Tuesday, 11 January 2011
The Weekly Book Newsletter is currently completing its annual post-Christmas survey to see how the industry fared in the Christmas sale season. We will publish the results in a Weekly Book...

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Children's author Elisabeth Beresford has died aged 84.  Elisabeth Beresford is best known as the creator of The Wombles. The Wombles books were first published in the 1960s and were...

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Last Sacrifice (Rachel Mead, Razorbill), the sixth and final book in the 'Vampire Academy' series, tops the bestsellers chart this week followed by The Ugly Truth:Diary of a Wimpy Kid...

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
This year's Newbery and Caldecott award winners have been announced. The Newbery Medal goes to Clare Vanderpool for her debut novel Moon over Manifest (Random House).The winner of the Caldecott...

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
In the Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher we round up the titles Australian publishers are expecting big things from in 2011. New books from authors including Cate Kennedy, Markus Zusak, Frank...

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Dick King-Smith, the British author of many popular children's books, has died aged 88. His 1983 book The Sheep-Pig was made into the Australian film Babe.

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Don Grady, a New Zealand author of 12 books, has died aged 81. His last book on the Edwin Fox ship received funding from the Marlborough District Council before he...

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories recently added to our Around the World blog:One in five UK libraries to closeB&N has its best Xmas in yearsUS print book sales fall...

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
'We have all been shocked by the images and news coming out of Queensland. Our hearts go out to all those affected by the floods: friends, family and colleagues'--Joel Becker,...

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
The first edition of Media Extra for 2011 will be published on Monday, 17 January. To find out which books were mentioned in the media this week, subscribe to Media...

Monday, 10 January 2011
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Monday, 10 January 2011
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Monday, 10 January 2011
Poet, anthologist and educator Harvey McQueen has died aged 76. His most recent book, These I Have Loved (Steele Roberts Publishing Ltd), presenting 100 of his favourite New Zealand poems, was...

Monday, 10 January 2011
The national winners in the 2011 Gourmand Cookbook Awards were announced in December. The Australian Best Cookbook of the Year was awarded to Bentley: Contemporary Cuisine by Brent Savage and...

Monday, 10 January 2011
Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin star in the latest Coen brothers' movie. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross' father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney, and she...

Monday, 10 January 2011
 JanuaryAlison Booth, Random House (The Indigo Sky)Katherine Howell, Pan Macmillan (Violent Exposure)Jane Hawking, Palgrave Macmillan (Travelling to Infinity)Katrina Beikoff, Finch Publishing (No Chopsticks Required)Sally Symonds, Palmer Higgs (50 Steps to...

Monday, 10 January 2011
A number of New Zealand authors and members of the literary community have been appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of their services to the country's...

Monday, 10 January 2011
PMP, the owner of book distributor The Scribo Group, has admitted its acquisition of the distribution business in September 2008 'has yet to deliver on its promise'. In the company's...

Monday, 10 January 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Applications open for the 12th Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship in 2011/2012: 12 JanuaryMidsumma 2011 Literature...

Monday, 10 January 2011
Melbourne University has announced that it will launch a new literary initiative for the 2011 academic year called Melbourne Summer Reading. First-year students across all faculties will be asked to...

Sunday, 9 January 2011
Craig Munro is the recipient of the 2010 Johnno Award. Munro is a well-known author, the former publishing manager at University of Queensland Press (UQP) and the founding chair of...

Sunday, 9 January 2011
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced that five Australian state-based writers' centres have joined together to form a national organisation called Writing Australia. The...

Sunday, 9 January 2011
Shirley Shackleton won the 2010 Walkley Book Award for The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo (Murdoch Books), announced at the Walkley Awards ceremony in Melbourne on...