Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Australian Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt has introduced a private member’s bill calling for an amendment to the Fair Work Act to protect casual workers, reports Inside Retailing. However, small...

Monday, 26 November 2012
The Small Press Network (SPN) plans to launch a year-long roadshow in 2013 that will involve events in each state. SPN general manager Zoe Dattner told Bookseller+Publisher that the network...

Monday, 26 November 2012
Australian author Margo Lanagan is among the authors whose books have been selected by Publishers Weekly for its annual ‘best books’ of the year. Lanagan’s Sea Hearts (A&U), published as...

Monday, 26 November 2012
Tony Birch has won this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature Civic Choice Award for his novel Blood (UQP). Birch was named as the recipient of the $5000 award on 23...

Monday, 26 November 2012
Text has acquired ANZ rights in Janet Frame’s previously unpublished novel In the Memorial Room. The novel by the late author ‘draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as...

Friday, 23 November 2012
Jo Chandler has won the inaugural Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘Storm front’, published in her book Feeling the Heat (MUP). Chandler has won a...

Friday, 23 November 2012
Much-loved Australian author Bryce Courtenay has died aged 79. Courtenay died at his home in Canberra on Thursday 22 November. The bestselling author had been suffering from terminal gastric cancer. Courtenay’s publisher...

Thursday, 22 November 2012
The Leading Edge Group has told Bookseller+Publisher that it is ‘business as usual’ for the group following the announcement that it is in ‘preliminary merger discussions’ with Armidale Investment Corporation...

Thursday, 22 November 2012
The Australia Council for the Arts has awarded Indigenous writer and poet Herb Wharton the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The $50,000 award is presented annually to...

Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Several weeks after Collins Booksellers’ flagship store, Hill of Content Bookshop in Melbourne, celebrated its 90th birthday, the Collins family and friends gathered at Melbourne’s Abbottsford convent this month to celebrate...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The winners of the 2012 Canberra’s Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture Storybooks: The Terrible Plop (Ursula Dubosarsky & Andrew Joyner, Viking) Fiction...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Independent Melbourne-based publisher Scribe Publications has announced that it will expand to the UK next year. Scribe said in a statement that it will establish an office in the UK...