Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The Circle, Network Ten’s weekday morning program aimed at women, will air for the last time this Friday after the network announced its decision to end the program for financial...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
The Secret Lives of Emma (Natasha Walker, Bantam) is first on the highest new entries chart followed by Brave Heart (Brett Kirk & Hayley Smithers-Kirk, Random House), in which retired...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Maeve Binchy, the bestselling Irish author whose novels include Light a Penny Candle(Arrow), Tara Road (Orion), and Circle of Friends (Arrow), which was adapted for the screen in 1995, has died aged...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Sales Fiction—Text has sold Israeli rights fo Nine Days (Toni Jordan); Dutch rights for The Boy Who Loved Apples (Amanda Webster); and UK rights for Shadows and Haze (Paula Weston). Children’s/YA—Scholastic has licensed Chinese...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Book-related events over the coming fortnight include: Reality Bites Literary Festival, Conroy, QLD: 26-29 July National Poetry Day, NZ: 27 July Booksellers NZ Conference, Auckland, NZ: 1-2 August Corrugated Lines: A Festival of...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Stephen Samuel has been appointed as the director of the Clunes Booktown festival, replacing Tess Brady who has stepped down from the role after directing the festival since the inaugural...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Varuna, the Writers’ House, has announced that CEO Lis Bastian has resigned from her position and has finished working for the centre. Acting chair of Varuna’s board of directors Sharryn...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Pearson has acquired the self-publishing service Author Solutions ‘from Bertram Capital for US$116 million [approximately A$113 million] in cash’, the publisher announced in a statement. The company said that while Author...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Diana Bishop and handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont were drawn together in a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782 and...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Knuckled by Fiona Wright (Giramondo) has won this year’s Mary Gilmore Award for poetry. Wright was announced as the winner of this year’s award at the Association for the Study...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
'This acquisition will allow Penguin to participate fully in perhaps the fastest-growing area of the publishing economy and gain skills in customer acquisition and data analytics that will be vital...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Margaret Mahy, renowned New Zealand author of books for children and young adults, has died.  Mahy won numerous awards including the New Zealand Order of Merit (1993), Arts Foundation Icon Award...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Pinerolo, the Children’s book cottage in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, will receive Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) funding for its four residencies for emerging and established illustrators of children’s books. Four...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Twenty eight-year-old finance golden boy and billionaire Eric Packer takes a long drive across town in a stretch limousine to get a haircut from his favourite barber. En route, in...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Sales Fiction—Curtis Brown has sold Burial Rites (Hannah Kent) to Picador in Australia, Picador in the UK and Little, Brown in the US; and foreign-language rights to France, Italy, Holland,...