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Literary community joins forces to support QLD 

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
As the residents of South-East Queensland begin the enormous task of cleaning and rebuilding their homes and businesses following last week's floods, the Australian literary community is coming together to raise funds...

Rights round-up 

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
SalesFiction--Jenny Darling & Associates has sold Polish rights in Dog Boy by Eva Hornung (Text) to Bellona. Send your rights news to bookseller.publisher@thorpe.com.au.

Post-Christmas Survey: final chance to contribute 

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Today is the last day to contribute to the Weekly Book Newsletter's annual Post-Christmas Survey. Booksellers, you can complete the survey online here. Publishers can complete the survey here. The...

Curry takes up new role at Quarto 

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Jane Curry, owner of Jane Curry Publishing (JCP), has started in a new role as managing director of Global Publishing and Quarto Marketing Australia. Curry, who has been running JCP...

WBN published Thursday next week 

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Please note that due to the Australia Day public holiday next Wednesday 26 January, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 27 January. The deadline for classifieds and...

Around the world 

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:US ebook sales up 130% as paperback sales fallXmas 2010 sees 'global chill sweep...

Bestsellers this week 

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Awakened (P C Cast & Kristin Cast, Hachette) tops both the bestsellers chart and highest new entries chart this week, with the eighth book in the ‘House of Night’ series...

Quote of the week 

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
'If your bookshop has any genuine belief in its cultural role it will be making available exactly those books from abroad you read about in various international forums in a...

Literary community joins forces to support QLD 

Monday, 17 January 2011
As the residents of South-East Queensland begin the enormous task of cleaning and rebuilding their homes and businesses following last week's floods, the Australian literary community is coming together to raise funds...

Most mentioned: this week in ‘Media Extra’ 

Monday, 17 January 2011
Alan Frost gives his account of the beginnings of modern Australia in Botany Bay (Black Inc.). Frost goes beyond the conventional story of Australia as a dumping ground for Britain's...

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Monday, 17 January 2011
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Monday, 17 January 2011
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On tour 

Monday, 17 January 2011
JanuaryAlison Booth, Random House (The Indigo Sky)Katherine Howell, Pan Macmillan (Violent Exposure)Jane Hawking, Palgrave Macmillan (Travelling to Infinity)Katrina Beikoff, Finch Publishing (No Chopsticks Required: My Family's Unexpected Year in Shanghai)...

In brief 

Monday, 17 January 2011
New location for the Northern Rivers Writers' Centre  The Northern Rivers Writers' Centre, home to the Byron Bay Writers Festival, has moved into new offices. The Centre has moved from...

Giveaway! Double movie passes to ‘True Grit’ 

Monday, 17 January 2011
Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin star in the latest Coen brothers' movie. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross' father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney, and she...

Forthcoming events 

Monday, 17 January 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Midsumma 2011 Literature & Spoken Word, Melbourne: 16 January - 6 February Entries close for...

New ABA members, 2011 conference dates announced 

Monday, 17 January 2011
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) welcomed the following new members in October 2010: Bookshop members:Angus & Robertson Castle Hills - Castle Hills, NSWAngus & Robertson Top Ryde - Ryde, NSWBest...

Pepeyan to leave ABA 

Monday, 17 January 2011
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that training manager Lucie Pepeyan will leave the association in February. ABA chief executive Joel Becker told the Weekly Book Newsletter that Pepeyan...

Media Extra: What’s hot? 

Sunday, 16 January 2011
Alan Frost gives his account of the beginnings of modern Australia in Botany Bay (Black Inc.). Frost goes beyond the conventional story of Australia as a dumping ground for Britain’s...

QWC to launch Writers on Rafts Flood Appeal 

Sunday, 16 January 2011
Queensland Writers Centre operations and development manager Paul Landymore writes: The Queensland Writer's Centre (QWC) is looking for offers of goods and services to auction for its Writers On Rafts Flood...

Literary community joins forces to support QLD 

Sunday, 16 January 2011
As the residents of South-East Queensland begin the enormous task of cleaning and rebuilding their homes and businesses following last week's floods, the Australian literary community is coming together to raise funds...