Tuesday, 24 June 2008
American author and illustrator Tasha Tudor has died aged 92 in Vermont, USA. She illustrated nearly 100 books, the most recent being The Corgiville Christmas in 2003.

Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:romance fans attack MSNBC over 'bodice-ripper' slurAmazon promo helps debut novel to 90,000 print runBook Expo Canada's future...

Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Books Alive ambassador Michael Robotham has been shortlisted for the £2000 (A$4100) CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for crime writing. Robotham was nominated for Shatter (Little Brown), which the judges described...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
UNSW Press has announce it is now the official publisher for the Choice Books imprint. Following an agreement between UNSW Press and Choice (the Australian Consumers' Association), Choice Books will...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Among the items added to our around the world blog in the past week:young people think bookshops will be gone in 20 yearsauthor sues booksellers for selling his bookMarchetta gets...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll (Fourth Estate) is the winner of this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. Carroll received the award, valued at $42,000, at a gala...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
‘We need to impose some factional discipline: don't undermine, don't back-stab, don't air your grievances with each other in public'--Australian Publishers Association CEO Maree McCaskill on establishing a common voice...

Tuesday, 17 June 2008
The Big Book Club will be taking authors to ‘some places they wouldn't otherwise go' as part of this year's Books Alive campaign, says Big Book Club spokesperson Fiona Lange....

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,...