Tuesday, 10 January 2012
On Fancy Goods so far this year, Alex Adsett considers the third draft of the D Publishing contract, Heather Dyer interviews Gillian Mears on Foal’s Bread (A&U), Megan Hancock reviews...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
The shortlist for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize was announced on 10 January. The shortlisted titles are:The Wandering Falcon (Jamil Ahmad, Pakistan, Hamish Hamilton)Rebirth (Jahnavi Barua, India, Penguin)The Sly...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012
The head office of children's publisher Weldon Owen will be relocated from Australia to London over the next six months. Current Weldon Owen managing director Kay Scarlett told the Weekly...

Monday, 9 January 2012
Murdoch Books has announced a number of key staff changes and four redundancies, in a restructure designed to 'position Murdoch Books for the new year and to face the challenges...

Monday, 9 January 2012
The recipients of Asialink's 2012 residencies have been announced. The recipients of the Arts Management residencies related to writing, and the projects they will work on, are:Lisa Dempster, Indonesia: Dempster...

Monday, 9 January 2012
Christopher Hitchens, author, literary critic and journalist, has died aged 62. Hitchens authored 17 books, including God Is Not Great (2007), The Trial of Henry Kissinger, How Religion Poisons Everything, and...

Monday, 9 January 2012
Ronald Searle, renowned British cartoonist and creator of St. Trinians and Molesworth, has died aged 91. Searle spent over three years in a prisoner-of-war camp during WWII where he made...

Monday, 9 January 2012
Simms Taback, children's book author and illustrator best known for his version of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, has died...

Monday, 9 January 2012
David Bateman, founder of David Bateman Publishing in New Zealand in 1979, has died.  Bateman was a life member of PANZ, and was active on the Book Council and the...

Monday, 9 January 2012
JanuaryJames Duigan, Kyle Books (Clean and Lean Cookbook) Sydney.David Sedaris, Hachette (Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk) Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane.Kirsten Tranter, Fourth Estate (A Common Loss) Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne...

Monday, 9 January 2012
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Monday, 9 January 2012
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Monday, 9 January 2012
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Lockyear Arts Festival: 13-16 JanuaryMidsumma Festival: 15 January to 5 February Living Literature Festival, New York: 16-29...

Monday, 9 January 2012
Former digital publishing co-ordinator at Scribe Publications Tamsin Wagner has left the company. Wagner, who had worked at Scribe for close to eight years, finished in her position at the end...

Sunday, 8 January 2012
Amy Espeseth has won the 2012 Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Scribe Fiction Prize for her manuscript Trouble Telling the Weather. Espeseth will receive a cash prize of $15,000 and a...

Thursday, 5 January 2012
Australian poet Mark Tredinnick was awarded the inaugural Montreal International Poetry Prize, worth approximately $48,500, for his poem 'Walking Underwater' in December 2011.   Tredinnick's poem was selected from a shortlist of 50 by...

Wednesday, 14 December 2011
This issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter will be the last for 2011.The first issue for 2012 will be published on 11 January. Any material submitted online or emailed to the...