Sunday, 20 March 2011
The longlist for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are:Rocks in the Belly (Jon Bauer, Scribe)The Good Daughter (Honey Brown, Viking)The Mary Smokes Boys...

Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Topping the bestsellers chart this week is Danielle Steel's 44 Charles Street (Bantam)--the story of a woman whose life intertwines with three strangers after she is forced to take on housemates following a...

Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Pan Macmillan has announced the launch of its new Australian lifestyle imprint, Plum, which covers publishing in food, wine, gardening, home, design, travel and craft. The new imprint will launch...

Tuesday, 15 March 2011
'The interest and growing expertise in the digital field among younger members of the industry bodes well for Australian publishing in our rapidly changing business'--judges Patrick Gallagher and Brett Osmond were...

Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Murdoch Books has announced this week that HarperCollins Publishers has been appointed to manage all warehousing and distribution functions for the publisher in Australia and New Zealand. The new arrangement,...

Tuesday, 15 March 2011
On Fancy Goods this week we have reviews of Alan Carter's crime novel Prime Cut (Fremantle Press) and Jeannie Baker's Indie-award-winning picture book Mirror (Walker Books), and a round-up of some...

Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Our reviewers' top picks from the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher include books by Craig Sherborne, Favel Parrett, Adrienne Ferreira and Cate Kennedy. For more information on these titles and what our...

Monday, 14 March 2011
The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do (A&U) has won the overall Book of the Year Award at this year's Indie Awards. Do's book, which also won the best nonfiction category,...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Joel Naoum from Pan Macmillan has been awarded the 2011 Unwin Trust UK-Australia Fellowship. Naoum was chosen for the fellowship, which is supported by the Unwin Charitable Trust in the UK, for his...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Yass bookstore closes down The Little Dog Bookshop in Yass, NSW closed down in February. The bookshop, which opened in September 2007, was the first carbon-neutral bookstore in Australia.Changes to...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: NZ Book Month: 1-31 March The Bookworm International Literary Festival, Beijing: 4-18 March Shanghai International...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Peter FitzSimons' Batavia (William Heinemann), the true story of mutiny aboard the Dutch East India Company ship which struck a reef 80 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia in...

Monday, 14 March 2011
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Monday, 14 March 2011
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Monday, 14 March 2011
James Herd, media services manager for McGraw Hill, writes:  'The publishing industry lost one of its most endearing and larger than life characters recently when Firgal Adams passed away suddenly. Firgal...

Monday, 14 March 2011
MarchNicole Alexander, Random House (A Changing Land) Sydney, Regional NSW and Regional QLD.Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan (Clifton Chronicles: Only Time Will Tell) Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide.Bernard Beckett, Text (August) Perth,...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Author Yvonne du Fresne has died in Wellington NZ, aged 81. Du Fresne wrote several novels and collections of short stories including Farvel and other stories (1980) and The Book...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Booksellers New Zealand has announced that the date and venue for the Association's 2011 conference have changed. This year's conference will now be held at Te Papa in Wellington between...