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...

Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Helen Walsh has been fired from every job she’s ever had, until she finds her true calling as a private investigator. In Mercy Close (Marian Keyes, Michael Joseph), the PI...

Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Eric Hobsbawm, British historian, has died aged 95. Hobsbawm is best known for three volumes, spanning the period from 1789 to 1914: The Age of Revolution (1962), The Age of...

Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Arthur 'Punch' Sulzberger, former publisher of The New York Times for three decades, has died aged 86.

Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Sales Fiction—The Drummond Agency has sold German rights to Mr Chen’s Emporium (Deborah O’Brien) to Ullstein Verlag; and Polish rights to No Sex in the City (Randa Abdel-Fattah) through Marcin Beigaj...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
The ABC will cut its Book Reading program, among several cuts to the national broadcaster’s programming, reports the Australian. The newspaper, which quotes an email sent by Radio National manager...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
The small press network SPUNC has launched the program for its Independent Publishers Conference. The conference, to be held at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre on 8 and 9 November, will feature...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Currency Press co-founder Katherine Brisbane has won the JC Williamson Award at the 2012 Helpmann Awards. This year’s Helpmann Awards were presented at the Sydney Opera House on 24 September....

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
‘My point … is that the idea of the school—with authors working together towards a common aim, idea, or aesthetic—appears to be lacking, certainly in Australia, if not overseas too,...