Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The planned sale of professional and trade publishing assets by John Wiley & Sons is expected to have 'minimal impact' on the publisher’s operations in Australia, according to a spokesperson...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Kinokuniya Bookstores Australia has launched a new Asian-themed literary festival, which will be held for the first time in October. The Asian Writers' Festival will be held between 9 and...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Allen & Unwin has announced that it is recalling all copies of Snitch: Crooked Cops and Kings Cross Crims by the Man Who Saw It All by Jimmy Thomson, published...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, presented by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), have been awarded to author María Teresa Andruetto from Argentina and illustrator Peter...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
'They know their tablet customer so well they have given her a name: Julie. "Julie" does not like to consume apps on phones because she is "a bit afraid of...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Mountaineer and author Lincoln Ross Hall OAM has died, aged 56. Margaret Hamilton writes: ‘Lincoln Hall, mountaineer and author, has died in Sydney after a battle with mesothelioma. The world...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
  March Rosalind Appleby, Fremantle Press (Women of Note) Sydney. Maggie Beer, Penguin (Maggie's Verjuice Cookbook) nationwide. Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press (Fish-Hair Woman) Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Wollongong, NSW. Stanley...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
In Lone Wolf (Jodie Picoult, A&U), a tragic car accident leaves a man in a coma, with his chances of recovery steadily dwindling, and his fate in the hands of...

Monday, 19 March 2012
Historian, bushman and author Robert Arthur Breeden has died aged 84. Breeden compiled Aboriginal Words, Stories & Legends (Department of Environment and Conservation) of Jack Bussell's handwritten notes from the 1920s on the Wardandi...