Tuesday, 17 June 2008
James Patterson is not sailing close to the wind with new novel Sail, quite the opposite, as his book claims number one position in the Bestsellers and number two in...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Winner of the Miles Franklin Award announced, 19 June The NSW Writers' Centre's Festival of...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Eliot Asinof, author of Eight Men Out, about the 1919 Chicago'‘Black Sox' cheating scandal has died, aged 88. He also wrote four other novels, eight works of nonfiction, many TV...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
The Resurrectionist by Australian author James Bradley (Picador) and Addition by Australian author Toni Jordan are two of the eight titles that have been chosen for the influential Richard & Judy summer reads...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
De Niro's Game by Lebanese author Rawi Hage (Picador) is the winner of this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. With prize money of  €100,000 (A$165,000) the IMPAC award is...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
The finalists in the Romance Writers of Australia's 2008 Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Long work: Claiming the Courtesan...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Books Alive releases ‘Bombproof' coverThe cover for Michael Robotham's Bombproof, the giveaway title for this year's Books Alive campaign '50 Books You Can't Put Down', has been released. For more...

Wednesday, 11 June 2008
The winners of the Wilderness Society's annual Environment Awards for Children's Literature have been announced. Going Bush (Nadia Wheatley & Ken Searle, A&U) took out best nonfiction picture book. Going Bush...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Among the items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:attendance well down at BEAare e-books any greener than print?age-ranging for children's book 'ill-conceived and damaging' say...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
The New South Wales state government plans to amend current trading laws to allow all retailers to trade on Sundays. Under existing legislation, most NSW retailers must obtain government approval...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Sidney Poitier’s memoir The Measure of a Man has grabbed pole position in the Fastest Movers chart this week. The Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner star 'shares his provocative thoughts...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Smart 2009 Conference, Sydney 10-11 June Shaun Tan in conversation with Chris Wallace-Crabbe, State Library...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Brian Murray, head of HarperCollins Australia for three years from 2001, has been appointed CEO of HarperCollins Worldwide, following the resignation of Jane Friedman. Murray, who has been president of...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
The late James Kemsley, a Ginger Meggs cartoonist for 23 years, was among the authors and artists to receive recognition in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours. Among the other book-related recipients...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its annual Creative Fellowships, worth a total of $185,000. Now in their sixth year, the Fellowships allow writers, artists,...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Rose Tremain's 10th novel The Road Home (Vintage) has won this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, worth £30,000 (A$62,000). The novel is about an Eastern European migrant worker who...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
The winners of this year's Griffin Poetry Prize were announced at a colourful Caribbean-themed awards in Toronto on 4 June. Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashberry...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
The Montana New Zealand Book Awards celebrate the best books written and illustrated by New Zealanders each year. Awarded in the fields of fiction, poetry, history, biography, reference & anthology,...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Tara June Winch to be mentored by Nobel laureateAuthor Tara June Winch (Swallow the Air, UQP) has been selected for a year-long mentoring program through the Rolex Mentor and Protégé...

Tuesday, 10 June 2008
‘We quite often have a reputation of being expensive, i.e. selling at RRP. But my buyers and I search around for some great books at lower prices; we just don't...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Women authors take all the top spots in the charts this week. The formidable 4 Ingredients is number one in the Bestsellers, Cherie Blair's autobiography Speaking for Myself is number...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Smart 2009 Conference, Sydney, 10-11 JuneShaun Tan in conversation with Chris Wallace-Crabbe, State Library of...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Books Alive has announced a ‘bold new approach' for the 2008 campaign, which runs from 27 July to 31 August. While the model is the same, with customers receiving a...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Lou Johnson, sales director at Allen & Unwin (A&U) for the past six years, is leaving the company to join Simon & Schuster (S&S) in the newly created role of...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Abbey's bookstore in Sydney has announced several staff changes. Jack Winning will retire in 2009 and will be replaced as managing director by Alan Abbey. Peter Milne is standing down...