Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Tom Kruse, a legend throughout Central Australia as the famed mailman of the Birdsville Track, has died aged 96. Kristin Weidenbach wrote about his life in Mailman of the Birdsville...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
A number of booksellers in New Zealand have announced this week that they will not stock a book about a high-profile legal case. Paper Plus and The Warehouse have said...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Author Les Murray has apologised to Socceroos captain Lucas Neill for allegations about Neill's leadership which appear in Murray's new book. Reprints of Murray's The World Game: The Story of...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
PM's Lit Awards winners announced this weekThe winners of this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards will be announced on Friday 8 July in Canberra. As previously reported by the Weekly...

Monday, 4 July 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:'Authoring the Author'--presented by NSW Writers' Centre: starts 7 July.15th e-book Expo, Tokyo, Japan: 7-9 July...

Monday, 4 July 2011
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep...

Monday, 4 July 2011
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Monday, 4 July 2011
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Monday, 4 July 2011
July Tristan Bancks, Random House (My Life and Other Stories I Made Up) Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.Peter Bernhard, Footprint Books (Rose's Kiss) Melbourne.      James Boyce, Black Inc. (1835:...

Monday, 4 July 2011
Children's author and former senior journalist with The Australian, Louise Schofield, has died. Schofield was the author of 10 books including Secrets in the Tingle Forest, which won the Western...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
JulyTristan Bancks, Random House (My Life and Other Stories I Made Up) Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.Peter Bernhard, Footprint Books (Rose's Kiss) Melbourne.      James Boyce, Black Inc. (1835: The...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Poet Kerry Leves has died, aged 63. Leaves' most recent poetry collection, A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar, was shortlisted for the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize and the New South Wales Premier's...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on 22 June, That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Picador) has won this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award, presented at an...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (Walker Books) has won this year's Carnegie Award, presented each year for outstanding writing in children's books. The Kate Greenaway Award for distinguished illustration...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Power and Majesty by Australian author Tansy Rayner Roberts (Voyager) has won the Ravenheart Award for best fantasy book jacket at this year's David Gemmell Legends Awards for fantasy writing.  ...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has advised that former speaker's agency Show & Tell Promotions has designed a 'repayment schedule' to repay authors for unpaid speaking events. As previously...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--The Mary Cunnane Agency has sold US and Canadian rights to That Deadman Dance (Kim Scott, Picador) to Bloomsbury.Nonfiction--Hachette Australia has sold Opening the Door...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
A recent survey conducted by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has found that 26% of local publishers admit to having no digital strategy. The survey on digital publishing trends, which recorded...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
As Kim Scott takes out one of the country's best known prizes, Fairfield Books' Heather Dyer and Allen & Unwin publisher Jane Palfreyman address the fraught question 'Is there such...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
'We are a long way from being a post-reconciliation society'--Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott responds to judges comments that That Deadman Dance is a 'post-reconciliation' novel.

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Toni Whitmont interviews Kim Scott on That Deadman Dance (Picador) and we take a look at the shortlisted titles for the 2011 PANZ Book Design...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
New publisher Spineless Wonders, which launched with the short story collection Permission to Lie (Julie Chevalier) in April, has announced the establishment of the Carmel Bird Short Fiction Award. The...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Pottermore website to sell Harry Potter ebooks exclusively'Digital makes territorial rights obsolete': CharkinUS ebook...