Tuesday, 28 February 2012
William Gay, author of Long Home and The Lost Country, has died aged 68. William Gay, born in Tennessee, has been described by some as the most powerful and authentic...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Jan Berenstain, co-creator of the Berenstain Bears series, has died aged 88. Brenstain, together with her husband Stan, wrote and illustrated hundreds of stories featuring the Berenstain Bear family. Over...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
MarchRosalind Appleby, Fremantle Press (Women of Note) Sydney. Merlinda Bobis, Spinifex Press (Fish-Hair Woman) Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Wollongong, NSW. Stanley and Kaisa Breeden, Fremantle Press (Rainforest Country) Brisbane, Cairns...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
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Monday, 27 February 2012
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Monday, 27 February 2012
Susan Orlean explores the idea of heroism in Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog (Atlantic Books). Carrie Tiffany's Mateship with Birds (Picador), Alain...

Monday, 27 February 2012
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:2012 New Zealand International Arts Festival, Wellington: 24 February to 18 March Entries close for 2012...

Monday, 27 February 2012
Cooking sensation Jamie Oliver will be touring part of the country as of Saturday 3 March 2012, catching up with his Ministry of Food mobile kitchens in Logan and Ipswich...

Monday, 27 February 2012
Booksellers New Zealand and the New Zealand Listener have announced they will launch the Listener Book Club on Friday 2 March 2012. Run by Listener arts and books editor Guy Somerset and...

Monday, 27 February 2012
Scholastic Australia, as the trustee of Dromkeen, has announced that the collection of children's picture book artwork and illustrations at the Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art will move to the State...

Monday, 27 February 2012
'Meanjin' to be available as ebookMeanjin has announced that the literary journal will be available to purchase as an ebook ‘in coming weeks'. The announcement follows the re-launch of the...

Monday, 27 February 2012
The finalists for the 2012 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Picture booksThe Cat's Pyjamas (Catherine Foreman, Scholastic)Rahui (Maori version)...

Tuesday, 21 February 2012
A book that was seized from a New Zealand bookstore by the New Zealand Internal Affairs Department in November 2011 has been reclassified as 'unrestricted' by the New Zealand Office...

Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: B&N unveils new 8GB Nook tabletBML survey finds decline in value of book...

Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska police officer who accepts a well-paying UN peacekeeping job in Bosnia, begins work as part of a private corporate army, training Bosnian police to restore order...

Tuesday, 21 February 2012
CIA-trained assassin Mitch Rapp has been working through a list to eliminate the men responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians. But, the hunted men become aware that someone is...

Tuesday, 21 February 2012
On Fancy Goods this week, we meet Laura Kroetsch, director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, take a look at the 60th annual APA Book Design Awards shortlist 2012, Shannon Wood reviews...

Tuesday, 21 February 2012
'At TOC I became much more conscious of one of the other seismic shifts that is taking place for publishers across the globe, something we have heard a lot about...

Tuesday, 21 February 2012
In rights news this week:SalesFiction--Allen & Unwin has sold French and Canadian rights for Autumn Laing (Alex Miller); Brazilian Portuguese rights have been sold for The Distant Hours (Kate Morton);...

Tuesday, 21 February 2012
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) has launched a new creative writing prize with Monash University called the Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing. The award carries a cash prize of...