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...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
The program for this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival, to be held from 25-27 July, has been announced. There is, as usual, a strong international focus, with writers attending from...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Perth-based educational supplier Wooldridges has announced its acquisition of Education House, which supplies textbook and school resources in Western Australia. ‘The acquisition of Education House is a key component of...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
In recognition of her lifetime contribution to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts, author Doris Pilkington Garimara has been awarded the Australia Council's Red Ochre Award. Pilkington Garimara is the...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
The longlist for the 2008 Ned Kelly Awards (or ‘Neddies') has been announced. Presented by The Crime Writers Association of Australia, the awards are for Best First Fiction, Best Fiction,...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
The shortlist in the Kayell Australia Galley Club Awards for Excellence in Book and Magazine production have been announced. Awards are under the categories of Books: Sheetfed, Books: Webfed, Non-Standard...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the 20 successful applicants for its 2008/2009 round of mentorships. The ASA received over 350 entries in the areas of fiction, nonfiction,...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Tim Winton on SlowTV--45-minute interview onlineThe often media-shy Tim Winton has participated in a 45-minute interview with Martin Flanagan for the new website ‘SlowTV', broadcast by Schwarz Media, parent company...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
‘We did not go because there is no reason to go anymore... The days of the old trade show are coming to an end'--why Margo Baldwin of US publisher Chelsea...

Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Among the many new items added to our Around the World blog in the past week:US book market flatCensorship concerns over Canadian court case82% of book buyers prefer printHas Microsoft...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Two very different books vie for top spot in the Highest New Entries chart this week but with somewhat similar subject matter. Patricia Cornwell's The Front deals with crime and...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Book Expo America, Los Angeles, 29 May – 1 June Closing date for Vignette Press...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
While final audience numbers will not be available for at least a week, Sydney Writers' Festival artistic director Wendy Were told WBN she was ‘thrilled with the success of this...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Reuben Crossman was awarded the Lamb Print Best Designed Book of the Year award for Movida (Frank Camorra & Richard Cornish, Murdoch Books) at the 2008 Australian Publishers Association's (APA) Book...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
The winners of this year's Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) best young Australian novelists awards were announced during the Sydney Writers' Festival on Friday.  The winners were: Max Barry (Company, Scribe)Belinda...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
In an unusual move for an Australian publisher Fremantle Press has announced it will make e-book copies of Hal Spacejock 1 available free online from June. The e-book giveaway coincides...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Snake and Lizard by Joy Cowley is the winner of this year's New Zealand Post Book of the Year prize. The title, which is illustrated by Gavin Bishop, ‘impressed the...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Among the resolutions made at the recent congress of the International Publishers Association (IPA) in Korea was one calling on the ‘Burmese, Chinese, Iranian and Vietnamese governments to engage and implement...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Author behind Gun Alley murder pardonResearch by author Kevin Morgan and used for his book Gun Alley: Murder, Lies and Failure of Justice (S&S) has led to the pardoning of...

Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Hachette UK clashes with AmazonBarnes & Noble CEO keen to see an end to returnsPoD publishers sue...