Tuesday, 18 March 2014
The program for this year’s Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival in Western Australia has been announced. This year’s festival will be held from 16 to 18 May. Among the...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014
SalesNonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century (Hamish McDonald) to Palgrave USA.Children’s—Fremantle Press has sold the US rights to The Amazing...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014
British bookseller, author and TV chef Clarissa Dickson Wright has died, aged 66. Best known as a co-host of the BBC series Two Fat Ladies in the 1990s, Dickson Wright was...

Monday, 17 March 2014
There are no changes at the top of this week’s bestsellers chart, with I Quit Sugar for Life (Sarah Wilson, Macmillan) and Be Careful What You Wish For (Jeffrey Archer, Macmillan) in...

Monday, 17 March 2014
A new report by the Australia Council for the Arts has identified a number of gaps in recent research about the reading habits of Australian children, and has called for ‘regular,...

Monday, 17 March 2014
New Zealand independent bookstore Page & Blackmore Booksellers is up for sale, reports the Nelson Mail.The store, which is located in Nelson on the South Island of New Zealand, went on...

Friday, 14 March 2014
Australian author Glenda Millard has been shortlisted for the 2014 UK Literacy Association (UKLA) Book Awards for her book The Naming of Tishkin Silk (illus by Caroline Magerl, ABC Books)....

Thursday, 13 March 2014
Boffins Bookshop is relocating to a larger store on William Street in Perth’s CBD in early April and is expanding its range to include trade fiction and children’s books. The...

Thursday, 13 March 2014
‘Audiences were up’ and sessions were ‘consistently at capacity’ at this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, reported festival director Laura Kroetsch, who said that final attendance figures were still being calculated. The event ran...

Thursday, 13 March 2014
The Australian Embassy in Beijing has announced the line-up of guests for its seventh annual Australian Writers’ Week in China, which runs from 9-23 March in conjunction with the Australia-China Publishing...

Thursday, 13 March 2014
A number of new awards will be presented for the first time at this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs), while several other awards will no longer be part of...

Thursday, 13 March 2014
In an article in the Weekly Book Newsletter on 5 March, Books+Publishing incorrectly reported that Hachette Australia recorded an increase in print sales in 2013. According to the statement from...

Thursday, 13 March 2014
‘No other Anglosphere nation has a little magazine scene like ours, factoring in the relative size of our local audience’—newly appointed Island fiction editor Geordie Williamson reflects on Australia’s lit...

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
SalesFiction—Text Publishing has sold German rights to the sequel to The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion) to S. Fischer Verlag; Macedonian rights to The Rosie Project to Ars Lamina; and ANZ...

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Marek Palka, former managing director of Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand, has died, aged 64. Oxford University Press writes: ‘Past and present staff of Oxford University Press express our deep...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014
After seven consecutive weeks at the top of the bestsellers chart, the film tie-in edition of The Book Thief (Markus Zusak, Picador) has been displaced by two new entries. I Quit...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Author and academic Dennis Altman has been announced as a finalist in the 26th annual Lambda Literary Awards, known as the ‘Lammys,’ for his book The End of the Homosexual? (UQP).The Lammys...

Friday, 7 March 2014
The City of Fremantle has been named as the new sponsor of the T.A.G. Hungerford Award, with the council to support the award financially for the next six years. The...

Thursday, 6 March 2014
Geordie Williamson has been appointed fiction editor at Island magazine. Williamson, who is chief literary critic at the Australian, was announced as Island’s new fiction editor on 6 March. In a...