Monday, 11 August 2014
Australian author Fiona McFarlane has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award for her novel The Night Guest (Hamish Hamilton).McFarlane’s book is one of 11 titles longlisted for the...

Monday, 11 August 2014
The titles shortlisted for the 2014 Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing were announced by the Australian Crime Writers Association at the Bendigo Writers Festival in regional Victoria, which ran from 8 to...

Monday, 11 August 2014
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman’s production companies have optioned the film rights to Big Little Lies by Australian author Liane Moriarty (Pan Macmillan).Deadline Hollywood reports that Kidman and Witherspoon ‘will...

Friday, 8 August 2014
A new magazine called Womankind has been launched in Australia and will feature book reviews and extracts.The quarterly magazine is produced by The Bull Publishing, which also publishes New Philosopher,...

Friday, 8 August 2014
Sydney independent bookselling chain Your Bookshop will be the event bookseller at Book Expo Australia, which takes place at the Sydney Showground on 29-31 August.Your Bookshop co-owner Bonnie Serov told Books+Publishing that the bookseller ‘will have a stall...

Thursday, 7 August 2014
Black Inc. has announced that it will publish Olympic swimmer Leisel Jones’ memoir under its Nero imprint in October 2015.‘This isn’t another “swim-moir” but an inspirational story,’ said Nero publisher...

Thursday, 7 August 2014
Danielle Binks has won the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)’s 2014 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency for her unpublished YA novel ‘The True Constant’.The annual residency offers one week’s stay...

Thursday, 7 August 2014
Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis’ political thriller The Marmalade Files, along with the newly released sequel The Mandarin Code (both HarperCollins), are being adapted into a TV mini-series by Matchbox...

Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Manning Valley Books has moved to Wingham, NSW, from Taree, also in NSW, and will hold a grand opening of its new store on 9 August for National Bookshop Day. Bookstore...

Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Momentum has acquired two books in a YA crossover fantasy series by Justin Woolley and a yet-to-be-titled medical rural romance by Nicki Edwards. Woolley’s books have been acquired in a two-book...

Wednesday, 6 August 2014
The inaugural Bookbinding and Book Arts Conference will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 24 to 26 October, featuring experts from the UK and US, Booksellers NZ has announced.The event...

Wednesday, 6 August 2014
‘This Saturday 9 August is National Bookshop Day, and while we can all agree that books are great, we can probably also agree that pugs are even better’—Avid Reader is...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Collins Byron Bay bookseller Gabi Calder said the quality of the program at this year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival and the ‘willingness of the audience to engage with authors and...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Ticket sales at the 2014 Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF), which ran from 1 to 3 August,  increased by 21% compared to last year, with many sessions selling out. The festival bookshop...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) has announced the winners of its 2014 Children’s Book Awards.  The winners in each category are:LIANZA Junior Fiction Award—Esther Glen...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Joe Victim (Paul Cleave, Atria) Frederick’s Coat (Alan Duff, Random House...

Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has announced that executive director Ben Strout will leave the role at the end of 2014. Strout joined the festival in 2009 and has ‘overseen growth...