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,...

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...