Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Peter Carey is on the shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize, worth £60,000 (A$124,357). The prize is awarded biennially to an author of fiction who writes in English, or...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Soul stealers and vampires dominate the charts this week. Predictably, Stephenie Meyer gets six books in the top ten Bestsellers chart, broken only by Cathy Kelly's Once in a Lifetime...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Australian authors Debra Adelaide (The Household Guide to Dying, Picador) and Michelle de Kretser (The Lost Dog, A&U) are among the 20 authors longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
HarperCollins is launching a new imprint in September, It Books, which will publish titles on the internet, style, sports and pop culture, with some titles to be distributed in Australia....

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Baci Lounge, a bookshop that offers coffee, food and wine, has launched in Brisbane. Established initially in Auckland [www.baci.co.nz] by Sharad Paul, the store runs its own café, offers a...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Brisbane Ideas Festival, 25-29 MarchBologna Children's Book Fair, 23-26 MarchSydney Writers' Festival 2009 program launch,...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
American author Millard Kaufman has died, aged 91. Kaufman wrote Bowl of Cherries and his second novel Misadventure will be published by McSweeney's this year.

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Dr Jean Battersby died on 26 February this year. Battersby was the first chief executive for the Australia Council for the Arts and a pioneering influence on the arts in...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
The US discount chain Costco has confirmed its first Australian store will open in Melbourne's Docklands in July. The store will employ 225 staff and will offer products under a...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Psychologist and author John S Cheetham has died, aged 60. Cheetham was author of Grow Up! How to raise an adult by being one yourself and Teach Your Child to...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
New Zealand author and photographer Geoff Moon has died. He produced over 30 different titles including New Zealand Forest Birds and Their World, Bird Migration in New Zealand and A...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced that its planned 2010 conference has been cancelled. CBCA national executive president Marj Kirkland said the decision was made with ‘the...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
In rights news this week: FictionHarperCollins has sold German rights to Frank Coates's The Last Maasai Warrior. Text has sold Brazilian rights to Kenneth Cook's Wake in Fright to Grua...

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
This year's annual Leading Edge Books conference, held from 21 to 23 March at Crowne Plaza in New South Wales' Hunter Valley, attracted over 200 member store and supplier delegates....

Tuesday, 17 March 2009
In the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine (viewable in e-magazine form here) Angela Meyer rounds up the titles publishers have on offer for Mother's Day this year.We also speak to...

Tuesday, 17 March 2009
New Zealand editor Andrew Mason has died. Mason was literary editor of the Listener from 1981 to 1991, and worked for Bridget Williams Books. He edited many books including Michael...

Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Murdoch Books has announced it will be ‘branching out into the exciting world of children's book publishing', and will be sourcing illustrations for one of its forthcoming children's titles by...

Tuesday, 17 March 2009
The government-funded Books Alive campaign will run in September rather than August this year and will feature a series of television commercials promoting the initiative. ‘Following a debrief session at...

Tuesday, 17 March 2009
In rights news this week: FictionAllen & Unwin has sold Commonwealth Writers' Prize South East Asia and Pacific region winner The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas to France and Lithuania; the next...

Tuesday, 17 March 2009
‘Let me be clear. Absolutely clear. Not one word spoken in that session, either from the panelists or from the audience, was new or innovative. The panel, well, we've all...

Tuesday, 17 March 2009
The Australia Council has announced a new initiative to support artists in creating residencies with non-arts businesses and industries. Connections Residency program is open to artists in all disciplines, including...

Tuesday, 17 March 2009
A new publishing scholarship has been announced in New Zealand. The scholarship, endowed by the late Andrew Mason, who died in January, is in memory of Mason and his father...

Tuesday, 17 March 2009
The Australian Shadows Award, Australia's top horror fiction award, has gone to Western Australian author Lee Battersby for his novelette ‘The Claws of Native Ghosts' (published in The Beast Within,...