Tuesday, 12 April 2011
The shortlist for this year's National Biography Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Alan ‘The Red Fox' Reid: Pressman Par Excellence (Ross Fitzgerald & Stephen Holt, UNSW Press)Grand Obsessions:...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Early bird tickets are now on sale for the 2011 Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF), which will run between 5 and 7 August. Festival organisers have also announced some of...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
In rights news this week:SalesNonfiction--Exisle Publishing has sold UK rights to Release Your Worries (Cate Howell & Michele Murphy) and Under a Bombers Moon (Stephen Harris); and UK and Czech Republic rights...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
The University of Melbourne Book Industry Study (UMBIS), which is currently compiling its second report, says the power of internet retailers has been ranked most highly by publishers in its...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced that its Writers on Rafts appeal has raised more than $25,000 for the Queensland Premier's Disaster Appeal. Operations and development manager for the...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
'We are determined no book should cross more than one ocean unless it is in a cruise liner book shop'--group chairman of freight forwarder SBS Worldwide, Steve Walker, spruiking the...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
On Bookseller+Publisher's Fancy Goods blog this week, Andrew Wilkins reviews Cate Kennedy's forthcoming poetry collection The Taste of River Water (Scribe); and Kate O'Donnell reviews Lili Wilkinson's forthcoming novel A...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
At the top of the highest new entries chart this week is The Land of Painted Caves (Hachette), the sixth and final book in the 'Earth Children' series by Jean...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 'The Waterhole' - An exhibition of original artwork by Graeme Base: 23 March to 28...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Author and former diplomat, Denis McLean, has died in Wellington NZ, aged 80.McLean wrote The Long Pathway: Te Ara Roa, a book about walking in the North Island of NZ; Prickly...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Holywood director Sidney Lumet, best known for the films Network, The Verdict, 12 Angry Men and the Al Pacino movies Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico, has died aged 86. Lumet's...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Orange Prize shortlistAmazon launches cheaper, ad-supported Kindle readerIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist Frankfurt to...

Monday, 11 April 2011
New Collins store for SA Collins Booksellers has announced that a new Collins bookstore will open in the Adelaide suburb of Kilkenny this month. The store will be located in...

Monday, 11 April 2011
As reported in a special bulletin of the Weekly Book Newsletter, the shortlists for this year's Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced yesterday,...

Monday, 11 April 2011
As the title indicates, David Foster Wallace's The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel (Hamish Hamilton) remained unfinished at the time of his death. Wallace's last novel grapples directly with questions...

Monday, 11 April 2011
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Monday, 11 April 2011
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Monday, 11 April 2011
AprilTricia Brennan, Rockpool Publishing (The Map of the Soul) Sydney, Melbourne and the Sunshine Coast .Cristy Burne, Walker Books (Takeshita Demons) Perth and WA.Liz Byrski, Pan Macmillan (Last Chance Café)...

Monday, 11 April 2011
Australian authors David Malouf, Craig Silvey and Evie Wyld have been shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Malouf has been nominated for Ransom (Vintage) and Silvey has...

Sunday, 10 April 2011
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that the 2011 Barbara Jefferis Award has been awarded to G L Osborne for Come Inside (Clouds of Magellan). Judges Cathy Cole, Susan...