Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie used their own bodies as laboratories when writing about pollution in the modern world. The result is Slow Death by Rubber Duck (UQP), which exposes...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Due to the Queen's Birthday public holiday on Monday 14 June, next week's Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 17 June. The deadline for classified and job advertisements...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Shirley Walker has won the $30,000 2010 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers for her novel The Ghost at the Wedding (Penguin). Judge Robert Dixon, said Walker had...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The Western Australian literary magazine Indigo Journal has announced it will close after the final issue, Volume 6, is published in December this year. ‘In their recent funding round our...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Thames & Hudson has announced that sales and marketing manager John Dennithorne has resigned.Dennithorne, who is leaving to establish a new book business, has held the position for the past...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Allen & Unwin has announced changes to the Australian/Vogel Literary Award.The winner of the award, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, will not be announced until the book is...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Andrei Voznesensky, one of Soviet Union’s most celebrated poets of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 77.

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Poet Peter Orlovsky, who was Allen Ginsberg's partner for more than 30 years, has died aged 76.

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The popular Food Safari series on SBS presented by Maeve O'Meara is a glorious adventure through world cuisine. The success of the television series translated to a bestselling book last...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Writer Maria Quinn has died. Quinn was author of The Gene Thieves (HarperVoyager), winner of the 2007 Todhunter Literary Award and recipient of a Varuna fellowship. HarperCollins writes: 'We were...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
June Benjamin Law, Black Inc. (The Family Law)Jeff Goodell, Scribe (How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate)Loani Prior, Murdoch Books (Really Wild Tea...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Text Publishing has confirmed it has ‘almost 150 titles either currently available or about to be listed' as ePub format ebooks. ‘In the beginning we favoured bestselling and critically acclaimed...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Designers Sarah Healey, Kalee Jackson and Keely O'Shannessy have been shortlisted for the NZ AWA Press Young Designer of the Year Award.The award is open to designers who are under...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The finalists for this year's Romantic Book of the Year Award have been announced by the Romantic Writers of Australia, with the winner to be announced at awards dinner in...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
A full program for this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival (BBWF) has been announced. The main program runs from 6-8 August, with workshops from 2 August. ‘We've taken as our...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The Melbourne Writers Festival has announced this year's Schools' Program. This year, writers such as Cath Crowley, John Danalis, Shirley Marr, Shaun Tan, Neil Murray and Emily Maguire will be...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Details of this year's Brisbane Writers' Festival (BWF) event for young readers, writers and illustrators, ‘Word Play'--including an online program and booking forms--are now available online, here.The event is open...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Murray St Leger, managing director of McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) in Australia has decided to move back to the United Kingdom for family reasons.  Cindy Jones, who has been with MHE...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has confirmed it will not award a winner in its inaugural Young Calibre Prize. ‘We reached this decision very reluctantly,' ABR editor Peter Rose told...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week, we introduce publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall, who tells us what he's been reading; we celebrate the arrival of the July issue of Bookseller+Publisher; Laurie...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
New iPhone to feature increased ereading abilitiesApple has announced the forthcoming release of its iPhone 4, which tech reporters say will give users access to its iBooks store. ‘As an...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Reviewers continue to pore over David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Sceptre), which gained top spot in our Media Extra most mentioned chart for another week. It’s...

Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Henry Lawson Festival of Arts: 9-14 JuneABA Training--Brisbane: 14-17 JuneCAL 2010 seminar series--Adelaide: 15 JuneImagine...

Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Wakefield Press has announced the launch of its ebook list.The Adelaide-based publisher has signed to provide ebooks via REDgroup Retail’s Kobo publisher and plans to sign with Overdrive and Amazon.'We’re...

Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Arcade Publishing’s Dale Campisi and Michael Brady report from this year’s Book Expo America:After a certain Icelandic volcano eruption kept many publishers away from the London Book Fair it was...

Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:•    CAL 2010 Seminar Series – Melbourne, 2 June•    Kibble and Dobbie Award winners announced, 2...