Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Australian art critic Sebastian Smee has won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Smee, who is the former national art critic for The Australian, was awarded the prize for his...

Tuesday, 19 April 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Random House has sold When it Rains (Maggie MacKellar) to Taiwan (Complex Character Rights); and The Cleaner (Paul Cleave) to Denmark.Children's--Random House has sold The...

Tuesday, 19 April 2011
'We judges frankly read too many submitted books that did not have enough textual and structural editing ... [many books] were being published too early, which doesn't serve writers or...

Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Alex Adsett attended this year's Tools of Change conference in New York. Increasingly, as more and more start-ups, developers and entrepreneurs took the stage at TOC, I got the impression...

Tuesday, 19 April 2011
The administrators of REDgroup Retail, Ferrier Hodgson, announced this morning that they have reached a 'truce' with the 25 Angus & Robertson franchises that announced their intention to terminate their franchise...

Tuesday, 19 April 2011
The top two spots on the bestsellers chart are taken up by Sing you Home (Jodie Picoult, A&U), in first place, and Land of the Painted Caves (Jean M Auel,...

Tuesday, 19 April 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Scott Whitmont reviews Batavia (Peter FitzSimons, Random House), Portia Lindsay reviews Caleb’s Crossing (Geraldine Brooks, Fourth Estate), publishing assistant Andrew Wrathall attends three literary festivals...

Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:UK booksellers experience 'worst March in six years''Heavy book-buyers avoiding bookshops,' says HC chiefQuercus...

Monday, 18 April 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:'The Waterhole' - An exhibition of original artwork by Graeme Base: 23 March - 28 August...

Monday, 18 April 2011
The first three books topped the most mentioned chart with equal mentions this week. Leslie Cannold's The Book of Rachael (Text) continues to generate interest for reviewers and book buyers....

Monday, 18 April 2011
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Monday, 18 April 2011
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Monday, 18 April 2011
AprilTricia Brennan, Rockpool Publishing (The Map of the Soul) Sydney, Melbourne and the Sunshine Coast.Cristy Burne, Walker Books (Takeshita Demons) Perth and WA.Liz Byrski, Pan Macmillan (Last Chance Café) Sydney,...

Monday, 18 April 2011
As reported in a special bulletin of the Weekly Book Newsletter, the shortlist for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced in Sydney on Tuesday 19 April.   The shortlisted...

Sunday, 17 April 2011
Please note that, due to the Easter and Anzac Day public holidays next Monday and Tuesday, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 28 April. The deadline for...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Speaker's agency Show & Tell Promotions has announced on its website that it has ceased operating. Company director Bronwen Bennett told the Weekly Book Newsletter that a range of commercial...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
The shortlist for this year's National Biography Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Alan ‘The Red Fox' Reid: Pressman Par Excellence (Ross Fitzgerald & Stephen Holt, UNSW Press)Grand Obsessions:...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Early bird tickets are now on sale for the 2011 Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF), which will run between 5 and 7 August. Festival organisers have also announced some of...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
In rights news this week:SalesNonfiction--Exisle Publishing has sold UK rights to Release Your Worries (Cate Howell & Michele Murphy) and Under a Bombers Moon (Stephen Harris); and UK and Czech Republic rights...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
The University of Melbourne Book Industry Study (UMBIS), which is currently compiling its second report, says the power of internet retailers has been ranked most highly by publishers in its...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced that its Writers on Rafts appeal has raised more than $25,000 for the Queensland Premier's Disaster Appeal. Operations and development manager for the...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
'We are determined no book should cross more than one ocean unless it is in a cruise liner book shop'--group chairman of freight forwarder SBS Worldwide, Steve Walker, spruiking the...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
On Bookseller+Publisher's Fancy Goods blog this week, Andrew Wilkins reviews Cate Kennedy's forthcoming poetry collection The Taste of River Water (Scribe); and Kate O'Donnell reviews Lili Wilkinson's forthcoming novel A...