Monday, 20 June 2011
The shortlist for this year's Australian Christian Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Bible bites: 365 devotions for Aussie families (Ladeane Lindsay, Anglican Youthworks)Christianity alongside...

Monday, 20 June 2011
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include:The Noosa Longweekend Festival: 17-26 June 6th Children's and Young Adult Literature Festival: 25 June18th Scarlet Stiletto Awards Closing: 30...

Monday, 20 June 2011
The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature (Jeff VanderMeer & S J Chambers, Thames & Hudson) details...

Monday, 20 June 2011
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Monday, 20 June 2011
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Monday, 20 June 2011
June Kevin J Anderson, Orbit (‘Terra Incognita' series) Sydney and Perth. Alan Bissett, Newsouth (Boyracers) Melbourne and Brisbane.Tim Bonyhady, A&U (Good Living Street) Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.Tricia Brennan, Rockpool Publishing...

Monday, 20 June 2011
Renowned Western Australian author Tom Hungerford has died, aged 96. Hungerford wrote novels, poetry, short stories, children's fiction, plays and articles. His best known work was Stories from Suburban Road,...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
The organisers of the Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) have reported higher attendance numbers at this year's festival, compared to the 2010 festival. Festival director Lisa Dempster told the Weekly Book...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
The Publisher's Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that Sarah Ropata, senior international advisor at Creative New Zealand, has been appointed as project manager for the books and literature...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has announced that There Was an Old Sailor by Claire Saxby and Cassandra Allen (Walker Books) has won the Australian and New...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
In rights news AcquisitionsFiction--Scribe has acquired Wheatbelt (Stephen Orr), ‘set in a rural town where unsolved crimes are mounting, and history seems to be repeating itself in dark and unsettling...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Bookseller+Publisher celebrates 90 years and Dave Martus reviews The First Fleet: The Real Story (Alan Frost, Black Inc.).

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Ebooks are here at last, but there are more than a few hurdles to a thriving Australian ebook market. Eloise Keating looks at the challenges and decisions facing the industry...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
The London branch of Jack Morgan's international investigation agency 'Private' is in the spotlight--the daughter of the agency's most valuable client has been kidnapped and Dan Carter, head of the...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:T S Eliot tops app storeauthor recommends buying print, not ebookAmazon will publish 32...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
HarperCollins New Zealand has signed a new publishing agreement with local film studio Weta Workship which will involve the publication of movie tie-in books. Weta Workshop said in a statement...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann, Bloomsbury), has won the 2011 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. The €100,000 (approximately A$134,000) award is the most valuable for a novel published...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Ingram has announced the official opening of its Australian Lightning Source operation. Ingram told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the operation, which will offer print on demand facilities, launched with...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
'For the record - I'm a book lover and I don't have an e-reader. I'm a traditionalist, but obviously part of a dying breed.'--From the Twitter account of Federal Minister...

Wednesday, 15 June 2011
HarperCollins has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that Spiros Kotsialos will finish in his position as digital and innovation director this week. Kotsialos, who has worked for the publisher...

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Pan Macmillan has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that Alex Craig has replaced Rod Morrison as Picador publisher. The Age reported over the weekend that Morrison left his position...

Tuesday, 14 June 2011
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Pippa Masson, literary agent at Curtis Brown and Aviva Tuffield, fiction acquisitions editor at Scribe, have joined the committee for the...