Friday, 15 August 2014
The winners of the 2014 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards were announced in Canberra on 15 August, marking the official launch of Children’s Book...

Wednesday, 13 August 2014
The 2014 Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship has been awarded to Canberra-based writer Lucy Nelson. The one-month fellowship, which is offered by Writers Victoria and Templeberg Villa, will send Nelson to...

Wednesday, 13 August 2014
A new website and readers choice awards have been launched to promote Australian romance writing.The AusRomToday website, formerly called Creative Conversations, was launched in June by romance author J’aimee Brooker....

Wednesday, 13 August 2014
‘I ask Wang to recall the first time growing up she read a book with an Asian protagonist. “There weren’t any.”’—Danielle Binks speaks to children’s and YA author Gabrielle Wang...

Tuesday, 12 August 2014
UQP has acquired a novel-in-progress by Josephine Rowe, a short story collection by Paddy O’Reilly and a biography of Thea Astley by Karen Lamb. Rowe, who is currently a Stegner...

Tuesday, 12 August 2014
A new publisher specialising in locally created comics and graphic novels has launched in New Zealand. Adrian Kinnaird, editorial director and co-publisher of Earth’s End Publishing, told Books+Publishing that the business was ‘the...

Monday, 11 August 2014
The winners of the 2014 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Awards, known as the ‘Rubys’, were announced on 9 August at the RWA conference in Sydney.The winners of the awards in each category were:...

Monday, 11 August 2014
The top three spots in this week’s bestsellers chart are all occupied by new entries. Richelle Mead’s Silver Shadows (Razorbill) is in first place, followed by Private India (James Patterson, Century) and...

Monday, 11 August 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Australian History Prize ($15,000) Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War...

Monday, 11 August 2014
Australian author Fiona McFarlane has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award for her novel The Night Guest (Hamish Hamilton).McFarlane’s book is one of 11 titles longlisted for the...

Monday, 11 August 2014
The titles shortlisted for the 2014 Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing were announced by the Australian Crime Writers Association at the Bendigo Writers Festival in regional Victoria, which ran from 8 to...

Monday, 11 August 2014
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman’s production companies have optioned the film rights to Big Little Lies by Australian author Liane Moriarty (Pan Macmillan).Deadline Hollywood reports that Kidman and Witherspoon ‘will...

Friday, 8 August 2014
A new magazine called Womankind has been launched in Australia and will feature book reviews and extracts.The quarterly magazine is produced by The Bull Publishing, which also publishes New Philosopher,...

Friday, 8 August 2014
Sydney independent bookselling chain Your Bookshop will be the event bookseller at Book Expo Australia, which takes place at the Sydney Showground on 29-31 August.Your Bookshop co-owner Bonnie Serov told Books+Publishing that the bookseller ‘will have a stall...

Thursday, 7 August 2014
Black Inc. has announced that it will publish Olympic swimmer Leisel Jones’ memoir under its Nero imprint in October 2015.‘This isn’t another “swim-moir” but an inspirational story,’ said Nero publisher...

Thursday, 7 August 2014
Danielle Binks has won the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)’s 2014 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency for her unpublished YA novel ‘The True Constant’.The annual residency offers one week’s stay...

Thursday, 7 August 2014
Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis’ political thriller The Marmalade Files, along with the newly released sequel The Mandarin Code (both HarperCollins), are being adapted into a TV mini-series by Matchbox...

Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Manning Valley Books has moved to Wingham, NSW, from Taree, also in NSW, and will hold a grand opening of its new store on 9 August for National Bookshop Day. Bookstore...

Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Momentum has acquired two books in a YA crossover fantasy series by Justin Woolley and a yet-to-be-titled medical rural romance by Nicki Edwards. Woolley’s books have been acquired in a two-book...