Monday, 23 May 2011
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Monday, 23 May 2011
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Monday, 23 May 2011
MayDaniel Altman, Black Inc. (Outrageous Fortunes) Sydney.Georgia Blain, Random House (Too Close to Home) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leslie Cannold, Text (The Book of Rachael) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Cassandra Clare, Walker...

Monday, 23 May 2011
Bob Gould, long-standing Sydney bookseller and political activist, has died aged 74.Joel Becker, Australian Booksellers Association, writes:Vale Bob Gould'I was saddened to hear of the death of legendary Sydney bookseller,...

Sunday, 22 May 2011
The winners of this year's New Zealand Post Childrens' Book Awards were announced at an awards ceremony in Auckland on 18 May. The NZ Post Children's Book of the Year...

Sunday, 22 May 2011
A Man Melting by New Zealand writer Craig Cliff (Random House NZ) is the winner of the £5,000 (approximately A$7630) best first book category of this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize (CWP), presented at...

Sunday, 22 May 2011
The winners of this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards were announced on 19 May as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival. The winning books are:Best Designed Book...

Sunday, 22 May 2011
Geordie Williamson, chief literary critic at the Australian, has won this year's Pascall Prize. The annual $15,000 Pascall Prize is awarded to 'a critic whose work has significantly contributed to...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Australian author and illustrator Shaun Tan will travel to Sweden this week to collect the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and more than A$750,000 in prize money.  Tan will arrive in...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Sydney Writers' Festival: 16-22 MayNew Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: 18 May National Indigenous Writers...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
In 1665 a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard. This is the story of Caleb's Crossing (Geraldine Brooks, Fourth Estate), which has...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
MayDaniel Altman, Black Inc. (Outrageous Fortunes) Sydney.Georgia Blain, Random House (Too Close to Home) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leslie Cannold, Text (The Book of Rachael) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Cassandra Clare, Walker...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
The finalists for this year's Romantic Book of the Year Award, known as the R*BY Awards, have been announced. The finalists are:Long Romance category:The Accidental Wedding (Anne Gracie, Berkley)Instant Family...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Funding for the Get Reading! initiative will be cut by $1.6 million over the next four years. The funding cut outlined in the federal government's budget papers means the Get...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Bec Kavanagh reviews Charlie Burr and the Three Stolen Dollars (Sally Morgan, Ambelin, Blaze & Ezekiel Kwaymullina, illus by Peter Sheehan, Little Hare Books), Rebecca...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
The 2011 Sydney Writers' Festival was launched last night with a sell-out opening address from Pakistani poet and author Fatima Bhutto. Bhutto spoke on the subject of her country as...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
HarperCollins has announced a new global supply chain partnership with printer and distributor RR Donnelley, which will involve the US-based distributor RR Donnelley establishing print on demand operations in Australia and the United...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Jamie's 30-minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph), an instructional cookbook designed for the time-poor chef, is still at the top of the bestsellers chart this week, followed by Jodie Picoult's...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
In the June issue of Bookseller+Publisher we round up the titles due for release in the second half of the year that publishers are most excited about, from What the...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:'The inevitable disappearance of the vast majority of bookshops': Luke Johnsononly 20% of US...