Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Former owner of Boat Books in Sydney and Brisbane, Meg Field has died after a long battle with cancer. She held the position of Secretary and Treasurer of ABA Queensland...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Award-winning author Sid Fleischman has died aged 90. He won the Newbery Medal for The Whipping Boy and published over 60 fiction and nonfiction children’s books.

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Authors on tour in March include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men) Xinran, Random House NZ (Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother) NZ only David Finkel, Scribe (The Good...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Campus gunman scare interrupts UWS bookshopThe University Co-op Bookshop at the University of Western Sydney's Kingswood campus was caught up in a drama last week involving an armed man loose...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Bologna Children's Book Fair, 23-26 March Byron Bay Writers Festival Early Bird Tickets on sale 26...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
The 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award, one of the the most prestigious international awards for children's books, has been given to British author David Almond and German illustrator Jutta Bauer....

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Author Phil Cleary and his publisher Allen & Unwin have lost a defamation case and have been ordered to pay $630,000 in damages. The judgement in the Victorian Supreme Court related...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Ian McEwan's Solar (Jonathan Cape), a 'comedy about climate change', received far and away the most mentions over the past week, but they haven't all been positive. ‘In spite of...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Under the Huang Jiao Tree (Jane Carswell, Transit Lounge) has won this year's Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Book of the Year. The award, presented at a gala dinner at the Heritage...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has indicated that he will add two new categories--children's and young adult fiction--to the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. ‘We do a lot to celebrate Australian...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Last week's two bestsellers Clive Cussler's The Silent Sea and Belinda Alexandra's Tuscan Rose moved to second and sixth place respectively in the bestseller charts, while Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:DK's 'future of publishing' video US ebook sales jump another 370%Kindle apps for iPad...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
The Somerset Celebration of Literature held its annual school literature festival from 15 to 19 March 2010 at Somerset College in Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Over 16,000 tickets...

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Four female poets are in the running for the 2010 Mary Gilmore Prize, presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for the best first books of poetry...

Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Among the posts this week on Fancy Goods, Andrew Wrathall rounds up some forthcoming book-to-film adaptations and we pick our favourites from the forthcoming batch of 75 new Popular Penguins...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
The titles longlisted for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award have been announced. The longlisted titles are: Lovesong (Alex Miller, A&U)The Bath Fugues (Brian Castro, Giramondo Publishing)Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey,...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Being awarded an honorary degree by a British university last year prompted Australian author Kathy Lette to explore her family history. Lette reflects on her convict past in Men: A...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket (Christian Ryan, A&U) won Cricket Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards. ‘It's almost as...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:  All Saints Literature Festival, WA, 17-19 MarchBologna Children's Book Fair, 23-26 MarchAstrid Lindgren Memorial Award...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Phil Cleary, author of the true crime title Getting Away With Murder (A&U) is being sued by barrister Dyson Hore-Lacy for defamation. Hore-Lacy, represented Julian Burnside QC (himself an author),...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010
The China Garden by Kristina Olsson (UQP) is the winner of this year's Barbara Jefferis Award.The award, administered by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), is for ‘the best novel...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Siddon Rock by Australian author Glenda Guest (Vintage) was announced on Thursday 11 March as the winner of the South East Asia and Pacific region of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Torstar, the parent company of Mills & Boon, has reported its book publishing segment's operating profit is up from C$67.5 million (A$72 million) in 2008 to C$83.8 million (A$90 million)...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Simon & Schuster Australia has announced the appointment of Kate Cubitt as head of sales and Anabel Pandiella as head of marketing and publicity following the publisher's recent restructure. Managing...