into production’ over the...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Annabel Blay from Curtis Brown reports: ‘Busy and buzzy’ was the most frequent observation from editors, agents and scouts about this year’s London Book Fair (LBF), which ran from 15-17...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013
‘Amazon has over sixty-five percent of the ebook market in Australia and over seventy-five percent of ereaders owned in Australia are Kindles’—Pages & Pages general manager and Australian Booksellers Association...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Allen & Unwin has been ordered to pay members of Schapelle Corby’s family more than $50,000 in damages over the publication of a number of photographs in Sins of the Father by...

Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Former Murdoch Books owner Matt Handbury and digital director Mark Ashbridge have partnered to launch a new website dedicated to food and cooking. Eatlove, which launched in October 2012, features...

Tuesday, 23 April 2013
The finalists in the Best Australian Blogs 2013 competition have been announced. Finalists in the Words and Writing category are: ‘Alpha Reader’ by Danielle Binks ‘Book to the Future’ by...

Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Canadian author and editor A S A Harrison has died, aged 65. Harrison’s debut novel The Silent Wife (Headline) is due for worldwide release in June. Harrison previously published Orgasms (Coach...

Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Children’s author and illustrator E L Konigsburg has died, aged 83. Konigsburg wrote or illustrated more than 20 books including picture books, contemporary novels and books about historical figures. She was...

Monday, 22 April 2013
The Canadian Competition Bureau and the Department of Canadian Heritage has cleared the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House. Random House parent company Bertelsmann said in a statement on...

Monday, 22 April 2013
After Elizabeth witnesses a mafia murder she enters a witness protection program and begins a new life as computer security expert Abigail Lowery. The anxiety of her past life takes its toll, however, until Abigail...

Monday, 22 April 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year with a National Writers’ Congress in October. The ASA, which was founded in 1963, will also hold...

Friday, 19 April 2013
Lonely Planet is celebrating 40 years of publishing travel books this year. The company has a number of events planned across the globe to celebrate the occasion, including, in Australia...

Friday, 19 April 2013
Australian author Tom Keneally has been shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel The Daughters of Mars (Vintage). Keneally’s novel, which tells the story...

Thursday, 18 April 2013
Leading Edge Books (LEB) has announced a number of sessions and participating authors for its annual conference, to be held from 14-16 June at the Hilton Hotel in Adelaide. Registrations...