Tuesday, 19 September 2006
Anthropologist and author Margaret Orbell has died at the age of 72. Orbell dedicated her career to the promotion of Maori literature. Her books include the 2004 Montana New Zealand...

Tuesday, 19 September 2006
German historian and author Joachim Fest, best known for his biographies of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, has died, aged 79. His book Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days...

Thursday, 14 September 2006
As first annnounced in a WBN Special Bulletin last Friday, Australian authors M J Hyland and Kate Grenville have made the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize. Click here for...

Tuesday, 12 September 2006
The winners of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were announced at an awards ceremony last night. The winners are as follows: Fiction Book Award The Garden Book (Brian Castro, Giramondo)Emerging...

Tuesday, 12 September 2006
In our Around the World blog this week Random agrees to refund readers of James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Penguin UK opts for serialisation to promote its next big...

Tuesday, 12 September 2006
This year's National Literacy and Numeracy Week (NLNW) ran from 28 August 3 September, with the associated Minister's Awards for outstanding contributions to improving literacy and/or numeracy, and the Excellence Awards fro...

Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Craig Scutella, owner of Unleash Books has told WBN that closure of the chain's Fox Studios store in Moore Park, Sydney, is a result of the poor performance of the...

Tuesday, 12 September 2006
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Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the Brisbane Writers' Festival, which runs from Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 September; the Man Booker Prize shortlist...

Tuesday, 12 September 2006
The Thunderbolt Kid is off like a shot from the blocks. Bill Bryon's memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid dominated the weekend media and is this week's...

Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Australian author and journalist Michael Keon died on 22 May this year, aged 87. In his younger years, Keon moved with the crowd of artists and intellectuals at Heide Park...

Tuesday, 12 September 2006
The 2006 Books Alive campaign finished on 31 August, and ‘initial Books Alive 2006 sales figures indicate strong double-digit growth on last year, in excess of 15 percent,' according to...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
In our Around the World blog this week: Penguin is set to publish classics in Chinese; China's first foreign-owned bookshop for professional publications; the 2006 Hugo Awards and John W...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
Children's Book Week recently wound up, having run from 19 to 25 August. The annual event, facilitated by the Children's Book Council of Australia, kicked off with the CBCA Book...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
This year's $10,000 Kate Challis RAKA Award for Indigenous artists has been presented to Vivienne Cleven for her two novels Bitin' Back (UQP) and Her Sister's Eye (UQP).The Peter Blazey Fellowship,...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
The 2006 Beijing International Book Fair wound up on Saturday 2 September, after four days of intense activity, with first reports suggesting the event was a worthwhile one for the...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
Mary Drum, formerly sales and marketing director at Hachette Livre, has launched a new publishing company, Drum Publishing, following the end of her contract with Hachette in July. ‘There are...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
The Melbourne Writers Festival wound up on Sunday 3 September with a sold-out debate between Robert Manne and Andrew Bolt on the Stolen Generations. The festival, which ran from 25...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
Twenty-one works have been short-listed for the 2006 NSW Premier's History Awards.‘These awards, worth $90,000, honour the achievements of Australian historians and highlight the centrality of history to our daily...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
The winners of the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were announced at a dinner in Melbourne on Monday 4 September.In his opening speech, Victorian premier Steve Bracks praised his predecessor...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
The winners of this year's Ned Kelly Awards were announced by the Crime Writers' Association of Australia, in conjunction with the Age and the Age Melbourne Writers' Festival on 30...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
Peter FitzSimons' weighty military tome Tobruk holds on to the number one spot for the second week running, but the kids are catching up; Andy Griffith's Dr Seuss-inspired The Cat...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: the Book City annual conference, which takes place in Melbourne over the weekend of 9-10...

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
Nextra Strathpine in Queensland is now owned by Peter Keys, and has joined the Leading Edge Books team.

Tuesday, 5 September 2006
Renowned Australian children's author Colin Thiele has died, aged 85, after suffering from heart complications. Thiele published more than 100 books in his lifetime, including the children's classic Storm Boy...