Monday, 14 March 2011
Peter FitzSimons' Batavia (William Heinemann), the true story of mutiny aboard the Dutch East India Company ship which struck a reef 80 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia in...

Monday, 14 March 2011
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Monday, 14 March 2011
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Monday, 14 March 2011
James Herd, media services manager for McGraw Hill, writes:  'The publishing industry lost one of its most endearing and larger than life characters recently when Firgal Adams passed away suddenly. Firgal...

Monday, 14 March 2011
MarchNicole Alexander, Random House (A Changing Land) Sydney, Regional NSW and Regional QLD.Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan (Clifton Chronicles: Only Time Will Tell) Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide.Bernard Beckett, Text (August) Perth,...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Author Yvonne du Fresne has died in Wellington NZ, aged 81. Du Fresne wrote several novels and collections of short stories including Farvel and other stories (1980) and The Book...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Booksellers New Zealand has announced that the date and venue for the Association's 2011 conference have changed. This year's conference will now be held at Te Papa in Wellington between...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Three independent bookstores in Hobart, Tasmania, and one independent bookstore in Mudgee, New South Wales, are currently for sale. In Hobart, booksellers Ann and Edward Gee are looking for new...

Thursday, 10 March 2011
Four Australians and two New Zealanders have been nominated for the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which will be announced at the end of this month. Australian authors Hazel Edwards,...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
International publishing house Harlequin has recorded a five percent decline in revenue for the 2010 financial year, with sales for the year's fourth quarter down two percent from 2009 figures. The Australian...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
The shortlist for the 2011 Barbara Jefferis Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:The Good Daughter (Honey Brown, Penguin)Like Being a Wife (Catherine Harris, Random House)Sustenance (Simone Lazaroo, UWA Publishing)Indelible...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's/YA--Hachette Australia has sold ‘Dragon Blood Pirates' books 1 to 3 (Dan Jerris) and Embrace (Jessica Shirvington) to Turkey; and Ella Kazoo Will Not Brush...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: US Supreme Court to hear fair use caseHarperCollins US launches digital imprintBorders US...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
As reported in today's Weekly Book Newsletter, Simon & Schuster is the latest local publisher to announce a revision of its pricing schedules. In the current issue of Bookseller+Publisher Simon...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Afterlife (HarperCollins) by Claudia Gray, the fourth book in the paranormal ‘Evernight' series, is top of the bestsellers chart as well as the highest new entries chart this week. The...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, read Chris Harrington's interview with Elizabeth Stead about her new novel The Sparrows of Edward Street (UQP), and reviews of Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
'Around 2004 the Australian Bureau of Statistics ceased collecting and publishing comprehensive statistics on the Australian book publishing industry. The lack of data since this time has adversely impacted publishers...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Kobo has announced increased investment in the company in a funding round reportedly led by Fidelity Investments and which Kobo says includes further investment from founding shareholders Cheung Kong subsidiary...

Monday, 7 March 2011
Scribe Publications has announced that South Australian writer Lesley Jørgensen is the winner of the 2011 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize. Jørgensen will receive $15,000 and a publication contract from Scribe...

Monday, 7 March 2011
A snowstorm causes a train to crash high in the mountains of Norway, the survivors battle their way through the snow to a remote hotel. As the temperature falls people...

Monday, 7 March 2011
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Monday, 7 March 2011
MarchNicole Alexander, Random House (A Changing Land) Sydney, Regional NSW and Regional QLD.Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan (Clifton Chronicles: Only Time Will Tell) Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide.Bernard Beckett, Text (August) Perth,...

Monday, 7 March 2011
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter article SWF visiting publishers announced, the Australia Council for the Arts has announced additional guests for this year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program at...

Monday, 7 March 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:NZ Book Month: 1-31 MarchThe Bookworm International Literary Festival, Beijing: 4-18 MarchAustralian Writers' Week in China:...