Wednesday, 15 April 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, which acts as a shortlist for children’s choice book awards in the Australian Capital Territory (COOL Awards), New...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) and Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (Picador) have been shortlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Ten books in total...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Readings’ books division manager Martin Shaw is leaving the Melbourne bookseller in early July.Shaw, who has worked at Readings for 21 years, told Books+Publishing he was moving to Germany for...

Tuesday, 14 April 2015
A campaign calling for the New Zealand government to lower the GST-free threshold on online purchases from NZ$400 (A$393) to NZ$25 (A$24.52) has been launched by Retail NZ and Booksellers NZ.Under the...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has launched a crowdfunding project to help send young Melbourne writers to international and domestic literary festivals.The ‘30 Under 30’ project, which coincides with the 30th year of MWF, is aiming...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The bestsellers chart has a new number one this week, with Paula Hawkins’ debut thriller The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) claiming the top spot for the first time after nine consecutive...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The 2014 Aurealis Award winners were announced at a ceremony in Canberra on Saturday 11 April. The winning titles were:Fantasy novel Dreamer’s Pool (Juliet Marillier, Pan Macmillan)  Science-fiction novel Peacemaker...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The Byron Bay Writers Festival has announced that Julia Gillard, Joan London, Helen Garner, Kate Grenville and Jackie French will be the headline writers at this year’s festival, which runs...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced.The shortlisted titles are: General fiction book of the year  Laurinda (Alice Pung, Black Inc.) Lost & Found (Brooke Davis,...

Monday, 13 April 2015
Te Papa Press, run out of the Te Papa museum in Wellington, New Zealand, is under review by management and could be shut for up to five years, reports Stuff.co.nz.Te...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The program for the 2015 Clunes Booktown Festival has been released.Among the authors at this year’s festival, which will be held from 2-3 May in Clunes, Victoria, are Michael Mori,...

Friday, 10 April 2015
Federal treasurer Joe Hockey has flagged that the GST could be applied to intangible downloads such as ebooks as part of ‘tax integrity’ measures to be introduced in the May...

Thursday, 9 April 2015
The longlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced.The longlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female...

Thursday, 9 April 2015
New members have been elected to the Australian Publishers Association’s (APA) sectional committees at the APA’s AGM on 1 April.Publisher Jane Curry has joined the Independent Publishers Committee (IPC) as convenor,...

Thursday, 9 April 2015
Two former Labor MPs are urging the government to remove parallel importation restrictions on books following the recommendations in the Competition Policy Review’s final report, reports the Australian. Former trade minister...

Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Australian YA anthology Kaleidoscope (ed by Alisa Krasnostein & Julia Rios, Twelfth Planet Press) has been included in the 2014 Tiptree Awards honour list, the annual prize that recognises works...

Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Glenda Larke’s The Lascar’s Dagger (Hachette) and Trudi Canavan’s Thief’s Magic (Hachette) have been named joint winners of the best novel award at this year’s Ditmar Awards for Australian science-fiction,...

Tuesday, 7 April 2015
This week’s bestsellers chart mixes the old and new with Going Paleo (Pete Evans & Nora T Gedgaudas, Plum) in the top spot for a second consecutive week, ahead of a slate...

Tuesday, 7 April 2015
A number of Australian and New Zealand writers have been shortlisted for the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.Works by Australian and New Zealand writers shortlisted for the prize are: ‘Corrango’...

Tuesday, 7 April 2015
The winners of the 2015 George Robertson Award were announced by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) on 1 April.The winners of the award, which recognises long and distinguished service to...

Tuesday, 7 April 2015
Express Media has appointed Pippa Bainbridge as its new CEO and general manager.Bainbridge was previously the company manager and creative producer at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne, and studied arts...