Tuesday, 24 May 2011
'Have just ploughed through five novels in a row by male Australian writers, each single one of which seemed to involve a man with thin lips and strong arms standing...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
A record number of people attended this year's Auckland Readers and Writers Festival, with attendance figures up by more than 20% on 2010 figures. More than 32,000 visitors attended the...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The Sydney Story Factory, a not-for-profit centre designed to help children and young adults with writing, was officially launched at the Sydney Writers' Festival on 22 May. Fundraising is currently...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
How is digital changing the way publishers work? According to Pan Macmillan's head of digital publishing Victoria Nash, integrating digital publishing with traditional publishing processes means ‘asking more of the...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Neuropsychologist Dr Maureen P Molloy, an Australian pioneer in cognitive rehabilitation and a brain injury expert, has died aged 85. Molloy wrote Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Recovery from Head Injury (with J...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Kirschbaum appointed to head Amazon's NY publishing arm Waterstone's sold for £53 million US$1...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
New Zealand author Peter Wells has been announced as this year's recipient of the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship. Wells will use the NZ$100,000 (approximately A$75,000) fellowship to research and...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The Sydney Writers' Festival recorded its ‘second-largest SWF box office take ever' in 2011, according to festival publicist Emma Noble. ‘We hit our box office target--a bit over $625,000,' said...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Andrea Hanke reports from this year's VIP program industry forum: Digital was a popular topic at the Australia Council sponsored Visiting International Publishing (VIP) forum, which was held on 18 May...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The Throne of Fire (Rick Riordan, Puffin),  Book 2 of 'The Kane Chronicles', is top of the fastest movers chart followed by Water for Elephants (Sarah Gruen, A&U), a novel...

Monday, 23 May 2011
The shortlists for this year's Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards for women writers have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers, which recognises...

Monday, 23 May 2011
The winners of the 2010 Aurealis Awards have been announced. The winners are: Children's fiction (told primarily through words)'The Keepers' series (Lian Tanner, A&U)Children's fiction (told primarily through pictures)The Boy and...

Monday, 23 May 2011
A number of Australians have been shortlisted for the 2011 Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Zombies vs Unicorns (A&U), which features short...

Monday, 23 May 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Bayside Literary Festival: 20-27 May2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, shortlist announced this week: 23-27 MayBook Expo...

Monday, 23 May 2011
Part one of the TV mini-series dramatisation of Tim Winton's Cloudstreet (Penguin) screened on pay-TV channel Showtime on Sunday and became a recurring theme in book news this week. Tina...

Monday, 23 May 2011
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Monday, 23 May 2011
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Monday, 23 May 2011
MayDaniel Altman, Black Inc. (Outrageous Fortunes) Sydney.Georgia Blain, Random House (Too Close to Home) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leslie Cannold, Text (The Book of Rachael) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Cassandra Clare, Walker...

Monday, 23 May 2011
Bob Gould, long-standing Sydney bookseller and political activist, has died aged 74.Joel Becker, Australian Booksellers Association, writes:Vale Bob Gould'I was saddened to hear of the death of legendary Sydney bookseller,...

Sunday, 22 May 2011
The winners of this year's New Zealand Post Childrens' Book Awards were announced at an awards ceremony in Auckland on 18 May. The NZ Post Children's Book of the Year...

Sunday, 22 May 2011
A Man Melting by New Zealand writer Craig Cliff (Random House NZ) is the winner of the £5,000 (approximately A$7630) best first book category of this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize (CWP), presented at...

Sunday, 22 May 2011
The winners of this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards were announced on 19 May as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival. The winning books are:Best Designed Book...

Sunday, 22 May 2011
Geordie Williamson, chief literary critic at the Australian, has won this year's Pascall Prize. The annual $15,000 Pascall Prize is awarded to 'a critic whose work has significantly contributed to...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Australian author and illustrator Shaun Tan will travel to Sweden this week to collect the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and more than A$750,000 in prize money.  Tan will arrive in...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Sydney Writers' Festival: 16-22 MayNew Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: 18 May National Indigenous Writers...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
In 1665 a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard. This is the story of Caleb's Crossing (Geraldine Brooks, Fourth Estate), which has...

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
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