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,...

Tuesday, 25 September 2012
In Delusion in Death (Hachette), J D Robb’s latest book in the ‘In Death’ series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates a mass murder that has occurred at an after-work happy-hour bar...

Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Sales Children’s/YA—Scholastic has licensed German-language rights in Button Boy (Rebecca Young & Sue deGennaro); and the dramatic rights in the following picture books: The Very Cranky Bear, The Very Itchy Bear, The...

Monday, 24 September 2012
Robert G Barrett, contemporary Australian writer best known for his ‘Les Norton’ crime novels and his first book, a collection of short stories entitled You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Campion Education’s ebookstore Read Without Paper is no longer operating. A statement on the Read Without Paper website said ‘as of September 1, 2012, the Read Without Paper website has...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Attendees at the Australian Publishers Association (APA) futurEDUCATION symposium earlier this month were told that the Federal Government’s reform of the Australian education system, based on the recent Gonski Review, will...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Julie Helean has won the $10,000 Katherine Mansfield Award for a short story, judged by Elizabeth Smither. The Prize was announced in Wellington on 18 September alongside three other Bank of...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The Paper Plus Group, parent company of New Zealand bookselling chain Paper Plus, was in the running to buy the Whitcoulls business from the administrators of REDgroup Retail last year,...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Education supplier Campion Education has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that it has purchased some assets, including stock, from Education Works’ Wooldridges retail business. Campion managing director James Cathro said, however, that...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Sales Fiction—Random House Australia has sold Ghost Child and I Came to Say Goodbye (Caroline Overington) to the UK; The Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings (Natasha Walker) to Poland and...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012
George and Harold go back in time to the carefree days of kindergarten to face a sixth-grade bully in Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers (Scholastic)....

Thursday, 13 September 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a secret history of Australian poetry...