Wednesday, 28 April 2010
UK author Alan Sillitoe has died, aged 82. His novels included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, both of which were made into...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Psychoanalyst and author Alice Miller has died, aged 87. Miller caused a sensation in 1981 with the publication of The Drama of the Gifted Child, with the theory that parental...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Brisbane-born poet Peter Porter (OAM) has died in London, aged 81.Picador publisher Rod Morrison writes:‘Picador would like to pay tribute to one of Australia’s finest poets, Peter Porter, who has...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Deirdre O’Donnell (née Hill), Australian Society of Authors (ASA) executive secretary from 1971-1981, has died aged 84.Robert Pullan, ASA chair writes:‘With one phone line and no staff when she was...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week: Matthia Dempsey attends the launch of the program for this year's Emerging Writers Festival; in the light of the recent Miles Franklin controversy...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Inside the May/June combined issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine readers will find 75 reviews of forthcoming Australian and New Zealand titles, including such highly anticipated books as Rebecca James' Beautiful Malice...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010
MayJohn Connolly, S&S (The Whisperers) Bob Franklin, Affirm (Under Stones)Julie Goodwin, Random House (Our Family Table) David Levithan, Text (Will Grayson, Will Grayson)Bill McKibben, Black Inc. (Eaarth: Making a Life...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
As the nation stopped to honour our Anzac soldiers this weekend, the book world was abuzz with new Anzac titles. The most mentioned chart usually features a few war-related titles...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Williamstown Literary Festival: 26 April-2 May Australian Publishers Association AGM: 29 April George Robinson Awards: 29...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Text Publishing recently released two titles examining the effects of war: The Pacific and Zero Hour.Now the publisher is giving Weekly Book Newsletter readers the chance to win copies of...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Last week's three top bestsellers: Our Family Table (Julie Goodwin, Random House), House Rules (Jodi Picoult, A&U), and 9th Judgement (James Patterson, Century) remain in the same top places in...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Nam Le wins PEN/Malamud AwardNam Le has added the PEN/Malamud Award to his impressive list of prizes awarded for his debut publication, The Boat (Penguin). The prize, for excellence in...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
The Western Australian state government has announced increased funding for books for libraries in the state. Culture and Arts minister John Day said council-run libraries would share $9.3 million dollars...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
HarperCollins New Zealand has announced the resignation of New Zealand publishing manager Lorain Day. ‘During her ten years with the company Lorain has built a fantastic publishing list which has...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Winners of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Awards were announced at the IACP conference in Portland, Oregon.Several Australian and New Zealand books were among the winners across...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
The Big Fella: The Rise and Rise of BHP Billiton (Peter Thompson & Robert Macklin, Random House) is the winner of this year's Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature.The $30,000...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
The shortlists for this year's Kibble and Dobbie awards were announced on Tuesday 27 April. The titles in the running for this year's $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Small Australian publishers appear to be moving on ebooks, with Black Dog Books and Exisle Publishing both confirming they have entered the market. Exisle Publishing has released 30 of its...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Random House Australia managing director Margie Seale will take on additional responsibilities for identifying business opportunities for the publisher in Southeast and Northern Asia. Seale confirmed to the Weekly Book...

Wednesday, 28 April 2010
HarperCollins has announced that ‘over 100 books by Australian authors are available to the international market through the HarperCollins eBook program'. ‘Ebooks present a wonderful opportunity for our authors to...

Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Figes admits to negative Amazon reviewsBologna visitor numbers upGoogle Settlement judge promotedGaiman double on...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010
The New Zealand publishing professional Gerard Reid has died. He was a director of the Book Publishers Association of NZ in the 1980s and a leading figure in the establishment...