RiP Harper Lee
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
American author Harper Lee has died, aged 89. Lee was the author of two novels: Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird (Arrow), which has sold more than 40 million copies...
RiP Umberto Eco
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Italian author Umberto Eco has died, aged 84. Eco was the author of the bestselling The Name of the Rose (Vintage), a murder mystery set in a medieval Italian monastery,...
RiP John Hirst
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Author and historian John Hirst has died, aged 73. Hirst was an Emeritus Scholar at LaTrobe University and wrote a number of books on Australian politics and history, including Convict...
RiP David Conners
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Brolga Books publisher and former managing director of Angus and Roberston Bookworld David Conners has died, aged 68. Sandy Grant, chief executive at Hardie Grant Publishing, writes: ‘David Conners, one...
RiP Brian Johns
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Brian Johns, former Penguin Books director and managing director of the ABC, has died, aged 79. Johns joined Penguin Books as publishing director in 1979, expanding the publisher’s list to...
RiP Peter Milne
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Peter Milne, a long-time bookseller at Abbey’s Bookshop in Sydney, has died, aged 75. Eve Abbey from Abbey’s Bookshop writes: ‘Our indispensable, seemingly everlasting Peter Milne died just before Christmas....
RiP Jackie Collins
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
British-American author Jackie Collins has died, aged 77. Collins was the author of more than 30 novels, including The Stud, Hollywood Wives and her debut The World Is Full of Married...
RiP Dorothy Butler
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Dorothy Butler, New Zealand author and founder of the Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop in Ponsonby, has died, aged 90. Butler was the author of several children’s books, including My Brown...
RiP Janis Brown
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Janis Brown, bookseller at Abbey’s Bookshop in Sydney, Pulp Fiction in Brisbane and Reader’s Companion Bookshop in Armidale, has died, aged 55. Brown’s colleagues at Reader’s Companion, Yvonne and Bill...
RiP Wayne Dyer
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
US self-help author and speaker Wayne Dyer has died, aged 75. Dyer was a prolific author of self-help books, including the best-selling 1976 title Your Erroneous Zones (Piatkus) and his 2013 memoir,...
RiP Oliver Sacks
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
English-born author and neurologist Oliver Sacks has died, aged 82.Sacks was the acclaimed author of the best-selling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador), in which he...
RiP Kat Muscat
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
Kat Muscat, a Melbourne writer and former editor of the magazine Voiceworks, has died, aged 25.Adolfo Aranjuez, who was deputy editor of Voiceworks during Muscat’s editorship, writes:‘I first met Kat...
RiP Hugh Stretton
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Australian author and social theorist Hugh Stretton has died, aged 91. Stretton was the author of several works on social theory and economics, including Australia Fair (UNSW Press), as well...
RiP Michael Zifcak
Friday, 3 July 2015
Michael Zifcak, former chairman of Collins Booksellers and Hill of Content Publishing, has died, aged 96.Zifcak was the chairman of Collins Booksellers and its publishing division Hill of Content, which he...
RiP Harold Joseph Davis
Tuesday, 1 August 2006
Harold Joseph Davis, co-founder of Trio Bookbinders and the printing firm H&K Davis, has died in Melbourne, aged 77.
