International library news
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Petition underway to save London’s Imperial War Museum LibraryIn the UK, over 4300 people have signed a petition to stop the closure of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) Library, reports...
ARC grant awarded for expansion of Australasian Legal History Libraries
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The Australasian Legal Information Institute’s (AustLII) proposed expansion of the Australasian Legal History Libraries has received matched funding in the latest round of grants announced by the Australian Research Council...
Australian Red Cross donates archives to Melbourne Uni
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Photographs, records and other objects from the Australian Red Cross national and Victorian archives and heritage collection have been donated to the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA), reports the Age.Australian...
Butler joins the Cameron Creswell Agency, Cameron’s Management
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Freelance editor and publishing consultant Jo Butler has joined the Cameron Creswell Agency and Cameron’s Management as a literary agent.Butler joins the company on 4 November to replace Sophie Hamley,...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
‘I would warmly welcome Amazon or The Book Depository setting up a warehouse in Australia because it would be a fair fight’—Pages & Pages co-owner Jon Page responds to the news...
Brisbane Airport offers Brisbane-related books to G20 delegates
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Brisbane Airport Corporation has selected 20 books about Brisbane and by Brisbane authors that will be displayed in the departure lounge for G20 delegates and media to take home, reports...
Author alleges plagiarism in Picador bio
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Author Paul Gorman has alleged that Vivienne Westwood, a biography of the British fashion designer written by herself and Ian Kelly (Picador), plagiarises his book The Look: Adventures in Rock...
Inaugural Daphne Award winners announced
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
The winners have been announced for the inaugural Daphne Awards, launched by literary website Bookslut to reappraise the results of controversial book awards starting in 1963. The fiction award was...
French wins NSW Senior Australian of the Year
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Australian author Jackie French has been presented with this year’s NSW Senior Australian of the Year Award.French is the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-15 and the author of over 140...
Blurb launches ‘Dream Team’ marketplace of publishing experts
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Self-publishing service provider Blurb has launched its ‘Dream Team’ marketplace to help authors discover freelance editors and designers to finalise their books, reports Venture Beat. The company aims to simplify the...
Amazon releases ‘best books’ of 2014
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Amazon has released its ‘best books’ lists for 2014, and has ranked Australian author Liane Moriarty’s novel Big Little Lies (Pan Macmillan) in ninth position in its top 100 list. Editors at Amazon selected the...
Melbourne City of Literature launches travel fund
Monday, 10 November 2014
The Melbourne City of Literature office has announced a new $3000 travel fund to support writers, editors, publishers and librarians.The funding will enable anyone working in Victoria’s literary sector ‘to...
Ferris wins Dylan Thomas Prize
Monday, 10 November 2014
US author Joshua Ferris has won the International Dylan Thomas Prize for his novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Viking). Ferris was presented with the £30,000 (A$55,115) prize...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 10 November 2014
Family Food, the latest cookbook from TV-chef and health-food advocate Pete Evans (Plum), is the highest new entry on this week’s bestsellers chart, debuting in third spot. It sits below Richard Flanagan’s The...
Scribe 2014 nonfiction prize shortlist announced
Monday, 10 November 2014
Scribe has announced the shortlisted titles for its second annual nonfiction prize for young writers.The prize, run in conjunction with Express Media, offers the winner a cash prize of $1500;...
Mantel, Gilbert to participate in Perth Writers Festival, 2015 line-up announced
Monday, 10 November 2014
The Perth Writers Festival has announced a number of authors appearing at its 2015 event.Among the international guests participating in the festival, which runs from 19 to 22 February, are...
Neale wins 2014 NZ Beatson Fellowship
Monday, 10 November 2014
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) has announced that Dunedin-based author and poet Emma Neale is the winner of the 2014 Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship. The fellowship, worth NZ$7000 (A$6292),...
Lanagan, McFarlane joint winners of 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award
Friday, 7 November 2014
Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (A&U) and The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane (Penguin) are the joint winners of the 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award. The prize is awarded every two...
Authors announced for Australian Writers Week in China
Friday, 7 November 2014
The Australian Embassy Beijing has announced that A J Betts, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Tim Cope, Brooke Davis and Damon Young will be the guest authors at Australian Writers Week in...
Chandler wins 2014 Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
Friday, 7 November 2014
Jo Chandler has won this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘TB and Me: A Medical Souvenir’, first published in the Global Mail.Chandler will receive a...
Avid Reader offers free books to G20 leaders
Friday, 7 November 2014
Avid Reader Bookshop is offering world leaders attending the G20 Summit in Brisbane in November a collection of free books with the proviso that they must pick the books up from...
Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ to be adapted for Netflix
Friday, 7 November 2014
Lemony Snicket’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ (HarperCollins) will be adapted into a drama series by Paramount for distribution through online streaming service Netflix, reports the Bookseller. Paramount, which is yet to...
Castro wins 2014 Patrick White Literary Award
Friday, 7 November 2014
Author and playwright Brian Castro is the 2014 recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award. Castro was presented with the $24,000 award on 7 November. The annual award was established...
The big questions: David J Smith on ‘iF’
Friday, 7 November 2014
Canadian author David J Smith’s picture book iF (New Frontier, February) breaks down big, unwieldy concepts for young, enquiring minds. ‘The best thing about this book is Smith’s innovative look...
Kent shortlisted for UK National Book Awards
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Australian author Hannah Kent has been shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in this year’s National Book Awards in the UK.Kent, who is shortlisted for Burial Rites...
‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize 2014 shortlist announced
Thursday, 6 November 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Harbinger’ (Stevi-Lee Alver) ‘dermOid’ (Beth Cardier) ‘Resistance’...
HarperCollins Canada to outsource fulfilment
Thursday, 6 November 2014
HarperCollins Canada has announced changes to its fulfilment and back-office operations and that CEO David Kent will leave the company at the end of 2014, reports Publishers Weekly. The company...
Hachette Australia appoints fiction publisher
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Hachette Australia has appointed Rebecca Saunders to the newly created role of fiction publisher.Saunders is currently based in the UK as deputy publisher of the Sphere imprint at Little, Brown...
Victorian Community History Awards 2014 winners announced
Thursday, 6 November 2014
The winners of this year’s Victorian Community History Awards were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 20 October.The winners in the book-related categories are:Victorian Community History Award ($5000) Exceptional...
Book Group Australia for sale
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Book Group Australia, a ‘well established family-owned business specialising in wholesaling, remainders, direct marketing and publishing’, is up for sale.The Sydney-based business was established in 2005. It has an ‘established customer and supplier...
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