Tuesday, 30 August 2011
James Sangster British screenwriter best known for screenwriting the 1950s classic horror films The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Horror of Dracula (1958), and The Mummy (1959), has died aged 83. 

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Further to its announcement that it was ‘monitoring' the proposed acquisition of the UK-based online book retailer the Book Depository by Amazon, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa and how it led to the Settlement of Australia by Emma Christopher (A&U) and A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W...

Monday, 29 August 2011
The winners of the 24th Australian Family Therapists' Awards for Children's Literature have been announced. The winner of the main prize, worth $1000, is Diary of a Would-Be Princess 3...

Monday, 29 August 2011
2011 Get Reading! campaign launchedThis year's Get Reading! campaign, which will run until 30 September, was officially launched this week. A new website for the campaign has been launched and features an...

Sunday, 28 August 2011
The shortlisted titles for this year's New South Wales Premier's History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in the book-related categories, each worth $15,000, are:Australian History PrizeColonial Voices: A...

Sunday, 28 August 2011
The winners of the 2011 Age Book of the Year awards were announced on 25 August at the opening keynote address of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor, Scribe) won the...

Sunday, 28 August 2011
There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia by Michael Wesley (NewSouth) has won this year's John Button Prize for public policy writing. Wesley, who receives a cash...

Sunday, 28 August 2011
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards were announced on 25 August. The winning titles are:Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book...

Sunday, 28 August 2011
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) may be coming to Brisbane. EWF director Lisa Dempster told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the festival hoped to run a mini-conference on 15 October...

Wednesday, 24 August 2011
In rights news this week:SalesChildren's/YA--Hardie Grant Egmont has sold UK, US, Canadian and German rights to Shift (Em Bailey); six further titles in the ‘Go Girl' series to Argentina; French-Canadian...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
New name for Victorian Writers' CentreThe Victorian Writers' Centre has announced that the organisation will be renamed Writers Victoria. The announcement follows a recent survey in which members were asked...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Pan Macmillan Australia has announced the launch of its first digital-only imprint, Momentum. The imprint, which will operate separately to Pan Macmillan, will be run by Pan Macmillan director Tom...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
The God Revolution by Keith Hill (Attar) has won the NZ$10,000 (A$7900) 2011 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award, announced in Auckland on 19 August. Mary Ballard has won the 2011...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Paul Lockyer, veteran ABC journalist, has died aged 61 in a helicopter crash, along with camera operator John Bean and pilot Gary Ticehurst.Bridgitta Doyle, head of ABC Books (Harper Collins...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Dennis Turner, New Zealand artist and book illustrator, has died aged 86.Books illustrated by Turner included Tavern In The Town (1957) by James McNeish, The Bodgie (1958) by Arthur Manning and...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Australian illustrator Shaun Tan has won the 'best professional artist' category at this year's Hugo Awards for science-fiction, announced on 20 August at the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention in...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Red Hill Publishing has announced that it will cease its trade publishing activities. The business, owned by author and former HarperCollins publisher Sally Collings and her husband Robert, will continue to...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
In the current issue of Bookseller+Publisher Kate Stephenson looks at the job advertisements from the Weekly Book Newsletter, discovering that while the number of positions advertised are far from reaching the...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Dame Christine Cole Catley, publisher, author and journalist, has died in Auckland aged 88. Dame Catley founded the publishing company Cape Catley, in 1973, and is well known for running...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the company experienced tough conditions throughout the last financial year, but was rewarded with the success of a...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and RR Bowker have confirmed they have ‘signed a Heads of Agreement for the migration of TitlePage to Bowker's platform and the subsequent joint development...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011
‘The nomination of this book, in my view, is a profound reaffirmation of the values that distinguish us from those who want to terrorise others'--Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, referring to...