Tuesday, 15 April 2014
British author Sue Townsend has died, aged 68. Townsend was the creator of the bestselling ‘Adrian Mole’ series, beginning with The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ (Penguin) in...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Author Doris Pilkington Garimara has died, aged 76. University of Queensland Press writes:‘Indigenous writer Doris Pilkington Garimara passed away peacefully on April 10, surrounded by family in Perth. Doris was...

Monday, 14 April 2014
TV chef Pete Evans’ cookbook Healthy Every Day (Plum) has moved from outside the top 10 last week to first place in this week’s bestsellers chart, ahead of I Quit Sugar for Life (Sarah...

Monday, 14 April 2014
Leading Edge Books Benalla in country Victoria will close in May. The bookstore was opened in May 1999 by Ron Schulz and his wife Bev. At its high point it employed three...

Friday, 11 April 2014
The program for the Northern Territory writers festival Wordstorm 2014 has been released. Running in Darwin from 29 May to 1 June, the festival will feature 70 writers, including 40...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
The ‘first wave of events’ for the inaugural Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London have been announced and tickets are now on sale.The four-day program,...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
Former HarperCollins nonfiction publisher Roz Hopkins and former HarperCollins book designer Natalie Winter have launched the new publishing company Captain Honey.Hopkins told Books+Publishing she and Winter started the company to...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser (A&U) has been shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.De Kretser’s novel is one of 10 shortlisted for the award. The full...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
In Melbourne, the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), along with bookseller and publisher Perimeter Books, has opened a new bookshop specialising in art and photography books. The CCP converted its gallery store...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Independent Tasmanian bookseller Fullers Bookshop Launceston is on the market. Owner Clive Tilsley told Books+Publishing the decision to sell the Launceston business was made ‘purely for personal reasons’. ‘Ros and...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Penguin Australia and the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) are among the winners at the inaugural London Book Fair (LBF) International Book Industry Excellence Awards.Penguin Australia received the Educational Learning Resources...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
As reported in a Books+Publishing special bulletin, the shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
‘You’ve managed to completely remove romance from the festival’—romance reader and reviewer Gabby bemoans the lack of romance programming in the 2014 Sydney Writers’ Festival in an open letter to the festival

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
The inaugural Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival has released its full program and tickets are now available for sale.The festival, which will be held from 31 May to 2 June at...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
The shortlists for this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are:Christina Stead Prize for Fiction The Secret Lives of...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Myles Gough has won the 2013 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets for his poem ‘Topography’. Gough was announced as the winner of the prize, which is worth...

Monday, 7 April 2014
The Griffith REVIEW has announced the appointment of Susan Hornbeck as associate publisher. Hornbeck was previously a publicist at UQP and publicity manager at Scribe Publications. She replaces Erica Sontheimer, who...

Monday, 7 April 2014
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for the £25,000 (A$44,630) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for her Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries (Granta).The judges said that selecting...

Monday, 7 April 2014
James Patterson’s Unlucky 13 (Century) is in first place on the bestsellers chart for the second week running, followed in second place by Shadow Spell by Nora Roberts (Hachette), which is...

Monday, 7 April 2014
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has confirmed that its publication Reading Time will not be printed in 2014. Instead, the organisation will launch Reading Time Online. The publication...

Friday, 4 April 2014
Melbourne-based author Melissa Keil has won the 2014 Ena Noël Award, administered by the Australian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), for her YA novel...

Friday, 4 April 2014
Booker Prize-winning New Zealand author Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries, Granta), Booker Prize-shortlisted author Emma Donoghue (Room, Picador) and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan are among the 400-plus guests due to...