Monday, 1 August 2011
The program for this year's Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs from 7 to 11 September, was released on 30 July. As previously reported by the Weekly Book Newsletter, Jonathan...

Sunday, 31 July 2011
The 2011 winners of the New Zealand Post Book of the Year awards were announced on 27 July.New Zealand Post Book of the Year and General Nonfiction Award winner (NZ$15,000...

Sunday, 31 July 2011
As reported on Bookseller+Publisher online on 29 July, the program for the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which runs from 25 August to 4 September, has been launched, with over...

Sunday, 31 July 2011
The shortlist for this year's Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Blood Men (Paul Cleave, Random House NZ)Captured (Neil Cross, S&S)Hunting Blind...

Wednesday, 27 July 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Andrew Wrathall gives a wrap-up the Book Buzz session at the ABA conference and Lachlan Jobbins reviews Lost in Transit: The Strange Story of the...

Wednesday, 27 July 2011
The winners of this year's Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards were announced on Wednesday 27 July. The winner of the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers, which...

Wednesday, 27 July 2011
John Reed, Managing Director and founder of A.H. & A. W. Reed Pty Ltd-- the Australian arm of Reed in New Zealand, has died aged 75. Tim Curnow, Literary Agent...

Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Cookbooks dominate the top of the bestsellers chart this week with Jamie's 30-minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph) in first place and 4 Ingredients Kids (Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham, 4 Ingredients) in...

Wednesday, 27 July 2011
In rights news this week:SalesFiction--Scribe has sold French rights to Bereft (Chris Womersley) to Éditions Albin Michel.Children's/YA--Scholastic Australia has sold Chinese translation rights to several books illustrated by Kate Greenaway medalist...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
The 2011 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced on Monday 25 July at a ceremony in Melbourne.Hosted by comedian Alan Brough, the awards celebrate the best Australian books, authors,...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:New Voices Festival, Eltham, Vic: 30 - 31 July Authoring the Author: 4 August Byron Bay...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Collins Booksellers has announced that it has reached an agreement with Kobo which will involve the bookseller building an ebookstore powered by Kobo, as well as selling Kobo ereaders in...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
ReadHowYouWant to launch UK titlesCustomised printing company ReadHowYouWant (RHYW) has announced that it will soon be producing titles from a number of UK publishers, as a result of a new...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
As announced by Pan Macmillan managing director Ross Gibb at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Monday 25 July, the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released a statement regarding an update of...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Bella Vendramini, author of Biting the Big Apple, is back with a new tale of her adventures called Naked in Public: A True Story of Surviving Mr Right Through Love,...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011
AugustRobert Adamson, UQP (Surface to Air) Sydney and Melbourne.Joseph Braude, Scribe (The Honoured Dead) Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Paul Daley and Mike Bowers, MUP (Armageddon) Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.Aleesah...