Wednesday, 3 August 2011
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas has announced the appointment of Michael Williams as director, replacing Chrissy Sharp. Sharp, who was appointed the director following the centre's establishment...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
The shortlists for this year's Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing have been announced.The shortlisted titles are:Best First FictionPrime Cut (Alan Carter, Fremantle Press)Line of Sight (David Whish-Wilson, Viking)  The...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter Special Bulletin on 27 July, REDgroup administrators Ferrier Hodgson will hold a 'watershed' creditors' meeting in Auckland, New Zealand, on 4 August to...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
'To some extent, we still have to rely on there being enough good will from customers who will take the effort to support the local book business ... But we...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Pan Macmillan has announced that will now accept electronic manuscript submissions between 10am and 4pm each Monday as part of its manuscript submission process. As part of the initiative, known...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
The shortlist for this year's John Button Prize for writing on public policy has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Macmillan leaves many African countriesAmazon sales up 51%; 950,000 titles on KindleWorld Book Night...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Clive Tilsley reviews Spirit of Progress (Steven Carroll, Fourth Estate) Eloise Keating reviews Cargo (Jessica Au, Picador) and Meredith Tate reviews The Shattering (Karen Healey,...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
American novelist L A Banks, author of the Vampire Huntress Legend series and the Crimson Moon series, has died, aged 51.

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Eliseo Alberto, exiled Cuban-born author, has died aged 59. Alberto published poetry collections and novels, and won the 1998 Alfaguara International Novel Prize. His most recent books were Esther en...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Joan de Hamel, children's author, has died aged 87. She wrote Take the Long Path (1978); Hemi's Pet (1985); The Third Eye (1987); Hideaway (1992); and Hemi and the Shortie...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Go the F**k to Sleep (Adam Mansbach, Text) tops the fastest movers chart this week, while also making an appearance on the bestsellers chart in sixth place. Following in second...

Monday, 1 August 2011
Those at the recent Australian Booksellers Association annual conference may have heard about a community outreach program at Riverbend Books in Brisbane that takes the form of a bike-delivery service....

Monday, 1 August 2011
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include:Byron Bay Writers Festival: 5-7 August The Women’s College Writers’ Festival: 6 AugustThe Friends of the University Book Fair: 6-13...

Monday, 1 August 2011
Former Victorian police chief commissioner Christine Nixon is receiving plenty of attention for her book Fair Cop (Victory), which promises to candidly share the public and private stories of her...

Monday, 1 August 2011
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Monday, 1 August 2011
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Monday, 1 August 2011
August Robert Adamson, UQP (Surface to Air) Sydney and Melbourne.Joseph Braude, Scribe (The Honoured Dead) Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Paul Daley and Mike Bowers, MUP (Armageddon) Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and...