Monday, 10 January 2011
Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin star in the latest Coen brothers' movie. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross' father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney, and she...

Monday, 10 January 2011
 JanuaryAlison Booth, Random House (The Indigo Sky)Katherine Howell, Pan Macmillan (Violent Exposure)Jane Hawking, Palgrave Macmillan (Travelling to Infinity)Katrina Beikoff, Finch Publishing (No Chopsticks Required)Sally Symonds, Palmer Higgs (50 Steps to...

Monday, 10 January 2011
A number of New Zealand authors and members of the literary community have been appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of their services to the country's...

Monday, 10 January 2011
PMP, the owner of book distributor The Scribo Group, has admitted its acquisition of the distribution business in September 2008 'has yet to deliver on its promise'. In the company's...

Monday, 10 January 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Applications open for the 12th Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship in 2011/2012: 12 JanuaryMidsumma 2011 Literature...

Monday, 10 January 2011
Melbourne University has announced that it will launch a new literary initiative for the 2011 academic year called Melbourne Summer Reading. First-year students across all faculties will be asked to...

Sunday, 9 January 2011
Craig Munro is the recipient of the 2010 Johnno Award. Munro is a well-known author, the former publishing manager at University of Queensland Press (UQP) and the founding chair of...

Sunday, 9 January 2011
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced that five Australian state-based writers' centres have joined together to form a national organisation called Writing Australia. The...

Sunday, 9 January 2011
Shirley Shackleton won the 2010 Walkley Book Award for The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo (Murdoch Books), announced at the Walkley Awards ceremony in Melbourne on...

Thursday, 6 January 2011
New NZ award for children's book illustrators The New Zealand Arts Foundation announced the establishment of a new award for children's book illustrators in December. The award will be named the...

Friday, 17 December 2010
Penguin publishing director Bob Sessions writes: 'I was very saddened to hear that my dear friend Ruth Park has passed on. She held a very special place in my life,...

Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has announced the appointment of Sally Heath as the new editor of Meanjin.Heath, a former journalist and editor of the Age's A2, said in a statement...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog this week Andy Griffiths travels to Warburton in WA with the Indigenous Literacy Project, and Younger Sun bookshop's Clare Hingston reviews The Goannas of No....

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Port Campbell Press has announced a new commercial relationship with Warren Broom's new ebook publishing service, Winking Billy. The publisher, which is a subsidiary of book distribution and representation company...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
In rights news this week: SalesFiction-- Fremantle Press has licensed Romanian language rights in The Edge of the World, (Marcella Polain) to Ararat s.r.l. Jenny Darling & Associates has sold...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Topping the highest new entries chart this week are two cookbooks; Donna Hay's Fast, Fresh, Simple (HarperCollins) is in first place followed by MasterChef Australia: The Cookbook (Volume 2) (HarperCollins)...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Guests have been announced for the Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program taking place during the Sydney Writers' festival, which runs from 16 to 22 May 2011.International guests confirmed to join...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Suzy Wilson, owner of Riverbend Books in Brisbane, and founder of the Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) has been awarded the 2010 Dromkeen Librarian's Award. Presented at the annual Dromkeen lunch...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
The Readings Foundation has announced the recipients chosen to receive funding in 2011. Trustees of the foundation, including writer Helen Garner, Readings staff, and donor Peter Donoghue, former managing director...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Chip Rolley will continue in the position of artistic director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) for the next three years. The extension of Rolley’s position was due to his...

Tuesday, 7 December 2010
'The main driver of competition now affecting the bricks and mortar retailers is much more to do with the take-up of new technology and the way it liberates consumers from...