Friday, 25 July 2014
A new survey of Australian reading habits by Roy Morgan Research has found that the proportion of Australians reading has declined over the past decade. ‘The decline in the proportion...

Friday, 25 July 2014
The Australian book industry has recorded a small increase in book sales for the first half of 2014.According to Nielsen BookScan, sales were up 1.3% in volume and value in the...

Thursday, 24 July 2014
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has been longlisted for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize for The Luminaries (Granta).The full longlist is: At Night We Walk in Circles (Daniel Alarcón, Fourth...

Thursday, 24 July 2014
US author, publisher and philanthropist Dave Eggers will give the opening address at Brisbane Writers Festival on 4 September and be part of a Literary Vaudeville Show at Brisbane Powerhouse...

Wednesday, 23 July 2014
The finalists of this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Fiction The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Victoria University Press) The Last Days...

Wednesday, 23 July 2014
The Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) has announced the nominees for the 47th Annual AWGIE Awards for screen, television, stage and radio writing. Among the nominees are a number of works adapted from...

Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced the resignation of children’s book director Liz Bray. Bray, who joined A&U in 1998 following many years as an independent bookseller, was appointed children’s...

Tuesday, 22 July 2014
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold US English-language rights to White Gardenia and Golden Earrings (Belinda Alexandra); and Turkish rights to Flowers of Baghdad (Bruce Lyman).Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world (ex. ANZ rights) to...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the retirement of Penguin sales director Peter Blake. Following Blake’s departure on 28 November, Random House sales director Gavin Schwarcz will take on the new...

Monday, 21 July 2014
John Green novels and Minecraft manuals continue to dominate the bestsellers chart. The regular and film tie-in edition of The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin) are in first and second place, while...

Monday, 21 July 2014
Catherine Saxelby’s Complete Food and Nutrition Companion: The Ultimate A-Z Guide (Hardie Grant) has won the Bruce Chandler Book Prize. The prize is awarded by the Australian Institute of Food...

Monday, 21 July 2014
The Marco Polo Festival of Digital Literature, an inaugural bilingual literary festival that brings together readers, writers and translators from China and Australia, began on 27 May and will run to 31...

Friday, 18 July 2014
Helen Garner will deliver the opening night address at the 2014 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which launched its full program on 18 July. The closing address will be given by...

Friday, 18 July 2014
Lonely Planet has launched a company-branded flights-comparison tool on its website.The publisher said in a statement that this is the first time it has hosted an ‘own-branded flight search engine’,...

Friday, 18 July 2014
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced.Modern: New Zealand Homes from 1938 to 1977, designed by Arch MacDonnell of InHouse Design, was...

Friday, 18 July 2014
The Byron Bay Writers’ Festival will run a regional roadshow in the lead-up to this year’s festival to ‘promote lesser known writers’.The roadshow, which has received one-off funding from the...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlist for the 2014 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are:Best Designed Literary Fiction Book: A Girl is...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced.The longlisted titles are: The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Granta) Joe Victim (Paul Cleave, Atria) The...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards have been announced.The winning titles in each category are: Best First Book—Fiction Tough (Amy Head,...