Wednesday, 30 November 2011
The federal government has announced a number of changes to the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for 2012. In addition to existing awards for adult fiction, nonfiction, young adult fiction and...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
The Heffley family is trapped indoors during a blizzard but when the snow melts, 13-year-old Greg is going to have to face the music after an incident at school. Cabin...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
On our Fancy Goods blog this week, Dave Martus reviews The Sweet Spot (Peter Hartcher, Black Inc.), Shane Strange reviews the third annual fiction edition of the Griffith Review (ed...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
In the Summer issue of Bookseller+Publisher we review 37 forthcoming Australian titles, including  those by established authors Peter Carey (The Chemistry of Tears, Hamish Hamilton, February), Carrie Tiffany (Mateship with...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's/YA--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold UK rights to Whisper (Chrissie Keighery); Brazilian rights to the 'Billie B Brown' series (Sally Rippin); and Turkish rights to...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Smashwords adds services for literary agentsBorders US agrees to settle legal battle with...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
The winner of the 2011 Walkley Award for Best Nonfiction Book is King Brown Country: The Betrayal of Papunya (Russell Skelton, A&U). Skelton's book beat shortlisted works Abandoned: The Sad Death...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
'One issue we are still very much negotiating (though some publishers might refer to it as "arguing") is that of electronic files and security. Who owns the copyright? Yes, the...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Publishers/distributors are asked to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by COB this Friday 2 December. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book Newsletter on Wednesday 7...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Author Emily Perkins and illustrator David Elliot are among the winners of the inaugural Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards, presented at a ceremony in Auckland on 29 November....

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Library services provider CAVAL has announced it has acquired Languages Direct. CAVAL acquired the specialist language library supply business from DA Information Services and said 'all Languages Direct and CAVAL...

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Charlotte Harper writes: Some 600,000 iPads have been sold in Australia and Amazon's Kindle may have already gained a 60% share of the ereader market in this country, attendees at...

Monday, 28 November 2011
The winners of this year's Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards, the children's choice book awards for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), have been announced. The winning titles are:Picture storybooksMr...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Poet Robert Gray is the recipient of this year's Australia Council for the Arts' Writers' Emeritus Award. Gray, who released his first collection of poetry in 1973, was presented with...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Angela Savage has won the 2011 Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award, presented on 25 November in Melbourne. Savage, author of Behind the Night Bazaar and The Half-Child (both Text),...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:2011 Guadalajara International Book Fair: On now, until 4 DecNational Novel Writing Month (1-30 Nov) Ends:...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Ahead of the bicentenary of his birth next year, Charles Dickens was all over the papers this week thanks to a new biography: Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens: A Life (Viking). Receiving...

Monday, 28 November 2011
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Monday, 28 November 2011
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Monday, 28 November 2011
December Mark Best, Hardie Grant (Marque) Melbourne and Perth.Becca Fitzpatrick, Simon & Schuster (Silence) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Brenton E McKenna, Magabala Books (Ubby's Underdogs) Dromkeen, Riddells Creek VIC.Tara Moss, Pan...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Juliana Archbold, president of The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Australia since 2003, has died aged 73. Archibold, who had an extensive and distinguished career as a...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Lana Peters (also known as Svetlana Alliluyeva), soviet dictator Josef Stalin's only daughter, who defected to the West during the Cold War, has died aged 85. Peters published a memoir,...

Monday, 28 November 2011
Tom Wicker, former New York Times columnist and author of around 20 books including A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt, has died aged 85.