Sunday, 10 April 2011
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that the 2011 Barbara Jefferis Award has been awarded to G L Osborne for Come Inside (Clouds of Magellan). Judges Cathy Cole, Susan...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Remainders company TB Clarke has launched a new retail venture for consumers, AllBooks4Less. The new retail business is in addition to the company's existing wholesale business, which has also recently been...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Allen & Unwin writes:'Allen & Unwin are extremely saddened by the death of Liz Lohmeyer. Liz was a truly amazing person, full of enthusiasm, boundless energy, kindness, grace, heart and...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Journalist, author, and multi-award winning ABC documentary maker, Tony Barrell, has died aged 70.Tim Curnow, Literary Agent, writes:'Born in England he started work in London as a writer with Pathe...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
The NSW Society of Editors announced last week that registrations have opened for the 2011 National Editors Conference, 'New Horizons for Editing and Publishing'. The conference, which will run from...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 'The Waterhole' - An exhibition of original artwork by Graeme Base: 23 March to 28...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
The New Zealand sales and distribution office of Hema Maps closed on 31 March. The Australian company, which produces a range of travel-related products including guidebooks, will continue to serve the...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
An estimated 10,000 children and parents flocked to the inaugural Children’s Book Festival in Melbourne on Sunday, and event co-hosted by The Wheeler Centre and State Library of Victoria.‘I saw masses...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
The program for the 2011 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) is now available in print and on the website (www.swf.org.au), and tickets are on sale. International authors attending SWF include Howard...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
As reported by Bookseller+Publisher online yesterday, 25 Angus & Robertson (A&R) franchises have announced that they have formally terminated their franchise agreements with the REDgroup Retail owned company. The Weekly...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced two Australian finalists for the 2011 RITA Awards.The authors nominated (both in the Contemporary Series Romance category) are: Marian Lennox for Christmas with...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
The administrators of REDgroup Retail have announced a further 12 Angus & Robertson stores will close. A statement from administrators Ferrier Hodson released on Thursday 31 March said the closures will...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
The 2011 Get Reading! campaign was launched in Sydney yesterday, with the release of the '50 Books You Can't Put Down' list. This year's campaign will run from 29 August to...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
'When you ask someone to marry you in the acknowledgements page of your book, you really hope that she'll say yes. Luckily, she did, and it was awesome'--author Christopher Currie....

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Meredith Tate reviews The Dream of the Thylacine (Margaret Wild, illus by Ron Brooks, A&U) and the May edition of Bookseller+Publisher is revealed with A...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Hazel Bannock, heir to a major global oil corporation, has a crisis on her hands when her teenage daughter Cayla is kidnapped by pirates who have hijacked her yacht, somewhere...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
In the May issue of Bookseller+Publisher Andrea Hanke interviews Mary Small, publisher of Pan Macmillan's newly launched lifestyle imprint Plum.The first Plum title, due out in July, is a cookbook...

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Shatzkin: is print now a subsidiary right?HMV issues third profit warningProfits surge at QuercusAmazon...

Monday, 4 April 2011
Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan has won the top award at this year's Tasmania Book Prizes, presented as part of the Ten Days on the Island festival. Flanagan was awarded the...

Monday, 4 April 2011
Imagine if Jesus had a rebellious, clever sister. Such is the world that author Leslie Cannold has created in her new novel The Book of Rachael (Text). Elisabeth Holdsworth's novel...