Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Random House has released its annual results, and while globally the company was flat, the figures show ‘substantial growth' in Australia.Random House Australia (RHA) MD Margie Seale told the Weekly...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
When a teenage boy with Asperger's is arrested for murder, can his family prove him innocent? Find out in Jodi Picoult's book House Rules (Allen & Unwin), which stands at...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Local romance authors on RITA shortlistTwo Australian authors, Elizabeth Rolls (Lord Braybrook's Penniless Bride) and Kelly Hunter (‘Revealed: a Prince and a Pregnancy), are finalists in the Romance Writers of...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
New posts on our Fancy Goods blog this week include reviews of Branda Walker's Reading by Moonlight and Miscellaneous Voices: Australian Blog Writing No.1.Visit www.fancygoods.com.au.

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Subscribers to Bookseller+Publisher magazine received our April issue in early March, containing pre-publication reviews of 45 new Australian books, as well as our Shelf Talk category round-ups and the second-last...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
NZ author C K Stead has been announced as the winner of one of the world's richest prizes for short stories, the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank short story...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Dymocks has announced the results of a survey of its Booklover loyalty scheme customers, who were asked to nominate their favourite books for a 'Top 101'.Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' series tops...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
The winners of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) awards for 2009 have been announced.The Christina Stead Award for fiction went to Liar by Justine Larbalastier (A&U); the Anne Elder...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010
The shortlists for this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles are:Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) Summertime (J M Coetzee, Vintage)Wanting (Richard Flanagan, Vintage)The World Beneath...

Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Shaun Tan is among the nominees for the 2010 Hugo Awards, to be announced at Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention. First presented in 1953, the Hugo awards...

Tuesday, 6 April 2010
The Australian Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the Australian Shadows Awards. All this year's winning authors are female, a historic first for the awards. The awards are...

Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Sydney-based writer Sarah Klenbort has won the Mslexia Short Story Competition, run by the UK women’s writing magazine Mslexia. Winning the top prize of £2000 (A$3300), Klenbort’s entry was chosen...

Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Alexis wins PEN/Faulkner awardAtwood, Ghosh share US$1 million Israeli prizeEbook 'supply chain collapses' with...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Children’s writer Patricia Wrightson OBE, has died aged 88. She was awarded the Dromkeen Medal in 1984 and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986. She won the Australian Children’s...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Publisher and editor Anne Bower Ingram OAM, has died aged 72. She won the Lady Cutler Award in 1984 and the Dromkeen medal in 1985. In 1988 she established the...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Due to the Easter Monday holiday, next week's Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 8 April.   The deadline for classified and job advertisements will therefore be 12...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
‘Book futurist' Richard Nash will be a guest speaker at this year's Australian Booksellers Association national conference in July.   He told Bookseller+Publisher: ‘Publishing 3.0 could be called Publishing Ground...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has launched the program for its 2010 national conference.   The 86th ABA Conference & Trade Exhibition will be held from 11 to 13 July...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Lonely Planet has confirmed it has made some changes to its print and digital teams.   ‘We have been very open saying we are moving from traditional book publishing to...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
John Wiley & Sons has confirmed three positions in its Melbourne office have been made redundant.   The redundancies are the result of a plan to centralise the marketing and...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, written by Alasdair McGregor and edited by Nicola Young (Lantern), has won the national Barbara Ramsden...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Entries for this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards have been announced, with confirmation that two new categories--children's and YA--have been added to the awards.   Arts Minister Peter Garrett said...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
White, Hazzard make ‘Lost' Booker shortlistVivisector by Patrick White and The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard are among the titles shortlisted for the ‘Lost' Man Booker Prize, a one-off...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
New on the Fancy Goods blog this week: Q+A with Australian Booksellers Association conference speaker Richard Nash on ‘Publishing 3.0'; author interview with Maggie Joel on her new novel The...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Authors on tour in April and May include: April Nicole Alexander, Random House (The Bark Cutters) Julie Goodwin, Random House (Our Family Table) Carole Wilkinson, Black Dog Books, ('Dragonkeeper' and...

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
The 50-year anniversary of architect Robin Boyd's first publication The Australian Ugliness (Text) has arrived, along with an anniversary edition to commemorate it. Boyd was a fierce critic of Australian...