Sunday, 21 November 2010
The winning titles in the 2010 Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) and Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards have been announced.The winning titles in the COOL Awards are: Fiction Years 7-9: Boy Overboard...

Sunday, 21 November 2010
Christos Tsiolkas' novel The Slap (A&U) has been nominated for this year's Bad S-x in Fiction Award. Christos' publisher Jane Palfreyman told the Weekly Book Newsletter that 'Christos joins me...

Sunday, 21 November 2010
The winners of the inaugural New Zealand Copyright Licensing Ltd Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The winning titles are:Best Book or Series in Primary Publishing: Figure it Out: Statistics...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
David Foster is the winner of this year's Patrick White Literary Award. Foster is the author of more than 12 novels, as well as nonfiction works, poetry, novellas, essays, radio...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
A number of Australian and New Zealand authors are among those whose works have been longlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Australian authors Kalinda Ashton (The Danger...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
The winning titles for the 2010 Young Australian's Best Book Awards have been announced.The winning titles are:Fiction Years 7-9: Boy Overboard (Morris Gleitzman, Penguin) Fiction Older Readers: Battle for Rondo...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
The winner of the inaugural national Vision Australia Braille Book of the Year Award has been announced. Carpentaria by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) was announced as the winner of this year's award...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
In rights news this week:SalesFiction--HarperCollins has sold The Innocent Mage (Karen Miller) to Poland and Belinda Alexandra's Wild Lavender, White Gardenia, Silver Wattle and Tuscan Rose to Turkey. Nonfiction--Hachette Australian...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Di Morrissey's novel, The Plantation (Macmillan), is top of the bestsellers chart again this week followed by Towers of Midnight (Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, Hachette), the thirteenth volume in...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Paid content on the Apple iBookstore is yet to be launched in New Zealand, despite thousands of titles available for sale in Australia from the Australian iBookstore. Stuff.co.nz reported this...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:agent speaks out against agency modelNYT will add ebooks to bestsellers listBritish author jailed...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Campaigner and author Roberta Sykes has died, aged 67, following a long illness.  An activist and campaigner for Aboriginal rights and education, Sykes was awarded the Australian Human Rights medal...

Monday, 15 November 2010
‘Nowadays hardbacks that are produced in the UK and here are glued to the spine and often the hardback and trade paperback are from the exact same print run (to...

Monday, 15 November 2010
On Fancy Goods this week, Avid Reader's Paul Landymore reviews How It Feels (Brendan Cowell, Picador) as well as When Colts Ran (Roger McDonald, Vintage), and Rebecca Butterworth reviews Genesis:...

Monday, 15 November 2010
Christmas is fast approaching and it just wouldn't be the same without a review of the year that was--and wasn't--with The Chaser Annual 2010. This year marks a decade of...

Monday, 15 November 2010
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, 15 November 2010
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, 15 November 2010
Roger McDonald's When Colts Ran (Vintage) is an epic Australian tale of friendship, toil, hope and history, which is number one on our most mentioned chart this week (read our...

Monday, 15 November 2010
NovemberStacey Demarco, Rock Pool Publishing (2011 Lunar Diary) Cassandra Eason, Foulsham Publishing (Complete Book of Spells, Contact Your Spirit Guides)John Edward, Capricorn Link (What If God Were the Sun?) Peter...

Monday, 15 November 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: ABA NSW Christmas Party: 17 November Society of Editors Dinner Meeting (VIC): 17 November15th annual...

Monday, 15 November 2010
The Adelaide Festival announced last week that Laura Kroetsch has been appointed as the new executive producer of Adelaide Writers' Week. Festival organisers also announced that Writers' Week will move to an...

Monday, 15 November 2010
James Freud, Australian musician and author of two memoirs, I Am the Voice Left from Drinking (2002) and I Am the Voice Left from Rehab (2007), has died aged 51.