Tuesday, 27 September 2011
The State Library of New South Wales has announced that the prize money for the National Biography Award will increase from $20,000 to $25,000 in 2012. Entries for the 2012...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Scott Whitmont reviews Empire Day (Diane Armstrong, Fourth Estate), Amelia Vahtrick reviews Shift (Em Bailey, Hardie Grant Egmont) and Kimberley Allsopp reviews Bite Your Tongue...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
A new independent Australian publisher, with a focus on speculative fiction and ebooks, has been launched.   Hague Publishing, which will officially begin accepting unsolicited manuscripts in November 2011, has...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Hachette Australia has announced that 'a number of redundancies have occurred' as a result of a restructure of its sales force. The restructure follows a review of the company's field...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's/YA--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold Turkish rights to ‘The Phoenix Files' series (Chris Morphew); Canadian rights to Shockwave and Blockbuster, from the ‘Zac Power' series;...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
'We compile it, print it on our duplicating machine, and post it, all from the office ... by editing it myself and having one girl type it, print it and...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Anita Heiss has won the 2011 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature for her novel Paris Dreaming (Bantam), announced on 27 September at a special event at the Sydney...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
The Sydney Story Factory, a not-for-profit centre designed to help children and young adults with writing, has announced that it has taken a lease on a property in Redfern for...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Some Australian bookshops will receive donations from locals undertaking the UK-founded ‘Sober October' campaign next month.Initiated by Kirsten Harrison and Stef Posavec, Sober October asks participants to abstain from alcohol...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
The Emerging Writers Festival has been successful in its campaign to crowd-fund a special conference in Brisbane in October. The conference, to take place on 15 and 16 October, will...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
The Travelling Restaurant by Barbara Else (Gecko Press) has been selected by the New Zealand section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) as its 2012 Honour...

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Espresso Book Machine meets Google BooksBook Net Canada to begin tracking ebook salesPynchon in...

Monday, 26 September 2011
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin) is a story told from the perspective of two African-American maids, Aibileen and Minny, who look after a white family in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, and a...

Monday, 26 September 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Online Retailer Conference & E-commerce Expo: 26 - 29 September Australian School Library Association Nationall Conference:...

Monday, 26 September 2011
Diane Armstrong's Empire Day (Fourth Estate) is set in Sydney's Bondi Junction in the late 1940s. It is a microcosm of changing Australia, and life is changing too fast for...

Monday, 26 September 2011
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Monday, 26 September 2011
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Monday, 26 September 2011
SeptemberDiane Armstrong, HarperCollins (Empire Day) NSW, Queensland and Victoria.Jay Bahadur, Scribe (Deadly Waters) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Peter Baines, Macmillan (Hands across the Water) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leah Chishugi, Virago (A...

Monday, 26 September 2011
Sara Douglass, bestselling Australian fantasy writer, has died.  The author twice won the Aurelius Award for Best Fantasy Novel. HarperCollins writes:  ‘Sara was the first Australian signed to HarperCollins' Voyager list...

Monday, 26 September 2011
Brian Harris, founding Director of the Australian Branch of Cambridge University Press, has died aged 84. Cambridge University Press writes:‘Brian's association with Cambridge began in 1946 when he joined the...

Sunday, 25 September 2011
In 1971 Joyce Thorpe Nicholson was asked to a meeting of mainly educational publishers, who thought it would be a good idea for Thorpe to start a weekly trade newsletter, primarily...

Thursday, 22 September 2011
The shortlist for this year's Colin Roderick Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Singing Saltwater Country: Journey to the Songlines of Carpentaria (John Bradley & Yanyuwa Families, A&U)The Vintage and...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Brimbank Literary Festival: 12-23 September Sisters in Crime, Melbourne: 22 September Marlborough Literature Festival, UK :...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Novelist Richard Flanagan's collected short pieces of nonfiction called And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? (Random House) received the same number of mentions as Peggy Frew's debut novel House...

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
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