Tuesday, 24 August 2010
The 17th annual Storylines Festival of NZ Writers and Illustrators has completed a whirlwind tour of New Zealand, reaching thousands of New Zealanders, young and old, to participate in and...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010
The 2010 Get Reading! campaign kicks off today. This year's ‘50 Books You Can't Put Down' includes 28 books available in ebook format, as well as 18 available as audio...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Children's Book Week: 21-27 AugustABA Training—Hobart: 23-26 AugustILP: I Heart Art fundraising evening: 25 AugustSydney Jewish...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Well, the weekend's election result (or lack thereof) may have taken some by surprise, but it's not exactly a shock that an election-related title topped the most mentioned chart this...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Poet Edwin Morgan has died, aged 90. He was appointed the first Scots Makar (national poet of Scotland) in 2004 and won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He wrote...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Western Australian poet Alec Choate has died. Fremantle Press writes: 'Alec’s first volume, Gifts Upon the Water, was published by Fremantle Press in 1978, one of the earliest titles in...

Monday, 23 August 2010
Literary critic Frank Kermode has died, aged 90.

Monday, 23 August 2010
AugustJake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir)Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Peter Beinart,...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Elaine Koster, the publisher and literary agent who discovered Stephen King, has died aged 69. As publisher of the New American Library in the 1970s, Koster paid $400,000 for the...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Shearer's wins retail awardShearer's in Leichhardt, Sydney, has won the Outstanding Specialised Retail Business award at the Inner West Local Business Awards.New book design blog launchedA new blog about book...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
AugustJake Adelstein, Scribe (Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan) Joe Bageant, Scribe (Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir) Jon Bauer, Scribe (Rocks in the Belly) Peter...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Ex-PM Kevin Rudd's daughter Jessica Rudd graced the cover of the latest Good Weekend in promotion of her new novel Campaign Ruby (Text), and her book was certainly the most...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:The Poetry of Science: 18 AugustDaylesford Words in Winter program: 6-21 AugustABA Training—Hobart: 23-26 AugustILP: I...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Inside the September issue of Bookseller+Publisher you'll find a round up of the local titles on offer for Christmas. You'll also find more than 60 reviews, author interviews with Monica...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
After sailing around the world, Jessica Watson has been touring the bookshops of Australia signing copies of her book True Spirit (Hachette), which is number one on this week’s bestseller...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Doctorow wins DRM fight with Amazon, B&B and KoboMacmillan US asks backlist authors for...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has expressed its disappointment that neither major party ‘has made any substantial policy announcements in direct support of artists or authors in the run-up...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
On the Fancy Goods blog: We speak to comedian, television host and now author Charlie Pickering about his book Impractical Jokes (A&U), Chris McDonough reviews Death Most Definite (Trent Jamieson,...

Wednesday, 18 August 2010
‘Simply holding a desire to be in print is not participation in the publishing industry. Readers are already reading and buying books so they are generally doing their share; it's...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
The shortlist for the 2008 and 2009 Western Australian Premier's book awards have been announced. The awards are being presented for both years following the discontinuation of the Australia-Asia Literary...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Australian children's author Christopher Cheng has been named 2010 member of the year by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), at its international conference in Los Angeles....

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Losing My Religion (Tom Frame, UNSW Press) has been named the 2010 Australian Christian Book of the Year at this year's Australian Christian Literature Awards, announced on 10 August in...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
The winners of this year's Romance Book of the Year (R*BY) awards have been announced. The winners were: Long Romance: Mistletoe Magic (Sophia James, Mills & Boon/Quills) Romantic Elements: Night's...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
The titles shortlisted for the 2010 Ned Kelly awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:True crimeCrooks Like Us (Peter Doyle, Historic Houses Trust)Pitcain: Paradise Lost (Kathy Marks, Harper Collins)Medical Murder...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
The shortlists for the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Book AwardParrot and Olivier in America (Peter Carey, Penguin)The Bath...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
In rights news this week: Fiction--Sleepers Publishing has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) The Danger Game (Kalinda Ashton) to Tindal Street through Nicola Barr at...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
The shortlist for the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel has been announced. The finalists are: Cut and Run (Alix Bosco, Penguin)Burial (Neil Cross, S&S)Containment (Vanda Symon, Penguin).The...

Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Author Mem Fox is preparing to sue Liberal MP Daiv Pisoni, reports the Australian. Fox is reported to have engaged Adelaide firm Sykes Bidsrup following claims by Pison, the South...