Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Books wholesaler and remainders dealer TB Clarke and its retail arm AllBooks4Less are now in liquidation after being placed into administration in early July. According to a notice lodged with the...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Sydney University Press production coordinator Agata Mrva-Montoya has won a scholarship to attend the International Publishing Management course at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland in early September. Mrva-Montoya...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Gideon Haigh has won the Australian Cricket Society Jack Pollard Literary Award for the sixth time for his book On Warne (Hamish Hamilton). Haigh will be presented with the 2012-13...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold rights to Growing Yourself Up (Jenny Brown) in the Netherlands and Belgium; French language rights to The Happiness Trap Pocket Book (Russ Harris & Bev...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
US author and screenwriter Elmore Leonard has died, aged 87. Leonard is the author of 45 novels, many of which were adapted for film and television. His novels adapted for...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
‘I want to find the next Michelle de Kretser, the next Anna Funder or the next Gail Jones. There are very few companies expanding their publishing lists at the moment...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Genre publisher Clan Destine Press has launched three short-form digital imprints: Crime Shots, Encounters and Clan Destine Fictions. Crime Shots is an imprint for true crime writing, Encounters features erotic stories and Clan Destine...

Monday, 19 August 2013
Underbelly: Squizzy (A&U) tells the story of Squizzy Taylor’s quest to become Melbourne’s first celebrity gangster in the 1920s. Based on the television miniseries currently screening on Channel Nine, the...

Monday, 19 August 2013
The Dymocks store in Ellenbrook in Western Australia has won the Dymocks Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2013 Dymocks national conference, held in Adelaide from 11-13 August. The Dymocks store...

Monday, 19 August 2013
Writers Victoria has announced the winners of the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. The $1000 prize for creative nonfiction was awarded to Judith Bunn for her memoir ‘Pink’, and...

Friday, 16 August 2013
Aviva Tuffield will join Melbourne-based publisher Affirm Press in the role of publisher this month. Affirm Press said in a statement that Tuffield, who has left Scribe Publications, where she...

Friday, 16 August 2013
The Big Issue’s ninth annual Fiction Edition has been launched and the line-up of authors has been announced. The line-up includes published authors Tim Richards (Thought Crimes, Black Inc.), Jane...

Thursday, 15 August 2013
The shortlists for this year’s New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the book-related categories are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) The Sex Lives of...

Thursday, 15 August 2013
The organisers of the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) have announced that New Zealand will be the Guest of Honour at the 2015 exhibition. The Publishers Association of New Zealand...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Auckland University Press director Sam Elworthy has been elected as the new president of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ). Elworthy, who has previously served as a PANZ councillor, was...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been shortlisted for this year’s David Gemmell Legend Awards for fantasy writing. Australian author Jay Kristoff has been nominated...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full program for its 10th festival, which will run from 11-15 October in Bali, Indonesia. More than 50 of the festival’s 160 guests are Australian, including authors Richard...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
HarperCollins Australia has announced that it will begin accepting unsolicited manuscripts via its website this month. The publisher will launch ‘the Wednesday Post’ on 21 August. Through a new online portal,...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
‘We saw a sharp increase in traffic on the day and this was also reflected in very strong sales. It really felt like Christmas in August!’—Dymocks Melbourne co-owner Melissa Traverso...