Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The winners of the Thorpe-Bowker 2010 New Zealand Book Industry Awards were announced at the Booksellers NZ Conference Dinner in Auckland on Sunday 29 August. The winners were: Independent Bookseller...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Wonky Donkey (Craig Smith & Katz Cowley, Scholastic NZ) was announced as the winner of the annual Nielsen BookData New Zealand Bookseller’s Choice Award for 2010, during the Booksellers NZ...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Allen & Unwin won all awards in the Sisters in Crime Australia’s 10th Davitt Awards for best Australian women’s crime writing, presented by Val McDermid in the Celtic Club as...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Amsterdam on 'Guardian' first book longlist Things We Didn't See Coming by Australian author Steven Amsterdam (Sleepers Publishing) has been longlisted for this year's £10,000 (A$17,000) Guardian first book award in...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, Angela Meyer reviews Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), we talk to Toni Jordan about the numerous and varied book covers for her novel Addition...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Thousands of school children, together with hundreds of bookshops and publishers, libraries and organisations around Australia will celebrate the fourth Indigenous Literacy Day today, 1 September 2010. Major events include...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) is one of five international literary festivals that have formed The Word Alliance (TWA). TWA was launched by Edinburgh International Book Festival director Nick Barley...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Text Publishing has announced that film rights to Toni Jordan's Addition have been acquired by Buon Giorno Productions and Bruna Papandrea. The film is set to be co-produced by Cristina...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The 2010 winners of the New Zealand Post Book of the Year awards, previously known as the Montana awards, have been announced. The overall winner of the Book of the...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The winners of the Age Book of the Year Awards were announced on Friday 27 August at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Alex Miller was the overall winner...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
J M Coetzee took out the top prize for fiction at the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards last night for Summertime (Vintage), which judges described as an ‘extraordinary book' that...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Sales of bestselling book Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury) continue to gather steam, with the book topping the bestseller charts for the second week in a row. The film...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Anonymous Premonition by Yvette Hold (UQP) has won this year's Kate Challis RAKA Award. The $25,000 award for Indigenous creative artists is offered in a five-year cycle with a different...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Robyn Davidson has won the 2011 Peter Blazey Fellowship for her work-in-progress ‘Self Portrait with Imaginary Mother'. The fellowship is awarded annually to writers in the nonfiction fields of biography,...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The longlist for the 2010 Inky Awards has been announced. The Inkys are international awards for teenage literature, presented by Inside a Dog, a website funded by the State Library...

Monday, 30 August 2010
September Elif Batuman, Text (The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them) Christine Bongers, Random House (Henry Hoey Hobson)Steph Bowe, Text (Girl Saves Boy) Ian Brown,...

Monday, 30 August 2010
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Monday, 30 August 2010
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Monday, 30 August 2010
In rights news this week: Nonfiction--Random House has sold Hell on the Way to Heaven (Chrissie Foster & Paul Kennedy) to Italy, The Sixth Wave (James Bradfield Moody & Bianca...

Monday, 30 August 2010
Lonely Planet has announced that Richard Samson, general manager, Asia-Pacific, has resigned from his position for health reasons. Samson has been battling a serious illness for over a year, and...

Monday, 30 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Beijing Book Fair: 30 August-3 SeptemberMelbourne Writers Festival: 28 August-5 SeptemberBrisbane Writers Festival: 1-5 SeptemberAPA...

Monday, 30 August 2010
Two books topped the most mentioned chart this week: Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), a postwar tale of loneliness and suffering during the Spanish flu epidemic in Australia, and Freedom (Jonathan...