Monday, 28 March 2011
British author Diana Wynne Jones has died, aged 77. Among her many works were the 'Dalemark Quartet', the 'Chrestomanci' series, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Howl’s Moving Castle (which was...

Monday, 28 March 2011
The winners of this year's Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Book of the Year Award and the Whitcoulls Pictorial Travel Book of the Year Award have been announced. Auckland author Ian Robertson...

Sunday, 27 March 2011
The shortlist for this year's ALS Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Apocrypha (Peter Boyle, Vagabond Press)Gravel (Peter Goldsworthy, Penguin)That Deadman Dance (Kim Scott, Picador)The Legacy (Kirsten Tranter,...

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
The Australian Book Review has announced that it will offer readers complete online editions of the magazine from early April. ABR deputy editor Mark Gomes told the Weekly Book Newsletter...

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Microsoft sues B&N over Nook ereaderApple sues Amazon.com over use of 'App store' phraseBritish...

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's/YA--Scholastic Australia has sold Chinese translation rights to Pocket Dogs Go on Holiday (Margaret Wild & Stephen Michael King); Donald Loves Drumming and The Very...

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
A number of Australian and New Zealand cookbooks were honoured at the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, which were presented at the 2011 Paris Cookbook Fair earlier this month. The...

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Jamie Oliver's latest cookbook, Jamie's 30-minute Meals (Michael Joseph) based on the TV show of the same name, is top of both the bestsellers chart and the fastest movers charts...

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, the reviewers’ top picks for the April edition of Bookseller+Publisher are revealed; Eloise Keating interviews Leslie Cannold on The Book of Rachael (Text); and Andrew...

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
In the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher Nick Tapper takes a look at how publishers of illustrated books are experimenting with ebooks. ‘The key move,' says Hardie Grant digital sales and...

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
'Physically I'm Willy Wonka (colourful dresser), emotionally I'm Fantastic Mr. Fox (erratic and mischievous) and mentally I'm Matilda (I like to think I have super powers)'--children's book author, Readings web...

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Allen & Unwin has confirmed that Juliet Rogers will be working with the company on a consultation basis.A&U CEO Robert Gorman told the Weekly Book Newsletter Rogers would be 'consulting to us on...

Monday, 21 March 2011
iPad 2 to be released in Oz, NZ this week Apple has announced that the iPad 2 will go on sale in more than 20 countries this Friday, including Australia...

Monday, 21 March 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:NZ Book Month: 1-31 March Ten Days on the Island, Literature Program (Tasmania): 25 March to...

Monday, 21 March 2011
Anna Lanyon's Fire and Song (A&U) is the story of a Sephardic Jewish family, Luis de Carvajal, his mother and his sisters, who were caught up in the Mexican inquisition...

Monday, 21 March 2011
Sign up for The Bookseller+Publisher Newsletter--delivered free to your inbox once a fortnight. You can also follow Bookseller+Publisher online on Twitter, become a Facebook fan or subscribe to our RSS feed.

Monday, 21 March 2011
If you've got news you think would be of interest to Weekly Book Newsletter readers, let us know by emailing bookseller.publisher@thorpe.com.au

Monday, 21 March 2011
MarchNicole Alexander, Random House (A Changing Land) Sydney, Regional NSW and Regional QLD.Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan (Clifton Chronicles: Only Time Will Tell) Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide.Bernard Beckett, Text (August) Perth,...

Monday, 21 March 2011
Lonely Planet writes:‘It is with great sadness that we report that our colleague Richard Samson passed away last Friday 18 March following a courageous battle with a terminal illness.‘Since joining...

Monday, 21 March 2011
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has announced new funding for Creative Practices at UTS by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). UTS said in a statement last week that CAL...

Sunday, 20 March 2011
The shortlists for this year's New South Wales Premiers' Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles for book-related categories of the awards are:Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) and...