Thursday, 20 February 2014
Australian author Fiona McFarlane has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Awards in the US for her debut novel The Night Guest (Hamish Hamilton). McFarlane’s book, which is published in...

Wednesday, 19 February 2014
A new website designed to showcase New Zealand books was launched earlier this month. NZ Booklovers features reviews of New Zealand and international books, as well as author interviews and...

Monday, 17 February 2014
Three books by Australian authors have been selected for the 2014 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children and young adults....

Monday, 17 February 2014
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne is one of five international partners in a new literature and climate change project called Weather Stations. Organisations in Berlin...

Thursday, 13 February 2014
Friday 14 February is International Book Giving Day, an initiative that encourages members of the public to donate books to children. The International Book Giving Day website encourages members of...

Thursday, 13 February 2014
The longlist for the second Stella Prize has been announced. This year’s longlist features six works of fiction and six works of nonfiction. The longlisted titles are: Letter to George...

Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Child literacy program the Imagination Library, launched in 2013 as a pilot program, is now operating in nine communities around Australia.The local version of the Imagination Library, which is run...

Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Dymocks Bookstore in George Street, Sydney, will attempt to break a Guinness World Record for the largest ‘reading relay’ on 27 February to raise money for Dymocks Children’s Charities.Relay participants...

Monday, 10 February 2014
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the program for this year’s national conference, to be held in Canberra from 16 to 18 May. This year’s conference, entitled Discovering National Treasures,...

Friday, 7 February 2014
The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has invested in UK-based The Writing Platform, becoming the Australian partner of the platform. The Writing Platform was established in 2012 by The Literary Platform,...

Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Independent Melbourne bookseller Readings has announced that it will present two new literary awards to Australian authors this year. The Readings New Australian Writing Award will be presented for an...

Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Affirm Press has launched a new prize that will give Melbourne University creative writing students the opportunity to have their manuscripts published by Affirm Press. The winner of the Affirm...

Monday, 3 February 2014
Eleanor Catton has signed a deal to help create a television miniseries adaptation of her Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries (Granta), reports the Sunday Star-Times. Catton said she intends for the series...

Friday, 31 January 2014
Express Media has announced the winners of its Hologram book-publishing initiative for young writers.The successful novellas are No Limit by Holly Childs and The Loud Earth by Elisabeth Murray. Both...

Thursday, 30 January 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 Indie Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books, have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Fiction Barracuda (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U) Coal Creek (Alex Miller, A&U)...

Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Boomerang Books has expanded its school supply business by merging with specialist online bookseller BookSurf. BookSurf, which has been operating for around 14 years, was purchased by Boomerang Books co-owner...

Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Literary magazine Seizure relaunched in January with a new website that replaces the biannual print magazine.The website will be updated each week with new writing, which will be kept behind...

Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Amazon-owned Audible has launched an Australian audiobook store. The audible.com.au site went live on 15 January. Australian customers, who were previously able to purchase audiobooks from the Audible US site,...

Monday, 20 January 2014
US bookseller Barnes & Noble has begun raising the profile of its Australian Nook ebookstore, offering new customers free local ebooks and magazines for a limited time. The Australian Nook...