Friday, 15 November 2013
Two picture books by Queensland author and illustrator Peter Carnavas will be adapted for the stage in 2014.   With the support of Artslink Queensland, Carnavas’ books Sarah’s Heavy Heart and Last Tree...

Thursday, 14 November 2013
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has won the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction (English language) in Canada for her Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries (Granta). Catton, who...

Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Hachette Australia has partnered with NSW radio station 101.7 WSFM to present a monthly Rock’n’Roll Book Club. The book club will focus on one title each month from Hachette’s backlist...

Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Primary teacher and literacy educator Vivienne Nicoll-Hatton is the winner of this year’s Lady Cutler Award for Distinguished Services to Children’s Literature, presented annually by the New South Wales branch...

Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Melbourne-based bookseller Readings has launched its new-look website in the lead-up to Christmas. The new site replaces the previous six-year-old website, and aims to give greater prominence to reviews, blog...

Wednesday, 13 November 2013
‘Our job is to invent on behalf of the customer, make the experience of buying books and enjoying books better, and then let customers decide’—Amazon Kindle vice president Neil Lindsay...

Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Author and playwright Louis Nowra is the recipient of the 2013 Patrick White Literary Award, the 40th award in the prize’s history.   Nowra was presented with the $23,000 award...

Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Canadian and French rights to Coal Creek (Alex Miller); Italian rights to The Ancestor Game (Alex Miller); Italian rights to Dinner at Rose’s (Danielle...

Monday, 11 November 2013
The Perth Writers Festival has announced a number of authors appearing in its 2014 line-up. Among the international guests attending the festival, which runs from 20-23 February, are US authors...

Monday, 11 November 2013
Ricky Ponting’s Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) has ended Tim Winton’s two-week run at number one on the bestsellers chart, with Eyrie (Hamish Hamilton) now in second place. Di...

Monday, 11 November 2013
Bookseller Peter Darby has died, aged 79. Pam Horsey writes: ‘Peter began his bookselling career in the 1950s at Robertson & Mullen. He was a quiet and private person with...

Thursday, 7 November 2013
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has launched an ebookstore that is powered by Copia. The ebookstore went live at the end of October to coincide with the launch of the 2014...

Thursday, 7 November 2013
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) raised over $170,000 from this year’s Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD) on 4 September, bringing the foundation’s fundraising total to just over $570,000 for the year-to-date....

Thursday, 7 November 2013
‘Her story proves that digital publishing and the communities that have embraced it are part of the future for any serious publisher’—Momentum publisher Joel Naoum reflects on author Kylie Scott’s...

Thursday, 7 November 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 Walkley Book Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Speechless: A Year in My Father’s Business (James Button, MUP) Night Games (Anna Krien, Black...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
A new website dedicated to children’s books has launched in Australia and Ireland.   Gobblefunked was founded by Linda Crosbie and Anne Whelton, who live in Melbourne, Australia, and Dublin, Ireland, respectively....

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
A new open-access literary journal, jointly published by Flinders University in Australia and the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, will launch in February 2014. Writers in Conversation, which...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold rights to 20 x 3: Eliminate Your Belly Fat in an Hour a Week (Steve Boutcher) to Rupa Publications for an English-language edition in the Indian...