Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010
The China Garden by Kristina Olsson (UQP) is the winner of this year's Barbara Jefferis Award.The award, administered by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), is for ‘the best novel...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Siddon Rock by Australian author Glenda Guest (Vintage) was announced on Thursday 11 March as the winner of the South East Asia and Pacific region of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Torstar, the parent company of Mills & Boon, has reported its book publishing segment's operating profit is up from C$67.5 million (A$72 million) in 2008 to C$83.8 million (A$90 million)...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Simon & Schuster Australia has announced the appointment of Kate Cubitt as head of sales and Anabel Pandiella as head of marketing and publicity following the publisher's recent restructure. Managing...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Among the international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:British Airways cancels Bologna flightsWolf Hall wins US National Book Critics Circle awardAgents and publishers...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
With one of their first titles taking out last year's Age book of the year award (Things We Didn't See Coming, Steven Amsterdam), and The Danger Game (Kalinda Ashton) and...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
This year's Collins Booksellers National Conference was held at the Marriot Hotel in Melbourne, earlier this week from 14-16 March. The key themes of the conference, which was attended by 60 franchisees, included 'business...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
‘Well, the Cleo nomination was always in the bag. The Miles was the surprise'--Jasper Jones author Craig Silvey's tongue-in-cheek response to being longlisted for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
In rights news this week: AcquisitionFiction--Hodder & Stoughton has acquired two novels in a new series by John Grisham. The series will introduce the character Theodore Boone and will be...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness by Sandy Jeffs (Vulgar Press) has won the SANE Book of the Year Award. The award acknowledges outstanding Australian nonfiction which...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Albert Ullin OAM has received the annual Leila St John Award, presented by Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). ‘His outstanding contribution to Children’s Literature in...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
A memoir by AFL footballer Ben Cousins, which publisher Pan Macmillan reportedly wishes to publish this year, may be delayed. Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper claims Cousins is ‘locked in battle...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
The prize money for this year's T.A.G. Hungerford Award has doubled to $12,000, following a decision by writingWA to match New Edition Bookshop's $6000 investment in the award. The award...

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Former co-proprietor of Tower Books Michael Rakusin, has acquired the Hale & Iremonger list. Rakusin said he indeed to preserve the flavour of the list, but to expand it in...

Monday, 15 March 2010
There's pirate treasure to be found in Clive Cussler's seventh book in the ‘Oregon Files' saga The Silent Sea and an Italian tale of passion, love and magic in Belinda...

Monday, 15 March 2010
Thanks to Madman Entertainment the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving away five copies of the recent release, Genova, starring Colin Firth. ‘A haunting, eerie journey to a place where souls...

Monday, 15 March 2010
Authors on tour in March include: Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)Xinran, Random House NZ (Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother) NZ onlyDavid Finkel, Scribe (The Good Soldiers)Cristovao Tezza,...

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Thanks to Murdoch Books and Rialto Distribution the Weekly Book Newsletter is giving you a chance to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based on the bestselling book by...