Thursday, 27 February 2014
Queensland writer Bruce Gannaway has won the 2014 Random House National Seniors Literary Prize for his novel The Last Eaglehawk. Gannaway wins a $2000 cash prize and his novel will...

Thursday, 27 February 2014
The 2014 Leading Edge Books Conference, to be held at the Langham Hotel in Melbourne from 16-17 May, will feature a keynote address by Simon Dell, managing director of marketing agency...

Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Independent Melbourne bookstore Reader’s Feast has opened an online store. The store opened on Friday 22 February and can be accessed through Reader’s Feast’s existing website. Owner Mary Dalmau told...

Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Chren Byng has been promoted to the role of associate publisher of ABC Children’s Books at HarperCollins Australia. HarperCollins said in a statement this month that Byng has returned from maternity...

Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Australian titles When We Wake by Karen Healey (A&U) and A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty (Macmillan) have been shortlisted for this year’s Nebula Awards in the US.The novels are...

Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Canadian writer Mavis Gallant has died, aged 91. Gallant is the author of two novels and numerous volumes of short fiction, as well as more than 100 short stories published...

Wednesday, 26 February 2014
‘Rapacious readers can soon become immune to the allure of well-placed advertising copy. There is, after all, only so many times you can read the words “masterly, lyrical, and gripping”...

Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Mr Wilkinson’s Vegetables: A Cookbook to Celebrate the Seasons by Australian chef Matt Wilkinson (Murdoch Books) is a finalist in the 2014 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) food writing...

Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Books by two Australian poets have been shortlisted for the inaugural Daphne Awards, launched by literary website Bookslut to reappraise the results of controversial book awards starting in 1963. Five...

Tuesday, 25 February 2014
UK literary agent Ali Gunn has died, aged 45. Gunn worked as a literary agent for Curtis Brown for a number of years before establishing her own agency, Gunn Media....

Monday, 24 February 2014
Ebook sales grew strongly for Simon & Schuster Australia in 2013 and now account for approximately 20% of the publisher’s total sales, reports managing director Lou Johnson. This compares to...

Monday, 24 February 2014
Influenced by film adaptations screening in cinemas and trailers of adaptations to come, the top three bestsellers remain the same this week. The film tie-in edition of The Book Thief...

Monday, 24 February 2014
The Copyright Agency has joined other members of the book industry in raising concerns about the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) recommendation that the Australian Government introduce a broad ‘fair...

Friday, 21 February 2014
Mandy Sayer and Louis Nowra have been appointed as the 2014 Copyright Agency Nonfiction Writers-in Residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). As part of the joint residency, which...

Friday, 21 February 2014
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) and Creative New Zealand have announced the guests that will participate in this year’s visiting international publisher program, Te Manu Ka Tau: Flying...

Thursday, 20 February 2014
The shortlist for the 2013 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets has been announced. The 12 shortlisted poems are: ‘Solstice’ (Carolyn Burns) ‘Of the Moment’ (Zenobia...

Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Books published by Oxford University Press Australia are now being licensed in international territories by the rights team at OUP UK, reports the Bookseller. Anne-Marie Hansen, head of rights at OUP UK,...

Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Random House has recalled all copies of A First Place by David Malouf (Knopf) due to a printing error. The publisher said in a statement this week that a reprint...

Wednesday, 19 February 2014
‘Development of indigenous content in a small market such as Australia poses enough risks without weakening publishers’ confidence by eroding the current laws that protect that investment. Creation of high...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the International Publishers Association (IPA) have spoken out against the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) recommendation that the Australian Government introduce a broad ‘fair...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Western Australian poet Nandi Chinna has won the 2013 Tom Collins Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Cut and Paste Lake’. Chinna was announced as the winner of the $1000 prize...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014
The finalists for the 2013 Aurealis Awards, presented for science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Among the categories announced are: Fantasy novel Lexicon (Max Barry, Mulholland)...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014
SalesFiction—Fremantle Press has sold North American rights to Whisky Charlie Foxtrot (Annabel Smith) to Source Books.  Children’s—Era Publications has sold Swedish rights to 24 ‘Wings Traditional Tales’ titles. Ford Street...

Monday, 17 February 2014
The film tie-in of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador) is still number one on the bestsellers chart, while John Green’s YA novel The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin)—the film...