Monday, 15 October 2012
Crossfire Hurricane, which takes its title from the opening lines to 'Jumping Jack Flash', provides a new perspective on the Rolling Stones’ journey. The film combines previously unseen historical footage with...

Monday, 15 October 2012
British author Helen Nicoll, best known as the writer of the 'Meg and Mog' books for children, has died aged 74. Nicoll wrote 17 books, illustrated by Jan Pienkowski, about...

Monday, 15 October 2012
Sales Fiction—Spinifex Press has sold Macedonian rights to My Sister Chaos (Lara Fergus). Children’s/YA—Scholastic has licensed the UK rights to Ishmael and the hoops of Steel (Michael Gerard Bauer); Brazilian...

Monday, 15 October 2012
In Rick Riordan’s YA novel The Mark of Athena (Puffin), Annabeth and her friends have landed at camp Jupiter to unite the Roman and Greek demigods and combine forces to...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
‘We were unable to obtain repayment from him of Canongate's substantial advance, which had to be written off’—Canongate chairman Christopher Bland, who said that the company’s operating loss of £368,467...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Campion Education has relaunched its ebookstore on the ReadCloud platform. The store, which was previously called Read Without Paper, has also been rebranded under the Campion name. As previously reported...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Allen & Unwin is advertising for four new staff members, including two publishers, to work within the Murdoch Books business, which it acquired this month. A&U is advertising for a...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Wilkins Farago publisher Andrew Wilkins writes: The 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair opens today, with New Zealand this year’s Guest of Honour. Forty-eight exhibitors from Australia are participating, with the Australian...

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
J K Rowling’s first adult novel The Casual Vacancy (Hachette), after an embargoed release in late September, is top of the highest new entries chart and the bestsellers chart this...

Monday, 8 October 2012
This year’s Whitley Awards have been presented. The awards, which are presented by the Royal Zoological Society of NSW for ‘outstanding publications dealing with the promotion and conservation of Australasian...

Monday, 8 October 2012
Acquisitions Fiction—Black Inc. has secured world rights to a short story collection, tentatively titled Holiday in Cambodia (Laura Jean McKay). Simon & Schuster has acquired global rights to Black Ice by...

Monday, 8 October 2012
A new children’s publisher will launch in New Zealand in November.   Book Island, founded by owner and publisher Greet Pauwelijn, originally from Belgium, will launch with three picture books,...

Monday, 8 October 2012
The literary journal Wet Ink, established in 2005 to publish new Australian writing, is to close, with the current issue to be the last. ‘We were hoping for number 28, but...

Monday, 8 October 2012
Eric Lomax, author of the memoir The Railway Man, has died aged 93. The book, about his prisoner-of-war experience working on the ‘death railway’ in Thailand, has been adapted this...

Wednesday, 3 October 2012
The Australia Council’s Literature Board funding for publishing activities is insufficient, says recently appointed chair Sophie Cunningham. In announcing the successful applicants for promotion, publishing grants and residencies from the...

Wednesday, 3 October 2012
‘I am thrilled that the business will become an integral and wholly owned part of the largest Australian independent publishing house, and the efforts that my team have put into...

Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Writers Meme McDonald and Mohammed Ahmad have received awards from the Australia Council for the Arts for their contributions to community arts and cultural development. McDonald was presented with the...

Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Brisbane-based author Angela Slatter has won the Short Fiction Prize in this year’s British Fantasy Awards. Slatter won the award for her short story ‘The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter’, which was published...

Tuesday, 2 October 2012
PMP chief executive and general manager of print and distribution Richard Allely has announced that he will step down from his position in September 2013. In a statement to the Australian...