Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:opinion: 'why "world rights, one cover" is not the best idea'profit up at Waterstone's...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Tom Kruse, a legend throughout Central Australia as the famed mailman of the Birdsville Track, has died aged 96. Kristin Weidenbach wrote about his life in Mailman of the Birdsville...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
A number of booksellers in New Zealand have announced this week that they will not stock a book about a high-profile legal case. Paper Plus and The Warehouse have said...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Author Les Murray has apologised to Socceroos captain Lucas Neill for allegations about Neill's leadership which appear in Murray's new book. Reprints of Murray's The World Game: The Story of...

Tuesday, 5 July 2011
PM's Lit Awards winners announced this weekThe winners of this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards will be announced on Friday 8 July in Canberra. As previously reported by the Weekly...

Monday, 4 July 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:'Authoring the Author'--presented by NSW Writers' Centre: starts 7 July.15th e-book Expo, Tokyo, Japan: 7-9 July...

Monday, 4 July 2011
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep...

Monday, 4 July 2011
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Monday, 4 July 2011
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Monday, 4 July 2011
July Tristan Bancks, Random House (My Life and Other Stories I Made Up) Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.Peter Bernhard, Footprint Books (Rose's Kiss) Melbourne.      James Boyce, Black Inc. (1835:...

Monday, 4 July 2011
Children's author and former senior journalist with The Australian, Louise Schofield, has died. Schofield was the author of 10 books including Secrets in the Tingle Forest, which won the Western...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
JulyTristan Bancks, Random House (My Life and Other Stories I Made Up) Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.Peter Bernhard, Footprint Books (Rose's Kiss) Melbourne.      James Boyce, Black Inc. (1835: The...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Poet Kerry Leves has died, aged 63. Leaves' most recent poetry collection, A Shrine to Lata Mangeshkar, was shortlisted for the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize and the New South Wales Premier's...