Monday, 22 November 2010
Former NSW politician Andrew Tink is the recipient of this year's CAL Waverley Award for Literature for his biography William Charles Wentworth: Australia's Greatest Native Son (A&U). Tink was announced...

Monday, 22 November 2010
For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. This is the idea behind John Grisham's latest novel The Confession (Century). Travis commits...

Monday, 22 November 2010
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Monday, 22 November 2010
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Monday, 22 November 2010
On Fancy Goods this week, Andrea Hanke reviews First Dog on the Moon’s The Story of the Christmas Story (Andrew Marlton, Text); Paul Landymore interviews Brendan Cowell on How it...

Monday, 22 November 2010
'How good to see the WBN isn't afraid of tackling the big issues facing our industry! Christos joins me in finding this nomination hilarious, nearly as funny as the fact...

Monday, 22 November 2010
NovemberMarianne Delacourt, Allen & Unwin (Sharp Turn) Stacey Demarco, Rock Pool Publishing (2011 Lunar Diary)Anh Do, Allen & Unwin (The Happiest Refugee)Elizabeth Donaldson, Exisle Publishing (William Dobell)Stephanie Dowrick, Allen &...

Monday, 22 November 2010
Peter Kocan AM is the recipient of this year's Australia Council for the Arts' Writers' Emeritus Award. Chair of the Australia Council Literature Board, Dennis Haskell, will present the $50,000 award...

Monday, 22 November 2010
A fascinating glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, Fair Game is a riveting drama based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose career is...

Sunday, 21 November 2010
The winning titles in the 2010 Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) and Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards have been announced.The winning titles in the COOL Awards are: Fiction Years 7-9: Boy Overboard...

Sunday, 21 November 2010
Christos Tsiolkas' novel The Slap (A&U) has been nominated for this year's Bad S-x in Fiction Award. Christos' publisher Jane Palfreyman told the Weekly Book Newsletter that 'Christos joins me...

Sunday, 21 November 2010
The winners of the inaugural New Zealand Copyright Licensing Ltd Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The winning titles are:Best Book or Series in Primary Publishing: Figure it Out: Statistics...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
David Foster is the winner of this year's Patrick White Literary Award. Foster is the author of more than 12 novels, as well as nonfiction works, poetry, novellas, essays, radio...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
A number of Australian and New Zealand authors are among those whose works have been longlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Australian authors Kalinda Ashton (The Danger...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
The winning titles for the 2010 Young Australian's Best Book Awards have been announced.The winning titles are:Fiction Years 7-9: Boy Overboard (Morris Gleitzman, Penguin) Fiction Older Readers: Battle for Rondo...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
The winner of the inaugural national Vision Australia Braille Book of the Year Award has been announced. Carpentaria by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) was announced as the winner of this year's award...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
In rights news this week:SalesFiction--HarperCollins has sold The Innocent Mage (Karen Miller) to Poland and Belinda Alexandra's Wild Lavender, White Gardenia, Silver Wattle and Tuscan Rose to Turkey. Nonfiction--Hachette Australian...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Di Morrissey's novel, The Plantation (Macmillan), is top of the bestsellers chart again this week followed by Towers of Midnight (Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, Hachette), the thirteenth volume in...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Paid content on the Apple iBookstore is yet to be launched in New Zealand, despite thousands of titles available for sale in Australia from the Australian iBookstore. Stuff.co.nz reported this...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:agent speaks out against agency modelNYT will add ebooks to bestsellers listBritish author jailed...

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Campaigner and author Roberta Sykes has died, aged 67, following a long illness.  An activist and campaigner for Aboriginal rights and education, Sykes was awarded the Australian Human Rights medal...

Monday, 15 November 2010
‘Nowadays hardbacks that are produced in the UK and here are glued to the spine and often the hardback and trade paperback are from the exact same print run (to...

Monday, 15 November 2010
On Fancy Goods this week, Avid Reader's Paul Landymore reviews How It Feels (Brendan Cowell, Picador) as well as When Colts Ran (Roger McDonald, Vintage), and Rebecca Butterworth reviews Genesis:...

Monday, 15 November 2010
Christmas is fast approaching and it just wouldn't be the same without a review of the year that was--and wasn't--with The Chaser Annual 2010. This year marks a decade of...