Friday, 11 July 2014
New Zealand independent bookstore Page & Blackmore’s in Nelson has been withdrawn from the market, reports Booksellers NZ.Booksellers Peter and Ann Rigg, who own half of the bookstore, have decided...

Friday, 11 July 2014
The Christchurch Writers’ Festival has rebranded as the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival and released its 2014 program.Among the international guests at this year’s festival, which runs from 27...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlist for the National Biography Award, which recognises ‘the continuing importance and value of life writing’.The shortlisted titles are: A Spy in the...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
The Magarey Medal for Biography has been awarded to The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and Europe by Fiona Paisley (Aboriginal Studies Press). The biennial prize, worth $10,000, is presented to the best biographical...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (Giramondo) has won the 2014 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal.The Swan Book was selected from a shortlist of six books, which included What Was...

Thursday, 10 July 2014
Even in the Dark by Rose Lucas (UWA Publishing) has won the Mary Gilmore award for poetry.The biennial award, worth $500, recognises a first book of poetry published in the...

Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Scribe has relocated its UK office and announced several staff changes.The UK office, which opened in early 2013, is now located at 2 John Street in Clerkenwell in a ‘listed...

Wednesday, 9 July 2014
The finalists for the 2014 Valarie Parv Award, presented by Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) for an unpublished manuscript, have been announced. This year’s finalists are: Rowena Candlish, Karina Coldrick,...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Author and academic Emmett Stinson has been appointed lecturer in English literature at the University of Newcastle. Stinson was previously lecturer in publishing and communications at the University of Melbourne. He is...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
A new report from Price Waterhouse Coopers predicts the consumer and educational book market in Australia will grow from $1.81 billion in 2014 to $1.93 billion in 2018. The market...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
A new survey has found that 35% of New Zealanders prefer reading print books, 22% prefer ebooks and 44% prefer ‘both equally’, reports Stuff.co.nz. The survey of a ‘nationally representative’...

Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Black Inc. will publish its first YA novel in October.Nona and Me by Clare Atkins is the story of a friendship between Rosie, a white girl, and Nona, an Aboriginal...

Monday, 7 July 2014
John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin) is at the top of the bestsellers chart for the fourth week in a row, ahead of Minecraft: The Official Construction Handbook (4)...